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Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

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Peter Ustinov
Age: 82 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 16
Died: 2004
Died: March 28
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Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinov
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