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Bussi, Michel
Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a speciality within Cultural Geography – at L'université de Rouen where he himself started to study at the age of 18. Until 2016 he was also in charge of Unité mixte de recherche (UMR) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He is also one of the most successful and m...
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Bagley, Desmond
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake District. His father was a miner who became ill and moved his family to Blackpool when Bagley was about twelve years old. There he ran a boarding house for actors. Desmond Bagley, who suffered from a bad stutter, left school when he was fourteen and worked in odd jobs at a...