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Meredith Vieira
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Meredith Vieira
Talk Show Host, News Anchor / 1953 -
Meredith Vieira is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist and the current co-anchor of The Today Show.
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Prudence Crandall
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Prudence Crandall
Educator, Civil Rights Activist / 1803 - 1890
Prudence Crandall was an American schoolteacher who stirred controversy when she insisted on educating African-American girls in Canterbury, Connecticut.
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David Hartman
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- Famous Talk Show Hosts
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David Hartman
Talk Show Host / 1935 -
David Hartman is an actor and TV personality who got his big break in 1975 as the first host of the morning show Good Morning America. -
Cormac McCarthy
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- Famous Playwrights
- Famous Fiction Authors
Cormac McCarthy
Author, Playwright / 1933 -
Cormac McCarthy is a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist best known for his Border Trilogy, including All the Pretty Horses.
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Annie Smith Peck
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Annie Smith Peck
Athlete, Journalist / 1850 - 1935
Annie Smith Peck was a trailblazing scholar, writer and athlete who set records as a mountain climber in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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H.P. Lovecraft
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- Famous Leos
- Famous Fiction Authors
H.P. Lovecraft
Author / 1890 - 1937
Horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft wrote short stories, novels and novellas, including "The Call of Cthulhu" and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
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