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Computer pioneer who helped calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. Dorothy Vaughan. Wilberforce. The first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at NASA. Mary Jackson. Hampton University. NASA 's first black female engineer. Lilian Lewis. Alpha.
Helen Thomas. Helen Amelia Thomas (August 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013) [1] was an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents —from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration .
Ansel Adams. Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a ...
Injustice League. Justice League Antarctica. Suicide Squad. Abilities. Super strength, powered armor, card-counting. Big Sir is a fictional DC Comics character. He first appeared in The Flash #338 (October 1984). Big Sir appears in the fourth season of The Flash, portrayed by Bill Goldberg .
White Rabbit. The White Rabbit is a fictional and anthropomorphic character in Lewis Carroll 's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He appears at the very beginning of the book, in chapter one, wearing a waistcoat, and muttering "Oh dear! Oh dear!
Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed " Shoeless Joe ", was an American outfielder who played Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early 1900s. Although his .356 career batting average is the fourth highest in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), [1] he is often remembered for his association with the ...
Heckle and Jeckle are postwar animated cartoon characters created by Paul Terry, originally produced at his own Terrytoons animation studio and released through 20th Century Fox. The characters are a pair of identical anthropomorphic yellow-billed magpies who usually cause problems to others and for themselves with their bizarre antics.
Marilyn Monroe wore a shocking pink dress in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, directed by Howard Hawks. The dress was created by costume designer William "Billy" Travilla and was used in one of the most famous scenes of the film, which subsequently became the subject of numerous imitations, significantly from Madonna in the music video for her 1985 song "Material Girl".