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Tyrus Raymond Cobb December 18 1886 July 17 1961 nicknamed the Georgia Peach was an American Major League Baseball center fielder Born in rural Narrows Georgia Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers the last six as the teams playermanager and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics In 1936 Cobb received the most…

Bertrand RussellMay 18 1872 February 2 1970 was born inMonmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain Russell was a philosopherlogicianmathematicianhistorian prominentantiwaractivist and an outspoken opponent ofnuclear weapons In 1950 Russell was awarded theNobel Prize in Literature

Edwin Powell HubbleNovember 20 1889 September 28 1953 born in Marshfield MO was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields ofextragalactic astronomyandobservational cosmology Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as nebulae were actuallygalaxiesbeyond theMilky Way Hubbles name is most widely…

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald September 24 1896 December 21 1940 was an American novelist essayist and short story writer He is best known for his four novelsThis Side of Paradise The Beautiful and Damned The Great Gatsby and Tender Is The Nightdepicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age Fitzgerald is widely regarded as…

On May 6 1937 the LZ 129 Hindenburg a German commercial passengercarrying rigid airship and lead ship of the Hindenburg class the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst NJ The…

Hunter Stockton Thompson July 18 1937 February 20 2005 was an American journalist and author who founded the gonzo journalism movement a style in which the writer becomes a central figure and participant in the events of the narrative He rose to prominence with the publication of Hells Angels 1967 and Fear and Loathing in…

Golda Mabovitch Meir May 3 1898 December 8 1978 was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974 She was Israels first and only female head of government the first female head of government in the Middle East and the fourth elected female head of government or…

Julius Robert Oppenheimer April 22 1904 February 18 1967 was an American theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II He is often credited as the father of the atomic bomb for his role in organizing the Manhattan Project the research and development undertaking that created the first nuclear weapons

Mahatma Gandhi October 2 1869 January 30 1948 was an Indian lawyer anticolonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for Indias independence from British rule He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world

Malcolm X born Malcolm Little later Malik elShabazz May 19 1925 February 21 1965 was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964 he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment…