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John Denver - Musician

 

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John Franklin Enders

John Franklin Enders | Biography & Contribution to Polio Vaccine | Britannica

John Franklin Enders was an American virologist and microbiologist who, with Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas H. Weller, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1954 for his part in cultivating the poliomyelitis virus in nonnervous-tissue cultures, a preliminary step to the

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Aretha Franklin

 

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J. Willard Gibbs

J. Willard Gibbs | American Scientist & Physicist | Britannica

J. Willard Gibbs was a theoretical physicist and chemist who was one of the greatest scientists in the United States in the 19th century. His application of thermodynamic theory converted a large part of physical chemistry from an empirical into a deductive science. Gibbs was the fourth child and

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Howard Hughes

 

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Irian Shayk
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Michael Jackson

 

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Elizabeth Kenny

Elizabeth Kenny | Australian Nurse & Pioneering Physical Therapist | Britannica

Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse and health administrator who was known for her alternative approach to polio treatment, known as the Kenny method. Her fight to gain the medical community’s acceptance for her method was the subject of the 1946 film Sister Kenny. Kenny, whose father was an

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John Lennon

 

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Donald MacMillan

Donald MacMillan, Provincetown’s Heroic Explorer | Cape Cod LIFE

History, Nature | Remembering the man for whom MacMillan Pier is named MacMillan Pier (or Wharf) in Provincetown, home of one of the world’s natural deep-water harbors, is

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Ned Beatty - Actor

 

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted | Central Park, Works, Chicago, Landscape Architecture, & Facts | Britannica

Frederick Law Olmsted was an American landscape architect who designed a succession of outstanding public parks, beginning with Central Park in New York City.

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Paul McCartney

 

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Dennis Quaid

 

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Robert Redford

 

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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft | Native American, Michigan, geologist | Britannica

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American explorer and ethnologist noted for his discovery of the source of the Mississippi River and for his writings on the Native peoples of the North American Plains. Schoolcraft’s initial contact with the frontier came during a mineralogical trip through present

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James Taylor - Musician

 

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Uriah the Hittite

 

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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Musician

 

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Joseph Warren

Joseph Warren | Revolutionary War, Battle of Bunker Hill, Patriot | Britannica

Joseph Warren was a soldier and leader in the American Revolution, who on April 18, 1775, sent Paul Revere and William Dawes to Lexington and Concord on their famous ride to warn local patriots that British troops were being sent against them (see Lexington and Concord, Battles of). Warren

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