Famous People: A-Z

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Stevie Wonder - Singer/Songwriter/Musician

 

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Xerxes ....... was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire

 

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Neil Young - Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist

 

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Zachary Taylor Davis

He designed Comiskey Park and Wrigley Field...

Zachary Taylor Davis

 

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Alan Alda - Actor/Writer

 

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George W. Bush, America's 43rd President (2001-2009)

 

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Jimmy Carter - American President

 

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Caroline Dall

Caroline Dall | History of American Women

Author and Women’s Rights Activist Caroline Wells Healey Dall was an author, journalist, lecturer and champion of women’s rights. A feminist and Unitarian Church liberal, Dall played a significant role in the antislavery movement and as spokesperson for woman’s access to education and...

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Thomas Edison - Scientist/Inventor

 

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Fatima

Fatimah | Family, Siblings, & Meaning

Fāṭimah, also spelled Fatima, also called al-Zahrāʾ (Arabic: “the Radiant One”), (born c. 605, Mecca, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]—died 632/633, Medina), daughter of Muhammad (the founder of Islam) who in later centuries became the object of deep veneration by many Muslims, especially the...

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Peter Gabriel - Singer/Songwriter/Musician

 

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Harrelson Woody ...... Actor

 

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Iggy Pop - Punk Rock Icon

 

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Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed | Biography, Legend, & Facts

Johnny Appleseed, byname of John Chapman, (born September 26, 1774, Leominster, Massachusetts—died March 18?, 1845, near Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.), American missionary nurseryman of the North American frontier who helped prepare the way for 19th-century pioneers by supplying apple-tree...

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John F. Kennedy - U.S. President

 

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Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr.

Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. | American physicist

Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr., (born July 12, 1913, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—died May 15, 2008, Tucson, Ariz.), American physicist and corecipient, with Polykarp Kusch, of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Physics for experimental work that spurred refinements in the quantum theories of electromagnetic...

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Paul McCartney - Singer/Songwriter/Musician

 

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Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta | Italian chemist

Giulio Natta, (born Feb. 26, 1903, Imperia, near Genoa, Italy—died May 2, 1979, Bergamo), Italian chemist who contributed to the development of high polymers useful in the manufacture of films, plastics, fibres, and synthetic rubber. Along with Karl Ziegler of Germany, he was honoured in 1963...

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Roy Orbison - Musician

 

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Pope