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Che Guevara
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leade... |
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Andy Warhol
The 1960s was an extremely prolific decade for Warhol. Appropriating images from popular culture, Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art,... |
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Peter Higgs, Higgs Boson Particle
Peter Ware Higgs is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of th... |
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Martin Luther King
Any number of historic moments in the civil rights struggle have been used to identify Martin Luther King, Jr. — prime mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, ke... |
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Jacques Brel
Jacques Brel was a Belgian French-speaking author-composer, considered by many a poet as well, for the strong power of expression in his lyrics. Remembered in the angloph... |
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Neil Armstrong, 1st Man on the Moon
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first piloted lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first person to step on the surface of the M... |
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Bob Moog, Inventor of the Synthesizer
What would the world of modern music be like without the inventions of Bob Moog? One answer would be: very boring. 1964 : Bob Moog’s namesake analog synthesizers have aff... |
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The 14th Dalai Lama
His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. He was born in a small village called Takster in northeast... |
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon has been exhumed in print more than any other popular musical figure, including the late Elvis Presley, of whom Lennon said that he "died when he... |
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to... |
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Otis Redding, Soul Singer
Otis Ray Redding was an influential American deep soul singer, probably best known for his posthumous hit single, "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay." According to the web... |
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali has undoubtedly been a fixture in world culture since the 1960's. Seizing the gold medal at the Olympics in 1960, battling George Foreman in "The Rumble in... |
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE is a British singer, musician and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of The Beatles. Recognised as a top musical icon of t... |
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger dropped out of the London School of Economics to be a rock star. The Rolling Stones began recording in 1963, and by 1965 they had an internation... |
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Johan Cruijff, Football Player
Only few people can be conceited to see how their dreams and illusions become true. Be the destiny or not, the truth is that Johan Cruyff's life has been bound to footbal... |
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