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36 Cards in this Set
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Helen Gurley Brown
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editor-in-chief of cosmo mag
-stressed sensuality -tremendous influence on self-image of white woman |
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
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American author
- famous character= Tarzan -FRANCHISE -sterotypes of Africa |
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Cab Calloway
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jazz singer
-brought jazz to dominant face of US -crossover -Cotton Club -Minney the Moocher=famous song -broadway and movies |
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Lewis Carroll
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author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
-Real name=Dodgson |
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Rachel Carson
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marine biologist and writer- "Silent Spring"
-dealt with use of DDT pestiside &environmental effects -partial effect of book=Env. Protection Agency -"The Sea Around Us"- made us aware of ocean |
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Cesar Chavez
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civil rights activist for migrant farm workers
-led to foundation of United Farm Workers |
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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military & political leader of China
-made China join allied forces in WWII |
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Julia Child
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chef, tv personality, & author
-changed way Americans find food -Corden Bleu Cooking School |
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Hattie McDaniel
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1st black person to sing on American network radio
-played Mamie in Gone with the Wind -1st black to win Ac Award for acting -1st black to play title role on sitcom |
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Van Cliburn
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won 1st Tchakovsky piano competition in Moscow
-1st classical recording to go platinum -born in Shreveport |
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Jacques Cousteau
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created documentaries about underwater world
-helped invent scuba diving -contributed to awareness of ocean |
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Goldameir
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Israel's 1st and only prime minister
-3rd female p.m. in the world |
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Cecil B. DeMille
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filmmaker, silent films, ornate epics, refined comics
-cast of thousands -"Ten Commandments" -Golden Globe award named after him |
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Desmond Tutu
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1s black archbishop in South Africa
-head of Anglicans -rallied against apartheid -Truth and Reconciliation Committee -Nobel Peace Prize |
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Yuri Gagarin
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1st human to travel in space
-Russian cosmonaut |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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political and spiritual leader of India
-helped establish independence from Britain -Mahatma=title of respect -peaceful resistance -fasting |
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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1st prime minister of India
-political action type -head of Nationalist party |
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Indira Gandhi
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daughter of Nehru
-1st and only feminine prime minister in India |
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Edith Head
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Academy Award winning costume designer
-cheif of wardrobe department @Paramount -woman in The Incredibles |
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Hirohito
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emporer of Japan in WWII
-joined with Nazi Germany and Italy to become one of the 3 axis powers -announced Japan's surrender -longest serving emp in history of Japan |
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James Hoffa
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labor union leader
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters -disappeared -severely damaged union movement of US |
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J. Edgar Hoover
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major transformer of FBI into what it is today
-name=synonomys with FBI -publicity hound -homo |
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Harry Houdini
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magician, stuntman, escapologist
-died on Halloween |
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Henry Kissinger
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US sec of state under Nixon and Ford
-main role in the Vietnam peace treaty -set standard for foreign relations -open door policy btw china & US |
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Charles Lindbergh
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1st pilot to fly solo continuous flight across Atlantic
-20 month old son was kidnapped and murdered -accused of being a Nazi -flew bomber planes as a civilian |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
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most successful musical composer of 20th century
-CATS -Phantom -Joseph and the..... |
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Marcel Marceau
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world-reknowned French mime
-introduced Bip mime character -white face, black & white clothes -styled pantomime |
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Margaret Mead
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World's most reknowned anthropologist
-studied adolescence in Simoa -contrasted sex habits of Simoans and Americans |
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel
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invented dynamite
-Nobel Prize |
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I.M. Pei
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Pritzker Prize for architecture
-The Louvre -last master of modern architecture |
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Juan Peron
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pres of Argentina
-creator of Peronism -comparable to Huey Long -wanted Argentina to be able to rule themselves |
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Pablo Picasso
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inventor of cubism
-one of creators of modern art movement -cubism= subjects we paint or sculpt are reduced to geometrical shapes. |
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Joseph Pulitzer
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newspaper publisher
-Pulitzer Prize -"yellow journalism" (with Hearst) -New York World |
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Francois Rodin
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french sculptor
-well-known for realistic sculptures -details "The Thinker" |
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Jonas Salk
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developed vaccine for polio
-develped it from dead strand of polio |
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Gloria Steinem
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pioneering feminist in the 60s
-broke sterotypes of feminists -went undercover as playboy bunny and then wrote about it -organized female rights association |
