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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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Pat Day is built to be a horse racing jockey. He weighs 100 pounds and stands 4-feet-11-inches tall, but has as big a heart as any athlete in any sport. Five times Day has ridden his horse to victory at the Preakness Stakes--one of horse r...
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Although most basketball players start playing at an early age, Patrick Ewing began playing basketball in high school. Amazingly, by the time he reached his senior year, he had become the best high school player in the country. Overcoming ...
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Over the course of his 18-year professional career, Canadian hockey player Patrick Roy (born 1965) proved to himself and hockey fans everywhere his outstanding skills and instincts as a goaltender. His heroic actions to defend his team, ev...
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Education has always been important to left-winger Paul Kariya of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. His parents are both school teachers and Kariya is a student of hockey. He studied with one of the best professors in the game, the "Great One," Wa...
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Why do hockey fans call forward Pavel Bure of the Vancouver Canucks the "Russian Rocket"" Maybe it's because of his speed, which allows him to rush end-to-end through the opposing team to score. Maybe it's his wicked shot, one that has all...
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"Baseball is in my family. It's in my blood."--Pedro Martinez. To Pedro Martinez, the hard-throwing right-handed pitcher of the Boston Red Sox, baseball is a family affair. He and his brother, Ramon, both came to the United States as membe...
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Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway almost lost his basketball career before it began. A thief's bullet lodged in his right foot threatened to keep him grounded in a game played much of the time in the air. Hardaway was luckier than many people and ...
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Boxer Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker fights by one motto: You cannot hit what you cannot catch. During his career he won the 1984 Olympic gold medal and six professional titles in four weight classes. Whitaker, however, is best known for the...
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In 1990 Pete Sampras surprised the world of tennis by becoming the youngest man ever to win the U.S. Open men's singles title with a serve that often traveled over 120 miles per hour. When he couldn't repeat his success during the next two...
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Peter Forsberg is used to moving. Before he ever played a game in the National Hockey League (NHL), the big center was traded from the Philadelphia Flyers to the Quebec Nordiques as part of a deal for center Eric Lindros. Forsberg then tra...
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"I've always been a team guy."--Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning, the outstanding quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL), was born with football in his blood. His father, Archie Manning, was an outstandin...
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Picabo Street is never at a loss for words. An extremely outgoing person, her personality and her silver medal in the downhill at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, made Street a star. During the 1994-95 season, she accomplis...
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