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    Francis Pretty was a Suffolk gentleman, diarist, sailor, and man-at-arms, who wrote a detailed account of the circumnavigation of the globe with Thomas...
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    Dictionary, 2nd edition, online version. "Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World; A Narrative by Francis Pretty, one of Drake's Gentlemen at Arms". Archived...
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  • sinking of his ship in 1592. They are first mentioned by the navigator Francis Pretty, in Richard Hakluyt's account of the travels of Cavendish. He writes...
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    Pretty Yende OIS (born 6 March 1985) is a South African operatic coloratura soprano. She has performed leading roles at opera houses internationally, including...
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  • Pretty Maids All in a Row is a 1971 American sexploitation film that is part black comedy, part sex comedy and part murder mystery. Starring Rock Hudson...
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    Francis Ford Coppola (/ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə, Italian: [ˈkɔppola]; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered...
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  • American epic science fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The film stars Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie...
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    Drake on his voyage around the world. Taking part in the voyage were Francis Pretty a Suffolk gentleman, sailor and diarist, the mathematician and geographer...
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    Gutenberg. Bacon, Francis. The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral. Retrieved 21 February 2018 – via Project Gutenberg. Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. Retrieved...
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    Genie Francis is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Laura Spencer on the television soap opera General Hospital from 1977...
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    also the author of Historia Belgica. Source: (in Dutch) translation of Francis Pretty: Beschryvinge van de overtreffelijcke, ende wijdtvermaerde zee-vaerdt...
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    it's a pretty well kept secret that one of the most uninspiring acts of the University of Cambridge over this past century was to turn down Francis Crick...
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    Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 64th...
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    John Francis Bongiovi Jr. (born March 2, 1962), known professionally as Jon Bon Jovi, is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He is best...
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    James Francis Gunn Jr. (born August 5, 1966) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He began his career as a screenwriter in the mid-1990s...
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    widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years...
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  • Pretty on the Inside is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released on September 17, 1991, in the United States on Caroline...
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  • Not a Pretty Picture is a 1976 American docudrama film. The film was written, produced and directed by Martha Coolidge, marking her narrative feature film...
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    Laurence Francis Rooney III (born December 4, 1953) is an American politician and diplomat who was a U.S. representative for Florida's 19th congressional...
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    Alvin Francis Karpis (born Albin Francis Karpavičius; August 10, 1907 – August 26, 1979), was a Canadian–American criminal of Lithuanian descent known...
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  • are ruthlessly selective, and they tend to prefer women who are white, pretty, and, above all, innocent". Her mother stated that producers of shows like...
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  • closed the show. Nominations were announced on December 19, 2011, with Pretty receiving a record 13 nominations. Winners are listed first and highlighted...
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    Francis Albert Sinatra (/sɪˈnɑːtrə/; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and later...
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    Bernard Purdie (redirect from Pretty Purdie)
    Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. He is known for his precise musical...
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    native New York, Bavier said, "I fell in love with North Carolina, all the pretty roads and the trees." Bavier was said to have married Russell Carpenter...
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  • Drake's Plate of Brass (category Francis Drake)
    fulfillment of a decades-old professional dream. Bolton compared it to Francis Pretty's contemporaneous description of the plate. He alerted Robert Gordon...
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    grave site. "Chief Pretty Eagle". Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. National Park Service. Retrieved 2 June 2013. Francis, Rell (1976). Cyrus...
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    Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999) was an American film and television actor. He starred in numerous Westerns...
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  • Robert Francis LuPone (July 29, 1946 – August 27, 2022) was an American actor and artistic director. He worked on stage, in film, and in television. He...
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    independent.: 365  Zappa was an atheist. He recalled his parents being "pretty religious" and trying to make him go to Catholic school despite his resentment...
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