Buckminster Fuller: A Scholar, a Scientist and an Inventor
Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983): Imagine if you were a scientist, working in the freezing South Pole. You would be staying in a …
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Americas
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was one of the world’s most celebrated aviators. She broke records and charted new skies in the course of her …
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Elvis Presley: The King of Rock and Roll
Elvis Presley (1935-1977): “Truth is like the sun, you can shut it out but it ain’t goin’ away,” said Elvis Presley. Little did he …
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Muhammad Ali
American boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, was born on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Better known as Muhammad Ali, he …
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Marilyn Monroe
Born Norma Jeane Baker on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe became one of the most celebrated film personalities of her …
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was a powerful voice on behalf of a wide range of social causes including youth employment and civil rights …
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Fidel Castro Ruz
Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 (some sources give 1927), on his family’s sugar plantation near Biran, Oriente, …
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Magic Johnson
Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson was born in Lansing, Michigan on August 14, 1959 and is one of professional basketball’s premier guard. …
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States on November 4, 1980. At the age of 69, he was the oldest …
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The 35th president of United States (1961-63) was at the age of 43, the youngest and the first Roman Catholic to be elected to the …
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Bill Clinton
Born on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas, to Virginia Blythe and named for his father, who had recently died in an auto accident, …
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