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| A film director hired independent film actress Tanna Frederick when she praised a film of his—one she had not seen. |
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| A poem by Edward Coote Pinkney, a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman, was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman. |
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| World War II fighter ace Franz Barten is credited for shooting down a total of 55 enemy aircraft. |
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