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Famous people
Famous people of the world, all years
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03/31/2011

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Who founded the Coca Cola Co
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Asa Griggs Candler
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He retired as world Heavyweight champion in March 1949 age 34
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Joe Louis
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What bandleader has the first names Edward Kennedy?
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Duke Ellington
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Who was executed for murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr
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Hauptmann
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Who Wrote On the Road
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Kerouac
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Who was America's 2nd man in space?
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Scott Carpenter
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Sidney Bechet was famous for which 2 musical instruments
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clarinet and saxophone
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Malcolm X's real last name
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Little
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Founder of Reader's Digest
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Dewitt Wallace
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who broke the 4 minute mile in 1954
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Roger Bannister
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Mary Kingsley
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1862-1900. English writer and explorer. Several journeys to Africa. Died of typhoid and buried at sea.
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Portuguese explorer. 1480-1521.first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean (then named "peaceful sea" by Magellan; the passage being made via the Strait of Magellan), and the first to cross the Pacific and completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth, although Magellan himself did not complete the entire voyage, being killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines.
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Pol Pot
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Became leader of Cambodia in 1975
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Idi Amin
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1925-2003. president of Uganda 71-79. got power in military coup
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Balboa
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Spanish explorer-- crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World
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who are the 3 tenors?
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Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, and Luciano Pavarotti
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