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About Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who made many contributions to the world. He is most widely known for his invention of the light bulb, but was also the inventor of the phonograph. He has been called “The Wizard of Menlo Park” and was one of the first inventors to add mass production [...]

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About Rosa Parks

Most historians have stated that the modern civil rights movement began with perhaps a quiet, unknown woman by the name of Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery Alabama, Rosa parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, and was arrested for violating a city ordinance. This one act of [...]

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About Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” are the famous lines written by the American poet Robert Frost. He wrote many poems and plays during his life and touched the lives of many different people. Life before Fame Robert Frost was [...]

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About Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman, though she was born into slavery and suffered much abuse as a slave, was considered to be a hero in her day. She was an African American abolitionist and Union spy during the American Civil War. Through her efforts she escaped slavery and made thirteen missions to rescue other enslaved people. Childhood Harriet [...]

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About Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen; a famous author and poet known mainly for his fairy tales like “The Little Mermaid”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes“, and “The Ugly Duckling“. As a fairy tale writer he made the lives of many children a little brighter and much more imaginative. His fairy tales have been translated into over a hundred [...]

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About Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh, also known as “The Lone Eagle” and “Lucky Lindy” has become the world’s best known aviator. He is best known for his first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic to Paris in 1927. He was a famous American pilot who was also awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Growing Up •Charles Lindbergh was [...]

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About Booker T. Washington

Booker T. (short for Taliaferro) Washington was an American author, educator, and prominent leader of the African American community. He was born into slavery as a child, but freed soon thereafter, allowing him to receive an education and eventually teach at a college for blacks. He became a prominent speaker for the African American people. [...]

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About Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell; renowned scientist and inventor and most widely known for his invention of the telephone. Both Bell’s mother and wife were deaf and profoundly influenced his life’s work. He did much research on hearing and speech which eventually led him to experiment with hearing devices and his greatest invention, the telephone. The Young [...]

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About Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist best known for his theory of relativity; more specifically mass-energy equivalence. His contributions to physics were vast and diverse, some of which are: •Special theory of relativity•General theory of relativity (extending the principle of relativity and creating a new theory of gravitation)•Relativistic cosmology•Capillary action•Critical opalescence•Statistical mechanics•The quantum theory•An explanation [...]

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About Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States until he was assassinated. He is known for being extremely outspoken against slavery in the United States and helped preserve the United States by leading them to victory over the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. This resulted in the abolition [...]

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