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The quintessential movie star, James Dean. |
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Moe Howard was a founding member of The Three Stooges, one of the most successful and popular comedy teams in the history of cinema. |
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Arthur Ashe was a beloved American tennis player who won 3 Grand Slam Titles, 33 tournaments and was ranked #1 in the ATP world rankings in 1976. |
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Ray Bradbury was a extremely influential science fiction writer who wrote the classic novel "Fahrenheit 451" in 1953 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. |
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English physiologist and biophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1963 for establishing the propagation mechanism of nerve impulses called action potentials -- consequently helping to understand the mechanism behind disorders such as multiple sclerosis, seizures and Parkinson's disease. |
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Jack Swigert was an American astronaut who flew on Apollo 13 and became one of only 24 people to fly to the moon. |
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Bob Keeshan needs no introduction as the beloved host of the children's TV show Captain Kangaroo, which aired for nearly 30 years. It was the longest-running nationally broadcast children’s show and the standard for all future children's programming. |
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Illustrated and written by father-son team Chic and Dean Young, the Blondie comic strip is one of the most popular comic strips in the world, currently appearing in 2,300 newspapers. Blondie is translated into 35 different languages in 55 countries and read by an estimated 280,000,000 people every day. |
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The "First Lady of American Theatre", Helen Hayes is one of only 12 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award (EGOT). She is one of Hollywood's premiere Golden Age actresses. |
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One of the most popular and important comic strips around the world, Li'l Abner, illustrated and written by Al Capp, was read by 60 million readers in over 1,000 newspapers during its 43 year run from 1934-1977. |
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Chet "The Jet" Walker was the starting forward on the championship 1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers team, considered by some as the best NBA team of all time. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. |
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Named the European Footballer of the Year in 1991, Jean-Pierre Papin was one of the foremost football players of the late 20th century. He scored almost 350 goals in over 620 matches over his 17 year football career. |
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