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Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Age: 98 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 23
Died: 2006
Died: August 14
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