Were Douglas Adams and J. M. G. Le Clézio from the same country?
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Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.
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J. M. G. Le Clézio Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (] ; born 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a French-Mauritian writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel "Le Procès-Verbal" and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".
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Joe Juneau (prospector) Joseph Juneau (1836–1899) was a miner and prospector from Canada who was born in the Quebec town of Saint-Paul-l'Ermite (later renamed Le Gardeur and now incorporated into the city of Repentigny) to François Xavier Juneau dit Latulippe and Marguerite Thiffault Juneau. He is best known for co-founding, with Richard Harris, the city of Juneau, Alaska, United States. The first major gold discovery in Juneau or Douglas Island (across from Juneau) was circa 1880. It has been the political capital of Alaska since 1900.
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Samuel J. Douglas Samuel J. Douglas ( – ) was an American politician and jurist. A Democrat originally from Virginia, he served on the Florida Territorial Court of Appeals (during the era of Florida Territory) 1841–45 and the Florida Supreme Court 1866–68.
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John Couch Adams John Couch Adams FRS (5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer.
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Alan Joseph Adamson Alan Joseph Adamson (August 1, 1857 – April 4, 1928) was a Canadian politician.
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Thomas Boylston Adams (1910–1997) Thomas Boylston Adams (July 25, 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri – June 4, 1997 in Lincoln, Massachusetts) was a 20th-century American business executive, writer, academician, and political candidate.
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Voyage au pays des arbres Voyage au pays des arbres is a novel written in French by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio. A little boy is bored and dreams of traveling deep into the forest, where he meets a profound old oak and gets invited to a party by some young trees
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Douglas Henderson (ambassador) Douglas Henderson (October 15, 1914 – July 14, 2010) was an American diplomat, economist and government official. He was the United States Ambassador to Bolivia during Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's ill-fated 1966-1967 guerrilla insurgency in that country.
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Trois Villes saintes "Trois Villes saintes" is an essay written by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.
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Sam Adams (explorer) Sam Adams (1828–1915), who periodically referred to himself as "Captain", was an early explorer of the American west. His survey of the Colorado River was conducted simultaneously to John Wesley Powell's more extensive survey. He struggled for over ten years to impose his view of the Colorado River - that it was a mineral paradise shot through with veins of gold and silver - but ultimately failed. In 1878, Senator Francis Cockrell rejected a resolution that would have compensated Adams for his spontaneous work.
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Louisa Adams Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (February 12, 1775 – May 15, 1852), wife of John Quincy Adams, was First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829. The daughter of the American Consul in London, she was the first First Lady to be born outside the United States, or outside areas that were later to become part of the United States, such as the Thirteen Colonies – a distinction that would not be replicated until 192 years later by Melania Trump.
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Clark J. Adams Clark J. Adams was an American lawyer and judge. He was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1952 and 1953.
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Conversations avec J. M. G. Le Clézio "Conversations avec J. M. G. Le Clézio" are the written dialogues in French of Pierre Lhoste interviewing French Nobel Prize in Literature J. M. G. Le Clézio on September 2,1969 and from January 11 until January 16, 1971. The introduction was written by J. M. G. Le Clézio.
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Lawrence Adamson Lawrence Arthur Adamson, CMG, (20 April 1860 – 14 December 1932) was a schoolmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia.
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John Adams Sr. John Adams Sr. (February 8, 1691 – May 25, 1761) was a British colonial farmer and minister. He was the father of the second U.S. President, John Adams, and grandfather of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. He was the son of Joseph Adams Jr. (1654-1737), the grandson of Joseph Adams Sr. (1626-1694), and the great-grandson of Henry Adams, who emigrated from Braintree, Essex, in England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in about 1638. He was also descended from John and Priscilla Alden. Adams worked as a farmer and cobbler (also called a cord-wainer or shoemaker) for most of his life.
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Henry Adams (mechanical engineer) Henry Adams (February 11, 1858 – 1929) was an American mechanical engineer. He emigrated at age 22 to Baltimore from Duisburg, Prussia (now Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) having been educated as a building engineer. He later worked with the District of Columbia government buildings, and established a longstanding private practice in Baltimore, Maryland.
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To the Icebergs (Essay on Henri Michaux) "Vers les icebergs [Essai sur Henri Michaux]" is an essay by J. M. G. Le Clézio on Henri Michaux.
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Bruce L. Douglas Bruce Lee Douglas (born July 14, 1925) was an American politician in the state of Illinois.
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Arlin M. Adams Arlin Marvin Adams (April 16, 1921 – December 22, 2015) was a United States Circuit Judge formerly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. As late as 2013 he served as counsel to Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, and was listed as a NAFTA adjudicator.
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Max D. Adams Max D. Adams is an American screenwriter.
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Roy Douglas Richard Roy Douglas (12 December 1907 – 23 March 2015), better known as Roy Douglas, was a British composer, pianist and arranger. He worked as musical assistant to Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and Richard Addinsell, made well-known orchestrations of works such as "Les Sylphides" (based on piano pieces by Chopin) and Addinsell's "Warsaw Concerto", and wrote a quantity of original music.