"I'm a history buff, " explained Mr. Chin, 27, before lamenting that the questions weren't more difficult.

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Johnson, a history buff, wanted to give the company a name that would sound stable, important, trustworthy and would enable him to attract top developers.

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Y. systems engineer Michael Crisafulli , 55, a history buff, has taken a volunteer trip nearly every year since 1991-including the 1994 excavation of a Bronze Age site in Borja, Spain where he met his wife, Karen, a teacher.

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In the late 1980s he partnered with money manager Richard Gilder, a fellow history buff who was more interested in preserving battlefields.

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I'm a lifelong history buff and the author of "LEAD LIKE IKE: Ten Business Strategies from the CEO of D-Day", published by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

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The big stars are the ferocious, Aegis-class destroyers to which the Navy allowed exclusive access, says Mr. Berg, a lifelong Naval history buff.

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Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution is an engrossing book and I think a necessary addition to the library of any history of science buff.

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