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x President of the United States George Washington, first President of the United States Barack Obama African American
The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition. The President leads the executive branch of the federal...
George Washington Person
John F. Kennedy Catholic
x Heart transplantation Heart transplant Louis Washkansky Person
Heart transplantation, or cardiac transplantation, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. The most common procedure is to take a working heart from a recently deceased...
x Prime Minister of Canada PMO-logo Kim Campbell Female
The Prime Minister of Canada (French: Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary Minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government of Canada. The office is not outlined in any of the documents that constitute the written...
x Face transplant   Isabelle Dinoire Person
A face transplant is a still-experimental procedure to replace all or part of a person's face. People with faces disfigured by trauma, burns, disease, or birth defects might benefit from the procedure. The alternative to a face transplant is to move...
x Continental Army Regiment   1st Rhode Island Regiment African American  
x Millionaire A mansion on Diamond Head Road in Honolulu near Diamond Head State Park Madame C. J. Walker Female
A millionaire (originally and sometimes still millionnaire) is an individual whose net worth or wealth exceeds one million units of currency. It can also be a person who owns one million units of currency in a bank account or savings account....
George Washington United States
x Businessperson   Madame C. J. Walker United States
A businessperson (also businessman or businesswoman) is someone who is employed at usually a profit-oriented enterprise, or more specifically, someone who is involved in the management (at any level) of a company. The term businessperson almost...
Female
x Superhero Batman and Superman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. Art by Alex Ross and Jim Lee Luke Cage African American
A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is "a fictional character of unprecedented powers dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of...
x Commercial Astronaut Mike Melvill Mike Melvill Person
A commercial astronaut is a person trained to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a privately-funded spacecraft. Until 2003, professional space travelers were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by...
x Drug-free trachea transplant   Claudia Castillo Sanchez Person  
x Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female   Lili Elbe Person
Sex reassignment surgery from male to female involves reshaping the male genitals into a form with the appearance of and, as far as possible, the function of female genitalia. Prior to any surgeries, transwomen usually undergo hormone replacement...
x Earth orbit   Laika Mammal
Earth orbit is an orbit around the planet Earth. The Moon, Earth's only natural satellite, is in Earth orbit. Artificial satellite are launched into Earth orbit, and spacecraft bound for other locations in the solar system usually begin their...
John Glenn Person
x Governor Heligolandgov Nellie Tayloe Ross Female
A governor is a governing official, usually the executive (at least nominally, to different degrees also politically and administratively) of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the...
United States
x Member of the Canadian House of Commons   Bev Oda Japanese Canadians  
x First Interracial Comedy Duo   Tim and Tom Desegregation  
x High-level programming language   Plankalkül Programming language
In computing, a high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer. In comparison to low-level programming languages, it may use natural language elements, be easier to use, or be more...
x American Doctor   Elizabeth Blackwell Female  
x Miss USA Miss USA 2006 Tara Conner who competed as Miss Kentucky USA wearing a baldric Shanna Moakler Playmate
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA. The Miss USA pageant was conceived in...
x Penthouse Pet of the Month   Linn Thomas Playmate  
x Centerfold Playboy MarilynMonroe photo Janet Pilgrim Playmate
The centerfold of a magazine refers to a gatefolded spread, usually a portrait such as a pin-up or a nude, inserted in the middle of the publication, or to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opposed to those that...
x Playmate data sheet filled out (not included)   Marianne Gaba Playmate  
x Suicide Edouard Manet: Suicide, 1877 Sue Williams Playmate
Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest" (e.g., "political suicide"). Suicide may...
x Visible pubic hair   Liv Lindeland Playmate  
x Full frontal nudity   Marilyn Cole Playmate  
x Breast implant Extracapsular rupture - Single lumen silicone implants ruptured a few years before their removal in 2004 Sue Williams Playmate
A breast implant is a prosthesis used to alter the size and shape of a woman's breasts (known as breast augmentation, breast enlargement, mammoplasty enlargement, augmentation mammoplasty or the common slang term boob job) for cosmetic reasons; to...
x LGBT spokesmodel   Stephanie Adams Playmate  
x Signed centerfold   Jill De Vries Playmate  
x Playmate data sheet included   Sondra Theodore Playmate  
x No pubic hair   Dalene Kurtis Playmate  
x Younger than Playboy magazine   Monica Tidwell Playmate  
x President of the Harvard Law Review   Barack Obama African American  
x Astronaut Astronaut-EVA Yuri Gagarin Person
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. While generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels...
Laika Dog
Valentina Tereshkova Woman
x Liquid rocket Schematic of a pumped bipropellant rocket Robert H. Goddard created
A liquid-fuel rocket or a liquid rocket is a rocket with an engine that uses propellants in liquid form. Liquids are desirable because their reasonably high density allows the volume and hence the mass of the tanks to be relatively low, resulting in...
x Satellite ERS 2 Sputnik 1 Object
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon. The first artificial...
x Escape velocity Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-71 Lunar Orbiter 1 Satellite
In physics, escape velocity is the speed where the kinetic energy of an object is equal to the magnitude of its gravitational potential energy, as calculated by the equation, It is commonly described as the speed needed to "break free" from a...
x Moon landing The historical plaque on the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle, still remaining on the moon Lunar Orbiter 2 Object
A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of a planet's natural satellite, and in this case, refers specifically to landings on the lunar surface of Earth's Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. Since...
Apollo 11 Person
x Far side of the Moon Far side of the Moon. Lunar Orbiter 3 Photograph
The far side of the Moon is the lunar hemisphere that is permanently turned away from the Earth. The far hemisphere was first photographed by the Soviet Luna 3 probe in 1959, and was first directly observed by human eyes when the Apollo 8 mission...
x Extra-vehicular activity International Space Station assembly EVA made during the STS-116 spaceflight Aleksei Leonov Person
Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is work done by an astronaut away from the Earth, and outside of a spacecraft. The term most commonly applies to an EVA made outside a craft orbiting Earth (a spacewalk), but also applies to an EVA made on the surface...
Svetlana Savitskaya Woman
x Chartered Bank   Maggie L. Walker Female