Obscure Historical Figures #1

Name these obscure historical figures based on their descriptions

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Last updated: June 25, 2020

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Description	Answer
Slave pardoned from treason for arguing slaves weren't citizens	Billy
Survived the Titanic, starred in its first film adaptation	Dorothy Gibson
First African-American postmaster in the US	Minnie Cox
Credited with saving Apollo 12 & 13	John Aaron
Known for amassing 35 straight years of television footage for archival	Marion Stokes
American "rainmaker" who successfully "summoned rain" many times	Charles Hatfield
English woman who convinced surgeons she had birthed rabbits	Mary Toft
A "good-luck charm" for the 1911 pennant-winning New York Giants	Charlie Faust
Police officer who made 5,000 prohibition arrests alongside Moe Smith	Izzy Einstein
Hungarian father who made his three daughters into chess greats	Laszlo Polgar
Homeless man whose dead body was the star of Operation Mincemeat	Glyndwr Michael
Welsh heroine who subdued 12 French soldiers with a pitchfork	Jemima Nicholas
Businesswoman who "sold the time" for people to set their watches to	Ruth Belville
Japanese author and poet known for his minimalist philosophy	Kamo no Chomei
At age 16, rode with Paul Revere during his famous midnight ride	Sybil Ludington
Female astronomer who pretended eclipses were sorcery	Aglaonice

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Level 78

Jun 25, 2020

Wow, thats difficult. I couldn't get any but thought I'd recognize a couple of names at the end....Nope not a one.

Just shows how little I know about what has happened in the past. And I'm making a history quiz each day !

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