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| | From:  Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:10 AM |
She appeared in films with both the Three Stooges and the Marx Brother early in her career. With her real life spouse she did the radio show My Favorite Husband before they moved on to a successful television series. The show’s 1953 episode where she had a baby was the highest rated show in history, at that time. Shortly before her death, she had her last television appearance at the 1989 Academy Awards. Who Could It Be? Lucille Ball |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:11 AM |
His parents divorced when he was 5 and he spent his childhood in various California houses whenever his father remarried. He debuted in a horror movie, before landing a television series where he dressed in drag. Having starred in comedic and dramatic parts, he wrote and directed a film about a make-believe rock band, for which he wrote music. He is one of five actors to win back-to-back Academy Awards. Who Could It Be? Tom Hanks |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:11 AM |
His career began as a director and consultant for mining companies, about which he wrote a textbook. During World War I, he oversaw relief efforts in Europe, and aided American citizens in their return to the United States. A year after he was elected president, the stock market crashed and many people thought him ineffectual in dealing with the Depression. In 1932, he lost the presidency to Franklin Roosevelt by a large margin of votes. President Truman had him supervise famine relief during World War II. Who Could It Be? Herbert Hoover |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:12 AM |
Better known for her commitment to the civil rights movement, she has a degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. With her husband, she worked on both the Montgomery bus boycott and on the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. After her husband died, she started a center to study nonviolent social change in his name. After lobbying or fifteen years, she had her husband’s birthday made a national holiday. Who Could It Be? Coretta Scott King |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:12 AM |
She was part of a song-and-dance act, with her sisters, by the age of four. The Marx Brothers gave her a part in one of their films for her debut, and she sang in nightclubs in the 1940s and 1950s. Two of her best-known films are Porgy and Bess, and Carmen Jones. She was the first black actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, but roles were still hard for her to find. In 1965 she died of a drug overdose. Who Could It Be? Dorothy Dandridge |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:12 AM |
At the age of 11, he went to live on the streets of Philadelphia after a fight with his father. He began a vaudeville career as a juggler and as a silent movie star. After talking movies appeared, he wrote and starred in many comedies. Most of the characters he created where sarcastic, booze loving, child haters. Acting partners over the years have included Mae West, and Charlie McCarthy the dummy. Who Could It Be? W.C. Fields |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:13 AM |
He became the first recording artist to have a #1 song about a rat in 1972. After he left his original group, he saw major solo success and became famous for the moonwalk. Today he is known for numerous plastic surgeries and a failed a marriage to a rock legend’s daughter. Who Could It Be? Michael Jackson |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:13 AM |
A newspaper editor, and later a bicycle designer in Dayton, Ohio, he gained fame in 1903 for getting his flying machine in the air for 59 seconds. In 1908, a flight he took in France set altitude and distance records. However, four years later, he died of typhoid before his invention reinvented world travel. Who Could It Be? Wilbur Wright |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:14 AM |
She spent more than a year in prison for taking an active part in India’s independence movement. The daughter of India’s first prime minister, she took over her father’s duties in 1966 for a controversial reign. Beloved by the poor, she was criticized for enacting a state of emergency in 1975 and for imprisoning dissenters. In 1984, she was assassinated by her own security guards. Who Could It Be? Indira Gandhi |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:14 AM |
Description of the World, his most well known work, was written while he was in prison. The book described his trips to the Orient, a place few Europeans had been to at that time. With his father and uncle, he spent 24 years traveling through the Middle East, Asia, and across the Gobi Desert. In 1275, the travelers reached the court of Kublai Khan where he served as a diplomatic emissary. After 20 years as a diplomat, he returned to Venice. Who Could It Be? Marco Polo |
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| | | From: Judyc3 | Sent: 9/5/2007 3:14 AM |
A native of Crystal City, Missouri, he attended Princeton University, played on the 1964 United States Olympic basketball team, and spent two years at Oxford. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1978, and encouraged civil rights and energy conservation. During his term in the Senate, he was the only Senator to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Who Could It Be? Bill Bradley |
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