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3 LONI (Laboratory of Neuro Imaging) then attached to UCLA, now to University of Southern California, has estimated 60,000–70,000; School of Medicine (2011) estimated 60,000–80,000; National Science Foundation (2005) estimated 12,000–60,000.

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1 René Descartes, seventeenth-century French philosopher.

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5 Sarah Warber, University of Michigan.

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2 General, US Civil War (1861–63).

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5 President of the USA 1861–65.

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