- Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856-1915)@
Learn about Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), one of the intellectual leaders whose dynamic "Taylorism" ideas highly influenced the Progressive Era in the U.S. history. Sites feature biography, career profile, time-and-motion studies for improved worker productivity, and other organizational psychology approaches initiated by the American engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency.
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- Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937)@
Explore Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), the Italian Nobel laureate physicist and inventor of wireless telegraphy system called radio. Sites feature biography, work, museum exhibits, and the scientific contributions of the physics nobelist which laid the foundation for modern communications.
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- Amundsen, Roald (1872-1928)@
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- Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930)@
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- Kelly, Ned (1854-1878)@
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- Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)@
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- Booth, John Wilkes (1839-1865)@
Learn about John Wilkes Booth, the American actor who assassinated the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Sites offer biography, trial, as well as the mystery around his death, autopsy, and burial.
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- Sitting Bull (1831-1890)@
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- Geronimo@
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- Morse, Samuel F.B. (1791-1872)@
Find sites for Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph and the Morse Code. Sites provide biography, Morse family tree, and images.
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- James, Jesse (1847-1882)@
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- Clanton Gang, The
Created by a member of the Clanton family, a history of the gang, its members, and their role in the gunfight at the OK Corral.
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- Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)@
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- Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889)@
Learn about Maria Mitchell, the American astronomer first to discover a comet with the use of a telescope and was the first woman admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Philosophical Society. Sites feature biography, scientific achievements, and the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association.
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- Crockett, Davy (1786-1836)@
Read about Davy Crockett, the 19th-century American folk hero, soldier, and politician. Sites provide an overview of his biography, timeline, quotes, articles, and text of a speech by the King of the Wild Frontier.
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- Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)@
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- Scott, Robert Falcon (1868-1912)@
Learn about Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), the Royal Naval officer and Antarctic explorer who came second to the Norwegian Roald Amundsen in the historical 'Race to the South Pole.' Sites offer biography, vital stats, and expeditions of the legendary "Scotts of the Antarctic" who died while attempting to return from the historic Terra Nova expedition of 1910-1913.
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- Jackson, Thomas J. "Stonewall" (1824-1863)@
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- Calment, Jeanne (1875-1997)@
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- Norton, Joshua A. - Emperor of the United States (1819-1880)@
Find sites for Joshua A. Norton, the celebrated citizen of San Francisco who declared himself as "the Emperor of these United Sates and Protector of Mexico" in 1859. Sites feature life, legacy, and portraits of the maverick 'emperor' who issued self-proclaimed decrees on matters of state and whose kaleidoscopic personality inspired many a classic.
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