Famous Figures
The Surprising College Studies of U.S. Presidents
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Famous FiguresFact1Frederick Douglass was once the most photographed American.
Frederick Douglass once said, “It is evident that the great cheapness and universality of pictures must exert a powerful, though silent, influence upon the ideas and sentiment of present and…
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Famous FiguresFact1Ronald Reagan had a space-based defense plan known as Star Wars.
Before there was Space Force, there was Star Wars. No, not the sci-fi franchise set in a galaxy far, far away, but the space-based defense plan proposed by Ronald Reagan…
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Famous FiguresFact7Albert Einstein hated wearing socks.
Albert Einstein’s outside-the-box thinking didn’t just lead to groundbreaking scientific thought — it also gave him his fair share of quirks. Among his most notorious eccentricities was his outright rejection…
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Famous FiguresFact10Mussolini tried to straighten the Leaning Tower of Pisa — and failed.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, originally the bell tower to a medieval cathedral complex, is one of Italy’s most recognizable landmarks. But fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who came to power…






