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Dr. Feng Shan Ho single-handedly saved thousands of Austrian
Jews during the Holocaust. When Dr. Ho arrived in Vienna
in 1937 as a Chinese diplomat, Austria had the third
largest Jewish community in Europe. Just one year later read
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Amy
Tan was born in 1952 in Oakland, California, the
daughter of Chinese parents who had immigrated
to the United States three years earlier. As a
teenager, Tan and her family moved to Europe, where
she attended high school in Switzerland. Tan later
returned to the U.S. to attend college read
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For nearly a decade, Michelle Kwan had been skating circles
around the competition. The California native bounced back
from a disappointing finish at the 2002 Winter Olympics
to win her seventh U.S. women's figure skating title in
January read
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Yoko Ono is the daughter of a Japanese pianist who gave
up his career to marry into money -- Ono's mother was the
granddaughter of the founder of Yasuda Bank. Young Yoko was
educated at Gakushuin School, considered among that nation's
most prestigious private schools read
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