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Polish social activist, veteran of World War II, last living member of pre-war National Party
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NASA astronaut STS-41, 53, 65, 88; Former director of Kennedy Space Center 2008-2021
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American Female Historic Person - Civil Rights Activist. As A Girl Participated In The Student Protests That Led To The Davis v. School Board Of Prince Edward County Case That Became One Of The 5 Historic Brown v. Board Of Education Cases (1951)
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Fighter ace ww2 born 1/15/1920
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; USS Arizona
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Professional photographer, covered major historic and sporting events. Rode in JFK's Dallas motorcade in the White House Press Bus and snapped photos of Dealey Plaza in the seconds after the shooting
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram photographer in 1963, Cabluck covered President Kennedy in Fort Worth and Dallas. Following the assassination, he went to Parkland Memorial Hospital and then took aerial photographs of Dealey Plaza
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American Female Heiress And Socialite. Was Nancy Reagan's Social Secretary (1981-1985)
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American lawyer, specializing in the field of Labor Law. Member of Harvey, Pennington, Herting & Renneisen, Limited
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Argentinian famed inter-sex and trans-sex activist. Born female, he signed the Yogyakarta Principles accord and is a recipient of the Bob Hepple Equality Award
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Astrobiologist, Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research
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Joel Cacace is a New York mobster and acting head of the Colombo crime family who allegedly tried to assassinate a federal prosecutor
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A high ranking member of the Gambino family,currently holding the rank of Caporegime
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima
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American Female Science Teacher And Entomologist - She Is Known For Her Work With Parasitic Insects And Their Chemical Responses To Their Host. She Has Had Over 30 Years With Research On The Insect - Texas Field Cricket
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Lz xray 1965
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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American Former Female Historic Peron. Ex- Supercentenarian Aged 111 And 12 Days (1902-2013). At The Time Of Her Death She Was The Oldest Living Person In Texas
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Medal of Honor, Korean War, US Marine Corps
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WWII: PTO. Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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American Former Female Pilot. Mercury 13 Female Candidate (1959). Inducted Into The Georgia Aviation Hall Of Fame (2003)
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American Female Former Astronaut. No Missions Flown (1996-2008)
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WWII: PTO. 27th Infantry Division; gunner on a 155 millimeter artillery piece. Fought in the Battle of Saipan and Okinawa. In Okinawa he was bayonetted and sewed himself up, not missing one day of the battle. Bronze Star
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Co-Invented the WWW
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Conservative Radio Talk Show Host; Former CEO of Godfather's Pizza; Formed Exploratory Committee for President 2012
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Flight scientist
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Iconic guitarist, who played the themes of 'Bonanza' and 'The Magnificent Seven'. Worked with Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Holly, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Barbara Streisand, Frankie Laine, Peggy Lee, Neil Sedaka a.o. Iwo Jima veteran
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Former gangster, first made man ever to testify against the Chicago Outfit, currently imprisoned
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Peter 'Peter Rabbit' Calabrese - a former Bonanno capo involved in the 1984 murder of Cesare Bonventre with brothers Louis and Robert Attanasio. In 2006, Calabrese and Louis Attanasio were sentenced to 15 years for Cesare Bonventre's murder
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WWII: ETo. 89th Division, 3rd Army and the 550th AAA infantry. Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Ohrdruf concentration camp liberation
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Utah!
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American astronaut
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Astronaut
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia. Navy chief petty officer. Trapped inside the West Virginia and hardly escaped. Also in the Battle of Midway
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19th project member at at 'Project Manhattan' (Trinity)
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WWII: Marine who fought at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Guam. As a boy, he attended the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, met and corresponded with Civil War veterans, and is a sculptor of miniature figures
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Astrophysicist. NASA and SETI. Instrument scientist for the Kepler mission searching for exo-planets (planets outside our solar system)
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Iwo Jima survivor,Navy Cross recipient
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Retired United States Army Lieutenant General
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American Female Astronaut And Chemist. Space Shuttle Endeavour - Flight STS-118 (August 2007). International Space Station Crew - Expedition 23 and Expedition 24 (April 2010 to September 2010)
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Pearl Harbor survivor - shipyard dispensary
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Italian - Born American Former Female Supercentenarian (1895-2007)
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Game maker (Diplomacy) & writer
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WWII: D-Day. Company K, 116th Infantry, 29th Division. Landed in the first wave at Omaha Beach; later served across France, like Saint Lo and Brest, then Belgium, Siegfried Line, Germany. Purple Heart, three Bronze Stars, Silver Star
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WWII - Paratrooper of the 101st Airborne (Screamin' Eagles). Combat jump on D-day, when he was wounded, captured by Germans and escaped. Also fought in the Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: ETO. 8th Air Force. Served with Clark Gable
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US Army Special Forces Afghanistan War Veteran. Distinguished Service Cross and Bronze Star recipient
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Adjutant General of Rhode Island, and Commanding General of the Rhode Island National Guard
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John Callahan (3)
WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battle of Okinawa -
WWII Flying Tigers Ground Crew
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII veteran, D-Day landing on Utah Beach
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Senior officer present at the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War
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Tuskegee Airmen
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American Female Historic Person - X - Ray Tech. School Intern At Parkland Hospital At Time Of President Kennedy's Assassination (1963)
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British pilot and WWII Prisoner of War. Wrote about his time in German captivity called Free as a Running Fox
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navy admiral writer
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American Former Female Historic Person. An Employee Of Lee Harvey Oswald's at the Texas School Book Depository. Gloria Stood Near The Stemmon's Freeway Sign On The North Side Of Elm St. To Observe President Kennedy's Motorcade And Assassination (1963)
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US Air Force veteran who served from 1953 to 1957 during the Korean War (Born 1933)
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First elected Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States. Born in 1937
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(Born 1937) US Army Vietnam Veteran. He was captured as a POW in 1963 and escaped in 1965. He became the first American Prisoner of War to escape captivity in Vietnam. Recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star
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astronaut
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. Paratrooper of the 1st Bn, HQ Co, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
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French WW1 veteran
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co. 1/7 cav
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US Politician, Penn. (1833-1918) Ran railways supplying Union troops. Grant's Sec. of War, handled Battle of Little Bighorn and threats from controversial R.B. Hayes election. Senator, 1877-97. Last living Grant Cabinet member at his death
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astronaut
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Scottish Female First Female Yeoman Warder Of The Tower Of London (Beefeater). Protector Of The Queens Jewels (2007- )
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WWII Manhattan Project
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WWII - D-Day: Served on the HMCS Kitchener, K-225, the only Canadian Corvette to participate in D-Day, escorting the second wave of American infantry which landed at around 11 am on Omaha Beach
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Norwegian - Born American Female Gay Rights Activist Against Military Anti - Gay Policy. Former Colonel In The Washington National Guard
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American Former Female Historical Person - Assistant Press Secretary For President Kennedy (1961-1963). She Accompanied The President To Dallas On The Texas Trip (1963)
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2004 Libertarian nominee for Vice President, author
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One of the founders of, 'American Conservative Union,' right wing group
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Military
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US Army General
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Doolittle Raiders 'Navigator crew #13'
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Author, decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran
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WWII: PTO. 29th Marines, 6th Div. 2nd Battalion, Fox Co
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WWII: PTO. Fighter pilot aboard the USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76). Distinguished Flying Cross
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English Female Author And Long Distance Walker - Novel - 'Ffyona Campbell - On Foot Through Africa' (1994), 'Whole Story a Walk Around The World' (1996), 'Feet of Clay: Her Epic Walk Across Australia'(1991), 'The Beat Of A Different Drum'(2017)
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WWII: PTO. Cook on the USS Missouri who took the famous photograph of the USS Missouri about being hit by a Kamikaze on April 11, 194 during the Battle of Okinawa
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Living Descendant/Relative of President James K. Polk
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air force general
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Keith Campbell (3) English biologist, lead team that cloned Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned animal
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Kelly Campbell (4)
Wells fargo heist -
Army General
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Kim Campbell (2)American Female Pilot Of U.S. Air Force (1997- ) Awarded With 'The Distinguished Flying Cross' For Action In Aerial Combat After Flying A Mission Over Baghdad, Iraq, And 'Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit' (2003)
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American Former Female Model - Miss America (1922 & 1923); 'Miss Columbus' (1922). The Only Person To Win The Miss America Pageant Twice
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Roy Campbell (2) WWII: PTO. Buna, Aitope, New Guinea, Morotai, Leyte. 32nd 'Red Arrow' Division
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Horse racing figure
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Col. Campbell was a Tuskegee Airman
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Co-winner 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize/cited for discovering avermectin, derivatives of which helped lower incidence of river blindness & lymphatic filariasis 2 diseases caused by parasitic worms that affect millions of African & Asian people
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air force general
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Jesus Campos (2)Unarmed guard who distracted Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter who killed 58 people and wounded more than 500/Hailed hero, interrupting and locating shooter to be stopped
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Air Demonstration Squadron
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army general
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Italian Doctor/Plans to perform the first human head transplant, says he believes he has a 90 percent chance of success
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Col USAF (RET) WWII 6 Victory Ace, 479th fighter group
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Co-author of the series 'How Race Is Lived in America' which won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize, and A Journal for Jordan about the death of her fiance, Charles Monroe King, in the Iraq War and the journal he left for their son
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Was a student at Kent State University, Ohio, when he was shot and wounded in the right wrist by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 while protesting the invasion of Cambodia
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Medal of Honor winner. Vietnam
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French general born 1932, last French Commandant of Berlin's French sector
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WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. G Company, 506th PIR, 101st AB
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St. Lt. 339th Fighter Squadron; Yamamoto Mission April 18th 1943 flew the p-40, p-39, p-38, p-43, p-51, p-80, t-33 and 56 others
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Army General
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WWII: Cano piloted LCVPs off of the USS Zeilin (APA-3), starting with the Battle of Tarawa in November, 1943
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1917) who fought on the Aragon front in 1938 during the conflict. He is now 99
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1929) who fought during the frustrated offensive to retake Mallorca under Nationalist control. He is the younger brother of Alfons Canovas. He is now 87 and lives in Barcelona, Spain
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English Female Explorer, Adventurer, Author, And Motivational Speaker - Novel - 'Snow, Sleds \And Silence: The Story Of The Nordkapp Expedition' (2012), 'A Challenge Too Far?' (2003)
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JFK related/Bay of Pigs Frogman/Participated in dozens of CIA missions to Cuba after the Bay of Pigs, flies a helicopter for the county's public works and is president of the Cuban Pilots Association
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Lz-xray 1965 vietnam 1/7 cav
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English Male Space Historian And Businessman. He Possesses The Worlds Largest And Most Significant Autograph Collection From The Apollo Missions
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Nobel laureate in medicine 2007
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1916) is one the last two living mechanics of Republican fighter aircrafts. He fought with the fourth squadron fixing Russian Polikarpov-15 fighters during the conflict. Now 100
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Retired spacesuit technician for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, crew chief, and manager of the Space Shuttle Crew Escape Equipment Processing department. She is the first Black woman to serve in these roles
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American mobster
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Ecuadorian Former Female Supercentenarian. At The Time Of Her Death At Age 116 Years, 347 Days, Was Recognized By Guinness World Records As The World's Oldest Living Person
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WWII: ETO. B 24 Liberator radioman and aerial gunner. 35 missions from 6 October 1944 to 10 April 1945. Stationed in Attlebridge, England. 785th Bomb Squadron, 466th Bomb Group
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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: Home Front. Worked for the Signal Corps and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she tested the strength of materials used on ships and how to insulate wires used on the ships so they did not mold
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Math
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Born Havana, Cuba 3-7-1938/Bay of Pigs Veteran/Cuban Pilot Air Force Captain trained by US, when returned to Cuba arrested for being trained by USA & later participated to fight for US forces in invasion/Flew B-26 hit during invasion
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Author and Founder of The Caraway Group, Inc., a nationally recognized public relations and public affairs agency. She has played a major role in shaping the goals and objectives of the National Democratic Party
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Malvinas War hero
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Puerto Rican actor, comedian Salsa singer Lawyer
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Korean War. Vietnam War. USMC
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USN Admiral
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Former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush; notified President Bush of the 9/11 terrorist attacks while they were visiting the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: 506th Bomb Squadron, S 44th Bomb Group, 8th AF; shot down, became a POW. On Oct. 14th, 1947, he flew the B-29 carrying the X-1 in which Gen. Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound. 2months later he began flight test work with the YB-49 Flying Wing
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Major in Household Cavalry who operated on and saved Sefton
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American Female NASA Astronaut And Beobiologist. NASA Group 22 (2017- )
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Field Marshall of the Brazilian Army
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astronaut
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British ace from WW2
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Author, CIA officer, activist
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Serial Killer and Former Alcatraz Inmate. Currently serving a 400 year sentence at a Minnesota Correctional Facility
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French Former Female Supercentenarian (8 May 1895 ? 29 August 2007, 112 years, 113 days)
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Scientist
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WW2 German Tank Ace - Awarded the Knight's Cross
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WWII: PTO. Served on LSM-135 (landing troops and tanks onto the beaches), Leyte operation, also landings at Luzon and Lingayen Gulf. He survived more than a dozen attacks from kamikaze until eventually hit off Okinawa, 25 May 1945
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First USMC Ace during WWII--[18 victories]
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American Female Personality - Blind For Over Two \Decades. Recently Able To See With A New Bionic Eye (2015) Never Had Night Vision Her Whole Life And Day Vision Progressively Worsened Over The Years To The Point Where She Couldn't See Anything At All
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B-24 Liberator Pilot/32 missions w/747 Squadron/456 Bomber Group/Noted Aviation Artist
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JFK - The Old Guard, 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment; led riderless horse 'Black Jack' for fallen president at John F. Kennedy's funeral.
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air force general
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navy admrial
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WWII: US Navy Ace F6 Hellcat VF-40, VF-30, 9 Victories. Bougainville, Rabaul, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Japanese mainland
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nobel medicine laureate 2000
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Bob Carlton (2) Member of NASA Mission Control
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Jim Carlton (2)One of the last surviving construction workers who worked on The Shasta Dam, which began construction in 1938. He is now 91 and lives in Redding, California, U.S.A
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air force general
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air force general
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Founder Armadillo Aerospace; team that won Lunar Lander Challenge
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WWII veteran and American painter known for his figurative paintings based on the work of the old masters
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Fighter ace NV-224
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded. Chief engineer who was instrumental in saving the ship
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Secretary of the Smithsonian (1953-1964)
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WWII: PTO. He led one of the two unfortunate groups of B-17s to Pearl Harbor to arrive in the midst of the attack on Dec. 7, 1941. Later piloted the first B-29 to be shot down over Japan. POW
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United States Surgeon General (2002-06)
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US WWII Army vet, born 1916. Supply driver for the 24th Evac Hospital though Europe. Arrived on Omaha Beach 5 days after D-Day
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One of the last living Ritchie Boys
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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educator
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army general
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WWII: Veteran of the Battles of Tarawa and Okinawa
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Tail Gunner 'Enola Gay'
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(Born 1938) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 3 Silver Stars
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SR-71 pilot. Now a docent at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
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American Serial KIller, known as the Trailside Killer
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ace (WW2)
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American Former Female Feminist, Writer, Newspaper Reporter, Media Advisor, Speechwriter, Political Humourist, And Public Relations Expert. TV Series Documentary 'Independent Lens' - 'Sisters of '77' (2005)
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American Former Female Newspaper Columnist And Local Television Host (Washington DC). Ex - Wife to Malcolm Scott Carpenter (Original Mercury 7 Astronaut). Support Group = Astronaut's Wives Club
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astronaut, lt. cmdr
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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2014 Medal of Honor recipient, Afghan war veteran, retired US Marinehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Carpenter
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08 Lasker Prize winner. one of three
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Physician, flight surgeon assigned to the Apollo 11 mission. He along with John Hirasaki were the only two people other than the Apollo 11 astronauts in the mobile quarantine facility
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American Female Personality - A Mother, Who Assisted Suicide Killings Of Her 2 Sons, Who Suffered From Huntington's Disease. Prison Term (2003-2004)
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American Female Historical Figure. One Of The Last Survivors Of The Tri-State Tornado (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana). The Deadliest Tornado In American History That Occurred On March 18, 1925. She Is Now 97 (2020) And Lives In Mount Vernon, Indiana, U.S.A
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Driver of the Cadillac where Hank Williams died on January 1, 1953
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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astronaut (Skylab 4)
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Retired U.S. Navy - served as Commanding Officer of the USS Anzio (CG-68) and USS John Rodgers (DD-983). Also served as a reactor officer with the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and as XO of the USS Bainbridge (CGN-25)
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Canadian Jewish Female Musicologist And Human Rights Activist known For Secretly Bringing To \Freedom Thousands Of Jews Out of Syria Over A Period Of 28 Years
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navy admiral
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British born US planetary geologist, born 1935. Worked on nearly every Mars planetary probe, including as the imaging team leader for the Viking missions. Worked on lunar mapping and geological aspects of the 1960's Apollo program
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US WWI veteran and 1920s boxing manager for Jimmy Slattery and others, (1894-1996)
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American Former Female Humanitarian And Author - Novel - 'Land Of A Thousand Hills' (1999)
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Lieutenant General William Keir 'Bill' Carr, CMM, DFC, OStJ, CD (born March 19, 1923) is a retired Canadian Air Force officer. As the first commander of Air Command, he has been described as the father of the modern Canadian Air Force
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WWII: D-Day. Seabee signalman, 111th Construction Battalion; spent six months building barges for the invasion, then volunteered for duty as a signalman during the invasion
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Lz xray 1965 vietnam
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Hulbert
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Flight astronaut mse astronaut candidate
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WW2 Veteran-Battle Of The Bulge
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JFK - One of the doctors that treated John F. Kennedy at the Parkland, 22 Nov 1963
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First Latino patrol officer of the LAPD Investigated Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker Featured on Netflix's Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
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WWII veteran, POW and Bataan Death March survivor
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1966 to 1968. Got out as a sergeant
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E. Jean Carroll (2)American journalist, author, and advice columnist/Victim in the Donald Trump rape case/Her 2019 book, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal, Carroll accused Les Moonves and Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor. Utility Squadron Two (VJ-2). He arrived in Pearl Harbor three days before the Japanese attack
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American Former Female Supercentenarian. (1895-2007)
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Supercentenarian born 1907 oldest person living in Connecticut
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Marine biologist in Alaska who helped rescue the whales stuck in the story The Big Miracle
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navy admiral
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New York Herald Tribune reporter witness to & in famous photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby in JFK Assassination case/Soon to self-publish ?Accidental Assassin: Jack Ruby and Four Minutes in Dallas?
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Member of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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American Female Space Enthusiast. Attended Numerous Space Camps And Visiting NASA Visitor Centers In 9 States
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Neurosurgeon, Republican Politician, Secretary of Housing & Urban Development. Ran for President of the United States in 2016
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WWII: PTO. Invasion of Leyte Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, Invasion of the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo Bay. USS West Virginia
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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WWII: PTO. USMC Fighter Pilot
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Italian WW One Vet
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Mathematician Born: 07/08/1904
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American Former Female Pilot. She Holds The Distinction Of Being The First Woman In The United States Licensed To Fly A Helicopter. She Flew, Among Others, The Bell 47B, The World's First Commercially Certified Helicopter. Also Known As 'Whirly Girl #2'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Brandon Carter (4)Australian theoretical physicist, best known for his work on the properties of black holes in the Solar System
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American Female Sociologist, Author, And Senior Fellow At Greater Good Science Center. Novel - 'The Sweet Spot : How to Accomplish More by Doing Less' (2017), 'Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids And Happier Parents' (2010)
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Convicted serial killer currently housed on San Quentin, California's Death row. He has been convicted (in two separate trials) of the murder of four women
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Tuskegee Airman
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Joe Carter (3)UPI reporter for Dallas Bureau , was aboard motorcade press bus and heard shots fired in Dealey Plaza. Also covered Parkland Hospital and Love Field after JFK assassination
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WWII: Sergeant, 391st Quartermaster Trucking Company of the 'Red Ball Express', the famous and one of the biggest logistical operations of WWII, using up to 5600 trucks to transport goods across Europe from August 25 to November 16, 1944
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American Former Female Historical Person And Author. Mother Of Former President Jimmy Carter. Novel - 'Away From Home: Letters To My Family' (1977), 'Miss Lillian And Friends: The Plains, Georgia, Family Philosophy And Recipe Book...' (1977)
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Nick Carter (2)Royal military
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American Female Pilot - Unofficial Record For Youngest Pilot Of A Transcontinental Flight Round Trip Over America -9 Years Old (March 21 1994). Unrecognized Claims Since The Pilot Must Be 16 To Get A License
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Early Birds of Aviation Member/Soloed 1911
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WWII: One of the last surviving members of The Manhattan Project, he was Enrico Fermi's lab technician: helped create the world's first atomic bomb. Witness to the explosion of the first a-bomb ('Trinity', July 16, 1945)
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WWII veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor (Born 1920) on the USS Oklahoma
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Astronaut
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One of the last descendants of the legendary Howard Carter who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922
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Medal of Honor recipient, Afghanistan
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US WWII Marine, born 1919. Took part in Guadalcanal, Saipan, Iwo Jima
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Jimmy Carter's grandson arranged video release of Mitt Romney's statement of 47% remarks into hidden camera that may aided effected outcome of 2012 United States Presidential Elections
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Publisher Fort Worth Star-Telegram, civic leader, philanthropist, Born Fort Worth, Texas. As youth sold newspapers on a corner in downtown Ft Worth. POW with German force/Texas Rangers Team owner/Major Texas historical figure
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navy admiral
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Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2007-??)
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US Army Vietnam War Veteran. Was drafted and served in the 25th Infantry Division
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Astronomer, studies icy moons
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air force general
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WWII: Pacific, 182nd regiment, fought in five major Pacific campaigns
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WWII: ETO. 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division. He fought in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns. Guard duty at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, often photographed standing directly behind Goering
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Military
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Later Korea War. USMC
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JFK related/CIA Frogman at Bay of Pigs
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WWII: Guard/dental tech at the prison for the war criminals in Tokyo (Far East Trials)
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WW2 Veteran : Code Girl For The United States Navy
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air force general
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American Female Historical Person - JFK: Pictured In The Crowd At The Parking Lot In Fort Worth On The Morning Of November 22, 1963
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Equity specialist manager who discovered a money manager, Bernard Madoff, generating a suspect 12% return for investors
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air force general
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WW2/U.S. Army with the 238th Combat Engineer Battalion. He landed on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, and continued throughout Europe until the end of the war
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U.S. Army Chief of Staff
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US Navy chaplain currently assigned to USS John C. Stennis as Command Chaplain. A 6 ft 4 in graduate of The Citadel in South Carolina and of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Rev. Cash nearly became a professional football player. He is the great
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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JFK - USAF Pipe Band; played at various events in the Kennedy presidency, including the visit of the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Sean Lemass in October 1963 (where Cashion met JFK) and the funeral of JFK
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Flight aviator, chief test pilot Boeing
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Telephone clerk for the Dallas Police Dept. in 1863 , she called the ambulance when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot on Nov. 24 , 1963
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astronaut
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astronaut
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Military
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astronaut
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Flight astronaut ascan2004
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks. Later served in Guadalcanal and New Cadelonia during WWII, retired from the army in 1964
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English Female Author, Doctor, Torture Survivor. And Activist - Novel - 'Audacity to Believe' (1977), 'Good Friday People' (1991), 'Sharing The Darkness: The Spirituality Of Caring' (1988), 'The Loneliest Journey' (1995)
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Italian Mountaineer/Born:01/02/1909
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Geiger counter; science advisor
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Anthony S. 'Gaspipe' Casso (born May 21, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an Italian American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family. During his career in organized crime, Casso was regarded as a 'homicidal maniac' in the American Ma
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British WW2 'Dambuster' pilot
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Guiness record holder for longest cigar measuring over 82 metres long
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American mobster
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Space Exploration: Rocketdyne Division. Manager of the teams that built the Redstone, Jupiter, Thor, Atlas and Saturn rocket engines
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Korean War vet, US Marines, born 1929. Purple Heart for injuries during combat at the Semichon River
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WWII PTO: USMC. Aircraft mechanic for the famous 'Cactus Air Force' at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. After the war, he worked for Rockwell; part of the team that designed the launch umbilical tower for the Saturn V rocket (Apollo 11)
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World war 2 fighter ace-5 kills p-38
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Tennessee, 7 December 1941
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American Former Female Newspaper Editor, Journalist, And Women's Rights Activist - Novel - 'Sarah--The Bridge Builder: Dowager Of A Dallas Dynasty'(1994), 'Daughters Of Dallas: A History Of Greater Dallas Through The Voices And Deeds Of Its Women'(1994)
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American Female Former Criminal - Poisoned Her Then-Husband David Castor With Antifreeze (2005) And Attempting To Murder Her Daughter, Ashley Wallace, With A Toxic Cocktail Consisting Of Crushed Pills Mixed In With Vodka, Orange Juice, And Sprite (2007)
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American trial attorney; served as House Minority legal counsel during President Trump impeachment
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US Army Vietnam War Veteran. Bronze Star Recipient
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U.S. Army Major who has continued serving on active duty in the Special Forces despite losing his eyesight. Served in Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield. Lost eyesight due to a mortar round landing near where he was deployed
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Cuban Female Activist. Sister To Fidel And Raul Castro
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First person arrested during the Stonewall Rebellion, 28 June 1969
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WWII - Pacific. Fighter Ace (7 victories). Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221), USS Bunker Hill. Flex F7F, F4U, F3D SKYNIGHT, F-8, A-4, F4. Claims he flew 56 different types of planes
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Spanish Former Female Historic Person - Member Of The Socialist Youth Of Catalonia (PSUC) During The Spanish Civil War. She Was The Last Living Survivor Of The Nazi Concentration Camp 'Ravensbrück'.
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WWWI: ETO. D-Day. As a gunner on a small transport vessel Catalano helped transport army soldiers to Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944
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Michael Catapano - a former acting Colombo capo and a nephew of John Franzese. Catapano is currently serving a 6? year prison sentence after pleading guilty to extorting a pizzeria and a gambling club
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Psychologist
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D-Day WW2 veteran
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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American historian and journalist, best known for his books on the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian/Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox
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NYPD officer who used his own experiences to write best-selling thrillers. He joined the NYPD after serving in the United States Marine Corps
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Medal of honor army vietnam war
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US Army 4 Star Generals
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30th President Of Harvard University
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WWII: MTO, ETO, PTO. United States Navy. He participated in the landings at Gela, Sicily, Salerno, Italy and at Normandy for the invasion of Europe. Also served in the Pacific at Leyte Gulf and Okinawa
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy, LST 681
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Author, scientist, and noted conservationist. Working to save Mexican endangered species
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Flight scientist
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American Female Supercentenarian. Born 1908 = 114 Years Old. America's Oldest Citizen And The Oldest Living Californian. Still Alive January 2023
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nobel chemistry laureate 1989
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WWII: Army Nurse Corps, 3rd General Hospital. Served in Africa, Italy, and France
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1927. USS Indianapolis Survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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Navy Admiral
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astronaut
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U.S.S. Indianapolis Survivor
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Major General Reginald A. Centracchio former Adjutant General of Rhode Island, and Commanding General of the Rhode Island National Guard
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Member of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Inventor of the internet
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army general
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astronaut, last man on the moon/Moonwalker
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Self proclaimed,world-renowned expert on marijuana cultivation
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Attorney, Contributor on MSNBC, HLN
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Communications Division, Signal Corps, Schofield Barracks
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WWII: D-Day. 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR
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Sarah Chadwick (2)American Female Activist - Gun Violence
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World Record Holder For Fastest Metabolism; Weighs 101lbs, eats 6,500 calories a day to stop from dying
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Author, speaker & space journalist/author of 'Man on the Moon' a detailed description of Apollo missions to moon. Book formed basis of 'From the Earth to the Moon' a TV miniseries/worked at NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Viking project
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Retired 4 star USAF General. Former commander of Strategic Air Command. Flew final flight of continuous airborne Operation Looking Glass
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Biologist who engineered the oil eating bacteria
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Nobel laureate chemistry 2008
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Noted French Resistance Fighter. Born: 05/22/1915
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One of the founders of, 'American Conservative Union,' right wing group
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American Former Female Historical Figure - Tulsa Race Riot Survivor (May 31, 1921). Sister Of Olivia Hooker
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nobel physics laueate 1959
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Explorer
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Explorer
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of the USS Mannert Abele in the Battle of Okinawa
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Captain of the midway during the evacuation of south korea
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Nicknamed the 'Preppie Killer', pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin. He killed her in New York's Central Park during the early morning hours of August 26, 1986. Currently serving a 16 year sentence for drug offences
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'The lone marine' stands and salutes every 'Rolling Thunder' parade since 2001
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Wells fargo heist
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American Female Former American Law Enforcement Officer And A Former Chief Of The United States Park Police (2002-2003, 2011-2013). Fired After Speaking With A Washington Post Reporter. Later Reinstated
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Astronaut ascan 1998
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Lebanese Politican. Current president of the Liberal Party in Lebanon
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Flight aviator, NACA test pilot/On December 2, 1948, became the 6th man & 3rd civilian to break the mysterious sound barrier
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American Former Female Centenarian (1899-2003). Early Wright Plane Passenger. As A 12 Year Old In 1911 Ohio, Saw A Wright Flyer Land In A Schoolyard, Giving $5 Trips. Stranger Dared Her And Paid. She Sat On A Metal Rod (No Seats!), Flew Over The School
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Descendant of the legendary Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion, who is credited with deciphering the Rosetta Stone. He lives in Paris, France
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South African activist. The film Catch A Fire was based on his struggle against apartheid
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Air force general
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor (Scofield Barracks), 27th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. Also fought in the Guadalcanal Campaign and Solomon Islands campaign
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WWII American Fighter - Ace (9 Victs.)- USAAF
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Pearl Harbor survivor WWII Navy vet
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US WWII Army vet, born 1923. Fought Japanese in the Philippines. Surrendering in May 1942, his unit was brutally tortured. He ended up in Yodogawa camp until near war's end. Of only 52 Yodogawa POW survivors, he's now the last living one
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Michael Chandler (4)Military air force thunderbirds
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WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran ('Murmansk Runs')
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JFK - US Secret Service 1959-1980; traveled a lot with Kennedy. He wasn't in Dallas on November 22, 1963, but was preparing the return of the president in Washington
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US Secret Service, a.o. Eisenhower detail, Lyndon Johnson detail; was at Wash., D.C., on Nov 22, 1963
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JFK - motorcycle cop during Kennedy's Dallas motorcade, positioned at the right of the Presidential limousine
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Scientist, invented the world's first artificial cell
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Member of the Republic of China Air Force's 'Black Cat' Squadron, which operated U-2 surveillance from 1961-1974
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Astronaut
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Navy Admiral
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Iraq US Army veteran who was on active duty from 1999 to 2010. He went in Iraq twice and now is an influencer on Youtube
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US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. 3 campaigns in Vietnam. Wounded and combat and recipient of the Purple Heart
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of the Bulge
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Political organizer, businessman, and retired public servant. He was Deputy Assistant to the President Richard M. Nixon, during the Watergate scandal. Chapin was convicted of lying to a grand jury (perjury) during the scandal
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WWII: USS Killen (DD-593), Battle of Leyte Gulf: Killen provided a critical hit to battleship Yamashiro (flagship of Vice-Admiral Shoji Nishimura) leading to is sinking on Oct. 26, 1944. He also survived a Kamikaze attack on Nov. 1, 1944
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Military ww11 british war hero (victoria cross)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa
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Michigan Murders serial killer, then known as John Norman Collins
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Canadian Former Female Centurion And Was One Of The Last Survivors Of The Halifax Explosion From SS Mont - Blanc. (December 6, 1917)
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Political activist, aka Based Stickman
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American Male Convicted Murderer. Killed Former Beatles Member John Lennon In New York City On December 8, 1980
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Paul Chapman (2)USAAF WW2 Veteran
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astronaut
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge; Liberation of Dachau; occupation duty in Vienna, Austria. 42nd ?Rainbow? Division
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WWII: PTO. 1885th Aviation Engineer Battalion, Army Corps of Engineers. He also helped to build airfields for B-29 bombers on the Mariana Islands and Ryukyu
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JFK - Air Force One flight engineer 1961-1980; served for John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Chappel was in Dallas on 22 November 1963
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A Pastor of Ridgewood Park United Methodist Church in 1963 . He held a special prayer service for President Kennedy on Friday evening
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Inventor
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Explorer
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WWII: D-Day. Company D, 5th Ranger Battalion. Pointe du Hoc
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Canadian Former Female Train Wreak Survivor - The Almonte Train Wreck (27 December 1942)
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Medal of Honor, US Navy, Korean War
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Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari is an American test pilot and NASA astronaut candidate of the class of 2017
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Author/"Last Man Out"/POW Kwai Chang Japanese POW Camp as told in the story of Bridge on the River Kwai
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Lead Air Crash Investigator in the Lockerbie Bombing on board Pan Am Flight 103 that occurred December 21st 1988
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Canadian Former Female Historic Figure - One Of The Last Known Survivors Of The Halifax Explosion, Nova Scotia, Canada In 1917
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nobel physics laureate 1992
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French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. In 2020, Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for the development of a method for genome editing'
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WWII: Pacific Theater, Navy, USS Atlanta (CL-51). Survivor of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in which the Atlanta was sunk in the fiercest night battle of the war
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Pearl harbor survivor
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American Former Female Chef, Author & TV Personality. Known As Queen of Creole Cuisine. Novel - 'The Dooky Chase Cookbook' (1990), 'And Still I Cook' (2003), 'Down Home Healthy: Family Recipes Of Black American Chefs' (1994)
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Schley
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WWII: ETO. Recon scout in Cannon Company 303rd Infantry Regiment 97th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Battle of the Ruhr pocket (Siegburg, Solingen. Dusseldorf) in April 1945, end of war in Czechoslovakia
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American stand-up comedian and writer with stage and screen credits in eight countries, and author of the comic memoir The 188th Crybaby Brigade, about his year as a tank soldier in the Israeli Army
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WWII: PTO. Medical Corpsman. Served in the Pacific Theatre aboard the USS Bandera, the USS Herald of the Morning, and the USS Pasadena
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29 year old story analyst at 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures when he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for his participation in a Freedom Ride. He took a bus from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi where he was arrested, at the Trailwa
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American wreck diver. Together with Richie Kohler, he was one of the co-hosts for the History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives,
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WWII: Greek fighter pilot in the Hellenic Air Force, serving in North Africa, Italy, Yugoslavia. 336th Combat Squadron. One of the pilots who provided air protection to Churchill and FDR to meet with Stalin at the Tehran Conference
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(Born 1935) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Legion of Merits, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Former police officer who killed George Floyd
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Nobel prize laureate chemistry
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Co Inventor of Bubble Wrap
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WWII: PTO. 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. Seen in a famous photo of the Battle of Okinawa
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{1927-1993} A Mexican-American, he became thr best known civil rights activists. He founded the United Farm Workers Union
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Severely wounded twice. 276th Infantry Reg, 70th Infantry Div. 37 combat missions as a B-29 pilot In Korea. Vietnam: Wrote Air Force history flying the B-52's 1st combat mission on June 18, 1965 (Op. Arc Light)
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WWII. Oldest Pearl Harbor Survivor. Born 1911
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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astronaut
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Ernest Cheatham (2) Retired USMC General
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Ships cook aboard the destroyer USS Phelps
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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JFK - Honor Guard Kennedy funeral; Casket Team (pallbearer)
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Italian astronaut. Famous for his speed test with Michael Schumacher/F1 (He with a fighter plane-Schumiwith a Formula1 Ferraricar)
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WWII - D-Day, First Infantry; in the first landing waves
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WWII: Ground mechanic of the 14th US Air Force in the CBI (China-Burma-India) theater
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Known for inventing the self-balancing hoverboard
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Chinese Former Female War Correspondent - World War 2. Married to American General Claire Chennault. Hsin Ming Daily Newspaper (1944-1948)
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nobol physics laueate 1958
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Is a centenarian and is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1962 to 1981, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Edward Schreyer
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Author and Soviet WW2 veteran - Battle of Kursk
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Weld inspector on the St. Louis Arch when it was being built and WWII veteran and Purple Heart recipient
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Brig. Gen. E. Daniel Cherry is commander, U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service, and deputy chief of staff for recruiting service and commissioning programs, Headquarters Air Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. currently retired
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vietnam war air force hero
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Russian Rocket Designer. Born: 03/01/1912
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U.S. Marine Corps officer, first American who received the British Distinquished Flying Cross since World War II on March 21, 2007. Major of the USMC
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Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire (7 September 1917 ? 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War.Among the honours Cheshire received as a pilot is the Victoria Cross
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Navy seal, born 1944, on the underwater dive team that recovered the Apollo 11 command module
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WWII - Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: Member of the 17th, 101st, and 82nd Airborne Divisions
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WWII veteran, born 1918. One of the few surviving Bataan Death March survivors of 1942
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Competitive eater, holds world record for hot dogs
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The last executioner in France; is still living in France
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American lawyer representing Johnny Depp in the trial versus Amber Heard
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WWII: USS Drexler survivor; was on the ship when kamikaze attacks led to the sinking of the destroyer on May 28, 1945
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Astronaut
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Army General
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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King of Donkey Kong, with a score of 1,090,400
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Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Cassin). Torpedo Squadron 3 (USS Yorktown) in Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942
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WWII: PTO. Invasion of Leyte Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, Invasion of the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo Bay. USS West Virginia 1944-1946
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Doctor. was on scene at Parkland Memorial Hospital when President John F. Kennedy was brought in
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Flight aviator or test pilot on F-100/F-107/F-108/YF-12/XP-86/P-80/P-59/P-40/A-36/P-47/FW-190/ME-262/A6M - ZERO/KI-45
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4-star General in the USAF who was also a NASA astronaut
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Iraq War Veteran, pictured in famous photo holding the American Flag over the face of a Saddam Hussein statue
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American Female Scientist Paleontologist And Taphonomist. One Of The World's Leading Experts In Coprolites
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Chinese - Born American Former Male Centenarian World War 2 Veteran. He Was One Of Only Two Surviving CNAC Pilots. Moon died on 9 May 2023, at the age of 110
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Chinese American Female Former Nurse - U.S. Army Veteran World War 2 (1944 to 1946)
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WWII: ETO. D - Day. 5th Ranger Batallion (Rangers, lead the way)
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Historian of Birmingham
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Canadian Former Female History Personality. One Of The Last Known Survivors Of The Halifax Explosion(December 06, 1917)
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Dallas Police Patrolman in '63 , he was assigned to motorcade route and was later inside Trauma Room One
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JFK - Assassination eyewitness, Dallas, 22 November 1963; she with husband and kid stood the proverbial armlength away when the first shot was fired
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South African - Born Female Former Zimbabwean Politician - 'Minister of National Resources and Tourism' (1982-1990), 'Minister of Education', 'Minister of Information' (Both 1988-1990), 'Minister of Posts and Telecommunications ' (1990)
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Scientist
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Chief of the Daytona Beach police department
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Scientist
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WWII - Nurse during the siege of Bastogne. She and fellow nurse Renee Lemaire (who died Dec. 24, 1944) treated injured soldiers during Battle of the Bulge. Shortly portrayed as 'Anna' in 'Band of Brothers'. Honorary Member 101st Airborne
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Submarine base
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Politician
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Inventor
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Polish Former Female Sailor And Naval Engineer. First Woman To Sail Solo Around The World. She Sailed From The Canary Islands On 28 March 1976, And Returned 21 April 1978, Completing A Circumnavigation Of 31,166 Nautical Miles (57,719 km) In 401 days
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Renowned author, Linguistics Professor at MIT
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American contemporary theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist. Internationally recognized as a director, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist, and is considered a seminal figure in Asian American theatre
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Marine corps iraq war hero
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JFK - Honor Guard Kennedy funeral (Army)
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English Former Female Women's Royal Naval Service WWII. Worked At Code Cracking Centre Bletchley Park On The Worlds First Electronic Computer - Colossus
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Chinese Air Force WWII veteran, born 1920. Notoriety as a centenarian fitness buff
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UK WWI Navy vet (1901-2011). Last male veteran of WWI, and the last to see action. Moved to Australia, and served in their Navy in WWII. So also the last vet to serve in both wars. Death left Florence Green as the very last WWI vet
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Indian social scientist, historian, and Senior Academic Fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. Author of a number of books
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Last surviving revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid. The raid was an attempt on April 18, 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury in Bengal, British India. He lives in Chittagong, India and is now 102
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French astronaut
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WWII Pilot Ace- Part of the famous ''Zemke's Wolfpack''--[21 victories]
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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danish WW2 fighter ace
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Stars, 2 Bronze Stars, 7 Purple Hearts, and 2 Air Medals
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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Former ranger
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US Centenarian, born 1913. She, her dad, 3 siblings contracted the 1918 Flu, nursed to health by her mother, who then also got it and died days later. Became a teacher, but said to be touched by the Flu and her lost mother every day since
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Brother of the man known as 'D.B. Cooper'
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American Female Red Cross Donut Dolly. Vietnam War. She Said; 'Whenever Anybody Was Going Back Home They'd Play Leaving On A Jet Plane'. They Listened To Soldiers. Played Games And Records At The Base Rec Centres. Their Job Was To Lift The Guys Spirits
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4th Baronet GBE CB DSO MC 1893-1993, British commander WW2. Sept, 1945 Christison deputised for Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as commander of SEAC and took the surrender of the Japanese 7th Area Army & Japan's South Sea Fleet at Singapore
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WW2/Ghost Army Soldier
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German World War One survivor
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WWII: Christopher flew 49 missions (in the PBM-5 Seaplane in the Pacific Theatre (Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa) from 1944 to 1945. VPB-27 Squadron, plane 'Dina Might' (Crew E-2)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Company B, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Division, Schofield Barracks
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astronomer discovered pluto's moon, Charon
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Atomic physicist; worked on Manhattan Project
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American theoretical physicist and later astrophysicist and one of the last people alive to have worked on the Manhattan Project
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Nobel Laureate (Physics 1997); U.S. Secretary of Energy (2009-13)
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Russian cosmonaut
