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Philippines Ambassador to United States
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USN Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 7th Infantry Division
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A Rosie the Riveter during WW2. She worked at a bomber plant in Kansas City, Mo
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Norwegian Army officer and broadcaster. He is known for his resistance work during World War II and his post-war war information work. He is also the last veteran of the legendary WW2 'Heroes of the Telemark' raid. He is now 96
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astronaut
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Mass Murderer
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Black WWII Driver for Red Ball Express. Lives in Maple Heights
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Lt. Colonel, Christian, husband, father of 5 girls, Founder of Folds of Honor Foundation, USAFR Fighter Pilot, Washington Speakers Bureau, PGA professional and author
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CM Sgt. Ronald Roos 'Air Force Honor Guard/ Death Watch/'I was there when the presidents body was taken off Air Force one, I saw Mrs. Kennedy, still in the blood stained dress, standing in the doorway,' Roos said
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Apollo 14 astronaut
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Noted archeologist...great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt
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Great Grandson of President FDR
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First Lady to President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt
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First Lady - Late Wife of FDR
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American politician (1882-1945). 32nd US President, 1933-45, NYS Governor, 1929-32 Asst Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20
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Bloodline/Great Grandson of president FDR
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Mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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26th US President, statesman, writer, explorer, 1858-1919
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newest DDG
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Bloodline/Grandson of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt/Lives in Mill Valley, California
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Great Grandson Of Theodore Roosevelt
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Born in 1927, a scholar, historian and author; the daughter of Anna Roosevelt Dall; granddaugther of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Great Grandson Of Theodore Roosevelt
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US Lawyer, Statesman (1845-1937). Sec. of War under McKinley and T. Roosevelt, NY Senator, and 1912 Nobel Peace Prize winner
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US Lawyer, Minister (1736-1822) CT Militia and delegate to Continental Congress
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WWII: D-Day; in the third wave at Utah Beach with the first elements of the 90th ID
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New Zealand rugby player and WW2 veteran
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Educator, social worker, activist and member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Born November 5, 1907
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USS Pueblo
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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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American geneticist and chronobiologist. He received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 2017
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WWII Flying Tiger Pilot 'Joe' Author Flying Tigers Joe Adventure Story Cookbook/(Pilot) (CNAC 1942 - 1945) (Captain - March 1943) (Hump Flights - ???)
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US WWII Navy WAVE, born 1923. Too young for service, she began as a munitions worker Rosie in 1941. Joined the WAVES a couple years later, and worked as a mechanic in the Navy's Blimp program
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Canadian WWII-Fighter Ace
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Explorer/Byrd: geographic, air reconnaissance and photogrammetric officer to Admiral Byrd on two antarctic expeditions and served as Byrd's scientific advisor
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Centenarian (1900-2003). One of the last living women to vote in the 1920 election, and one of the last to have visited the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
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Earl Rose (2)
JFK - Doctor at Parkland Hospital who would have been part of the autopsy team if it would have been done in Texas; conducted Oswald's autopsy, as well as those for J.D Tippit and later Jack Ruby -
WW2 air ace - 5 Kills - USAAF
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Former United States Army officer and a Vietnam War veteran. For his actions during the war, Rose is scheduled to be presented the Medal of Honor on 23 October 2017 by United States President Donald Trump
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Nobel prize laureate chemistry
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Current NASA Deputy Administrator (Acting), since January 20th, 2017
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Writer/Anti-abortion activist founder & president of anti-abortion organization Live Action. Conducted undercover, investigative exposés of abortion facilities in the US, including affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation
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British Army General during the Falklands Conflict and the Yugoslav Wars; also known as General Sir Hugh 'Michael' Rose
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1920, he claimed three victories during the Battle of Britain and flew three or four sorties each day. He is now 96 and lives in the UK
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British born TV presenter and Antarctic explorer. He is also an experienced and popular public speaker, science support and field logistics expert, polar guide, professional diver and instructor, mountaineer and yacht skipper
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Rick Rose (2)CAPT - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels C-130 'Fat Albert' Pilot
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10th Juror on Jack Ruby Trial to the JFK Assassination/WW2 fighter pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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1961 left college to join the Congress of Racial Equity (CORE) as Freedom Rider, traveled on buses throughout South to protest segregation and challenge the lack of enforcement of laws that made segregation on buses illegal/born 1940
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Known as the father of the geostationary satellite
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President & CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the U.S. Constitution. Professor of law at George Washington University Law School
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Scientist in the space programs Apollo and NASA. Key to development of Vanguard and Viking Rocket Programs which led to success of landing on the moon. Born 07/25/1915
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Fighter ace
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American lawyer, political activist, boxer, and author who served as a judge of the New York Supreme Court
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1950s Army Veteran and gay husband of Hubert Spires. He helped fight for a honorable discharge for Spires and they succeeded in 2017 when Spires got a honorable discharge from the US Military after over 60 years
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Former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Alphabet Inc. management team and board. Featured in an Academy Award-winning documentary about espionage in the digital age. Coauthor of How Google Works
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Lawyer and music executive, Eminem's manager. Also co-founder of Shady Records and a rapper at one time (member of Rhythm Cartel)
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945. 9th Armored Division, Purple Heart
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Battle of Bataan
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Chemist and Bridge Player lives in Mexico
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American fighter pilot (Ret.)/As captain in the US Air Force, flew 30 missions in an F-16 Fighting Falcon during the Persian Gulf War. His book about his experiences in the war, titled Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot
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1896-1973 U.S. lawyer, judge, Democratic political figure, and presidential speechwriter/Was FDR Special Counsel upon FDR's death Truman asked him to stay on, initially through V-E Day, then through V-J Day, and finally into 1946
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Author: 'The Grass Was Never Greener'
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The movie Casino was based on him (Deniro's Character)
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Commander Of 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group In The WWII. Prosecutor In The Nuremberg Trial After The WWII.
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WWII - D-Day, 2nd Battalion, The Glostershire Regiment. Frank's regiment was tasked to take the French town of Bayeux, 12 miles from Gold Beach, and fought in the Battle of Tilly-sur-Seulles, where some of the toughest combat took place
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1921-2000 co-inventor zeolite catalyst that was commercially useful in petroleum industry for catalytic cracking of petroleum into products like gas. Inventor or co-inventor of 76 US patents & was inducted into the National Inventors HOF
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. USS Arkansas (BB-33)
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Person in schindlers list
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Swedish Rally Driver - One of the most successful rally drivers from Sweden. 1st Female Touring Car Grand Prix Winner
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US WWII Merchant Marines (1928-2024). Joined the MM in 1942 at 14 years old, served in the S. Pacific and Atlantic. One of the last MM to attend the official Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Merchant Marines in 2022
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Great Great Grandson of Jesse James
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American diplomat, speaker and author. Served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush and the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton
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Officer of the United States Navy who received the first Medal of Honor of World War II. This award was made for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
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WWII: PTO. Tech. Sergeant with Unit Co. A. 182nd Infantry
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Operating Room technician at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought there after assassination
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WW2 fighter pilot ace 7 victories 82/48 PS 78/14PG 14FG - USAAF
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Great Grandson of Jesse James
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astronaut (STS-61B,27,37,55,74,and 88)
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Retired General
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Australian World War 1 Veteran Born' 03/11/1899 One of 6 remaining World War 1 Veterans - Deceased 2009
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Centenarian of the Gensworth Financial Ad Campaign Born 1906
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First known Native - American female Engineer, best remembered for her work on Aerospace design
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Convicted murderer, vegan chef
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Great Great Grandson of Jesse James
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WWII: Highly decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Brigadier General. He is most noted for his service with the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa. He placed the American flag at Mt. Shuri
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Comedy Historian & Carry On Films Author
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Thurman was a member of the Dallas Police Dept. and served as one of the pallbearers at the funeral of Officer J.D. Tippit
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Tuskegee Airmen/332nd FG/302nd FS
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Medal of Honor recipient: World War II
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WWII: Survivor of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion 1944, 320 dead; mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.) Later on the USS Ancon where he rejected an order and was given right by the white Captain
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Great Great Granddaughter of Jesse James
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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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medal of honor army korean war
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Was one of the last surviving French marine commandos who stormed ashore on Sword Beach, Normandy, on D-Day to initiate the liberation of their homeland
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Ww2 fighter ace -navy hellcat
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'Flying Tigers & WWII Ace (6.25 kills)'
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WWII - D-Day (Normandy)
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Historian and author
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Swiss man who flew across English Channel using jet-powered wing strapped to his back
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Peruvian Historian. 'History of the Inca Realm'. Born: 08/15/1915
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1995 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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American economist. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley 'for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design'
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences. Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof)
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Holocaust survivor, born 1932. Mother, sister killed in a train wreck by saboteurs, father gassed at Auschwitz. He and a brother hid with various people throughout the war. Saw Hitler in Vienna, and Churchill in a victory parade in Belgium
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust'
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One of oldest people in the world. Born 1895 Lives in France
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29th Navy Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
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WWII: Fighter Ace, 5 victories
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Is a centenarian and an African-American civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney
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American journalist, writer and historian in Tidewater Virginia
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WWII: PTO. 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division. Battles of GUadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian. Air Force pilot in Korea. Purple Heart
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Darlie Lynn Peck Routier (born January 4, 1970) is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted of murdering her son, five-year-old Damon. She was never charged with the murder of her other son, six-year-old Devon.
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navy admiral
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(No Kum-Sok) Sept 1953 2 months after Korean War ended with an armistice, a 21-year-old North Korean fighter pilot defected to a South Korean airfield with a state-of-the-art Russian fighter plane
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U.S. Air Force Honor Guard
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa. The Lindsey was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes that crashed into her killing 57 sailors and wounding another 57
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Witness that said he saw another man with a gun in the Sixth Floor Book Depository Building and stuck by the story when questioned by the Warren Commission. He was a high school student and worked for Pizza Inn at the time
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1995; his best-known work is the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion
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Last survivor of the Gresford mine disaster of 1934. It is one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters. He was a teenager at the time. Also a WW2 veteran. He recently celebrated his 100th birthday. He lives in the UK
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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US Army Korean War Veteran. He was a POW from 1951 to 1953 in North Korea. 333 people of his battalion including him were taken as POWs and only 117 made it
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FBI Whistleblower; FBI agent who identified 9-11 hijacker before attacks
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WW2 WASP/Airfield Assignments; Love Field & Selman Army Air Field
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army general
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WWII: USS Yorktown. Navy Photographer who photographed the Battle of Midway
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Founder, and owner of The Royal Treatment Veterinary Center. Internationally-renowned pioneer in complementary medicine and physical rehabilitation.Author and advocate of common sense and cutting-edge approaches to optimal animal health
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WWII WAVES veteran, born 1915. She worked coding and decoding ship movements while based in San Francisco. Later used the GI Bill to get an education and become a teacher
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NASA: Worked in communications for NASA during the Apollo 11 mission by relaying information about the spacecraft's location. Royston, pictured, points to the Apollo 11 patch in his collection from working on different Apollo missions
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Vietnam 1965 flew into Landing Zone X-Ray Ia Drang Valley on supply helicopter/Was supply officer for 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile during 1st full-scale battle between American & North Vietnamese troops
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Ww2 veteran on the USS Alabama
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Nobel physics laureate 1984
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British Army officer who earned the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for organising guerrilla resistance in France and Burma; full name is Richard Arthur Rubinstein
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JFK/Air Force One crew member that was in Dallas, 22 November 1963
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. During the attack, Rubien helped burn classified documents, then picked up a gun and ammo and began shooting. Later served at Saipan, Guam, and the Marshall Islands
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Hungarian inventor of the Rubik's Cube puzzle
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Benjamin Rubin (born 1917) Microbiologist, known as the inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle
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WWII: ETO. 743rd Bomb Squadron, 455th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force. 28 missions
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One of the 'Chicago7' war protesters from 1968
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Korean War Medal of Honor Recipient
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American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. She is now 84 and lives in U.S.A
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Astronaut
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NASA Astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of USS Helena (CL-50) in the Battle of Kula Gulf, July 1943. Also Night Battle of Guadalcanal Nov. 1942 and the Battle of Cape Esperance (Oct. 1942) where he saw the USS Juneau (Sullivan brothers) sink
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Brother of Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the case of Assassination of JFK
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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1960's Political activist. 'The Weatherman,' group
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Female WWII veteran, snuck away from home to join the WAACs in 1942, becoming a WAC in 1943. Ran a night flight simulator for pilot training. Later in life had a nursing career
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P-47 Thunderbolt Ace of WWII, F-86 Sabre Ace of WWII, 10.5 victory Ace with 406th FG
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First responder at the Pentagon during the 9/11 Terrorists Attacks
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Colonel pilot of Air Force One for Presidents Carter and Reagan
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She and her sister are recognized by Guinness Book of records as the oldest living sisters
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JFK - placed the Green Beret on President Kennedy?s grave on November 25, 1963.
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Assistant present at the autopsy of President Kennedy at Bethesda
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medal of honor army ww11
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Atlanta bombings
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WW 2 Luftwaffe Fighter Ace and Me262 Pilot 222 victories
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1929) is one of the last living survivors of the Italian air raid over Granollers on May 31, 1938. She is now 87
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German nurse (Born: 1929) who was stationed at Hitler's bunker during the final days of WW2. She was 15 at the time and met Joseph Goebbels and his family on the day Hitler committed suicide. She is now 88 and lives in Germany
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Halfway Home Also works as a lawyer
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This lady has the world's largest hips
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WWII Veteran, D-Day Invasion, D-Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion
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The mobster son of Angelo Ruggiero
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US Army Brig. Gen. (1869-1932). Spanish American War, WWI ordnance official/ammo expert
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Highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during WW2. Also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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WWII veteran and one of the first 13 female nurses of Puerto Rico's Women's Army Corps
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1980 boston marathon cheat
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Grand son of Pablo Picasso
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Daughter-in-law of Pablo Picasso
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(1932-2002) Was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33
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Businessman and co-Founder of Citizens for Eisenhower which propelled DDE into the presidency. Later a White House aide to Eisenhower. An heir to the Colgate-Palmolive fortune, and first husband of actress Dina Merrill
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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WWII: Germany, Luftwaffe. Night fighter radio operator, Knights Cross
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Astronaut
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JFK - Secret Service agent for the Kennedys, had a career from 1958 to 1978
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WWII: U.S. Army Sergeant Technician, 7th Division, 17th Infantry. Attu, Marshall Islands, Okinawa
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Award winning pilot from Fenwick, Ontario (Born: 05/12/1911) and has been called one of Canada's most experienced air racers
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WWII: Merchant Marine 1941-1945
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Murderer responsible for the deadliest shooting inside a private residence in American history. On March 30, 1975, He murdered 11 family members in what is referred to as the Easter Sunday Massacre
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WWII: PTO. Motor machinist mate second class aboard U.S.S. L.S.M 485
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Scientist
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Real-Life hero of the Hotel Rwanda
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White House Chef
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Air Force test pilot for the X-15 program
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Allan Russell (2)Last surviving member of Z Special Unit
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WWII: Navy fighter carrier pilot, flying in combat during World War II and the Korean War; including dive-bomber support for the First Marine Division during the battle of Guadalcanal, flying off the USS Saratoga
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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UCLA Professor who worked on the planetary probe Dawn Spacecraft
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born September 15, 1920
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; butcher stationed at the Army Air Corps' Wheeler Field
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USS Pueblo
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Fighter ace
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Jack Russell (3)Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; became a psychologist in Whittier, CA
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navy admiral hero
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inventor of the compact disc
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Scientist
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Archaeologist and regular contributor to Channel 4's 'The Time Team'.
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WWII: D-Day. Was in the Aviation Unit (Kingfisher reconnaissance plane) of the USS Arkansas. Also at Iwo Jima, A-bomb
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Stephen Russell (3)Born 1937,nicknamed 'Slug', American computer scientist - Spacewar!
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Steve Russell (2)
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Programmer and computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, in 1961
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A US con artist and impostor, known for escaping from prison multiple times; played by Jim Carrey in 'I Love You Phillip Morris'
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Known as 'Mush', 'Mushy' and 'Andy' is a powerful and longtime member of the Colombo crime family. He is the current street boss for the Colombos
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Anthony Russo (2) Former Mobster, former Columbo Capo turned informant
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Key Witness in Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw in connection with conspiring to murder JFK
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pilot landed small aircraft in red sq. in moscow
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'Space Explorer', 'Private Space Entrepreneur'
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First to fly around the world non-stop, non-refueled. Aircraft named Voyager
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Captain Elizabeth (Liz) Ruth is an American pilot who is the only woman to fly the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. She works at Armstrong Flight Research Center. She has flown for the United States Air Force, flying Boeing T-43 and North
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Marine Guard of Honor, JFK funeral/ enlisted in 1960 Two years after enlisting, they found themselves on separate boats off coast of Cuba, part of a flotilla that was prepared to invade the island if Cuban missile crisis came to a head
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Prosecution witness, Police Reporter for the Dallas Morning News in the Jack Ruby Trial for murder of Lee Harvey Oswald who slated to have assassinated JFK/Said he saw Ruby at police headquarters at least 3x night of Nov. 22
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Tuskegee Airmen 99th Pursuit Squadron
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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WWII: D-Day, landing near Ste. Marie Eglise, captured on D-Day; POW at Stalag 4B near the Czech border. Earlier combat jump in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943) and combat in Salerno, Italy. 505th PIR, HQ Company, 82nd Airborne Division
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Survived having a frozen turkey (thrown out the window by teens for a thrill) shattering her windshield and smashing her face. Awoke several weeks later with no knowledge of what had happened. Created the Forgiveness Project
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Libertarian political activist and candidate
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Decorated Australian Military - Now deceased
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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101st airborne division, ww2
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Frank Ryan (2)Member of the Coast Guard , he was part of the Ceremonial Guard at President Kennedy's funeral
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Author and WW2 veteran
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Vice Presidential Candidate running for the Christian Freedom Party 2008
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Jim Ryan (4) A stringer for the Chicago Tribune in '63 , he took photos at Dealey Plaza , at Parkland and Love Field . His image of Air Force One leaving Dallas was published the next day
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navy admiral educator
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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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Thomas Ryan (3) WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa
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navy admiral
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Retired General Born Dec 10,1928
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Baby featured in Dorothea Lange's famous photo 'Migrant Mother' with her mother and two of her siblings; taken in 1936 during the Great Depression; sister of Katherine McIntosh
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tern (AM-31)
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German economist
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cosmonaut
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Fighter ace
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World War 1 Veteran (Finland) Born: 05/21/1905
