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Lost Islands: Navassa Island

Isle of pristine peauty and the Guano Act of 1856 Where Is It? Columbus managed to find Navassa in 1507, yet today the island remains virtually invisible to the tourists and…

Arthur Jones Biography

entrepreneurDied: Aug. 28, 2007 (Ocala, Fla.) Best Known as: developer of Nautilus fitness machines Jones changed how many people exercise with the…

Kimora Lee Simmons

The creative director of Baby Phat fashions, Kimora Lee Simmons is a former model and the wife of record and clothing mogul Russell Simmons. She was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri but spent…

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales is the Internet entrepreneur who led the creation of the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales worked as a research director for Chicago Options Associates before becoming a…

Steve Jobs Biography

Steve Jobscomputer industry pioneerBorn: 1955Birthplace: San Francisco, Calif. Businessman and entrepreneur, who designed, built and introduced the Apple computer, a user-friendly alternative…

Jerry Yang Biography

Jerry YangInternet entrepreneur Born: 1968Birthplace: Taiwan A former Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Stanford University, Yang and classmate David Filo founded Yahoo in 1994 as a…

Walter P. Paepcke Biography

Walter P. Paepckeentrepreneur, philanthropistBorn: 1897Birthplace: Chicago, Ill. An industrialist who is largely credited with having turned Aspen, Colorado into a cultural mecca and winter…

Garrett Morgan

Name at birth: Garrett Augustus MorganGarret Morgan was an African American entrepreneur who's best known as the inventor of the gas mask and the three-way traffic signal. He was the son of freed…