GEORGE WASHINGTON
• Time of hero’s life – 1732 to 1799• Why remembered –First President
of the United States from 1789 to 1797 George Washington’s integrity set a pattern for all other Presidents to follow.
• Web site http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html
BEN FRANKLIN
• Inventor of the lightning rod, Franklin stove, odometer, and bifocals.
Web site http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/inventor.html
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
16th President of the United States
President during the Civil War
Assassinated in 1865Web sitehttp://home.att.net/
~rjnorton/Lincoln77.html
WILBUR WRIGHT AND ORVILLE WRIGHT
• In 1903 the Wright brothers built the first powered heavier-than-air flying machine.
• First flight lasted 12 seconds.
• Fourth and fifth flights lasted 59 seconds.
• Web site
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
AMELIA EARHART
• Amelia was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean – May 29, 1932.
• She was the second person to complete the transatlantic flight solo.
• Web site http://www.ionet.net/~jellenc/eae_intr.html.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.• He led the boycott (1955–56)
by Montgomery blacks against the segregated city bus lines, and he attained national prominence by advocating a policy of passive resistance to segregation. In 1956, he gained a major victory and prestige as a civil rights leader when the Montgomery buses began to operate on a desegregated basis.
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE• "World's Greatest Female
Athlete" and "Queen of Track and Field". Six Olympic medals; 3 gold, 1 silver 2 bronze, the world and Olympic record in the heptathlon, the American record in the long jump, 50 & 60 meter hurdles, and the respect and admiration of peers and fans alike.
• http://www.sportsstarsusa.com/olympians/joyner-kersee_jackie.html
BILL GATES• Bill Gates is chairman and
chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation. Many people consider him a genius without him today’s computer technology would be the same as 20 years ago.
• Web site
• http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/default.asp
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