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4 days ago · What did Rosa Parks write? Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement ...
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Rosa Parks called Malcolm X her hero, and they interacted...
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In 1953 King married Coretta Scott, and the two had four...
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2 days ago · Genie (feral child) Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. [1] [2] [3] When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked room.
- 1957 (age 65–66), Arcadia, California, U.S.
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May 10, 2024 · Eleanor of Aquitaine (born c. 1122—died April 1, 1204, Fontevrault, Anjou, France) was the queen consort of both Louis VII of France (1137–52) and Henry II of England (1152–1204) and mother of Richard I (the Lionheart) and John of England. She was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe.
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May 10, 2024 · Photo: Donna Svennevik/Getty. Kate Gosselin and Jon Gosselin are famously the parents of eight children. They first became parents in October 2000 when they welcomed twin girls, Mady and Cara, 23 ...
4 days ago · v. t. e. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Leto ( / ˈliːtoʊ /; Ancient Greek: Λητώ, romanized : Lētṓ pronounced [lɛːtɔ̌ː]) is a goddess and the mother of Apollo and Artemis. [1] She is the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and the sister of Asteria . In the Olympian scheme, the king of gods Zeus is the father of her ...
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Apr 30, 2024 · Marie Curie (born November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire—died July 4, 1934, near Sallanches, France) was a Polish-born French physicist, famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. With Henri Becquerel and her husband, Pierre Curie, she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics.
2 days ago · Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator ( Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ [note 5] lit. Cleopatra "father-loving goddess"; [note 6] 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. [note 7] A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its ...