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Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
Mathematician, Artist, Inventor, Musician, Writer / 1452 - 1519
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter and a genius in many realms of science. He is best known for two paintings: the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper."
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Mildred Loving
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- Famous Cancerians
- Famous Black Activists
- Famous Civil Rights Activists
Mildred Loving
Civil Rights Activist / 1939 - 2008
Mildred Loving was a Civil Rights activist in the 1960s. She and her husband successfully defeated Virginia's ban on interracial marriage.
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J. Edgar Hoover
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J. Edgar Hoover
Government Official / 1895 - 1972
As director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover had rabid anti-Communist and anti-subversive views and used unconventional tactics to monitor related activity.
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Osama bin Laden
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- Infamous Terrorists
- Famous Pisceans
- Famous People Born in 1957
Osama bin Laden
Terrorist / 1957 - 2011
Osama bin Laden is a terrorist extremist who planned the attacks on the World Trade Center and is intent on driving Western influence from the Muslim world.
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Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
U.S. Representative / 1908 - 1957
Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department. He became chair of the Senate's subcommittee on investigations.
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Caryl Chessman
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- Famous Geminis
- Famous People Born in 1921
Caryl Chessman
Criminal / 1921 - 1960
Caryl Chessman is best known for his controversial conviction for sex crimes and his execution in 1960.
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profile name: J. Edgar Hoover profile occupation: Government Official
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profile name: Joseph McCarthy profile occupation: U.S. Representative
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View groupAbducting children and adults, demanding ransoms, and committing grisly murders, kidnappers prey on the weak, innocent and unsuspecting, ranking them among the worst kinds of criminals in society. The kidnappers in this group are among the most notorious, making headlines for their famous hostages or for their violent and controlling behavior.
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View groupHollywood's leading lady Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times—and two of them were to Richard Burton. The two fell in love on the set of the 1963 film Cleopatra, and though both were married at the time, by March 1964 they divorced their previous spouses and married each other. Their turbulent relationship kept them in the papers, and they divorced in 1974 and remarried in 1975, only to split again a year later.
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