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Eco, Umberto
Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname may refer to the fact that his grandfather was a foundling at a time when children were sometimes registered in church records as "Ex Caelis Oblatus", which can be translated as "offered by the heavens".
His father was a clerk and his mother’s maiden name was Giovanna B...
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Milena Proháska
Gender: Female
Her parents fled from Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the temperamental redhead Milena Proháska grew up in West Germany. She gained a qualification in Law and finally ended up in the security service Bundesnachrichtendienst. She has had a relationship with Detective Chief Inspector Jean Beringer, but that broke up, and according to author Doris Gercke, he then began to suspect that she was a ...