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Jodie Whittaker
English actress Jodie Whittaker made international news in 2017, when it was announced she would star as the 13th incarnation of the title character in TV's Doctor Who. After studying at the…Jen Welter
Jen Welter made headlines in the summer of 2015, when she became the first woman to be hired by the National Football League as a coach. Welter's appointment as an intern coach to off-season…Jessie Arbogast
8-year-old Jessie Arbogast was swimming in the ocean near Pensacola, Florida on 6 July 2001 when a 200-pound bull shark bit off his right arm. Arbogast's uncle, Vance Flosenzier, wrestled the shark…Charles Richter
Name at birth: Charles Francis KinsingerCharles Richter was a physicist and seismologist who created a system of measuring earthquake magnitudes now known as the Richter Scale. Raised first in Ohio…William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams was a local doctor in New Jersey throughout his life while also becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Williams was considered a groundbreaker: he wrote poems about the…Sen. John McCain, 2000 News
maverick politician, nearly stole the Republican nomination for president away from Texas governor George W. Bush. McCain mounted a straight-talking insurgent campaign, with campaign-…John Proctor
John Proctor was the real person who inspired a character of the same name in The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 play about witch trials in Massachusetts. In 1692, doctors and ministers in Salem…Karen Ann Quinlan
Karen Ann Quinlan was the first modern icon of the right-to-die debate. She spent a decade living in a brain-damaged state from 1975 until her death in 1985. Karen Ann Quinlan was only 21 years old…Edward Alexander Bouchet Biography
Edward Alexander Bouchetphysicist, chemistBorn: 1852Birthplace: New Haven, Conn. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Bouchet was the first African American to graduate (1874) from Yale College.…Patricia Bath Biography
inventorBorn: November 4, 1942Birthplace: Harlem, New YorkBest Known as: African-American scientist and inventor Born in Harlem, New York, Bath holds a bachelor's…Trending
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