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Also Known As heavy rail transit

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Norman Foster: 30 St Mary Axe
Norman Foster
British architect
Widener, Peter A.B.
Peter A.B. Widener
American businessman and philanthropist
Rufus Henry Gilbert
American surgeon and transit expert