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He was 14 when his father and namesake was assassinated in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Sherman believed that his namesake school would be “the redemption of a race.”

“As the fame of one grew internationally, the other became aware of her namesake and filed a trademark application,” they said.

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Aside from fronting his namesake band Dio from 1982 through 2010, the diminutive singer was known for his piercing vocals and being among the first rockers to flash the famed devil horns hand gesture.

Her administration recently deployed hundreds of troops to Sinaloa, in northern Mexico, where a war between rival factions of the state’s namesake cartel is raging.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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