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- Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, 89, 91
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- Anderson, Chris, 229, 234
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- Ferraz, Antonio, 278
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- Molina, Mario J., ix, xxv, 55–64
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- Wiesner, Jerome B., 123
- Wilczek, Frank, 263
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