Search results for "Walter Camp Distinguished American Award" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle ... After the war he was active in the reorganization of the American ...
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  • 13, 1920 – February 6, 2021) was an American economist, diplomat, and ... (ed.) The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: ...
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  • Carter's accomplishments included the Camp David Accords, the Panama ... the Moscow Olympics and began to rebuild American military power. He beat ...
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  • 2, 1924 - February 20, 2010) was an American statesman and military leader ... When Haig was 9, his father, aged 41, died of cancer. His Irish American ...
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  • 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator ... became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and ...
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  • 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian who was best known ... Skelton received 13 Emmy Award nominations, winning in 1951, 1956 ...
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  • April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American journalist and television ... Their incisive reporting heightened the American appetite for radio news ...
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  • 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut ... Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth and the ...
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  • five-star general), a rarely held rank in American history. ... and larger-than-life figure in American history. Throughout his ...
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  • awarded. He also won the first Grand Master Award given by the Science Fiction ... recruiting Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp to work at the Philadelphia ...
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  • the new United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces. He ... took the lead in relieving beleaguered American troops at Bastogne during ...
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  • 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and naval officer ... Sandy.Robert Timberg John McCain, An American Odyssey (Simon and Schuster ...
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  • missions, for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air ... in 1984 against the Democrats' Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro ...
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