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    A random test...for the US members

    DO NOT LOOK AT WHAT ANYONE ELSE HAS POSTED!!

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    Name 10 people from American history that are not primarily remembered for being president, military leaders or statesmen, etc.




    If you were wondering why I asked, its because this is mentioned in the book Lies My Teacher Told Me (which I'm now reading), as an informal study done by a history professor for his first year students, and the hubby and I are getting a kick out of trying to list all the ones I can think of...but I sort of want to see if there's a pattern that matches what he's alluding to.
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    1 & 2. Louis and Clark
    3. Audubon
    4. Kate Furbish
    5. Sojourner Truth
    6. Lizzie Borden
    7 & 8. Marquette and Joliet
    9. Ponce de Leon
    10. Deborah Sampson
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      T.S. Eliot
      Mark Twain
      Anne Bradstreet
      John Smith
      Geronimo
      Joaquin
      Washington Irving
      Walt Whitman
      Christopher Columbus
      Erik the Red (this could be debatable)

      ADD: I've read parts of that book too. It's a real eye-opener to why K-12 was a very frustrating time for me.
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        Originally posted by Caelia View Post

        ADD: I've read parts of that book too. It's a real eye-opener to why K-12 was a very frustrating time for me.
        I've read parts of it previously, along with Howard Zinn's People's History...both of which can be found free online. The Lies book is a pdf that looks like it was text scanned and converted from the 1st edition, so there are some funny typos that are entertaining (like the word "to" showing up as "10"), but its downloadable.
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          Dead or can they still be alive? And can they be remembered for anything (for example their role in american pop culture?). Based on that, I'm gonna have to go with:

          Amerigo Vespucci
          Henry Ford
          Rosa Parks
          Nikolai Tesla
          Lewis & Clark
          Michael Jackson
          Bill Gates
          Marilyn Monroe
          Francis Robbins Upton
          Henry Wells & William G. Fargo



          Side note - I'm not a history buff and I suck at remembering names, so if any of these would be deemed incorrect or invalid... oh well?
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            1) Nikolai Tesla

            2) Squanto (alternate - Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel)

            3) Black Elk

            4) Lizzie Borden

            5) Eli Whitney

            6) Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

            7) Henry Ford

            8) Geronimo (alternate - Wild Bill Hickock)

            9) Sitting Bull (alternate - Jesse James)

            10) P T Barnum

            Even though I don't know if Geronimo, Sitting Bull & Squanto count because technically they were military leaders & statesmen, so I provided alternates.
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              Thurgood Marshall
              Sandra Day O'Conner
              William Renquist (probably mispelled)
              Lois Lowry (Yes, I can name non Supreme Court Justices)
              Robert Oppenheimer
              Warren Buffet
              Dred Scott
              Francis Scott Keye
              Amelia Earhart
              John Glenn (please gloss over military record and focus on moon landing)

              Yes, this becomes significantly more painful if you rule Supreme Court Justices as statesmen and disqualify them.
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                *goes right to reply. You said American History. So anything in the history of America. You might not like my answers. But here goes...

                Off the top of my head is probably stuff from the last 75 years I guess. I think...
                Malcom X
                Martin Luther King
                Jim Jones
                Charles Manson
                Harriett Tubman
                Fredrick Douglas
                Pocahontas
                Billy Jean King
                Benjamin Franklin (as in the inventor capacity)
                Wild Bill Hickock!
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                  Luther Burbank
                  Sacajewea
                  Eli Whitney
                  Louisa May Alcott
                  Susan B. Anthony
                  Lydia Pinkham
                  Juliette Gordon Low
                  Jonas Salk
                  Cotton Mather

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                    Rosa Parks
                    Martin Luther King Jr
                    Harriet Tubman
                    Rockefeller
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                      I, Bjorn, solemnly swear that I did not look at anyone else's posts, despite the many, many, MANY embarrassing moments it took to complete this list.

                      Amelia Earhart
                      Lewis and Clark
                      Edgar Allan Poe
                      Aaron Copland
                      Louisa May Alcott
                      Susan B Anthony (I hope that one wasn't too political)
                      Paul Revere (he was only a patriot! But again...very political)
                      Thomas Edison
                      Orville and Wilbur Wright
                      Neil Armstrong

                      ---------- Post added at 03:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:26 AM ----------

                      Aaaaaaaand now that I read the other responses...

                      I was almost 100% certain that Nikolai Tesla was actually born in Serbia. So I thought of him too but didn't add him because he was an immigrant and I was very literal in my definition of "American."
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                        Alrighty! Here goes!

                        1. Albert Einstein (He wasn't always American, but he spent a good deal of his life here.)
                        2. Henry Ford
                        3. Thomas Edison
                        4. Edgar Allan Poe
                        5. Martin Luther King Jr.
                        6. Robert Jastrow
                        7. Ayn Rand (Again, not primarily American, but she's had a pretty decent impact on the US)
                        8. Dick Clark
                        9. Steve Jobs
                        10. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Another not always American)

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                        1. Philip Johnson
                        2. James Hoban
                        3. Daniel Burnham
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                          John Dillinger
                          Whitey Bulger
                          Billy the Kid
                          Al Capone
                          Lucky Luciano
                          James Ford (Satan's Ferryman)
                          Jesse James
                          Carlo Gambino
                          Frank Costello
                          Paul "Big Paulie" Castellano

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                            One I did not see here,George Washington Carver,the peanut horticulturist who also created many other things. A freed slave BTW.

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                              Originally posted by anunitu View Post
                              One I did not see here,George Washington Carver,the peanut horticulturist who also created many other things. A freed slave BTW.

                              See here.
                              The hard part for me about this is determining who could be considered a 'statesmen' and who could not, lol. I can remember what people did, but I can't remember if they became politicians (except for the Founding Fathers & whatnot).
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