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                                        Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American
                                        social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in
                                        the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to
                                        social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In
                                        1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery

                   Susan B. Anthony     Society. In 1979, the United States Mint began issuing the Susan B.
                                        Anthony dollar coin, the first U.S. coin to honor a female citizen.

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                                        Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an
                                        American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S.
                                        aircraft industry. Curtiss made the first officially witnessed flight in North
                                        America, won a race at the world's first international air meet in France,
                                         and made the first long-distance flight in the United States. His
                                        contributions in designing and building aircraft led to the formation of
                   Glenn Hammond
                                        the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.
                        Curtiss

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                                        Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-
                                        American industrialist, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of
                                        the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of
                                        the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist and
                                        during the last 18 years of his life, he gave away $350 million
                                        (conservatively $65 billion in 2019 dollars, based on percentage of GDP) to
                   Andrew Carnegie      charities, foundations, and universities – almost 90 percent of his fortune.

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                                        Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an
                                        American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age
                                        of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity to instantaneous world fame by
                                        winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New
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                                       York to Paris. Lindbergh covered the 33  ⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile in a
                   Charles Lindbergh    single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis.










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