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In Norse mythology, King Alf was the suitor of Alfhild. She dressed as a man to avoid marrying him. Then, he thinking she was a warrior, they battled almost to the death. Realizing he was as strong as she was, Alfhild married him. Norse mythology

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Alfred KorzybskiAlfred Korzybski ( 1879- 1950), born in Warsaw, Poland, came from a family which had worked as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for generations, and he chose to train as an engineer. During the First World War Korzybski served as an intelligenceAlfred HitchcockSir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE ( 13 August 1899 29 April, 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. Influenced by expressionism in Germany, he began directing in England, and worked in the United States from 1939.Alfred NobelAlfred Bernhard Nobel ( October 21, 1833 December 10, 1896), Swedish chemist, engineer and the inventor of dynamite. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element Nobelium was named after him. Personal
Alfons Maria JakobAlfons Maria Jakob ( July 2, 1884 October 17, 1931) was a German neurologist. He was the first to recognize and describe Alper's disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (the latter with Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt) and helped greatly in the description of variAlfonso ArauAlfonso Arau is a Mexican director of such films as Zapata: The Dream of a Hero Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico, 1992) and A Walk in the Clouds which starred Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn. He is also an actor. Among others, he had the antagonic role inAlfonso CuarónAlfonso Cuaron was born in Mexico City in 1961, and grew up in the city as well; he went on to study both filmmaking and philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. After graduating, Cuaron began working in television in Mexico, first as a
Alfred LawsonÁlfheimAlfred Russel Wallace
Alfonso d'AlbuquerqueAlfred the GreatAlfonso II of Asturias
Alfonso XII of SpainAlfonso XIII of SpainAlfonso I of Aragon
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