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11/17/2010

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Charles Lindbergh
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flew across the atlantic, celebrity
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Amelia Earheart
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1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic, disapperead later
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Jack Dempsey
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heavyweight campion of the world and American hero
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Jim Thorpe
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proffesional football player
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Babe Ruth
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hit more homeruns than anyone
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Gertrude Ederle
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female record-breaking swimmer
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Jazz Singer
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1st talkie
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Al Jolson
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vaudiville performer who starred in the jazz singer
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Charlie Chaplin
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silent film comedy, stayed silent in the sound
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KDKA
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1st commercial radio station
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Louis Armstrong
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trumpeter of the jazz age, what a wonderful world
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Duke Ellington
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an arranger, composer, and bandleader
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the Charleston
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dance that swept the nation, because it could be danced alone with a partner
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George Gershwin
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composer that mized jazz music with the music of the past
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Lost Generation
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group that rejected the quest for material possesions that seemed to occupy the rest of America
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Ernest Hemingway
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famous lost generation writer wrote the old man and the sea
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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writer of the Lost Generation and the Jazz Age, Great Gatsby
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Harlem Renaissance
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the time of African American litaeray awakening, really just when whites begin to notice blacks
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Langston Hughes
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poet, short story writer, journalist, and playwright whose career stretched into the 1960s
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Henry Ford
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creator of the car especially the Model T,
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Model T
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improved vehicle made with an assembly line
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River Rouge Plant
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plant that Ford uses to make cars
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Herbert Hoover
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Republican president, bright hopes for the future
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Andrew Mellon
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Secretary of treasury, among the wealthiest people in the nation
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Speculation
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the practice of making high risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return
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Buying on the Margin
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allowed investors to purchase a stock for only a frcation of its price and borrow the rest
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