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| x Stephanie Pearl-McPhee |
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Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. "The Yarn Harlot") (born June 14, 1968) is a writer, knitter, IBCLC or International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and doula living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Stephanie Anne Pearl-McPhee's grandmother, a...
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| x Kirrily Robert |
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Kirrily Robert is a software developer and internet technologist originally from Australia, but recently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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| x Vanna White |
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Vanna White (born February 18, 1957) is an American television personality, best known as puzzle-board presenter & co-host on the long-running game show Wheel of Fortune.
White was born Vanna Marie Rosich in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the...
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| x Christine Weibel |
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| x Charles Apgar |
Charles Apgar, a New Jersey amateur radio operator, is known for making the earliest surviving recordings of a radio signal in 1914.
Apgar fitted the electrical element of a headphone to a home-made recording head he attached to an Edison cylinder...
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| x Chet Atkins |
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Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who created, along with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded...
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| x Sergei Avdeyev |
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Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev (Сергей Васильевич Авдеев, born 1 January 1956) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut.
Avdeyev was born in Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast (formerly Kuybyshev Oblast), Russian SFSR. He graduated from Moscow Physics-Engineering...
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| x Art Bell |
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Arthur W. "Art" Bell, III (born June 17, 1945) is an American broadcaster and author, known primarily as one of the founders and original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM. He also created and formerly hosted its...
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| x Tex Beneke |
Gordon Lee Beneke (born February 12, 1914, Fort Worth, Texas - May 30, 2000, Costa Mesa, California), professionally known as Tex Beneke was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader, who is probably remembered best for his association and...
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| x Gary E. J. Bold |
Gary E.J. Bold (born c.1937) is a New Zealand physicist, as of 2009 a lecturer and Honorary Associate Professor in physics at the University of Auckland. Bold has a PhD from the University of Auckland, and began lecturing at the university c.1961....
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| x Charles E. Brady, Jr. |
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Charles Eldon Brady, Jr. (August 12, 1951 – July 23, 2006) (Captain, United States Navy) was a physician and American NASA astronaut.
Brady was born in Pinehurst, North Carolina, but considered Robbins, North Carolina, to be his hometown. He lived,...
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| x Marlon Brando |
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Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century, a prodegy of Stella Adler, at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting which boasts students including Robert DeNiro, Melanie...
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| x Henrik Kurt Carlsen |
Henrik Kurt Carlsen (1914 ? - 7 October 1989) was a Danish-born sea-captain who became world-famous in January 1952 when he stayed on his sinking freighter, the Flying Enterprise, for 13 days. It eventually sank less than 60 km from safe harbour at...
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| x Eric Cole |
Major-General Eric Stuart Cole, CB, CBE (10 February 1906–19 December 1992) was a senior British Army officer and telecommunications expert. He saw active service in the Second World War, with his most important contribution being the planning of...
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| x Arthur A. Collins |
Arthur A. Collins (1909-1987) was an American entrepreneur, who founded Collins Radio Co., which is now a part of Rockwell Collins, Inc..
Art Collins' father owned several thousand acres of farmland. After graduating from Washington High School ...
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| x Arnie Coro |
Arnaldo Coro Antich, aka Arnie Coro, is a Cuban radio host, academic and popular amateur radio operator. He is a cofounder of Radio Havana. He hosts the English language Radio Habana show DXers Unlimited which broadcasts twice a week. He is also a...
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| x Walter Cronkite |
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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as...
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| x Ted David |
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Ted David, an American financial journalist, is currently heard as a free-lance anchor on New York's all news station 1010 WINS and seen as a freelance anchor on Cablevision's News12 Long Island. Ted is also seen from time to time on ABC's daytime...
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| x John H. DeWitt, Jr. |
John H. DeWitt, Jr. (February 20, 1906 – January 25, 1999) was an American pioneer in radio broadcasting, radar astronomy and photometry. He observed the first successful reception of radio echoes off the moon on January 10, 1946 as part of Project...
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| x Lester Dent |
Lester Dent (October 12, 1904 – March 11, 1959) was a prolific pulp fiction author of numerous stories, best known as the main author of the series of stories about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage. The stories were credited to...
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| x Andy Devine |
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Andrew Vabre "Andy" Devine (October 7, 1905 – February 18, 1977) was an American character actor and comic cowboy sidekick known for his raspy voice.
Born in Flagstaff, Arizona on October 7, 1905, Andy Devine grew up in nearby Kingman, where his...
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| x Harold Dorschug |
Harold Dorschug (1913 - 1999-09-13) was one of the master control engineers during the Mercury Theatre's broadcast of H. G. Wells "War of the Worlds" on CBS radio in the '30s. Later, he moved to West Hartford, CT and was Chief Engineer and Director...
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| x Anthony W. England |
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Anthony Wayne "Tony" England (Ph.D.) is a former NASA Astronaut.
Dr. England was born on May 15, 1942, in Indianapolis, Indiana, but his hometown is West Fargo, North Dakota. He is married to the former Kathleen Ann Kreutz and has two daughters. His...
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| x Martin J. Fettman |
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Martin Joseph Fettman (B.S., D.V.M., M.S., Ph.D., Diplomate, ACVP) is a former NASA Payload Specialist who flew on STS-58 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
Born December 31, 1956, Brooklyn, New York. Married to Heather Connally DVM DACVECC....
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| x Paul Flaherty |
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Paul Andrew Flaherty (1964 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – March 16, 2006 in Belmont, California) was an American computer scientist. He was a renowned specialist for internet protocols and the inventor of the AltaVista search engine.
Flaherty received...
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| x Christer Fuglesang |
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Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was launched aboard the STS-116 Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. Married...
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| x Rajiv Gandhi |
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Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991), the elder son of Indira Nehru and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on 2 December 1989 following a general election...
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| x Owen K. Garriott |
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Owen Kay Garriott, Ph.D. (born November 22, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who spent 60 days aboard Skylab in 1973 and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 in 1983. He is also the father of Robert Garriott and fellow spacefarer Richard Garriott.
Garriott was...
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| x Richard Garriott |
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Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961) is an English-American video game developer and entrepreneur. He is also known as his alter egos Lord British in Ultima and General British in Tabula Rasa. A significant figure in the video game industry,...
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| x Hugo Gernsback |
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Hugo Gernsback (August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967), born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the...
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| x Arthur Godfrey |
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Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead. No television personality of the 1950s enjoyed more clout or...
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| x Barry Goldwater |
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Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. He was also a Major General in the U.S. Air...
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| x Rupert Goodwins |
Rupert Goodwins (born May 23, 1965) is a British writer, broadcaster and technology journalist.
He began his career as a programmer for Sinclair Research in the early 1980s, working on the ZX Spectrum ROM. He moved to Amstrad after it bought the...
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| x Wayne Green |
Wayne Green (1922?, Littleton, New Hampshire) is an American publisher and writer, founder of 73, 80 Micro, Byte, CD Review, Cold Fusion, Kilobaud Microcomputing, RUN and others. Green is also an international consultant. In the early 1980s, he...
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| x Michael D. Griffin |
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Michael Douglas Griffin (born November 1, 1949 in Aberdeen, Maryland) is an American physicist, aerospace engineer and the former Administrator of NASA, from April 13, 2005 to January 20, 2009. As the chief of America's space agency, Dr. Griffin...
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| x Alfred J. Gross |
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Alfred J. Gross (February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) aka Irving J. Gross was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He invented and patented many important communications devices, including the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone...
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| x Ebbe Hoff |
Ebbe Curtis Hoff (born August 12, 1906 in Rexford, Kansas died February 17, 1985 in Richmond, Virginia) was chairman of the Department of Neurological Science at the Medical College of Virginia, founding Dean, School of Graduate Studies and...
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| x Paul Horowitz |
Paul Horowitz (born 1942) is a U.S. physicist and electrical engineer, known primarily for his work in electronics design, as well as for his role in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (see SETI).
At age 8, Horowitz achieved distinction as...
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| x Hussein of Jordan |
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Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: حسين بن طلال, Ḥusayn bin Ṭalāl) (Amman, 14 November 1935 – Amman, 7 February 1999) was the King of Jordan from the abdication of his father, King Talal, in 1952, until his death. Hussein guided his country in the context...
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| x Juan Carlos I of Spain |
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Juan Carlos I of Spain (baptized as Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias; born 5 January 1938, Rome, Italy) is the reigning king of Spain. He is the son of the late Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and the late Princess...
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| x Fred Judd |
Fred C. Judd (1914-1992) is best known as the radio amateur (callsign G2BCX) who invented the Slim Jim antenna. He was a regular contributor to the UK magazine "Practical Wireless".
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| x Phil Karn |
Phil Karn is an engineer from Baltimore, Maryland. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1978 and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. From 1979 until 1984,...
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| x Jack Kilby |
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Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 - June 20, 2005) was a Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at Texas Instruments (TI). He is also the inventor of the handheld calculator and...
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| x Sam Kouvaris |
Sam Kouvaris is an American sports broadcaster. He is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, as well as a graduate from the University of Maryland, College Park. He began his broadcasting career in Charleston, South Carolina, as the lead sports anchor at...
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| x Curtis LeMay |
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Curtis Emerson LeMay (15 November 1906 – 1 October 1990) was a General in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American Independent Party candidate George Wallace in 1968.
He is credited with designing and...
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| x Patty Loveless |
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Patty Loveless (born Patty Lee Ramey, January 4, 1957 in Pikeville, Kentucky, raised in Elkhorn City, Kentucky and Louisville, Kentucky) is an American country music singer.
Since her emergence on the country music scene in 1987 with her first, self...
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| x Hiram Percy Maxim |
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Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was cofounder of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and originally had the amateur call sign 1AW, and later W1AW, which is now the ARRL Headquarters club station call sign. His rotary...
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| x Jay Maynard |
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Jay Maynard is a computer programmer and system administrator. He is most famous for his self made electroluminescent Tron Guy costume.
He became a subject of Internet discussion forums when his costume, inspired by the movie TRON, spread across the...
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| x Anthony McCormack |
Anthony McCormack is a presenter and producer on Melbourne's youth community radio station SYN Radio. In 2007 he was the first Creative Director of the Student Youth Network. He is an alumnus of Melbourne's Xavier College and holds an honours degree...
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| x Tommy McManus |
Thomas Edward McManus (born July 30, 1970 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois) is a former American football middle linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the National Football League. He played high school football at Wheeling High School in Wheeling,...
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| x Ronnie Milsap |
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Ronnie Lee Milsap (born January 16, 1945) is an American country music singer and musician. He was one of country’s most popular and influential artists in the 1970s and 1980s. He became country music’s first blind superstar. He was also one of the...
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| x Kevin Mitnick |
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Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is a computer security consultant and author. He was a world-famous controversial computer hacker in the late 20th century, who was, at the time of his arrest, the most wanted computer criminal in United...
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| x Artie Moore |
Arthur Moore (1887 – 20 January 1949), was a British wireless operator who heard a distress signal from RMS Titanic before news of the disaster arrived in the UK.
In the early hours of 15 April 1912, in the loft of the 17th century Gelligroes Mill,...
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| x Clarence C. Moore |
Clarence C. Moore (1904-1979) was an engineer and minister at HCJB Missionary Radio Station, now known as HCJB World Radio with primary transmitters in Quito, Ecuador. He went on to found International Radio and Electronics Corporation in Elkhart,...
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| x Barbara Morgan |
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Barbara Radding "Barb" Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She also participated in the Teacher in Space program as the backup to Christa McAuliffe for the ill-fated STS-51L mission of Space Shuttle...
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| x William I Orr |
William Ittner Orr (W6SAI) (1919-2001) is the author of several amateur radio and radio engineering texts. His titles include:
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| x Ronald A. Parise |
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Ronald Anthony Parise, Ph.D. (May 24, 1951 – May 9, 2008) was an Italian American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.
Parise was born in Warren, Ohio to Henry and Catherine Parise. By age 11, he became...
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| x William Pasternak |
William M. "Bill" Pasternak (born Feb. 1942 in Brooklyn, NY) is a United States based independent educational/industrial film/video producer/director/writer and a career broadcast engineer currently living in the Los Angeles area. A native of...
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| x George Pataki |
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George Elmer Pataki (born June 24, 1945) is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York serving three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006. He is a member of the Republican Party and was seen as a...
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| x Bruce Perens |
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Bruce Perens is a computer programmer and advocate in the open source community. He created the Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric S....
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