Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Ming Luhulima
Ming Luhulima aka Lou Lima was a well known Netherlands based recording artist originally from the Maluku Islands which were part of the Dutch East Indies.
He made multiple recordings during his career.
One of the artists he was closely associated with was Rudi Wairata.
Not only did Luhulima come from the same country as Wairata, he also recorded music in the same genre.
He was also a member of the Amboina Serenaders and the Mena Moeria Minstrels.
He also led the Krontjong Ensemble Pantja Warna.
Samuel Grashio
Samuel Charles Grashio( April 1, 1918 – October 3, 1999) was a United States Army Air Forces pilot who was captured by the Japanese in World War II.
He survived the Bataan Death March and participated in the only successful mass escape from a Japanese prison camp.
Grashio was born and raised in Spokane, Washington.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September 1940.
After training, he was sent to the Philippines, arriving in Manila on November 20, 1941, to join the 24th Pursuit Group's 21st Pursuit Squadron as a second lieutenant.
On December 8, the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor( on the other side of the International Date Line), he flew from Nichols Field to engage in aerial combat against the Japanese in his Curtis P- 40E fighter airplane.
Along with the rest of the 24th Group, he ended up at Bataan, where he flew the last combat mission on April 8, 1942.
The Battle of Bataan ended the next day with an Allied surrender.
Grashio joined the other prisoners of war in the infamous Bataan Death March.
He was imprisoned first at Camp O'Donnell, north of Manila.
Two months later, he was transferred to a camp at Cabanatuan.
Finally, in October, he was among 1000 prisoners judged fit to work; they were moved to a lumber camp on Mindanao( Davao Region) to engage in manual labor.
Grashio and his squadron commander, Lieutenant Ed Dyess, eight other Americans, including Austin Shofner, and two Filipinos escaped into the jungle on Sunday, April 4, 1943.
One of the other Americans was USMC Lt. Jack Hawkins, who had organized the escape.
After wandering for three days in the swamp, they contacted a band of Filipino guerrillas.
They then joined the Mindanao guerrillas under the command of Lt. Col. Wendell Fertig.
Over the course of the next few months, seven of the men were transported a few at a time by submarine to Australia while three stayed behind to continue fighting with the guerrillas.
One of these, an Army Air Corps engineering officer by the name of Leo Boelens, was eventually killed by the Japanese.
Grashio and Luis Morgan escaped to Australia via submarine.
Grashio was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Silver Star with cluster during the war.
He rose to the rank of colonel before retiring in 1965.
He then became the assistant to the President of Gonzaga University in Spokane.
He co-authored" Return to Freedom: The War Memoirs of Colonel Samuel C. Grashio U.S.A.F."( 1982) with Bernard Nordling.
Grashio died in 1999.
He was survived by his wife Devonia Grashio.
She died in 2015.
They had six children: daughters Patricia Ohlidal( deceased), Marilyn( Jim) Cline of Yakima, Judith Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Grashio, Celene( Tony) Riccelli and son Samuel( Laurie) Grashio, all of Spokane.
Elizabeth A. Wilson
Elizabeth Ann Wilson( born 1964) is an Australian author, professor, and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University.
Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli
Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli (November 7, 1918 – August 28, 2012) was an Italian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Ducoli was born in San Mauro di Saline, Italy and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Verona on May 30, 1942.
Ducoli was appointed Auxiliary bishop to the Diocese of Verona along with Titular Bishop of Fidenae on April 22, 1967 and ordained bishop on May 14, 1967.
On October 7, 1975 he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Belluno-Feltre from which he retired on February 2, 1996.
Venery
Venery has two unrelated meanings, both from Latin:
2001–02 UEFA Champions League second group stage
Eight winners and eight runners- up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams, each containing two group winners and two runners- up.
Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together.
The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter- finals.
Telephone numbers in Ascension Island
Country Code:+ 247< br> International Call Prefix: 00 Ascension Island does not share the same country code( +290) with the rest of St Helena.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Nancy J. Adler
Nancy J. Adler( born 3 October 1948) is professor of Organizational Behavior and Samuel Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Question: Are Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli and Samuel Grashio both from the same country?
Answer: no