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Puerto Rican nationalist took part in the assault on the US House of Representatives in 1954
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JFK - Filmed JFK on Main Street in Dallas, 22 Nov 1963; you still can see Clint Hill riding the presidential car
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WW2 Iwo Jima Marine/Combat engineer, had the job of sneaking up and hurling satchels loaded with explosives into Japanese machine-gun nests and caves
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US WWII era veteran, born 1928. Enlisted at 18 in 1946, served as a guard at Sugamo prison during the Tokyo Trials (the Nuremburg counterpart for Japanese war criminals), became the Chief Jailer there
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Women's equality activist; inspiration of President Obama's Fair Pay Act
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Nobel medicine laureate 1958
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Nobel physics laureate 1988
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Invented the CT scan; Natl Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Amanda Lee (2)Lee became the first female demonstration pilot for the Navy's famed Blue Angels team
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Former drug dealer convicted of espianoge against the USA for the Soviet Union-friend of Chris Boyce
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Civil rights figure, born 1937. First integrated class of a Tennessee public school, 1955. Later, did local sit-ins. Career developing lasers, semiconductors and fiber optics. Saw Eisenhower at Union Station during a DC trip in the 1950s
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US Navy WWII vet, born 1925. One of the last surviving Navy blimp pilots of WWII. Convoy duty over the Caribbean/Panama Canal, stationed at a US airbase in Jamaica
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David Lee (5)
Nobel physics laureate 1996 -
Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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Oldest Marine - Deceased 2004
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Chief Engineer for the Solar System Exploration Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California
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WWII WASP Women Pilot
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forensic expert, court tv's case files of dr. henry lee,
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Navy photographer's mate on the USS Neosho (AO-23)
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medal of honor marines vietnam war
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Canadian veteran of World War II who was the only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
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Opened the first drop-in center for children in Hollywoo
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retired astronaut
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Irish retired nurse and activist, lives in St. Albans, England (born March 24, 1933) Main character of a true story based on the book 'The Lost Child of Philomena Lee' by Martin Sixsmith. The book was filmed in 2013 as a 'Philomena'
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Robert E. Lee (2)
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Australian WWII Veteran
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Tuskegee Airman
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Stephen Lee (4)South African Anti-Apartheid activist. Escaped from Pretoria Local Prison in 1979. Played by Daniel Webber in the film Escape from Pretoria
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nobel physics laureate 1957
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Retired Marine Officer who served on the ?Death Watch? for President John F. Kennedy?s casket following the assassination
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nobel chemistry laueate 1986
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) (flew the bt-13, at-6, c-47, co-pilot on lockheed electra and dc-3)
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self-acclaimed witch
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Astronaut NASA . STS-41G , STS-28 , STS-45
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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PVT, USA, 120th General Hospital Surgical Technician New Guinea and Philippines Campaigns Witnessed the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri Appearing Sunday
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American physician-scientist best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors, for which, with Brian Kobilka, he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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Spy/Lt. Gen. Mary Legere, current Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence US Army, could be poised to make history. Is the leading candidate to take over as chief of the Pentagon?s main spy organization, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
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Nobel laureate physics 2003
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WWII: Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force and one of the youngest pilots to survive the Battle of Britain
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French writer and military
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Member of the French maquis inWW2
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Private Secretary of Franklin Roosevelt & aledged mistress. This is supported by his Son Elliot
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Hitlers messenger boy, author, peace activist
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Noted Mathematican
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nobel chemistry laureate 1987
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ward. Later in the war, he also was a Kamikaze attack survivor
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, U.S. Navy, 1st Class Torpedoman, USS Monahan
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Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Tang. Born: 1924. SS Tang was a WW2 submarine that was sunk during the last engagement by a circular run of her final torpedo in 1944. He is now 94-95
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USN Admiral
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WWII: Welsh soldier who was evacuated from Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) in 1940
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Great-grandson of David Mitchell, the train driver who perished in the Tay Bridge Disaster, December 28, 1879.He was one of 59 who died in the tragedy, considered the most catastrophic structural failure in British history. Lives in Scotland, UK
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French lecturer, survivor of the Ravensbrück and Bergen - Belsen camps and witness to the Holocaust. Born in 1932
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Food Manager In Military Hospitals, Battle of Stalingrad. Lives in Canada, possibly Calgary, Alberta, Calgary
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Shuttle Launch Director at NASAs John F. Kennedy Space Center
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(born 18 July 1921) was a highly decorated Leutnant der Reserve of the Brandenburgers in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was Rommel's personal and favorite combat driver
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Daughter of Lord Reith, the founder of the BBC
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Pioneering gay rights activist and writer, born 1935. President of NYC Mattachine Society in the 60s, the premiere gay rights group before Stonewall. Led 1966 NYC gay 'Sip-In' protest, and covered Stonewall as a reporter, whose on-scene account was the fi
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Finnish WWII Veteran. Featured in this article: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-a-haunting-video-finnish-veterans-recall-combat-with-the-red-army-c8e397466ce8
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army general
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US Air Force Gen. & VP running mate of George Wallace in 1968/ credited designing & implementing effective, but controversial systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of WW2/headed Berlin airlift
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(Born 1934) US Marine Corps Korean War Veteran. Purple Heart Recipient
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Friend of Linda Thompson, former secretary of Vernon Presley (Elvis' father)
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Mobster
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Scientist
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Former reporter and author of the NYTs best-seller 'Breakfast at Sally's', a memoir detailing his fall from affluence to homelessness. Currently speaks around the country and advocates for helping the homeless
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German politician
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Female pilot during WWII (WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor who met Shirley Temple in 1945 at Camp Adair, OR, where was recuperating from wounds received in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Army General
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Supreme Court: Social worker and civil rights activist, lead plaintiff in the landmark First Amendment case Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
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'Medal of Honor Recipient' 'Purple Heart Recipient' 'US Army,Vietnam' Author of Beyond The Medal
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Army General
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Author, underwater archaeologist
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Nurse on duty at Parkland Memorial on Nov. 24/63 , Sally assisted Dr. Gustafson with emergency treatment of Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII: Last survivor of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). On Oct. 25, 1944, in the battle of Samar, the Samuel B. Roberts steamed through a gauntlet of incoming shells, scored torpedo and gunfire hits before finally being sunk
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astronaut
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 5 victories (between 23 May 1944 and 14 June 1944), plus a probable 3 damage claims. 49th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th Air Force; European Theater
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Medical Artist and Nurse who worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital in England during WW2
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WW2 Japanese POW Survivor/1940, Bob was assigned to the USS Seawolf (SS197) & USS Perch (SS 176) Submarine http://www.orgsites.com/ar/twin-lakes-base/-pgg1.php3
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WWII: 549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group ('Van's Valiants'), 92nd Wing, 8th Air Force. Based near Ipswich, England. Flew 29 missions as a B-17 Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner including the huge March 18, 1945, mission to Berlin
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The alleged boss of the Genovese crime family,currently imprisoned
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WWII: PTO. Ghost Army
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace.
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Ewa Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS)
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Spotted Comet Leonard
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the Kamikaze attack at the USS Bunker Hill
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WWII - honorary member of Doolittle's Raiders
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American businessman who is the current president and CEO of Stew Leonard's, a supermarket chain based in CT and NY. Founded the Stew Leonard III Children's Charities. Released a series of children's books featuring Stewie the Duck
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Navy, USS Nemasket
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WWII: ETO. Radio operator/gunner on B-24H #42-7567 'Wacky Donald'. 445th Bomb Group, 8th AF. Met and flew a training session with Jimmy Stewart at Tibenhall, England. Was shot down over Holland on Feb. 24, 1944 and eventually taken a POW,
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Retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major general (Born: 1934) On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk
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Russian cosmonaut / astronaut, first man in space
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Aka the Dancing Cop, retired American police officer who danced while directing traffic in Providence, Rhode Island during the December holiday season
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Age five time of fire
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Former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Division. Congress ordered her to testify about the IRS-Tea Party Scandal, she pleaded the 5th Amendment
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Born 1924, WW2 Veteran, Ritchie Boy
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Michael Lerner (3)American political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley
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Scientist. Writer and presenter of Channel 4's Human Mutants.
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Canadian Lawyer & Judge
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WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. B-29 Navigator. Missions to Japan
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Centenarian (1897-2001). US WWI veteran, one of the last surviving black vets. Cleared fields of trees and thickets in France to allow fire against the Germans
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(Born 1935) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Started his naval career in 1958. He flew with VA-176 from 1961 to 1964, which included a deployment during the Cuban Missile Crisis. POW in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973
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payload specialist
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Grand-daughter of Scottish lighthouse engineer Charles Stevenson. Lives in the UK
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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Retired Admiral
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NASA pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, F-15, F-18, T-34 and King Air, as well as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, British Battalion, Lives in London, Born: 1915
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German veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942
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Historian, writer
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Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame, born 1923. WWII RCAF pilot, flew cover on D-Day. Post war flew for Canada's NATO and Air Defense Command, made Brig. General in 1970
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American author of mainly books about horses including the #1 NYT bestseller The Eighty-Dollar Champion. Formerly worked as a riding instructor and competed in equestrian events. Served in the Peace Corps. Brother is a retired tennis player
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Crew member onboard the famous WWII submarine that was awarded 7 battle stars for sinking enemy ships
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941 (USS Neosho AO-23)
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
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T4, USA, 625th Ordnance Base Automotive Maintenance, 10th Army Pacific Theater veteran
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Russian Cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz TM-4 / Soyuz TM-3. Was selected as cosmonaut on 12.07.1977. Test pilot for the Soviet Shuttle program; was assigned as double for the first Buran test flight; died on the complications of a brain tumor
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Former Russian KGB major who defected to the United States in 1979. He obtained U.S. citizenship in 1989. Levchenko published his English-language autobiography, On the Wrong Side: My Life in the KGB, in 1988
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Physics professor who has investigated crop circles for more than a decade in the UK and USA. He is a member of the Michigan Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network
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Attorney for the Wounded knee fiasco.. AIM
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Mercury 13 Female Candidate & Aviator
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WWII: PTO. USS Bunker Hill. Survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945, when nearly 400 shipmates died
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Canadian journalist and former speechwriter for the Israeli Delegation to the United Nations and for an Anglophone audience for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Co-founder of the software company Figure 1
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Attorney General under Ford
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Holocaust Survivor - Schindler's List
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nobel med. laureate 1986
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French Anthropologist, Born: 11/28/1908
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Rewriting Florida's Medicaid Third-Party Recovery Act allowing the state of Florida to sue the tobacco industry; benefactor of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, manager of Roy Jones Jr., philanthropy
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Author, art historian
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American engineer, most famous for The Viking Program space probes sent to Mars. He is also the founder of Spherix and is now 88 and lives in U.S.A
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Attorney, Court Reporter - 'The People's Court' (TV series), Emmy award - winning journalist/creator/producer -'Celebrity Justice' (tv series)/TMZ, Host - OBJECTified (Fox News)
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Manhattan Project scientist, born 1921. Harvard chemistry grad recruited to work at the Manhattan Project's Oak Ridge facility to help enrich Uranium 235, used in the Hiroshima bomb. Continued his work into the Cold War era
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WWII - 82nd Airbone Division. Landed as the division's only weather observer in a glider on D-Day, transmitted the first weather report famous from Ste. Mere-Eglise
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach, 90th Infantry Division. He was wounded and eventually taken POW at the Battle of Monte Castro (Hill 122) in July 1944
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He is the oldest American living veteran, Born on November 13, 1905
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American Astronomer and planetary scientist specializing in planetary dynamics. He currently works at the Southwest Research Institute, U.S.A. and studies planetary orbits and their evolution through solar system history
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One of the last witnesses to The Battle of Cable Street that took place in 1936 in Cable Street,London. (Born: 1915) He lives in London, UK
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American-British-Israeli biophysicist and a professor. Received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
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Staff writer at The New Yorker magazine & the author of the books The Rules do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, Slate, & The NYT
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Canadian Astronomer
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Scientist
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Author on antibiotic use and resistance - The Antibiotic Paradox
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Retired General
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Walter Hendrik Gustav Lewin is a Dutch astrophysicist and former professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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famous White House intern
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Prof. Lewis is a retired soldier. He served with the 9th Infantry Division and the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington/Wrote 'Omaha Beach'
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WWII: Battle of Midway, USS Balch. Helped rescue survivors of the sinking of the USS Yorktown
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Time Team
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Bronze team Nasa Flight Director for the Apollo program
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US WWII veteran, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division in Italy. Served alongside Bob Dole in WWII
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One of the many survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. She was 13 years old when the bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. She is now 88 and lives in Harvest, Alabama, USA
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Jeanette Lewis (2)RN at Parkland Memorial Hospital in '63 , an ER supervisor asked her to get a body bag for the President
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Jim was the USMC Pilot who nearly saved Gus Grissom's ill fated Liberty Bell 7, as it flooded with water and sank to the bottom of the sea following it's splashdown on 7/21/61, author - Short Tales By A Tall Pilot (2013)
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Kent State student shot in the stomach and leg during the 1970 shooting, the closest to the line of fire of all the students hit
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WWII: Dunkirk. A Royal Engineer who fought a rearguard action to enable the evacuation at Dunkirk. He was ordered to blow up a bridge, which he did, but eventually was taken POW until the end of the war
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WII: MTO. Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Fiji (C58) in the Battle of Crete on 22 May 1941
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A Dallas Police Det. in 1963 , Lewis administered a polygraph exam to Oswald witness Buell Wesley Frazier on Nov. 22 , '63 ,
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Ronald Lewis (2)Inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Assassination witness , employee at Texas School Book Depository , said he heard three shots fired at JFK's motorcade
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Canadian Politician, Humanitarian and AIDS Activist
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WWII US Army veteran, 9th Horse Cavalry, born 1922. One of the last of the segregated 'Buffalo Soldiers' of WWII
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Ted Lewis (3)One of the many survivors of the Blitz, a series of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. He was a teenager at the time. He is now in his eighties and lives in London
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Walter Lewis (4)Scientist
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P-38 Lightning Ace during WWII-[7 victories] Member of the 475th Fighter Group
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German-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor
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German pilot
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Youngest of schindler's list holocaust survivors. mr. leyson was born in poland and went to work in schindler's factory at age 13. he died january 12, 2013 in california at age 83
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Retired General
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CIA Leak Scandal, former chief of staff
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Retired USMC General
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Commander USAF Mobility Command
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
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Professor predicted Trump's election/Expert witness in more than 75 civil & voting rights cases. Author, White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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NASA/MIT: Software Engineer and 'Rope Mother' (supervisor) for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) from 1961 to 1968 (Apollo 8)
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Survivor of the '1953 North Sea flood'. (Born: 1947) She was six years old at the time of the flood and remembers when the North Sea came crashing inland. She lives in Canvey Island, Essex, UK
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Author, speaker and U.S. Navy SEAL. Served as chief advisor for Counter Terrorism for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Son of G. Gordon Liddy
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JFK - Assistant counsel to the Warren Commission
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Inventor of DVD
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NASA Apollo era Flight Director EECOM
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Apollo-Skylab Flight Controller; played by Clint howard in APOLLO 13
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Manhattan Project
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Holocaust Survivor/Age 14 when sent to Auschwitz/Allowed to leave a few months after arriving because of a clerical error regarding her birthday & was sent off to do hard labor in various parts of the country/Age 85
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(Born July 9,1920) received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1947. His thesis was on the discharge mechanism of Geiger'Müller counters. Liebson received a US Navy award for developing the first equipment used to identify enemy radar.
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Next Belgian ESA astronaut
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WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the Japanese aircraft carrier HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944
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WWII: 'Rosie the Riveter' at McDonnell Douglas, Long Beach, CA, during WWII. She worked on B-17s
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Current NASA Administrator (Acting) since Jan 20th, 2017
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WWII: PTO. One of the two Marines smoking in the famous photo from the Battle of Peleliu
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Inventor
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Supercentenarian Born 1906 3rd oldest person in France
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WWII: Polish fighter in the huge Warsaw Uprising of 1944 which was eventually crushed by Nazi-Germany
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top ace of the world-353 kill ww2-russian front
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WWII: USS Bunker Hill. Last of the Bunker Hill crew rescued, surviving two kamikazes crashing 30 seconds apart into the Bunker Hill on 11 May 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa
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Scientist
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Known for her appearance in a newsreel filmed in 1945. She is directing traffic behind the Brandenberg Gate. Is said to be living in the village of Zvonaryovka in the Saratov region of Russia
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Author/Iran Hostage Crisis/Political Officer/Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy in August 2006 after retiring from the Foreign Service with 33 years of service and the rank of Minister-Counselor
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War hero, Victoria Cross receiver
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Architect, designed Vietnam memorial in Washington
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Attorney, V.P. & Council - GIC; 'pitcher' on the front of the 2008 Topps baseball card titled 'Kazuo Uzuki' that was released by Topps as an April Fools Day joke for this former Law Blog Student
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WWII: PTO. Chief Fire Controlman on the USS Chicago (CA-29). Battle of Savo Island, Battle of Rennell Island (when the Chicago was sunk)
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Britt Lincoln (2)Award winning daredevil aerobatic pilot
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Oldest Living Arkansan Born:09/30/1897
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astronaut
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Swedish scientist specialising in cancer research.In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair
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WWII: PTO. Battel of Okinawa. Seabee
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member of the original Iwo Jima Flag Raisers
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Aviator, American Icon
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aviator grandson of charles lindbergh
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Flight scientist
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WWII Veteran, survived attack at Pearl Harbor, technical advisor for the film - Pearl Harbor (2001)
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Astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. Seabee
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WW2 USN Flying Ace, 8 Victories!
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Retired Army General
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Author and Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy
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Vertebrate Zoologist with Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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Astronaut - Space Shuttle Pilot for STS-87 and STS-95; Commander of Shuttle missions STS-104, STS-121, and STS-133
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First lady to get breast implants, in 1962
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Detroit (CL-8)
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Swedish aeronautical engineer
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astronaut space station mir.
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Scientist
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Retired engineer/oilman (Born: 1948) who was part of the team who found the the first 'black gold' in the North Sea in 1970. Lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Also known as Rob 'Swede' Lingard
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WW2 Veteran-Omaha Beach
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, was at Wheeler Field when attack started
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Served on USS Growler during WW II
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the battleship Nevada, 7 December 1941
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NASA Astronaut
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astronaut
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Witness to 'The Great Smog', that affected London, England, during December 1952 and caused the deaths of 4,000 people. It is considered the worst air pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom. He was 7 at the time and is now 71
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army general
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Scientist
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navy admiral
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1976. Born: 12/09/1919
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JFK - Aide to General Wehle and as such often briefing President Kennedy about visitors; also a witness to the autopsy of JFK
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Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, KCVO 05/10/1848?10/2/1931 Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage was a self-made man, merchant & yachtsman. Created the Lipton tea brand & was the most persistent challenger in history of America's Cup
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Doctor at Methodist Hospital in Dallas , Texas who pronounced Officer Tippitt dead on Nov. 22 , 1963
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Downes
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Perry
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WWII: Czechoslovakian RAF fighter pilot
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WWII: PTO. Combat Medic in the Medical Detachment 2nd Battalion, 172th Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division
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Vietnam Helicopter Pilot/(by his own estimation, nearly the worst helicopter pilot in his class), recounts the events leading up to & during a daring 7-hour rescue mission on the Ho Chi Minh Trail that he organized on Easter Sunday, 1967
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2021 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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Murdered his family in New Jersey in 1971 and was captured after 18 years with the help of America's Most Wanted; subject of the 1993 film 'Judgment Day: The John List Story'
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Secretary General/co-founder of the Council of Women World Leaders, which is composed 72 of women presidents, prime ministers, and heads of government. International, award-winning speaker/author re leadership, diversity, women in politics
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Medal of Honor 'US Army Chaplin Vietnam' He renounced the Medal of Honor & mailed it back to President Ronald Reagan!
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WWII: D-Day, C-47 pilot, 71st Squadron, 434th Troop Carrier Group; dropped Screaming Eagles (101st Airborne) on D-Day
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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(Born 1943) US Army Paratrooper Vietnam Veteran. 101st Airborne Division, 327th Infantry. Recipient of 2 Purple Hearts and a Bronze ( a V as in Valor) and Silver Star
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WWII- Navajo Code Talker
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Test pilot
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Serial killer
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Malcolm X's sister
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BBC Light Entertainment Producer during the early years of television
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII - Honorary Member of the Doolittle Raiders; Chinese man who risked his life to help the Doolittle Raiders in China after the raid
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Navy Gunner, USS Nevada, Pearl Harbor Survivor!
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A Jr. at SMU , was asked to play Taps Nov. 22 as classes dismissed at local Elem. School
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JFK - Secret Service, White House starting 1963; protected LBJ's youngest daughter on the day of President Kennedy?s assassination. 35th Sgt. at Arms, House of Representatives; he announced 'Mr. Speaker, The President of the United States'
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WWII: Machine gunner in 'H' company, Second Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Division. Battle of Tulagi, Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Peleliu
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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Chinese Space Traveler- Shenzhou 5
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WWII: ETO. 262nd Regiment, 66th Infantry Division. Eyewitness to the sinking of the SS Leopoldville by torpedo as he was aboard the HMS Cheshire, which was right behind in the convoy. Bronze Star
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Female Russian sniper during WW2. Lives in Brno, Czech Republic. Born Dec. 3, 1920
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JFK related/Bay of Pigs Frogman/Stated; 'Ammunition was all we needed,' Chiqui Llama says. 'We blamed Kennedy. I think Kennedy was yellow.' Lives in Puerto Rico
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astronaut
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1926. He is now 88 and lives in the UK. He was a crew member aboard the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Ajax
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Worlds Oldest Mother
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Tongan protester
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USN Admiral
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Last surviving witness to 'The Sutton Hoo excavation' in 1939, considered to be one of the most important excavation's made in British archaeological history. She lives in Chester, UK and is now 84 years old
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UK WW1 Veteran
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Daughter of silent movie star Harold Lloyd
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'Squadron Leader Royal Air Force Abingdon' & 'Test Pilot'
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American architect and the grandson of the famed Frank Lloyd Wright
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Commander 19th Sustainment Command
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Sniper for the Red Army of the Soviet Union during World War II
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Mobster
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memphis belle top gunner
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Flew a P-61A with the 421st NFS. Serial # 42-5512. He had 2 Japanese Ki-61 Tony?s destroyed
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Tank Ace (73 kills)
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WWII: ETO 351st BS, 100th BG, 8th AF ('Bloody Hundredth'). Flew 19 mission from February 25, 1945 (Munich) to April 19, 1945 (Oarnienburg). Also picking up French slave workers from Linz, Austria, after the war and flying them home
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Radar operator at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
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WWII - D-Day, 116th AAA Gun Battalion, landed on Utah Beach. Also entered death camp at Gardelegan, Germany
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astronaut
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Navy Admiral
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4 Star General Born Oct 28, 1954
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Security Officer at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought there after the assassination
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Pioneering female pilot. A WASP during WWII
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GySgt (Ret) Survivor of the USS Liberty Attack
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One of the doctors who tried to save JFK's life after being shot
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'The Dean of Deanabilia' - curator/archivist of the James Dean Gallery & Fairmount Museum in Fairmount, Indiana
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Peleliu. Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, First Marine Division
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WWII: WWII Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) Pilot; one of only 6 'Attagirls' still alive. Joined the ATA in 1943, flew 100s of ferry missions in Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancaster Bombers
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American and former National Guard soldier who was a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. B Company, 68th Armored Infantry Battalion, 14th Armored Divsion. France, Italy, Germany, Austria. Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Ww2 veteran N. Africa and Italy
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1st female F14 Tomcat test poilet
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Author and former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy who was one of the first fully qualified female naval aviators to fly the F-14 Tomcat. Lohrenz has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and NPR, and gives nationwide lectures on leadership
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French Resistance Fighter. Born: 08/29/1910
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Oldest French Person Born 1892 - Deceased 2006
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P-38 Lightning Pilot- fighter Ace during WWII [11 victories]
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Canadian wife of Ewric Lomax, worked on the Burma death railway while a Japanese POW. 'The Railway Man' movie is based on his life
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. LST-288. Later USS Augusta
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Vince Lombardi was born on January 26, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Little Orphan Annie (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and Military Academy (1940)
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Mobster
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Worked on the gold record that is on Voyager 1 that went into Space in 1977
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WW II 2nd Ranger Battalion who scaled cliffs during the D-Day Invasion
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One the last surviving British veterans of The Spanish Civil War. He is now 93 and lives in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, UK
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cosmonaut
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Jack London (2) British veteran of the Battle of the River Plate, served on HMS Exeter, born in 1921
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US Marine, who was stationed at the US Embassy in Moscow, and became the first U.S. Marine to be convicted of spying against the United States
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Bob Long (4) Australian WWII veteran and a member of Semut 1, a group of undercover allied operatives lead by the eccentric English Major Tom Harrisson in Borneo in 1945. Now lives in Bayswater, West Australia with his wife Margery
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Kaneohe Bay, VP-12. Later served at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal in the famous 'Cactus Air Force' and Ãn the Battle of Midway
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Joe Long (4) The News Director of KLIF in Dallas , Joe reported on President Kennedy's arrival at Love Field
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US WWII vet, born 1927. Training stateside in the 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One) when the war ended. Sent with the occupying force to Germany, so the vets who fought there could come home. Used GI Bill to become a chiropractic doctor
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Air ace ww11 - 6 Kills - USAAF
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Serial Killer - Murdered at least 10 Woman in the Tampa Bay Area in 1984
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Night of the siver stars- battle of lang vei-nam duning tet offensive 1968-5th special forces is a ret army Colonel
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Theoretical chemist and a cognitive scientist
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WWII Navigator on a B-24 Liberator
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Flying tiger
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WWII: Navy; gunner's mate aboard the USS Tisdale DE-33, Pacific. In the battles of Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
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air force general
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German ww2 pilot
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He stumbled onto what has become known as chaos theory math in 1960.
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Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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Courtroom Judge
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WWII: PTO. Served on submarines USS Atule and decorated USS Drum
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Spanish minister of justice (2004-2007)
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President of Honduras (1963-71, 1972-75), air force colonel
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Puerto Rican independence fighter, jailed in the United States, pardoned by President Barack Obama
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WWII Ace Pilot/ 23rd Fighter Group
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Astronaut
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Retired Air Force General
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A reporter for ABC News who reported from Dallas when President Kennedy was shot
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air force general
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Attorney and Youtube Celebrity
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Air Force General
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Member of staff at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Was an SS-Unterscharfuhrer. Born 1921
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American mathematician, coined the term 'butterfly effect:', pioneer of the chaos theory, invented the strange attractor notion
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Nobel prize in medicine 1973. deceased. 1989
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Commander Air University
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An employee of the Dallas Morning News , she and three of her co-workers stood ' in the grassy knoll area ' on Nov. 22 , '63 , and said that shots came from behind them and to the right , from direction of wooden fence
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astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division
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black sheep squadron
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WWII vet, born 1920. Last living member of the Flying Tigers pilot unit that worked in China, Burma, and Thailand
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941; USS Arizona survivor
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Italian politician of Communist Party, 1st President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for three consecutive legislatures from 1979 to 1992/In resistance movement against Nazi German invaders during WW2
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Retired Shuttle astronaut
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NASA astronaut (retired) flew on Skylab 3 and STS-3
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WWII: Ground crew (mechanic, nose art painter) of the 349th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, 8th AF ('The Bloody Hundredth') who painted the Nose Art of many B-17s of the 349th
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WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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Airforce Lt Colonel & NASA Test Pilot: X-24B Lifting Body Plane
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Flight astronaut sts-122
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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Flight scientist
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Army General
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JFK - The famous 'Doorway Man'; he is the man in the Altgens photograph, standing in the doorway of the Texas Schoolbook Depository, watching the Kennedy motorcade on 22 November 1963 in Dallas
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Pioneer Of Radar/radio, Born: 08/31/1913
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Apollo 13 Astronaut, author of the best-selling book 'Lost Moon'
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Lovell was the director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII
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British born scientist, environmentalist and futurologist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis. He is now 92 and lives in Devon, UK
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Radar specialist for Lockheed Skunk Works; only person listed by name in declassified files of A-12 Oxcart program
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USAAF WWII Flying Ace, 31st FG, 309th FS - 5 Kills. Born August 7, 1923. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_G._Loving,_Jr
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'France'Born: 07/21/1915
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Astronaut - Flew on STS 32, STS 43 & STS 57
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Korean War fighter Ace (9 kills)- USAF - POW Viet Nam
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Creator of computer game Leisure Suit Larry
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British climber and last surviving member of the 1953 Everest Expedition. He now lives in Upper Holloway, near Matlock, Derbyshire
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Civilian Conservation Corps. WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. Corregidor Island (Philippines). POW. 'Hell Ship' Noto Maru
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Neosho, 7 December 1941
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One of the children survivors of the 1963 Birmingham 16th Street Church bombing that killed 4 young girls during the civil rights era
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Founder of the Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis
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Minister and leader in the American civil rights movement
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Dallas Police Detective who witnessed the Lee Harvey Oswald shooting from a few feet away
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WWII: ETO. RAF Battle of Britain pilot
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WWII: ETO. Fighter pilot, 55th Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, flying P-51 Mustangs on 52 strafing, long-range-patrol and bomber-escort missions (Nov. 1944-Apr. 1945). Later flew 185 missions in Vietnam War. 271:55 combat hours
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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Member of Greenpeace who the Drew Barrymore character was modeled after on the movie Big Miracle
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5th Earl of Lonsdale and English nobleman
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Coast Guard Admiral and Secretary of Homeland Security
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Neosho, 7 December 1941
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Triage nurse at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought in after shooting
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astronaut
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NASA research pilot, flies the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747SP with the world's largest airborne astronomical observatory, and the Gulfstream III (G-III) mission support aircraft
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Dutch boxer, fought Muhammad Ali in 1973, lasting 12 rounds. Convicted drug dealer
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A campaign worker with Robert Kennedy, he witnessed firsthand the assassination and testified at the trial of Sirhan Sirhan
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Drug dealer, subject of the 2007 biopic American Gangster
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medal of honor marines ww11
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Col. Lukas, 'Tuskegee Airmen', graduated at what is now Tuskegee University, Alabama. First African American woman in the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of colonel.Wiki:
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Born 15 January 1900 from Bude, Cornwall is a British supercentenarian who, at the age of 110, is the oldest living man in Europe
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Austrian World War One Veteran Born: 09/21/1900.One of only 10 remaining Veterans from World War 1
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Army sniper vietnam , 38 confirmied kills, 82nd Airborne Division
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Fourth Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (Born: 1922) He served as director from June 15, 1974 to July 3, 1986. He is now 95
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Scientist Emeritus at the Astrogeology Science Center at the USGS and one of the first women in the field of Astrogeology. She was one of the people responsible for making lunar maps for the Apollo 11 mission
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US WWII Army vet, born 1921. Bataan Death March survivor
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. G Battery 515th Coast Artillery
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Flight astronaut sts-51g,34,43,58,76/79
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor; Battle of Midway
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Retired General
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Flew the B-52 mothership for the X-1 flight. (The 'Mothership' is the aircraft from which the X-1 aircraft & Test Pilot is launched from) also commanded the t-34, t-37, t-33, b-57, t-38, f-104, kc-135, t-39, a-26, a-1, ec-137, c-5
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WWII: 350th/351st Bomb Sq, 100th BG, 8th AF. B-17 (co-)pilot, mostly on B-17s 'Sunny' (#42-30089) and 'Sunny II' (#42-30796). Survivor of Bremen raid (Oct. 8, 1943; only 6 of 18 came back, earning him his nickname 'Lucky'). D-Day missions
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Holds the World Record For Having the Most Tattoos
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WWII: 282d Engineer Combat Battalion, XII Corps. Arrived in Europe after D-Day, his job was to get the combat troops across the many rivers encountered during the advance across Europe, by building Pontoon Bridges, etc., Purple Heart
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World War II Veteran
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French Supercentenarian born 6/6/1912. WW2 veteran. Fought with the French Resistance. Prisoner of War
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Scientist
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F-22 test pilot
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WWII: PTO. LST 474. US Navy
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Daniel Lugo (2)Killer movie pain and gain based on
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WWI: D-Day, Omaha Beach, 2nd wave. Battle of the Bulge
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The little girl in the famous Daisy Ad commercial during the 1964 presidential campaign for LBJ
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Alcatraz inmate from 1954-1959
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American paleontologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University who is largely remembered now for championing a Pre-NeoDarwinian Synthesis view of evolution
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U.S. Air Force 1951-1955
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WWII Fighter Ace, only American Mosquito ace (5 victories)
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'Squadron Leader for Royal Air Force'
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(Born 1918) US WW2 Navy Veteran. On the gun crew of the USS Hailey
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Tuskegee Airmen 'LA Chapter'
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DPD , one of 5 lead motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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(Born 1940) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Politician, WWII Veteran
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Lz-xray nov 65 vietnam-we were soldiers1st ground battle in nam
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Naval Hospital
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Air ace ww11 - 6.5 Kills - US Navy
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Served on the USS Monaghan which sank a Japanese mini-submarine on Dec. 7, 1941. Later, Battle of the Coreal Sea, Battle of Midway
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Brig. General, was test pilot for the X-1
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(born 22 April 1916) is a French centenarian who was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. She provided the inspiration for the character of 'Mademoiselle Lise Lundi' in Tony Gatlif's 2009 film, Korkoro
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Flight scientist, flight director on STS-115
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NASA Apollo Program Flight Director & Flight scientist
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Michigan State Professor leads a team created this thing called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator (TLSC), which employs organic salts to absorb wavelengths of light that are already invisible to the human eye/Solar Collector
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Helena
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WWII: Technician fifth grade, headquarters company, 473rd Infantry, 5th Army; fought in North Africa and Italy; met General Patton, later as a medic met, shook hands with Charles De Gaulle
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S-3 Viking pilot Cmdr. John 'Skip' Lussier, who flew President Bush onto deck the of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft
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Great-grandson of cosmetics giant Max Factor, Sr. and an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune who was convicted of a series of rapes in 2003
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Civil Rights Leader
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German ww2 pilot
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Stood directly underneath an exploding nuclear warhead on July 19th, 1957
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Author - Lone Survivor. Petty Office US Navy/Navy Seal/awarded the Navy Cross for combat heroism in 2006 by Pres. G. W. Bush
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Lived with his parents in the amityville house and was exposed to its terrors
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Grumman test engineer, born 1939. Worked on the Apollo program for Grumman in the 1960s, writing test and evaluation procedures for the Lunar Module systems
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tennessee. Served on this ship until war's end, incl. Aleutian Campaign, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Guam, Tinian, Surigao Straight, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Served on the USS Donner during its recovery mission of Ham the Chimp in 1961 prior to launching the first US man in space months later
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Cosmonaut
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS San Francisco
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Flight astronaut
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JFK; US Army Corps Colonel that created and engineered the eternal flame that adorns the graveside of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetary
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilot. 3 victories
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air force general
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Vegetarian activist and cattle rancher
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Survivor of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Daughter of Frances Griffiths. Francis Griffiths and Elsie Wright where two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England in 1917 who took a series of five photographs showing 'The Cottingley Fairies'
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Retired General
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Rescued American P.O.W. in 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Attorney General of the United States (2015); first African American woman to hold that post
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Rhode Island State Attorney General (2003-present)
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navy admiral
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach. Co B, 1st Bn., 359 Regt, 90th Infantry Div. Also Exercise Tiger
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Scientist
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WWII: Navy Corpsman attached to the USMC in many battles from GUadalcanal to Okinawa. Bronze Star
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Gay activist. She and the late Del Martin were the first gay people to be married in California
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air force general businessman
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Writer best known for his books about parapsychology (Born: 1935) He also investigated the Enfield Poltergeist, as recorded in This House is Haunted (1980). He also collaborated with Uri Geller on The Geller Effect (1986)
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Tom Lyons (2) WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal. Battle of the Bloody Ridge
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navy admiral
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Chief of staff at the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's National Academy of Sciences and 'The secret hero of Chernobyl' who saved thousands of lives stopping radioactive waste seeping into rivers. He is now 69 and lives in Russia
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American virologist. Along with Michael Houghton and Harvey J. Alter, he was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 'for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus'
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WW2 Veteran : 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,101st Airborne Division
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Best Friend of Anne Frank
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WW2 marine corp fighter ace 5.5 victories VMF-112
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African activist. Nobel Peace Prize (2004)
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Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron C-130 Demonstration pilot
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Bailiff on Jack Ruby trial for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, in the Assassination of JFK. Possible, age 99 & living in Lewisville, Texas
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United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions during the Battle of Hurtgen Fo
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Famed Mathematician
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First officer of the French Navy and joined on 16 August 1927 to the Compagnie Generale Aeropostale , a French airmail company, from which, after the nationalization in 1933, Air France emerged. He participated in the first postal service
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1920) Second Spanish Republic. Mobilized in 1936. Secretary general of JSU of Alcala in Peguerinos's zone in 1936. Affiliated to Communist Party of Spain. Age: 96. Lives in Spain
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American general
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Fastest solo racer around the world. (and came 2nd in the 2001 race) the first woman to sail solo around the world, comes from the Isle Of Wight - UK
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Wife of Douglas MacArthur
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Only son of General Douglas MacArthur. Lives in New York, City. Born: 02/21/1938
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Mountain climber
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U.S. lawyer, political figure, television producer, Children's Author
