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• August Wilson: (1945 - 2005) american playwright, referred to as the "theater's poet of black america"
• bunda alamanda: allamanda cathartica, or golden trumpet (common trumpetvine, yellow allamanda)
• D.W. Griffith: (1875 - 1948) american film director, most notably birth of a nation (1915)
• Eddie Eagan: (1897 - 1967) american boxer and bobsledder who is the only person to win a gold medal at both summer and winter olympics
• Enrico Caruso: (1873 - 1921) italian operatic tenor
• Frederic Remington: (1861 - 1909) american painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in western american art
• Paul Laurence Dunbar: (1872 - 1906) american poet, novelist, and short story writer
• Pete Seeger: (1919 - 2014) american folk singer and social activist
• Skylab: america's first space station and the first crewed research laboratory in space
• Sybil Ludington: (1761 - 1839) alleged american revolutionary war heroine, who, at age 16, is said to have made an all-night horseback ride 40 miles to rally militia forces in neighboring towns; obverse of stamp reads: youthful heroine: on the dark night of april 25, 1777, 16-year-old sybil ludington rode her horse "star" alone through the connecticut countryside rallying her father's militia to report a raid by the british on danbury.
• those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. quote by abraham lincoln
• toleware: (in american collectibles and antiques) kitchen-related objects created from metal, typically tin or thin steel, and are often in decorative styles such as arts and crafts and pennsylvania dutch
• Tomáš Masaryk: (1850 - 1937) czechoslovak statesman, political activist, and philosopher who served as the first president of czechoslovakia and is regarded as the founding father of czechoslovakia
• vanda helvola: orchid
• W.C. Handy: (1873 - 1958) american composer and musician who referred to himself as the "father of the blues"
• wiesenschaumkraut: cuckoo flower, cardamine praetensis
• Willa Cather: (1873 - 1947) american writer known for her novels of life on the great plains
• William Saroyan: (1908 - 1981) armenian-american novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
• Yogi Berra: (1925 - 2015) american professional baseball catcher

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