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Holcaust survivor at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, where she drew portraits of Romani inmates for the infamous Dr. Mengele
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Retired Air Force General
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Centenarian - Canadian WWI Veteran. Born 07/23/1900
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/December 67 - October 68 (Saigon) Assistant Director: July 69 - July 70
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Lived on Alcatraz as a child when 4 prisoners famously attempted escape in 1962 (Eastwood's 'Escape from Alcatraz'), digging through walls and disappearing forever (save 1) on a homemade raft. Now 1 of the prison's most prominent historians
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Military
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Helicopter Pilot/Vietnam War/Made five trips to the enemy territory, rescuing 126 troops
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Survivor of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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101 year old survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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WWII: Navy veteran who served on the USS Saratoga, Enterprise, Lexington
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Retired Army National Guard Brigadier General
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Born in 1925, Bach is a Psychologist & WWII Veteran who served in the European Theatre of Operations during WW2. He later joined the Research Center For Mental Health at New York University in 1956. He was awarded the Heinz Hartmann award for his research
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WWII - B-24 Pilot who flew 35 missions ion Europe
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navy admiral
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Major General, US Army
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Retired German general
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Astrophysicist. worked with NASA's Astronomy Ambassadors program, SOFIA project
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WWII veteran, Utah politician and General Authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Explorer presenter writer
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Computer Scientist Developed Fortran
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medal of honor army vietnam
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navy admiral
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Holocaust; Israeli descendant - survived Auschwitz and, while in Theresienstadt, he played in the children's opera Brundibár
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One of the survivors from The Chernobyl disaster, that occured on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. He was working at the power plant complex, the night the explosion took place
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World Renowned Forensic Pathologist
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British ace from WW2
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Widow of WWII hero Douglas Bader
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French philosopher, author and historian. Wife of Robert Badinter
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50-year old mistress, long-time housekeeper in divorce scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941. Navy petty officer 3rd class, aviation mechanic with Patrol Squadron 22.
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army general
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Folk Singer/Songwriter - Woodstock Diamonds & Rust, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band cover), There But For Fortune (Phil Ochs cover), Farewell Angelina, Joe Hill, Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word, We Shall Overcome (gospel). Activist
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Casey Anthony's defense attorney
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Team leader on the New Horizon mission to the dwarf planet Pluto
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island, VP-22
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Astronaut STS-29 40
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Lz xray 1965 b co. 1/7 cav
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, a.o. Survived the Kamikaze attack on the USS Bennett. Purple Heart
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Joe Bagley (2)Elementary school student in Colorado in 1963. His late grandmother, Georgia Ella Beale Smith, observed the motorcade from the corner of Main and Houston Streets and heard shots fired in Dealey Plaza
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2002 inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Retired Admiral born 1924
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Italian WWII veteran, born 1923
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Retired General - US Army
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII - Paratrooper of H Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: USS Laffey. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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President, Communication Workers of America
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Age 6&1/2 time of fire
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Radio Operator with Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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USS Pueblo
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Born 1955, American video game programmer and educator. Along with Ed Logg in 1981 developed Atari, Inc.'s arcade video game Centipede
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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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Famed Defense Attorney/Legal Commentator/Author: defended Sam Sheppard, 'The Boston Strangler', member of 'The Dream Team'
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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Hair talent
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII: ETO, navigator of B-17 Chow-Hound (Serial # 42-31367), 91st Bomb Group, 322nd Squadron
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oglala
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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Air force general - Retired 2002
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Flight (astronaut)
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JFK - US Secret Service; Kennedy President Elect Detail November 1960 until Inauguration
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African - American female WWII vet, born 1918. Served in the WACs. Made a parachute jump for fun at the age of 102
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Pearl Harbor survivor of Ft. Shafter, and one of the few Civilian Conservation Corps survivors, serving 1939-41 in Washington State
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Investigator for the assassination of Robert Kennedy, he believed that there was a second shooter
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Originally stationed aboard the U.S.S. Schley and at the time of the attack was on the Naval Air Station
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US Army Air Corps, 453rd Bomb Group
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC. Purple Heart
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Battan death march survivor ww2
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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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American physicist born July 27, 1904; Director of the Trinity test of the Manhattan Project, which took place July 16, 1945. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bainbridge
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WWII: British D-Day veteran of the 12th Yorkshire Parachute Regiment
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Little League player (1927-2020). Original member of the first 3 Little League teams of 1939. Batting champ of the first year's champions, the Lycoming Dairy team
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Grandson of TV pioneer John Logie Baird and curator of The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK
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Son of John Logie Baird. Scottish inventor John Logie Baird was the founding father of television, who in January 1926 became the first to demonstrate publicly real television. Malcolm Baird has written numerous articles for academic journals
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USMC - Navy Cross
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Known for her role in the Nannygate matter of 1993, which arose when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States but withdrew her nomination because of a controversy surrounding the nanny she
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. 'A' Company, 804th Aviation Engineers
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Charles Baker (2)
WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC -
United States Air Aces
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Astronaut
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Artist; in 1978 designed the rainbow flag as a symbol of gay pride
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Military
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Jack Baker (4)Gay activist; husband of Michael McConnell; in Minnesota 1971 they became the first same-sex couple to marry in the US
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James Baker (3)Blizzcon 2015 finalist. 4x European Champion. Heroes of the Blizzard Captain
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medal of honor US army, Vietnam War
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air force general
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JFK - DPD motorcycle officer that drove in the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963; one of the first at the Texas Schoolbook Depository. Can be seen in various films and photographs from that day
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Michael Baker (5)Canadian physician, academic, and cancer researcher. Member of the Order of Canada
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Astronaut sts-43 52 68 81
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Mike Baker (2)Former CIA operative, President of Diligence, Fox News contributor, panelist on Fox News' 'Red Eye'
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WWII - Iwo Jima. Seabee with the 4th Marine Division, built Motoyama No. 2 airfield
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Canadian World War II veteran and academic administrator (U of PEI)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Served on the USS Ralph Talbot during the attack, and was on board during the landing on Guadalcanal and the Battle of Savo Island in 1942
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One of the pilots who took part in the mission during WWII to shoot down Admiral Yamamoto's aircraft
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Georgia State Attorney General (1997-present)
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Liberator of the Dachau concentration camp at the end of World War II
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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JFK assassination witness. Bookkeeper at the Texas Schoolbook Depository. On curb in front of TSBD when motorcade passed
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Former Alcatraz Inmate
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1978 Supreme court decision. He was denied access to Med school (UC DAVIS)because of color quota.. Affirmative action
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heart surgeon inventor
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Oldest Man in the Netherlands. Imprisoned by the Nazi's during WW2 for listening to a Dutch program on the BBC
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Dutch Archeologist
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evangelist/ex-con (PTL Club fraud)
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US WWII Merchant Marine, born 1926. One of the 10 Merchant Marines to represent the surviving 1500 at the official Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in 2022
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cosmonaut
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Broadcaster, Russian WWII Veteran
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WWII: Bataan Death March (9 April 1942)
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WWII: ETO. 350th Bomb Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Radio Operator/Gunner of B-17 #42-3413 'Hard Luck'. POW
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US Navy aerial gunner
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Italian WWII pilot and ace, finnishing the war with five victories, born 26. December 1919
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Alfred Baldwin (born June 23, 1936) was the 'shadow man' in the Watergate first break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, but he played an important role. A former FBI agent, Baldwin had been hired by James McCord for a variety of purposes, one of which
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Super Centenarian. One of the oldest people in Britain
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Born: 03/31/1896 #2 Oldest Documented Person in the World. Lives in England
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WWII pilot (Hell's Angels)
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Member of West Memphis 3
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navy admiral
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Korean war ace - 5 Kills - USAF
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Flight (scientist)
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Former U.S. Army soldier - WWII, Korean War, was assigned to Operation Castle - a series of nuclear weapons tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Published 10 books. Mauser expert - History Channel's 'Tales of the Gun' series
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. 27 missions as a B-29 navigator. Distinguished Flying Cross
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William Ball (2)Military
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medal of honor, navy, vietnam war
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Curtiss
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Discovered wrecks of PT-109 JFK John F. Kennedy's boat he was Skipper of, the Titanic & Bismarck; numerous underwater scientific feats
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German ww2 pilot
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US Marine veteran, born 1931, of the Korean War. Fought in the 'Frozen Chosin' battle
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Navy Admiral
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nobel medicine laureate 1975
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A Russian political and military figure, Yury Nikolaevich Baluevsky is the Deputy Secretary of Russia's Security Council, the First Deputy Defense Minister, an army general, and a former head of Russia's General Staff
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American journalist at The Washington Post. Frequently appears on the Meet the Press and the PBS program Washington Week. Co-wrote The Battle for America 2008 with the late Pulitzer Prize winner Haynes Johnson. Served in the military
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WWII pilot - Battle of Britain
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JFK - Woman in bikini that shares a smile with President Kennedy in an iconic photograph by Bill Beebe taken Aug. 19, 1962, at Santa Monica beach
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Filipino engineer credited with developing the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip
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1st woman to cross antarctica on foot
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Scientist
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Climbed mount Everest in same party as Edmund Hillary in 1953
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Since 2006, is the First Sea Lord of the United Kingdom, the most senior serving officer in the Royal Navy
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Preeminent Psychologist, researcher, & Author
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Indian-born American economist. He shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.'
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Romanian WWII Veteran
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ww 11 army hero
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WWII - Fighter Ace USAAF, 5 victories (3 on Jan. 14, 1945); 8th Air Force, 357th Fighter Group, 354th Fighter Squadron. 'The Yoxford Boys', stationed in England
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WWII fighter ace - 10 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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Co-founder of A.I.M...(American Indian Movement)... 1960's wounded knee
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American lawyer who was one of the prosecutors during the Watergate scandal. Wine-Banks later served under President Jimmy Carter as the first woman to hold the position of US General Counsel of the Army
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WWII Veteran, D-Day Veteran, Fox Company
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Secretary at Southwestern Bell Tel. Co. , she helped retrieve telephone records related to Jack Ruby for investigators
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Retired General
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Chief Concorde Pilot
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Canadian WWII Fighter Ace - R.C.A.F.'s top night fighter and the second highest scoring Canadian fighter pilot of WWII; also a 'V1 Ace'
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Former Exec of Breitbart News, Manager of Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign, former US Navy Officer, radio show host
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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Flight (scientist)
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Businessman and founder of Lime Bikes
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co-inventor (molecular-sized transistors)
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WWII: Rose The Riveter
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Inventor Hall of Fame; invented concept of digital packet switching essential for advanced networking systems
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. 66th Infrantry Division; witness of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on 24 Dec 1944 (torpedoed by a German U-boat; 763 soldiers died). Served as a Monuments Men after V-E-day in Austria
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Holocaust survivor...Author
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Hi-profile NY Attorney - Clients Include Joey Buttafuco, Jessica Hahn, Frequent Howard Stern Guest, Aka 'Bloated Attorney'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII Ace--[5 victories]- Was one of the Pilots who shot down Japanese Admiral Yamamoto's airplane during WWII
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Worked on the cassini spacecraft and its Exploration of the planet Saturn and its moon titan
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WWII: ETO/MTO. 451st Bomb Group, 724th Squadron, 15th AF. His plane was hit by a German 88 on Oct. 13, 1944, while over Vienna, Austria, and had to bail out. He became a POW, eventually held at Stalag Luft #7A near Moosburg, Germany,
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US Marine Corp, Medal of Honor Recipient Korea
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US WWII Army vet (1913-2021). Stationed in Alaska in WWII, honored as a fan by the LA Dodgers when he turned 108
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2022 Green Independent candidate for Maine Governor
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Murdered Actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989
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WWII: ETO. Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. Battle of Hurtgen Forrest, Battle of Remagen
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WW2 air ace - 6 Kills - US Navy
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. D Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion. Pointe du Hoc
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Bataan Death March Survivor
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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Personal Secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy. Played by Sara Verhagen in the movie Jackie
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British pilot in WW2
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - WWII
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Paratrooper involved in 'Operation Dragoon' during WW2. born on 09/01/1924
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American environmentalist and labor leader
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Former General in the Canadian Forces, Military Advisor to the UN Sec. General & head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations from 1992 to 1997, & Chief of the Defence Staff in Canada from 1997 t
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American experimental physicist. In 2017, Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne 'for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves'
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British ace from WW2, 11 victories, Battle of Britain
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Native of UK, Barker living in California at time of the assassination. 6 months later, visited Dallas as part of a 2-month tour, during which he witnessed & photographed FBI & Secret Service reenactment of the shooting on May 24, 1964
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WWII: US Navy. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid, Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); survived the sinking of the Hornet in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
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P-47 and P-51 Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 325th Fighter Group
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German pilot
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Highly decorated German tank ace of WW2
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Secret Service Agent with Ronald Reagan; Author: 'Riding With Reagan: From the White House to the Ranch'
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British visual neuroscientist and the great-grandson of Charles Darwin, the famous naturalist. He is now 91
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach
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Heart surgeon
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Cassandra)
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US WWII D-Day veteran, born 1926. Knocked out by an explosion, spent the first night filled with shrapnel and wracked in pain until he was picked up the next afternoon. Later served in the Philippines
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JFK Kennedy Related/Dallas County deputy sheriff for 26 years, Barnes spent three months guarding Jack Ruby in his jail cell in 1965. He and Ruby talked and played board games, and Ruby drew pictures for Barnes' children
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Ben Barnes (2) WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran; later served on the HMS Glasgow on D-Day, in the Battle of Cherbourg and beyond
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Great Great Granddaughter of Jesse James
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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507th p i r - ww 2
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Irish physician (Born: 1914) who worked in leper colonies in West Africa in the 1940's. He co-founded ICROSS with Michael Elmore-Meegan. He lectured in tropical medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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Assistant weaponeer on Bockscar during Nagasaki mission
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tinian, Okinawa
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WWII Pilot Ace-5, USAAF
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Dallas Policeman doing crowd control in front of the Texas Schoolbook Depository during JFK shooting. Limo passed within feet of him moments before the shots were fired. Ran around the building to check for any fleeing gunman, then stationed at the front
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Billie Jean King's former lover
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Dallas Police officer Nov. 22,1963
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WWII Veteran, As a radar operator on a B-29 nicknamed The Great Artiste, he and other crew members accompanied a plane known as Bockscar to Japan, where it dropped the second atomic bomb and hastened the end of World War II
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Engineer Texas Instruments, worked with CIA on number of high-level security projects during Cold War. Acquaintance Jack Ruby, recalls Ruby participated in 2 top-secret flights in 1961. Wrote/Four Wars 2011 & Socialism vs Capitalism (2013)
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Maya Exploration Center Director, Fellow of the Explorers Club, contributor on Ancient Aliens
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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WWII: PTO. B-29 Navigator, 505th Bomb Group, Tinian Island. 23 missions over Japan
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WWII: USS Enterprise (CV-6)
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Canadian entrepreneur & philanthropist. Member of the Order of Canada
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American Writer And Commentator. Former Army Kiowa Helicopter pilot. Iraq & Afghanistan Veteran
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Flew in hundreds of combat helicopter missions in Vietnam during the 1960s. Honored with war medals for helping to extract dozens of wounded Americans from fields and jungles/1st Cavalry Division, 15th Medical Battalion Medevac platoon
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U.S. Coast Guard Honor Guard for JFK Death; in the Casket Team (Kennedy pallbearer)
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medal of honor, marines vietnam
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Showman, exhibiter of oddities etc
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Bolivia' Born: 1921
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Lawyer
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Mountain Bike Record Holder
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Australian WWII Ace 12 v
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Great Granddaughter of Jesse James
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Great Grandson Of Jesse James
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Great Grandson of Jesse James
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Colonel pilot of Air Force One for Presidents Bush I and Clinton
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Former Attorney General of the United States (1991-1993, 2019-2020)
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Astronaut lss-19 tma 14
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The 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Most decorated soldier in the Vietnam War. Has been called the Puerto Rican Rambo. He earned 38 military decorations during his career. Born April 7, 1937
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psychiatrist social activist
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coast guard admiral
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Dallas County deputy sheriff 1966-1977, often assigned guard duty inside Ruby's cell at Dallas County Jail & later his room @ Parkland Memorial Hospital/Had numerous personal conversations & interactions with Ruby about shooting of Oswald
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Flight (aviator)
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inventor (monster arm wrestling machine)
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2022 Green Party candidate for Texas Governor
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Manuel Barrios (2) WWII: I Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR). D-Day (wounded by a grenade after a couple of days), back for the Siege of Bastogne (Battle of the Bulge), made it to the Eagle's Nest and ended the war in Austria
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NASA Astronaut, NASA Group 22
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marine corps general
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co 1/7 cav
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NASA test pilot - He flies a number of Gulfstream III variants along with the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747SP and the world's largest airborne astronomical observatory
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Astronaut (3 Space Shuttle mission 1996-2001)/Survivor Panama(Exile Island)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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German-American author, IT specialist, speaker & former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the U.S. from 1978?88. Exposed after the Cold War, Became a resource for U.S, counterintelligence agencies and was allowed to remain in the U.S
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Translator for the Red Army, interrogated German Prisoners during the Battle of Stalingrad
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WWII - Hitler's Nazi poster boy for propaganda in the late 1930s. Chosen at the age of four, his face appeared on postcards, books and campaigns for Nazi Germany
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Former NASA pilot - flew DC-8 airborne lab. USAF - B-52, U2
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Choral conductor, Teacher and Founder/Conductor Laureate of the Toronto Children's Chorus. Member of the Order of Canada
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Australian WWII ace
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WWII: Manhattan Project
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US WWII veteran, born 1920. Joined the CCC in 1938 in Washington State. Served as a clerk in the Air Transport Command in India during WWII
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Daughter of Alaskan Senator Bob Bartlett
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. He flew on Hurricane's throughout the Battle of Britain. He now lives in Western Australia
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Chief telephone operator at Parkland Memorial on Nov. 22 , 1963
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Inventor of lifesaving heart-lung technology known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
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Pilot
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Flight (astronaut) sts-51f
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Former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995, 2000-2001); Auschwitz survivor
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Oldest person in the world. Born 1888 Lives in Belarus
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Noted critic, educator, and historian Born: 11/30/1907
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A long time member of the Bonanno crime family and according to the FBI is presently the official boss of the Bonannos
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Vincent Basciano Jr, the son of mob boss Vincent Basciano
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8th Armored Division
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Inventor software
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Dr. Who worked on JFK After he was shot; heart specialist that joined the effort to revive Kennedy
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Society columnist for Dallas Times Herald, at Dallas Love Field & Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963/Rushed through a crowd of waiting journalists, phone that two priests confirmed the worst about the assassination attempt
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Schley
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WWII Rosie and SPAR (b. 1923) Worked two years at Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant, drilling rivet holes for B-24s. Then joined the Coast Guard's Women SPARs
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Nobel Prize Winner (Physics)
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Bill Bass (2)
William Marvin Bass III (born August 30, 1928) is an American forensic anthropologist, best known for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He has also assisted federal, local, and non-U.S. authorities in the identification of human rem -
WWII: Pacific. Air Force pilot. Battle of Okinawa. Saw the Yamato sink
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Waitress at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club in 1963
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(born Elsie Thorpe, 15 July 1918) is a retired agricultural scientist from New Zealand. She graduated from Massey University in 1941, becoming the first woman graduate from the university
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Nigerian environmentalist activist and poet, elected chair of Friends of the Earth International, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action
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24 year old student at Wagner Lutheran College when he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for his participation in a Freedom Ride. As part of the Freedom Ride, Bassford and six others took a bus from New Orleans to Jackson, Mississippi where they were a
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Wife of Terry Anderson Journalist/Reporter Associated Press/In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shiite Hezbollah militants & held til 1991. She was pregnant when he was abducted/gave birth to daughter, Sulome Theresa, while husband was captive
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Scientist
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CIA operative gathered on-the-ground intelligence on Cuba's military defenses in preparation for Bay of Pigs invasion. After JFK abandoned invading troops on beach at Playa Girón, Basulto says, he abandoned the CIA operatives on the island
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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WWII. ETO. Pilot, 63 Fighter Squadron, 56 Fighter Group
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Inventor Hall of Fame inductee; invented ground proximity warning system for planes
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Economist, former Tennessee state rep, and convicted criminal for a gold and silver Ponzi scheme
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit in Burma. Bronze Star
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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Enigma code breaker of WWII, along with future wife, Mavis Batey
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Enigma code breaker of WWII
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Inventor laserphaco probe
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Descendant of Elizabeth Bathory, remembered as the 'Blood Countess'
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navy admiral england
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Retired USMC General
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Man who healped build the cn tower
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NASA Dryden Pilot
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WWII: Witness of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Former Ambasador to the United Arab Emirates
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WWII: British D-Day (Gold Beach) veteran. Royal Engineers. Spent much of the first few days of the landings lying on his stomach defusing mines
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Cosmonaut
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Russian born teenager who can diagnose diseases by looking at a person's reflection. He lives in the republic of Bashkiria in the Russian Federation
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John Baudanza is a Lucchese soldier, operating in his father-in-law Domenico Cutaia's crew.[102] His father Carmine and uncle Joseph are both members of the Colombo crime family.
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French astronaut
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Born July 2, 1918 at Troyes , is a radio host , drummer of jazz , official and academic French . He is the last survivor of the team of French journalists from Radio London , programs on the BBC during the Second World War
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Flight (scientist)
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Navy Veteran
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Tuskegee Airmen ww2
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Served aboard the USS Patterson as a chief gunners mate
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American Female electrical engineer and educator. In 1984, she became the first female dean of an engineering school in the United States. In 1988, the National Women's Hall of Fame presented Baum with the Emily Warren Roebling Award. In 1990, the Society
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One of the founders of, 'American Conservative Union,'...right wing group
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Holocaust survivor.. Writer
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American lawyer & politician from NY. In 1930, Ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York with A. Ottinger but defeated by FDR & H.H. Lehman/Championed 1926 law mandating life imprisonment for 4-time felony offenders, the Baumes l
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WWII - D-Day. 116th Infantry, Dog Green Sector, Omaha Beach. Author
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August 27, 1918- March 20, 2008) was an American aviatrix who became the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Force jet aircraft as a test pilot during WWII as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program/WASP
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WASP/First American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War II
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First person to freefall across the English Channel and the first human to break the sound barrier outside of a vehicle
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WWII PTO: Marine Raider of 'Carlson?s Raiders'. Makin Island Raid (17?18 August 1942), Guadalcanal Campaign
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Adolf Hitler's Pilot during Hitler's political campaign of the 1930s
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WWIOI: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 2nd Marine Air Wing
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American-French-Tunisian chemist. In 2023, Bawendi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Louis E. Brus and Alexey Ekimov 'for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots'
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Charles Baxter (2) JFK - one of the doctors that tried to save John F. Kennedy at Parkland hopital on 22 Nov 1963
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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Alaskan 1925 diphtheria epidemic survivor, born 1920. Last survivor of the 1925 Nome Serum Run, a frantic dog sled effort to deliver serum to the afflicted
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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Invented the wind-up radio
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WWII: CBI theater, C?109 pilot, 80 'Hump' round?trips
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WWII: British soldier evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940, later served in North Africa (notably El Alamein) and Italy campaign
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Canadian Victoria Cross receiver from WW2
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Retired General - USAF
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Inventor and Buissness woman. Founder and CEO of Littlebits Inc. Has been featured in Time Magizine, Popular Science Magazine, and TED Talks
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ww11 navy hero author (run silent run deep)
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WWII: PTO. USMC. 'Buffalo' amphibious vehicle driver, in the 3rd Marine Division
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Retired British General, who served in WW2 and saw active service in France 1944 and in Java 1946
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Plant Breeder. His research led to the development of
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Famous teacher of the The Mavis Beacon Typing Institute: Created the software, 'Mavis Beacon teaches typing' which has ranked #1 by the NPD Intelect Market.
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, serving on USS Hull. Later fought in the battles of Bourgainville, Salamua-Lea, Guadalcanal, Wake Island, Attu-Kiska, Wake Island again, and Tarawa. Born July 6, 1921
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Bombardier,for 'Bockscar,' plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki
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Test pilot XF-84H
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Experienced fighter pilot WW2
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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WWII - 1st Marine Division Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, Battle of Okinawa
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Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his photo 'Faith and Confidence'
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WWII: D-Day. 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles), 501st PIR , D-Day Pathfinder, Battle of Carentan, Battle of the Bulge. Became a POW and escaped
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Astronaut/Moonwalker
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Bloodline/Daughter of Astronaut Alan Bean/Lives in Texas Hill Country
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Retired USMC General
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Arctic convoy veteran (HMS La Malouine) in 3 convoys including the ill-fated PQ-17 in July 1942
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Dame Winifred Mary Beard, is an English scholar, classicist, TV presenter & author
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On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 73,000 American forces descended on the beaches of Normandy. Bearden was a 21-year-old sergeant in the Army's 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Wrote; 'To D-Day and Back'
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Educator in the Teacher Hall of Fame, co-founder of The Ron Clark Academy
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Cold War Spy/retired Central Intelligence Agency officer, author and film consultant. Bearden is President and CEO of the Asia-Africa Projects Group/Author of three books
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British WW2 pilot, 'Battle of Britain'
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Noted Civil War and World War II Historian. WWII Marine, 3rd Raider Battalion (Battle of Guadalcanal), Chief historian for the National Park Service 1981 - 1994
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WW II Nurse, 1st Lt., aka Jean Crooks
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Historian on YouTube, talks about presidents and scandals alike on the Mr. Beat channel
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Pregnant Man
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: D-.Day, 508th PIR, medic, POW
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Canadian World War II veteran and politician
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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Ploesti Air Raid --- WWII
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Convicted Killer, Member Of Manson Family
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WWII: Marine Corps, 1st Raider Battalion. Tulaghi, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian. Fired the first shot against the Japanese occupied South Pacific Island of Tulagi on August 7, 1942
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Psychiatrist at Parkland Memorial Hospital when assassination took place. Later, following the Jack Ruby trial, was hired by Ruby family to conduct psychiatric evaluation of Ruby/ He spent 11 hours with Ruby & present for his polygraph test
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Army veteran and local theater actor
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Former German helicopter engineer, West German Border Guard, born 1942, Munich massacre 1972
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Playmobil inventor-businessman
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Former Navy SEAL, Christopher Beck, who is transgender and now goes by the name Kristin Beck
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US engineer, born 1930. Worked for McDonnell Aircraft on the NASA Mercury and Gemini missions
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air force general
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Society Lady
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pyro
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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AP photographer photographed burning airship Hindenburg 15 pics, from 1st flare-up, rescue of survivors & picture of Lou Gehrig wiping away a tear as the fatally ill first baseman bade farewell to Yankee teammates & fans at Yankee Stadium
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USAF Jet fighter Ace during the Korean War--[5 Migs shot down]! fle the p-80, f-86, f-89, f-84, f-104, t-33, t-28, t-6
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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Former Marine General
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inventor (ph acidity testing meter)
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9/11 - Retired NY firefighter who bluffed his way to Ground Zero on Sept. 14, 2001, and ended up on Time magazine in iconic photograph next to President George W. Bush
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Retired USMC General
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Retired General - US Army
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marine corps general
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WWII Manhattan Project
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nobel physics laureate 1987
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (WWII-10.5 Kills) US Navy, VF-17
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Governor of Arkansas (2007-15), Former State Attorney General
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Vietnam Vet/Participated in Battle of La Drang, highlighted in the book 'We Were Soldiers Once...And Young'/Artillery with Infantry, carried radio in battle/Awarded one Purple Heart, two Bronze Stars
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9-year-old girl kidnapped in New York by a friend of the family, and held in an underground bunker from December 28, 1992, to January 13, 1993. Author of Buried Memories
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History, civil rights in UK
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One of the last survivors (Born: 1917) from the sinking of RMS Lancastria, that sank in 1940 during WW2
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Test pilot, F-35, F-117 and F-22 Raptor
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British bomber pilot from WW2
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British pilot from WW2, living in Great Britain
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Navajo Code Talker (born 1926) of the 1st Marine Division 2nd Battalion
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Wife of Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay
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Notah Begay (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker - 1 of only 3 remaining (as of 2022)
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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air force general
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Apollo 11 and later: One of the engineers who designed the astronaut backpacks for all Apollo missions
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space engineer nasa administrator (81 & 85)
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Victoria Cross recipient from Great Britain, was awarded the VC in 2005
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Film historian, commentator on various classic DVDs
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astronaut
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Panzer Captain and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross who was on the intelligence staff of the Sixth Army during the Stalingrad encirclement
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Military
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Management Professor, Author, Speaker, Consultant and Advocate for Working Parents
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Rocket Scientest on Werhner von Braun's Team at Fort Bliss Texas, 1946/Operation Paperclip was code name for 1945 Office of Strategic Services, Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency recruitment of German scientists from Nazi Germany to US after VE Day
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French lawyer, teacher, and author, born 1924. Served as a legal secretary to the French judge during the Nuremberg Trials. Later worked for the UN and the World Health Organization
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Dallas Police motorcycle officer in '63 , was at Dallas Trade Mart and Parkland Hospital on day of assassination
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German Avatarix
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Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano (born 23 February 1961), also known as Don Berna or Adolfo Paz, is a former leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia paramilitary group, as well as the leader of The Office of Envigado cartel
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WWII: Esther was one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She survived because she was a player in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
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Author of several Space Publications/Early NASA Official/Director of advanced programs and plans
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Deep Freeze: an officer on the U.S.S. Arneb
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Defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 with a MiG-25 Foxbat
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Native of Belgium, returned to Antwerp after the war
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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Born 1916.Last living female 'Monuments Men' of the 2nd wave of Monuments Men which began their work after the war had ended. She is related to writer Virginia Woolf
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OR nurse supervisor at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought in after assassination
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World War II Medal of Honor
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Military
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George Bell (2)Tallest man in the USA
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Graham Bell (3) Retired engine driver and fireman who drove all six of the iconic British locomotives; The Mallard, Dominion of Canada, Dwight D Eisenhower, Union of South Africa, Sir Nigel Gresly and Bittern. Born: 1923. He is now 93 and lives in the UK
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Chief of Staff under Gov. Ernest Vandiver, judge from 1961-76, U.S. Attorney General from 1977-79
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World War II Army veteran from 1942-1946. Part of 91st airborn that jumped over North Africa and Italy
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Served in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific Theater and was aboard the USS Lexington in May, 1942, when it was torpedoed during the Battle of Coral Sea
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WWII: Battel of Okinawa. 77th Division. Distinguished Service Cross for the battle for Ishimi Ridge
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Pilot Vietnam War/Astronaut
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Retired United States Army four-star general
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former cosmonaut from Slovakia, now working as military attaché in Moscow, Russia
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English professor, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner.
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Will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient for the war in Iraq for his heroism during the second battle of Fallujah in November 2004
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WWII: Iwo Jima survivor; H Company, 3rd Battalion, 26th Regiment, 5th Division. Recipient of 2 Purple Hearts
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Celebrity Attorney. 'The King of Torts'. Author. Actor - Star Trek '68 (Gorgon in the 'And the Children Shall Lead' episode)
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of Liberty ship SS John A. Johnson (by Japanese torpedo) on 30 October 1944
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Test pilot
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P-47 and XF-91 test pilot
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101st Airborne, 506 PIR, Easy Company (AKA 'The Band of Brothers' - WWII
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Retired General
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C-47 pilot for 101st band of brother flew support for them
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Liborio Salvatore 'Barney' Bellomo (born January 8, 1957) is a high ranking caporegime (captain) and street boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City. Bellomo is one of the fastest rising Mafia members in the United States today, becoming a capta
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Apostolic Administrator of Dili, East Timor (1988-2002); 1996 Nobel Peace Laureate
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Astronaut born Sept 9, 1957; has not traveled into space; retired 1991
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Scientist
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Russian cosmonaut, Voskhod-2 (With Alexeij Leonov)
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Historian/biographer. Taught at Yale University. Two Pulitzer Prize's John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (1949) won the Pulitzer Prize for its sequel, John Quincy Adams and the Union (1956)
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Holocaust Survivor/Author - Subject of the film 'Fanny's Journey' based on her autobiography 'The Journey of Fanny Ben-Ami'
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Grammy award-winning violinist & UN Goodwill Ambassador. Style is a fusion of classical, Hip-Hop, soul & dance. Collaborated with Kanye West, Jay Z, Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, Patti Labelle, Janet Jackson, and John Legend
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American born artist and cybernetics scientist. He works and resides in Perth, Western Australia
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Concert pianist and professor of music. She is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the United Kingdom where she has taught the piano and the Alexander technique since 1975. Ben-Or is a Holocaust survivor
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(born January 3, 1943), He served as an assistant U.S. attorney from 1968 to 1973, including the turbulent period of the Watergate scandal. Mr. Ben-Veniste was a leading figure in the prosecution of this scandal. He served as chief of the Watergate Task F
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nobel medicine laureate 1980
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII WAVES female vet, born 1923. Top Secret Ultra clearance, gathered info from/prepared reports for upper command of decoded German messages. Learned of D-Day from a just-decoded msg from Germany's Donitz, saying they'd just been invaded
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JFK - Secret Service, served from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson
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WWII: MTO/ETO. Quartermaster on the Landing Craft, LST 1. Africa (Arzew and Bizerte), Italy (Palermo, Anzio, and Sicily), and Normandy on D-Day
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US Geologist, born 1938. Grumman Aerospace (1968-72), worked on the team that developed the Apollo lunar module landing feet 'pods'
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Shark and Deep Water Award-Winning Conservationist. Was married to late Author, Peter Benchley
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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army general
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British WWII Veteran, RAF
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WWII: PTO. Battled of Okinawa. K Co, 3rd Bn, 5th Marine Regiment (3/5)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
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US WWII Army Air Corps B-29 gunner (1925-2023). Flew over Nagasaki hours after the bombing as part of an Army photo mission. Flew in the Japanese Surrender Ceremony Flyover weeks later
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Former baseball player for the California Angels; known for his survival of oral Cancer
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Ranger. Purple Heart recipient shot in the thigh while storming Omaha Beach
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa. Hq-2-6, 2nd MarDiv
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WWII - Flying Tigers (AVG) P-51 pilot
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Centenarian and is an Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church. He is the oldest ltalian Roman Catholic bishop
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USN Admiral
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Invented, wrinkle free cotton
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1924) Wife of Josep Pons. Remembers how she left Barcelona in 1939 during the massive retreat towards France. Now 92
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co, 1/7 cav
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Flies the only flying Gee Bee R-2
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Helped in the development of the Wellness Community in 1982, which focused on the social and emotional health of cancer patients
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Military
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Asst.Secretary of Defense
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Started the first 401k Account
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 93 victories
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Pilot
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Worlds Oldest bridesmaid born 1902
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NASA scientist and engineer
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WWII: ETO/D-Day. Radio operator on B-24 Liberator 'The Hard Way' (44-40242), 854th Bomb quadron, 491st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 31 missions from June 2, 1944 to Sept. 9, 1944, including D-Day and Hanover, Sept. 9, 1944
