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  2. Babe Ruth - Wikipedia

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    In his 15 years with the ... [14] [15] Ruth stated, "I think I was born as a hitter the first day I ever saw ... who briefly addressed the crowd of almost 60,000. ...

  3. Betty White - Wikipedia

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    Betty Marion Ludden (née White; January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021) was an American actress and comedian. [1] [2] A pioneer of early television with a career spanning almost seven decades, she was noted for her vast number of television appearances acting in sitcoms, sketch comedy, and game shows.

  4. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] In June that year, he gave a paper "Time Sharing in Large Fast Computers" at the UNESCO Information Processing Conference in Paris where he passed the concept on to J. C. R. Licklider. [15] [16] Licklider, a vice president at Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN), promoted the idea of time-sharing as an alternative to batch processing. [14]

  5. Hillary Clinton - Wikipedia

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    Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat.She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States as the wife of Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.

  6. Elizabeth I - Wikipedia

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    Instead, on 22 May, Elizabeth was moved from the Tower to Woodstock, where she was to spend almost a year under house arrest in the charge of Henry Bedingfeld. Crowds cheered her all along the way. [37] [e] On 17 April 1555, Elizabeth was recalled to court to attend the final stages of Mary's apparent pregnancy. If Mary and her child died ...

  7. Clara Barton - Wikipedia

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    In 1975, the Clara Barton National Historic Site, located at 5801 Oxford Road, Glen Echo, Maryland, was established as a unit of the National Park Service at Barton's home, where she spent the last 15 years of her life.

  8. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Wikipedia

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    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (/ k ə ˈ r iː m æ b ˈ d uː l dʒ ə ˈ b ɑːr / kə-REEM ab-DOOL jə-BAR; born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. (/ æ l ˈ s ɪ n d ər / al-SIN-dər); April 16, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers.

  9. Elvis Presley - Wikipedia

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    In September 1941, Presley entered first grade at East Tupelo Consolidated, where his teachers regarded him as "average". [14] His first public performance was a singing contest at the Mississippi–Alabama Fair and Dairy Show on October 3, 1945, when he was 10; he sang "Old Shep" and recalled placing fifth. [15]