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Inventor of Ball Bearings
The Question: My son and a friend are working on a an 8th grade history project. Could you tell us who invented or patented bearings? He loves skateboarding…Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is the co-founder and chief technical mind behind the Internet company Netscape, the origin of Netscape Navigator, the Internet browser that dominated the market from 1995 until the…Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak wrote and drew Where the Wild Things Are, a children's book first published in 1963. Sendak grew up in Brooklyn, the child of Polish immigrants, and worked as an illustrator of comics…Mo’Nique
Name at birth: Monique Imes Mo'Nique is the hefty, hearty, "phat and fabulous" comedienne whose turn as a bitterly abusive mother in the 2009 film Precious won her an Academy Award as best supporting…Niels Bohr
Name at birth: Niels Henrik David BohrNiels Bohr was the Danish physicist whose investigations of atomic structure earned him the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics. Bohr's work helped solve the problems…Amanda Seyfried
American screen actress Amanda Seyfried is best known as a dimwitted sidekick from the comedy Mean Girls and the star of the musical movie Mamma Mia! Seyfried was a model between the ages of 11 and…Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox played the skinny and motherly Monica on the super-popular sitcom Friends from 1994-2004. The blue-eyed brunette dropped out of Mount Vernon College for Women in 1983 to sign with the…Don Hewitt
Don Hewitt produced the popular television news program 60 Minutes from its creation in 1968 until 2003, when he officially stepped down. Hewitt got his start in the newspaper business and as a…John Calvin
Name at birth: Jean CauvinFew theologians have had more influence on Western Christian thought and culture than John Calvin, one of the fathers of the Reformed branch of Protestant Christianity.…Lara Logan
Lara Logan's reports from Afghanistan, Iraq and other global hot spots earned her a job reporting for CBS News in 2002. Only 31 at the time, Lara Logan had already spent more than a dozen years in…Trending
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