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Antoine Marc Gaudin was born in Smyrna, Turkey back in 1900. His father was a railroad general manager so the family moved quite frequently. By the time he finished school he was fluent in English, Greek, and French. He attended universities in Paris and Aix-en-Province receiving his bachelor’...
02/29/2020
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Virginie Amélie Avegno was born in New Orleans, Louisiana back in 1859 to Anatole and Marie. Her father served as a major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War where he died in 1862, during the Battle of Shiloh. In 1867, her mother moved the family to France where she was e...
02/28/2020
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Charles Bare Gatewood was born in Woodstock, Virginia back in 1853. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point graduating in 1877, as a Second Lieutenant. He received orders to report to the 6th Cavalry in the Southwest at Fort Wingate, New Mexico. He led Apache’s and Navajo Sco...
02/27/2020
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William Gascoigne was born in Middleton, Leeds back in 1612 to Henry and Margaret Jane. Nothing is known about his early childhood, however he claimed to be educated at the University of Oxford, although no record of him attending has been found.In 1642, civil war broke out in England, William w...
02/26/2020
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Reynaldo Guerra Garza was born in Brownsville, Texas back in 1915. He received his Associate of Arts degree from Brownsville Junior College in 1935 and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas, Austin in 1937. He continued his education earning a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Universi...
02/25/2020
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José Antonio de la Garza was born near San Antonio, Texas back in 1776 to Leonardo and Magdalena. In 1813, he was elected mayor of San Antonio. In 1818, he was granted permission to create the first coin that existed in Texas. In 1824, he was able to purchase a large extension of land between San...
02/24/2020
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Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. was born in Claysville, Kentucky back in 1877 to Sydney and Elizabeth. He attended the Branch Elementary School but left at the age of 14 and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. He worked as a handyman, until 1895 when he moved to Cleveland, Ohio. He started out repairing sewi...
02/23/2020
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James Bert Garner was born back in 1870. He graduated from Wabash College in 1893 with a Bachelor of Science degree, in 1895 he graduated with a Master of Science. After graduation, he taught at the University of Chicago. In 1897, he received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry.He then served as the ...
02/22/2020
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Mark I. Gardner was born in Boston, Massachusetts back in 1955. He attended the University of Lowell, Lowell, MA graduating Cum-Laude with a BS in Physics. He continued his education obtaining his master’s degree in Physics from the University of Maryland in 1980.Mark has worked for a couple of p...
02/21/2020
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John Edmund was born in Seaton Delaval, Northcumberland, England back in 1926 to Cyril and Lena. In 1933, the family moved to Berkshire, England where he was educated at King Alfred’s School. At the outbreak of WWII, while only 13 he joined the Home Guard, later serving in the Royal Navy Fleet ...
02/20/2020
