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| MARTIN LUTHER KING |
| Nobel Prize winner Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. King was born on January 15, 1929, in
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| MAGIC JOHNSON |
| Joining the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association in 1979, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born 1959) became one of basketball's most popular stars.
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BILL CLINTON |
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton (born 1946) won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1992 and then
defeated incumbent George Bush to become the 42nd… more
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Lance Armstrong (born 1971) will certainly be remembered for being an outstanding athlete and four-time winner of the Tour de France, but he will touch more lives through the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the Race for the Roses charity bi...
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No player has left a mark on 1980s professional basketball comparable to that of Larry Bird (born 1956), the renowned forward for the Boston Celtics. Bird took the NBA by storm as a rookie in 1979 and dominated the league almost without a ...
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Basketball transformed Larry Johnson from high school outcast to hero. It has rewarded him with national college player-of-the-year honors, National Basketball Association (NBA) Rookie of the Year honors, and a 12-year, $84 million contrac...
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Growing up in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Larry Walker--star outfielder for the Colorado Rockies--had a dream. In his dream he was playing in front of a sell-out crowd--as a goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team. When his dr...
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Lenny Dykstra, centerfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies, is one of the fiercest competitors in major league baseball. His intense style of play made him the leader of the Phillies's "worst to first" National League pennant winners of 19...
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Skier Hilary Lindh has been moving fast her entire life. She first put on a pair of skis when she was two and has been going downhill ever since. In 1992 Lindh won a silver medal in the downhill race at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, ...
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"She likes to hit the ball hard into the corner. Very, very hard."--Fellow tennis player Gabriella Sabitini. Lindsay Davenport had always been a victim of high expectations. Tennis experts saw that she had the skill to be the number one pl...
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Pitcher Lisa Fernandez can throw a softball 75 miles per hour. She can dip, rise, and spin the ball, making her pitches almost unhittable. During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Fernandez was nearly perfect. She won the game ...
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The road to success has been a long trip for Lisa Leslie. The journey began in the back of a semi-truck, traveling throughout the country with the driver, her mother. Now Leslie is the driver--taking the ball to the basket as a member of t...
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Lyn St. James is a rare athlete--a woman automobile racer. In her forties, she qualified for and drove in her first Indianapolis 500 in 1992. She became only the second woman in the 82-year history of the Memorial Day weekend race to quali...
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