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government adviser, resigned in March as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an independent committee that counsels the Pentagon, after being widely criticized for a glaring conflict of…Amos Joel Biography
inventorBorn: 12 March 1918Best Known as: inventor of the mobile communication system Amos Joel invented the first mobile communication system, allowing people…Ginger Ehn Lew Biography
Ginger Ehn Lewgovernment officialBirthplace: San Francisco, Calif. area Lew received a B.A. in political science from UCLA and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in…Giovanni Agnelli 2003 Deaths
Giovanni AgnelliAge: 81 Italian businessman who presided over Fiat, his family's empire that included not only the car company, but also holdings in publishing, telecommunications, and…Umberto Agnelli 2004 Deaths
Umberto AgnelliAge: 69 Italian businessman who took over as the chairman of Fiat after his brother's death in 2003. The Agnelli family's empire included not only the Fiat car company, but…Abdullah bin Laden 2002 Deaths
Abdullah bin LadenAge: 75 patriarch of the wealthy Saudi family and uncle of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. The family broke all ties with Osama in 1994, and Abdullah condemned the Sept…Robert L. Johnson
Robert L. Johnson founded and was the first CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET). In 2001 he was named by Forbes magazine as the world's first Black billionaire. Robert Johnson grew up in…Harold Stephen Black
Harold Stephen Black Born: 1898Birthplace: Leominster, Mass. Negative feedback amplifier—Black's negative feedback concept involved feeding systems output back to the input as a method of…Matthew James SALMON, Congress, AZ (1958)
SALMON Matthew James , a Representative from Arizona; born in Salt Lake City, Davis County, Utah, January 21, 1958; graduated Mesa High School, Mesa, Ariz., 1976; B.A., Arizona State University,…Mae C. Jemison Biography
Mae C. Jemisonphysician, astronautBorn: 10/17/1956Birthplace: Decatur, Ala. Astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to enter space when she served on the crew of the…Trending
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