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110515-0973HerbertArmstrong The Herbert Armstrong family marker.
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110515-0978HerbertArmstrong Herbert W. Armstrong founded Worldwide Church of God in the 30's and was a radio and TV evangelist. with an audience of millions.
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110515-0980MatthewRobinson Matthew Robinson finished 2nd to Jesse Owens in the 200-meter dash in the 1936 Olympics. He was the brother of baseball player Jackie Robinson.
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110515-0982RaymondVitte Actor Raymond Vitte appeared in 'Carwash', and TV's That' My Mama, Doc, What's Happenin', and co-starred in The Quest . He spent most of his last day screaming and yelling at home and died in the back of a police car.
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110515-0989GeorgeReeves Actor George Reeves played Superman on the TV series.
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110515-0997GeorgeReeves He died from a gunshot that officially was ruled a suicide.
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110618-2575ThaddeusLowe Thaddeus C Lowe was Abraham Lincoln's Chief of Aeronautics and used manned observation balloons during the Civil War. He was an inventor, and developed the Lowe Railway in Los Angeles.
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110618-2577MauriceMcLaughlin Maurice McLoughlin was a tennis player. He won the singles championship in 1912 and 1913, and doubles with Thomas Bundy, 1912-1914. In 1913 he became the first American finalist in singles at Wimbledon. He was the World No. 1 in 1914.
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110618-2585OctaviaButler Octavia Estelle Butler was a successful black woman in a typically white man's profession of science-fiction writer.
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110618-2597MiltonHaney Milton Haney was a chaplain in the 55th Illinois Infantry, and earned a Medal of Honor in the Civil War.
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110618-2611RichardFeynman Richard Feynman was a mathematician, physicist, author and lecturer, and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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110618-2621EldridgeCleaver Eldridge Cleaver was a famous member of the Black Panthers, a self-confessed rapist, convict, and writer of Soul On Ice. He later became a Morman and Republican.
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120318-6482CharlesWysocki Charles Wysocki was an American painter, whose works depict a stylized version of American life of yesteryear. While some of his works show horseless carriages, most depict the horse and buggy era.
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120318-6487WilburHatch Wilbur Hatch was a composer and conductor, including the Desi Arnaz Orchestra on I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks, Star Trek, and The Untouchables.
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120318-6491WallaceNeff Wallace Neff was a So Calif architect and helped develop the region's distinct "California" style, based on the Spanish and Mediterranean, and designed Pickfair, the mansion of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
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120318-6510HughSanders Hugh Sanders acted in movies and a long list of TV including The Lone Ranger, Highway Patrol, Perry Mason and Bonanza.
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130309-5903GeorgeBaker George Baker was a sculptor. known for his abstract works, such as "Nebraska Wind Sculpture" located along Interestate 80, a fountain at the World Trade Center in Long Beach, California, and a kinetic fountain at CIT in Pasadena. He has works in the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in NY, and the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney.
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130309-5912JamesWilliams James Williams was a cartoonist who created the comic strips The Willets Family and Out Our Way.
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130309-5914SamuelStratton Samuel Stratton was a physicist, and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Standards.
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130309-5915MaryStone Mary Stone was born in China and sent to America for medical training. When she returned to China she was the only doctor for five million rural Chinese in the early part of the 20th century. She helped organize the first Red Cross in China, and founded the Chinese Women's Christian Temperance Union.
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130309-5919RayBillington Ray Billington held two Ph.D. degrees, taught at several universities in the US, and Oxford University in England. He retired from his teaching career in 1960 and became the Senior Research Associate at the renowned Huntington Library. He wrote more than 25 historical books about the West and won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America for his book, America's Frontier Heritage.
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130309-5920FrancisSheldon Francis Sheldon was a WW I Captain in the Medical Corps, and pioneered many medical innovations that are used in difficult field conditions.
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130309-5926CharlesRichter Charles Richter invented a system of measuring earthquake strength. The USGS now uses the Moment Magnitude Scale that has the familiar numerical values.
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130309-5929TedHusing Ted Husing was a radio broadcasting pioneer, and one of the foremost play-by-play announcers in American sportscasting history. He also appeared in several motion pictures playing 'himself.'
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130309-5932WilliamWagner William Wagner was a stage and movie actor of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. He appeared with Tyrone Power and Madeleine Carroll in the 1936 Oscar-nominated drama "Lloyd's of London."
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