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Famous People
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History
7th Grade
11/13/2012

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Geraldine Ferraro
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First female vice presidential candidate of major US political party
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Jim Thorpe
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One of the greatest all around athletes in history
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Norman Rockwell
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Painter who captured the hopes and feelings of Americans
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Helen Keller
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Example of a person who overcame multiple handicaps
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Anne Sullivan
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Teacher of Helen Keller
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Harriet Tubman
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Helped slaves escape to freedom in the North
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Sequoya
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Developed alphabet for Cherokee language
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Jane Addams
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Social worker who helped people living in Chicago
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James Fennimore Cooper
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Novelist who wrote stories about the wilderness and adventure
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Annie J Cannon
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Astronomer who discovered 306 stars
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Worked to promote the rights of minority people and the work of her president husband
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Andrew Carnegie
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Steel manufacturer and philanthropist
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Milton Hershey
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Developed a new method of adding milk to make chocolate candy
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George Washington Carver
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Agricultural researcher who developed over 300 uses for the peanut
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Robert E Lee
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Commander of Confederate army during Civil War
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Phineas Barnum
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Circus showman who organized the "Greatest Show on Earth"
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Hetty Green
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Eccentric financier whose wealth was at over 100 million at the time of her death
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Chief Joseph
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A Nez Perce Indian Chief who led his people to safety
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Clara Barton
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Founder of the American Red Cross
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Martin Luther King Jr
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Civil Rights Leader
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Amelia Earhart
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First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air and the first to fly it alone
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Grandma Moses
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Painter of rural scenes and family gatherings
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Joseph Pulitzer
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Newspaper writer and editor
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Thomas Jefferson
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Author of Declaration of Independence
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King C. Gillette
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Invented the first safety razor
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John L. Wright
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Lincoln Logs were designed by this man, his father was an architect.
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Ernest A. Hamwi
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Introduced the ice cream cone at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904
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Clarence Birdseye
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First to find a practical method for quick-freezing foods to preserve the food's texture and taste.
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Sylvan Goodman
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Designed and invented the shopping cart.
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Chef Chief Crum
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Made the first potato chips
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Walter Hunt
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Invented the safety pin
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Maria Callas
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Opera singer
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Agnes DeMille
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Choreographer
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Howard Carter
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Archeologist
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August Vollmer
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Criminologist
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Henry Clay
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Politician
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Architect
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Sir Edmund Hillary
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Mountain climber
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Ludwig von Beethoven
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Composer
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Matthew Brady
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Photographer
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Maria Tallchief
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Ballet Dancer
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Daniel Boone
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Trailblazer
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Horace Mann
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Educator
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George Washington
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President
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Margaret Mead
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Anthropologist
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Jean Pierre Blanchard
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Balloonist
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John Muir
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Naturalist
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Neil Armstrong
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Astronaut
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Rachel Carson
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Marine Biologist
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Emmett Kelly
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Circus Clown
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Charlie Chaplin
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Entertainer in movies
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Eratosthenes
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mathematician
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Sigmund Freud
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psychologist
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Rudolf Nureyev
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Ballet dancer
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Louis Untermeyer
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Poet
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Classical musician
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Vincent van Gogh
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painter
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Charles Schultz
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cartoonist
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Gerhardus Mercator
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map maker
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aristotle
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philosopher
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Louis Armstrong
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jazz musician
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John James Audubon
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ornithologist
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Enrico Caruso
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opera singer
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George Balanchine
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choreographer
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Noah Webster
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lexicographer
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Stephen Foster
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songwriter
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Carl Sandburg
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poet
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Konrad Lorenz
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ethologist
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Wernher von Braun
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rocket engineer
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Samuel Gompers
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labor leader
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George Gallup
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statistician
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Juliette Gordon Low
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founder of Girl Scouts
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Clarence Darrow
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lawyer
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Kareem Abdul Jabbar
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basketball player
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Sally Ride
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astronaut
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Manuelito
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Navajo leader
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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Supreme Court Judge
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Muhammed Ali
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boxer
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Eric Heidin
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speed skater
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