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HISTORY
October
20
History
7th Grade
10/26/2011

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Marian Anderson
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First African Amerian opera singer (female) to join the

NY Opera

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Margaret Thatcher
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First female Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Only First Lady to have her own statue at a Presidential memorial
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Mother Teresa
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Received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in

Calcutta, India

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Hillary Clinton
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A First Lady who became a senator from NY and a Secretary of State
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Reverend Jesse Jackson
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First African American Presidential candidate
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Noah Webster
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Wrote the dictionary
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Leif Eriksson
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Viking explorer who landed in North America
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Lord Cornwallis
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British general who surrendered at Yorktown, VA
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Alfred Nobel
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Created a prize for the peaceful arts and sciences
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Father of non-violent protest (India)
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Thomas Edison
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Developed the first motion pictures
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sputnik
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First satellite to orbit the Earth (Russian)
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Columbus Day
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Celebrates Christopher Columbus discovering the New World
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Mason-Dixon Line
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The border between Maryland and Pennsylvania
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The Great Influenza Epidemic
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Occurred during WWI
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United Nations
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World peace organization
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Porgy and Bess
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A musical written by Gershwin
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Tin Lizzy
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Henry Ford's Model T
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Wall Street
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Crashed in 1929
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