Terry Fox

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8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

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A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

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Also Known As	Terrance Stanley Fox
Born	July 28, 1958 • Winnipeg • Canada
Died	June 28, 1981 (aged 22)
Founder	Marathon of Hope

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Tom Steyer

American business executive and philanthropist

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

American philanthropist

Viola Desmond

Canadian businesswoman and civil libertarian

Anna Mae Aquash

Mi’kmaq Indian activist

Paul Watson

Canadian environmental activist

David Suzuki

Canadian scientist, television personality, author, and activist

Naomi Klein

Canadian author and activist

Henry Enns

Canadian activist

James McGill

Canadian politician

William James Mayo

American physician

Charles Horace Mayo

American physician

William Worrall Mayo

American physician

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

American clergyman

Amelia zur Helle Thyssen

German industrialist and philanthropist

Eleanor Belmont

American actress and philanthropist

Mildred Loving

American civil rights activist

Theodore Bikel

Austrian-born actor. singer, and political activist

Jack Patten

Australian Aboriginal leader

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian leader

Martin Luther King, Jr.

American religious leader and civil-rights activist

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