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Famous Person/Thing
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The creator of Mickey Mouse
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Walt Disney
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The inventor of the Ford Model T Car
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Henry Ford
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A famous man who stood for civil rights in India
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Gandhi
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A famous woman who stod for women rights in America
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Susan B. Anthony
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A famous Confederate general in the Civil War
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Robert E. Lee
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Founder of the Red Cross
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Clara Barton
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The creator of the delicious Hershey franchise
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Milton Hershey
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A famous female scientist who died from too much radiation
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Marie Curie
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A scientist who discovered the three laws of physics
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Isaac Newton
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The first Latin-American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
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Roberto Clemente
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The two men who were the first to fly
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The Wright Brothers
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The inventor of the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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The creator of the movie "Psycho"
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Alfred Hitchcock
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The president during the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln
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The inventor of Apple products
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Steve Jobs
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The famous Union general during the Civil War
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Ulysses S. Grant
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The 26th President ofthe United States
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Theodore Roosevelt
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She is famous for living with chimps
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Jane Goodall
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The famous baseball player who played for the New York Yankees
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Babe Ruth
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The famous African who was put in prison because of his civil rights actions
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Nelson Mandela
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The longest reigning monarch in the UK history
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Queen Victoria
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The creator of Star Wars
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George Lucas
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A famous actor who is famous for his martial arts fight against Chuck Norris
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Bruce Lee
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He was stabbed on the Ides of March
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Julius Caesar
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An American marine biologist and conservationist
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Rachel Carson
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The first man on the moon
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Neil Armstrong
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The author of the Harry Potter series
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J.K. Rowling
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The author of "Little House on the Prairie"
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
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The first african American in MLB
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Jackie Robinson
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The author of "A Christmas Carol"
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Charles Dickens
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The first President of the United States
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George Washington
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A Native American killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn
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Sitting Bull
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A female musician/actress who starred in "9 to 5"
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Dolly Parton
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The creator of MARVEL
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Stan Lee
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The man who found out that the planets revolve around the sun
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Galileo
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"Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, bravest name in the land of the free . . ."
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Davy Crockett
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The author of "The Cat in the Hat"
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Dr. Seuss
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The Ancient Egyptian king who ruled when he was just a boy
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King Tut
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The best of all escape artists
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Harry Houdini
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The blind man who invented a way for blind people to communicate
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Louis Braille
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The woman who refused to give up her seat
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Rosa Parks
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The famous author of "The Diary of Anne Frank"
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Anne Frank
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"The British are coming! The British are coming!"
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Paul Revere
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The director of Jurassic Park and Jaws
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Steven Spielberg
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The most famous abolitionist during the Civil War
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Frederick Douglas
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The creator of the Muppets
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Jim Henson
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A popular pool game
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Marco Polo
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The wife of the second President of the United States
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Abigail Adams
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The founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
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Genghis Khan
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The woman who sewed the American Flag
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Betsy Ross
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The first African-American President of the United States
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Barack Obama
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A famous NHL player
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Wayne Gretzky
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An American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist
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Gloria Steinem
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The man who claims to have found America (Hint: Not Amerigo)
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Christopher Columbus
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Creator of Microsoft
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Bill Gates
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Considered the greatest heavyweight in sport's history
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Muhammad Ali
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A genius who discovered the theory of relativity
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Albert Einstein
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"I have a dream . . ."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Thank ya, thank ya very much"
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Elvis Presley
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The author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
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Roald Dahl
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A mexican painter who is best known for her self portraits
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Frida Kahlo
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A woman who grew up blind and deaf
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Helen Keller
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A Spanish painter who is best known for his abstract paintings
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Pablo Picasso
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A composer who composed "The Magic Flute"
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The painter of the "Mona Lisa"
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Leonardo da Vinci
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A runaway slave most famous for her work in the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman
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The fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty
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Queen Elizabeth
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The author of "Where the Wild Things Are"
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Maurice Sendak
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The inventor of the lightbulb
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Thomas Alva Edison
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The first American woman in space
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Sally Ride
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He flew a kite with a key in a lightning storm
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Ben Franklin
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The female pilot who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
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Amelia Earhart
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An English band that consisted of Paul McCartney
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The Beatles
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She helped Lewis and Clarkon their huge expedition
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Sacagawea
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The only president to serve four terms
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Franklin Roosevelt
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He made an expedition to Antarctica
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Ernest Shackleton
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An American singer-songwriter, artist, and writer
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Bob Dylan
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He is famous for his journey to the Galapagos Islands where he made a theory about evolution
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Charles Darwin
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He planted apple trees in a lot of different places, all while wearing a pan on his head
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Johnny Appleseed
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She was the wife of the president who served four terms
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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He was a famous jazz musician who sang "What a Wonderful World"
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Louis Armstrong
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She wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The wife of the first African-American president
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Michelle Obama
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She was a famous sharpshooter of the Wild West
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Annie Oakley
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An American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman who's actions mad him one of the first folk heroes
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Daniel Boone
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The third President of the United States
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Thomas Jefferson
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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II
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Winston Churchill
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A French researcher who invented scuba gear
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Jacques Cousteau
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The first person to circumnavigate the world
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Ferdinand Magellan
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He was the first Catholic president, but was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
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John F. Kennedy
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An American artist who was the leading figure in pop art
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Andy Warhol
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The author of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn"
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Mark Twain
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The President of the United States who liked jelly beans
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Ronald Reagan
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A famous painter of lilypads
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Claude Monet
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The playwright who wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Hamlet"
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William Shakespeare
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The founder of Ripley's Believe It Or Not
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Robert Ripley
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A major character in the Bible who walked on water and was crucified
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Jesus
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America's first major ballerina
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Maria Tallchief
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A Roman Catholic Religious Sister who was a missionary in India
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Mother Teresa
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The 28th President of the United States
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Woodrow Wilson
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A former first lady and Secretary of State
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Hillary Clinton
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A pirate who had black facial hair
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Blackbeard
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A girl who was shot by the Taliban trying to get an education
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Malala Yousafzai
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A leader who took over most of the Middle East
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Alexander the Great
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The creator of most famous board games
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Milton Bradley
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A musician who was part of the Jackson 5
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Michael Jackson
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A woman who pretended she was a woman in the army
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Joan of Arc
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A New York Yankees player who recently retired
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Derek Jeter
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A musician who was the focus of a song by Eric Church
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Bruce Springsteen
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A female African American poet
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Maya Angelou
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An African American Olympic gold-medalist who competed at the berlin games in Germany
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Jesse Owens
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The author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
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Jeff Kinney
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The Crocodile Hunter
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Steve Irwin
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A civil rights leader who was born a slave
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Sojourner Truth
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A famous race horse
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Seabiscuit
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A female French leader who was beheaded during the French Revolution
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Marie Antoinette
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An African American scientist who experimented with peanuts
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George Washingotn Carver
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A famous science fiction author
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Jules Verne
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Moe, Larry, and Curly
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The Three Stooges
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A famous architect
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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The author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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The wife of the president who was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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A famous British cook and chef
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Julia Child
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An author who wrote The Raven and The Pit and the Pendullum
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Two brothers who are famous for their collection of fairy tales
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The Brothers Grimm
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A musician who wrote and sang an Oscar winning song from The Lion King
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Elton John
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An African American blind musician
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Stevie Wonder
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The author of the Brer Rabbit stories
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Beatrix Potter
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The star of I Love Lucy
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Lucille Ball
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An American labor leader and civil rights activist
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Cesar Chavez
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The first Latina Supreme Court Justice
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Sonia Sotomayor
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A 1930s comedic actor who was in a lot of silent films
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Charlie Chaplin
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A princess and wife of Prince Charles
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Princess Diana
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A band who's lead singer is Mick Jagger
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The Rolling Stones
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A famous American monument who was a gift from France
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Statue of Liberty
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An expedition consisting of two men and one Native American who traveled across the country
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Where immigrants came to become a citizen
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Ellis Island
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What some slaves used to escape plantations, and Harriet Tubman was a part of it
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Underground Railroad
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An ancient city buried by the volcano Mt. Vesuvius
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Pompeii
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A huge blimp that burned down in a fiery crash
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Hindenburg
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A canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean
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Panama Canal
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When the pilgrims came over to America and had a feast with the Native Americans
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First Thanksgiving
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The beginning of World War II; the day of the Normandy landings
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D-Day
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A famous fort in Texas that was used in the Mexican-American War
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Alamo
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When the Japanese bombed a place in Hawaii
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Pearl Harbor
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When prospectors came from all over the country to get a mineral in California
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Gold Rush
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When the champions of MLB play in October
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World Series
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The turning point of the Civil War
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Battle of Gettysburg
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When colonists in Boston threw bxes of tea into the Boston Harbor
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Boston Tea Party
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When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech
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March on Washington
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They happened in Beijing, London, and Rio, for example
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Summer Olympics
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A document that was signed by Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Ben Franklin, among others
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Declaration of Independence
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What two airplanes flew into on September 11, 2001
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Twin Towers
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The huge football championship game
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Super Bowl
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The event that had a dozen men and women hung in the 1600s
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Salem Witch Trials
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The fire that was supposedly caused when a cow knocked a lantern onto a pile of hay
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Great Chicago Fire
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A natural disaster that demolished a Californian city on 1908
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San Francisco Earthquake
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A hurricane that happened in New Orleans in 2005
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Hurricane Katrina
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A music festival that happened in the 1960s
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Woodstock
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When the dinosaurs roamed the Earth
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Age of the Dinosaurs
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The event that was nearly a decade long in the 1930s
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Great Depression
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When cowboys had long cattle drives in the Midwest
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Wild West
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A monument in the badlands in South Dakota that has four presidents on it
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Mount Rushmore
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A wall in China
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Great Wall of China
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A monument in Arizona that you can walk over
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Grand Canyon
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Where the president resides
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White House
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The tallst mountain in the world
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Mount Everest
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Monuments in Egypt
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Great Pyramids
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The river that is home to the most famous rainforest in Brazil
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Amazon
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A prison off the coast of San Francisco
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Alcatraz
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A bridge that connects Brooklyn to Manhattan
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Brooklyn Bridge
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A group of waterfalls in between the USA and Canada
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Niagra Falls
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A cluster of reefs off the coast of Australia
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Great Barrier Reef
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The place that is home to the statue of Athena
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Parthenon
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A circle of stones that no one knows why they are there
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Stonehenge
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A Roman monument that was home to gladiator battles
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Colosseum
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A building in India that has a reflecting pool in front of it
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Taj Mahal
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