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True or False? Benjamin Banneker used a telescope and mathematics to predict a solar eclipse. True! In 1789, Banneker calculated when the moon would pass between the earth and sun. And he did it without any formal math or science training. As a young boy, he worked on the farm owned by his father, who was a freed slave in Maryland. He helped to survey and plot out the site for the U.S. capital city, Washington, D.C. He also published several almanacs...
2) Dr. Seuss
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Highlights the life and career of Dr. Seuss, from his childhood to his success as a creator of children's books.
6) Helen Keller
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Hellen Keller could do almost anything, she was a brilliant thinker, she understood several languages, she wrote books and gave speeches all over the world. There were only two things that Helen could not do, she couldn't hear and she couldn't see.She never let that stop her, she did what she set out to do just the same.
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Question: Who was known as the First Lady of the U.S. civil rights movement? Answer: Coretta Scott King. She helped her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., fight for equal rights for African Americans in the 1950's and 1960's. After his death, she continued to speak out for peace and equality for all people.
12) Amelia Earhart
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Traces the life of the famous pilot, focusing on her record setting flights in the 1920s and 1930s and her inspiration to other women.
13) Juliette Low
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Learn about the woman who started the Girl Scout movement in the United States.
15) Neil Armstrong
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A biography of the first man on the moon, covering his life and his career as an astronaut.
16) Milton Hershey
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A biography of the successful chocolate maker who built a town around his factory with unique housing for his workers and a school for disadvantaged students.
18) George Marshall
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Introduces the life of George C. Marshall, Noble Prize winner for "The Marshall Plan", which brought badly needed food and supplies to devasted Europe, who helped the United States become a new world superpower, and built a large, well-trained and equipped military.