Groups describe the relationship between capital and authorship — who paid, and who decided. They are not a ranking. The full register table lives on the People page.
Every entry surrenders at least one story. There are now 363 of them, drawn from the people of this Part and from the satellite houses of Part X, and they have their own section — gathered in the order they happened, each naming the entry it came from and the country it happened in. Read the stories →
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