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Gene Smith (1936 - 2010)

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15 January 2011 at 2:15am | IP Logged 
Here's a recent obituary of a remarkable polyglot -- he supposedly read 32 languages -- who was also a remarkable man as well:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituarie s/books-obituaries/8246945/Gene-Smith.html

Edited by Fasulye on 15 January 2011 at 6:23pm

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15 January 2011 at 6:24pm | IP Logged 
I couldn't open the link because the forum is too slow, so I googled Gene Smith.

Here is another link of Wikipedia in Dutch:

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Smith

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