Hint
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Answer
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First Israeli PM
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David Ben Gurion
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Leader of North Vietnam and is now Saigon
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Ho Chi Minh
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"We will never surrender" British PM
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Winston Churchill
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Non-violence, salt march
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Gandhi
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Last General Secretary of USSR
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Third Reich
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Adolf Hitler
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US civil rights, non-violence
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Martin Luther King
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Islamic Revolution in Iran
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Khomeini
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Founded USSR and NEP
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Lenin
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Robben Island, ANC, President of South Africa
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Nelson Mandela
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Polish pope, Karol Józef Wojtyła
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Pope John Paul II
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Hollywood, Governor, President
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Ronald Reagan
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First lady, UN delegate
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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New Deal, husband of the above
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Roughriders, bears, US national parks
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Iron Lady, Milk Snatcher, Falkland Islands
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Margaret Thatcher
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Chinese protestor, Tiananmen Square, not a real name
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Unknown Rebel
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Birth control, Planned Parenthood
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Margarent Sanger
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Long March, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution
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Mao Zedong
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American jazz musician, Satchmo
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Louis Armstrong
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American 1950's actress and comedienne, was "love"d by all
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Lucille Ball
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British group who invaded the US, name the group
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the Beatles
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Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Wild One, Last Tango in Paris, On the Waterfront
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Marlon Brando
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French fashion designer, No. 5
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Coco Chanel
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Silent film star, Little Tramp
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Charlie Chaplin
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Modern French-Swiss architet, born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, blamed for high rise public housing projects
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Le Corbusier
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Newport folk festival goes electric
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Bob Dylan
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English-American poet, the Wasteland
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T.S. Eliot
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American soul musician demands respect
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Aretha Franklin
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American modern dancer and choreographer
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Martha Graham
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The Muppets, Fraggle Rocket
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Jim Henson
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Irish novelist, the Ulysses
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James Joyce
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Hint
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Answer
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the blue period, Guernica
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Pablo Picasso
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South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I (duo)
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Rodgers and Hammerstein
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Animated character, longest running tv show, writes on the chalkboard
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Bart Simpson
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"Fly me to the moon" "Angel Eyes" "One for my Baby" --- blue eyes
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Frank Sinatra
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ET, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List
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Steven Spielberg
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The Rite of Spring by a Russian, classical composer
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Igor Stravinsky
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Talk show host, free cars, book club, and Dr. Phil. Now has her own network.
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Oprah Winfrey
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Owns politically connected construction firm with Iraq and Katrina contracts. Name the firm for the last name.
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Stephen Bechtel
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Ad executive who gave us the jolly green giant, tony the tiger and the marlboro man
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Leo Burnett
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Invented air conditioning. Name the firm for the last name.
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Willis Carrier
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Frozen animator
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Walt Disney
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Model T, five dollar day, anti semetic, operated factories in Germany with French slave labor.
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Henry Ford
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Windows, computer software
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Bill Gates
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Helped found Bank of America, helped rebuild San Francisco in 1906, loaned money to Disney and Hewlett Packard to get them started. Founded Transamerica.
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A.P. Giannini
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Founded McDonald's
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Ray Kroc
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Founded an American cosmetics firm using her name.
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Estee Lauder
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Created suburbia in post war America.
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William Levitt
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__________, Lynch and Company
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Charles Merrill
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Co-founded Sony Inc.
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Akio Morita
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UAW organizer and leader
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Walter Reuther
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NFL commisioner, 1960 - 89
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Pete Rozelle
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Was in charge of RCA and NBC creating network radio and TV.
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David Sarnoff
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Founder of Pan Am, brought air travel to the masses
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Juan Trippe
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Founded world's largest retailler on low prices and Chinese labor
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Sam Walton
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President of IBM from 1952 to 1971, considered the greatest capitalist in history
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Thomas Watson
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Belgian-American chemist who invented modern plastics, Bakelite
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Leo Baekeland
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Invented WWW and HTTP
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Tim Berners Lee
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"Silent Spring", founded the modern environmental movement, no more DDT
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Rachel Carson
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E=mc2
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Albert Einstein
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American sometimes credited with inventing television instead of Zworykin.
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Philo Farnsworth
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Atomic pile in a Chicago squash court
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Enrico Fermi
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Created penicillin, cured syphilis and TB
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Alexander Fleming
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Hint
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Answer
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Id, ego and superego
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Sigmund Freud
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American rocket scientist, patented liquid fueled and multi staged rockets, died in 1945
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Robert H. Goddard
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Austrian mathematician, incompleteness theorems
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Kurt Godel
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Found an expanding universe, telescope is named after him
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Edwin Hubble
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British family living in East Africa, athropologists and archeologists
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The Leakey family
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British economist, The General Theory of Unemployment, Interest and Money. Friedman was not a fan.
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John Maynard Keynes
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Swiss child developmental psychologist, stages of intellectual growth
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Jean Piaget
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Virologist, polio vaccine
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Jonas Salk
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Co-invented the solid state transistor, Nobel prize in physics, helped start silicon valley
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William Shockley
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Worked on Enigma, formed an AI test, father of modern computing, charged with homosexuality and lost UK security clearance, chemical castration, sucide
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Alan Turing
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Duo, molecular biologists, double helix DNA, Nobel Prize, "forgot" to mention Rosalind Franklin's contribution.
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Watson and Crick
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Austrian philosopher, Tractatus-Logico, Philosophical Investigations,
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Flying brothers from a Dayton, Ohio bicycle shop
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" "The Greatest", Caissus Clay
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Muhammad Ali
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Abbrevaition for an American soldier, not a real person
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American GI
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People's Princess, celebrity activist, brakes failed
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Princess Diana
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Wrote a diary in an Amsterdam attic, died in the Holocaust
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Anne Frank
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American evangelist, pastor to the presidents
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Billy Graham
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Argentine revolutionary, Cuban hero, granddaughter holds the marketing rights to his image outside Cuba, every wannabe revoltionary has a poster, three letters
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Che Guevara
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Duo, first to climb Mt. Everest, one gets more credit than the other
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Norgay and Hillary
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blind and deaf, social activist
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Helen Keller
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Camelot, assassination prone, Catholic, bootlegger dad, president son, name the family
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the Kennedy family
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Chinese-American maritial arts and action movie star
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Bruce Lee
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Flew across the Atlantic, son was kidnapped, an American fascist
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Charles Lindbergh
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Gay rights, San Fransciso mayor, assassinated, twinkie defence
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Harvey Milk
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Norma Jeane, actress/pinup, Some Like it Hot, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller, the Kennedys, Candle in a Wind
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Marilyn Monroe
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English suffragist, advocated direct action smashing windows, arson, and hunger strikes. Later became a supporter of the Conservative and militant anti-communist.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Sat in the front of the bus, refused to move to the back, Montgomery Alabama
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Rosa Parks
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Played baseball for Montreal Royals and the Brooklyn Dodgers, broke the color barrier
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Jackie Robinson
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Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, human rights advocate. Nobel peace prize 1975
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Andrei Sakharov
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Albanian Catholic nun in Calcutta
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Mother Teresa
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Co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous
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Bill Wilson
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The Aretha Franklin clue points to her hit, "Respect", I can't see how that would be misunderstood.