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16:New Zealand weekly television programme
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958:(born 1937) β politician and economist
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249:(1919β2008) β mountaineer and explorer
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381:(c.1830β1907) β pacifist MΔori leader
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732:(1926β2007) β educationalist
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555:(1765β1838) β missionary
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655:(1905β1986) β All Black
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1240:Les plus grands Belges
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