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The most notorious is the Frenchman Jacques Verges, who has made a career of defending terrorists and war criminals, from Carlos "The Jackal" to Klaus Barbie, the Nazi "Butcher of Lyon".— Sudan Watch
While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they're better known nationally as two of the most notorious -- and unrepentant -- figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement. ...— NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
The other, who was eight years older, had been for some years in the public eye, had been the hero of a romantic scandal which had done much to make his name notorious, and had written some dramatic works which had done more to make his name famous.— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
The learning of this Mikatsuki Sho[u]nin was notorious, and it has been banded down to people of later generations in matters concerning Ryo[u]yo[u] Sho[u]nin.— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

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