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| x President of the United States |
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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...
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| George Washington | Person | |||
| John F. Kennedy | Catholic | |||
| x Heart transplantation |
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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...
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| x Prime Minister of Canada |
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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...
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| 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...
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| x Continental Army Regiment | 1st Rhode Island Regiment | African American | ||
| x Millionaire |
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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....
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| 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...
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| x Superhero |
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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...
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| x Commercial Astronaut |
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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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| John Glenn | Person | |||
| x Governor |
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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...
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| 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...
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| x American Doctor | Elizabeth Blackwell | Female | ||
| x Miss USA |
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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...
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| x Penthouse Pet of the Month | Linn Thomas | Playmate | ||
| x Centerfold |
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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...
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| x Playmate data sheet filled out (not included) | Marianne Gaba | Playmate | ||
| x Suicide |
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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...
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| x Visible pubic hair | Liv Lindeland | Playmate | ||
| x Full frontal nudity | Marilyn Cole | Playmate | ||
| x Breast implant |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| Laika | Dog | |||
| Valentina Tereshkova | Woman | |||
| x Liquid rocket |
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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...
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| x Satellite |
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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...
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| x Escape velocity |
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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...
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| x Moon landing |
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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...
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| Apollo 11 | Person | |||
| x Far side of the Moon |
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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...
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| x Extra-vehicular activity |
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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...
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| Svetlana Savitskaya | Woman | |||
| x Chartered Bank | Maggie L. Walker | Female | ||
