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is the famous
ponsible for
Old Guitar-
he Weeping
irl Before a
a revolution-
found the
nt and is
of the most
s of the 20th
o worked
pture, ceram-
aking.
Major General in the Royal
Lao Army, General Vang
Pao was the undoubted
leader to the Hmong peo-
ple, like his father, General
Vang Pao, who led a secret
group of
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ghters. This
secret army fought against
communist Vietnam under
Vang Pao, then immigrated
to the United States after
communists took control of
Laos in 1975.
In addition to Rigoberta
Menchu’s extensive activ-
ism, she founded two sepa-
rate Guatemalan political
parties and ran for presi-
dent in 2007 and 2011. She
has earned several prizes
for her activism including a
Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.
Albert Einstein has been
made famous for his many
contributions to science.
He discovered the famous
formula E=mc
2
. His theo-
ries and intellectual prowess
paved the way for modern
day physics.
Martin Luther King Jr. is
best known for his famous
“I Have a Dream” speech
delivered to nearly 250,000
people in 1963. In his life-
time he was a civil rights
activist, using nonviolent civil
disobedience to make his
argument.
Louis Armstrong was a jazz
trumpeter and composer
through many decades of jazz
culture. Popular songs include,
“It’s a Wonderful World” and “La
Vie en Rose”. Louis Armstrong
is known today as one of the
most in
À
uential people in the
history of jazz.
William Shakespeare is a fa-
mous 16th Century playwright
who is responsible for countless
widely beloved works like “Ro-
meo and Juliet,” “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream,” “Hamlet,” “The
Tempest” and “Julius Caesar.”
He was a member of the acting
company, the Lord Chamber-
lain’s Men, which he wrote most
of his plays for.
Mother Teresa dedicated much
of her life to charitable work
done through the Catholic
Church. In 1950, she started
the Missionaries of Charity,
a group that provided health,
education and basic services
to anyone who could not afford
them otherwise. Mother Teresa
won the Nobel Peace Prize in
1979 and was recognized as a
Saint in September of this year.
Chief Joseph, or
Hinmatóowyalahtq
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it, was the
leader of the Native American
Nez Perce tribe. He was re-
sponsible for leading his people
to safety amongst violent out-
breaks and tension between
themselves and the American
government after they were
forced out of their homeland in
1877.
Rose Shefka
“Rosalind Franklin
because it takes
a lot of courage to
work in the science
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eld especially as
a woman in the
1960s.”
Richard Lukas
“Abraham Lincoln,
because he led
America to start
making African
Americans equal.”
After nine years of construction,
the Statue of Liberty was ready
to be mounted in 1886. Given to
the U.S. by France, Lady Liberty
has been the symbol of the US
and its freedom. It has drawn
people from all over the world
for generations. The torch rep-
resents the cornerstone of our
democracy, freedom and the en-
lightenment toward its path.
EOPLE
ton North mural, located in the
ant contributions to the world.
ires you the most?
ry Ptacek, Ahmad Abdel-Azim, Olivia Molter, Adithi Reddy, Andrea Cal-
Carter King
“Barack Obama,
because he has
proved that we
can.”
Ndemazea
Fonkem
“Alexander Ham-
ilton, because he
never stopped
doing what he
loved for what he
believed in.”