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Shaw, Robert Gould 1837-1863.

American Union colonel who was killed leading his regiment of African American soldiers in the assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler Pen name Josh Bil·lings

(bĭlĭngz) 1818-1885.

American humorist noted for his essays on rural life, characterized by intentional misspellings and published annually in the Farmers' Allminax (1869-1880).

Shaw, George Bernard 1856-1950.

Irish-born British playwright, essayist, and critic. A member of the Fabian Society, a group of writers committed to promoting socialism, he wrote plays of iconoclastic social criticism, including Arms and the Man (1894), Pygmalion (1913), and Saint Joan (1923). He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature.

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George Bernard Shaw

photographed c. 1927

Shaw, Artie Originally Arthur Jacob Arshawsky. 1910-2004.

American clarinetist, band leader, composer, and arranger whose swing band, formed in 1937, exemplified the big band sound.

Shaw

(shô), Anna Howard1847–1919.

British-born American physician and minister who was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1904–1915).

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Anna Howard Shaw

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