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Henry Purcell

(c. 1659 - 95), English composer. His works include incidental music for the theatre, songs, church music and operas, He wrote the opera "Dido and Aeneas" and plays "King Arthur" and "The Fairy Queen".

Henry Spencer Moore

(1898 - 1986), English sculptor. His monumental bronze sculptures, often semi-abstract in style but always based on organic form, resulted in him becoming one of the best known modern sculptors.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(1807 - 82), American poet. He wrote many poems including "The Song of Hiawatha" and "Evangeline".

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Douglas MacArthur

(1880 - 1964), American general. He was commander of the US Far East forces in 1941. In 1942 he made the famous pledge 'I shall return', when the Japanese forced him to withdraw from the Philippines. He was appointed supreme Allied commander in the southwest Pacific in 1942 and gradually rolled back the Japanese forces, accepting their surrender in 1945. At the beginning of the Korean War in 1950 he commanded the UN forces.