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Scientists: Earth Sciences

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Django Reinhardt

Name at birth: Jean-Baptiste ReinhardtDjango Reinhardt grew up a talented musician in a Gypsy caravan, traveling around France. He began playing American jazz in French clubs, along with Stéphane…

Rev. Henry Lyons, 1999 News

57, president of the National Baptist Convention USA, was convicted by a St. Petersburg, Florida, jury of racketeering and grand theft in February. The animated preacher siphoned off…

Lightweight

1869–99 Kid Lavigne1899– 1902 Frank Erne1902–08 Joe Gans1908–10 Battling Nelson1910–12 Ad Wolgast1912–14 Willie Ritchie1914–17 Freddy Welsh1917–25 Benny Leonard11925 Jimmy Goodrich1925–26…

Sacagawea

Sacagawea was a Shoshone Indian who traveled with the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1804-1806. Sacagawea was the slave wife of the expedition's French-Canadian guide, Touissaint Charbonneau; the…

Lamarck, Chevalier de

(Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet) naturalistBirthplace: Bazantin, FranceBorn: 1744Died: 1829

Bobby Frank Cherry, 2002 News

former member of the Ku Klux Klan, was sentenced to life in prison in May after being convicted of first-degree murder in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four…

Bobby Frank Cherry, 2001 News

former member of the Ku Klux Klan, was convicted in May of the 1963 murder of four black girls who died in the fiery explosion of the Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church. The…

Ellen G. White

Name at birth: Ellen HarmonEllen G. White is one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which was officially organized in 1863. Although raised as a Methodist, Ellen Harmon was…