Jefferson Airplane were the only major act to appear, but lesser known acts included Arthur Brown, and T-Rex .

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Jack Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown became the first men to cross the Atlantic by air in June 1919, flying in a Vickers Vimy biplane, its bomb bays filled with extra fuel.

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We know about Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe and Jim Brown and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - where are guys like that now?

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He has also spent a fair amount polishing H5's image: The firm's "advisory board" includes former Harvard Law School professor Arthur Miller and John Seely Brown, onetime chief scientist at Xerox Corp.

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