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Elon Musk to donate $100 million towards 'best carbon capture tech'

Elon Musk announced a new contest with a hefty prize to boost carbon capture tech innovation and tackle climate change.

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Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, Illinois, was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy Washington, a lawyer, Methodist minister and one of the first black precinct captains in Chicago.

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After a bitter power struggle with opposition leader Andry Rajoelina, the former mayor of the capital, Antananariv, Ravalomanana resigned as president in March 2009. He handed power over to the military, which in turn transferred control to Rajoelina, who then suspended Parliament. The turmoil

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Benjamin Montgomery

Benjamin Montgomery was born into slavery in 1819 in Loudon County, Virginia. He was sold to Joseph E. Davis, a Mississippi planter. Davis was the older brother of Jefferson Davis who would later serve as the President of the Confederate States of America. After a period time, Davis could see great

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J.H. Jackson, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago, elected president of the National Baptist Convention at Miami meeting.

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11

1953

Steve Bass is a native of Seattle. He graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1969 and from the University of Washington in 1973. He is a partner with the national accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP. His clients include many types of nonprofit organizations, including social welfare

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Sean Bell shooting incident

Sean Bells murder took place in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States, on November 25, 2006. Three men were shot a total of 50 times by a team of both plainclothes and undercover NYPD officers. Sean Bell was killed on the morning before his wedding, and two of his

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Deion Sanders , in full Deion Luwynn Sanders, bynames Prime Time and Neon Deion (born August 9, 1967, Fort Myers, Florida, U.S.), American gridiron football player and baseball player who is the only person to have played in both a Super Bowl and a World Series. Known for his flashy personality

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1967

Brown, Corrine (1946- )

Corrine Brown, now in her eighth term in office, is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She represents Florida’s Third Congressional District which includes Jacksonville and the surrounding area. Brown was born on November 11, 1946 in Jacksonville, Florida and grew up

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1946

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Sims, Ronald Cordell (1948- )

On May 8, 2009, Ronald Cordell Sims became the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sims now second-in-command of the federal agency will oversee day-to-day operations of the Department which has an annual budget of $39 billion and some 8,500 employees. A long

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Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. (1935-1967)

Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., was the first African American selected to be an astronaut. He was also a test pilot and senior United States Air Force pilot with over 2,500 flight

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George Clinton is a popular African-American musician. He is known for his signing, songwriting, music composing skills. In fact, he is the principal creator of P-Funk. Before launching into his solo career during eighties, Clinton was a mastermind behind the bands, Funkadelic and

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Andrew Young born

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12

1932

Goode, Wilson (1938- )

Best known as the first African American Mayor of Philadelphia, Woodrow Wilson Goode was born in 1938 into a family of tenant farmers near the town of Seaboard, North Carolina. Goode moved to Philadelphia with his family in

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Meek, Kendrick (1966- )

Kendrick Meek, former highway patrolman, Florida state representative, and state senator, has served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Florida’s 17th District since 2003. Meek was born on September 6, 1966 in Miami, Florida, and is the son of former

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1966

Muhammed Said Abdulla

Muhammed Said Abdulla , (born April 25, 1918, Makunduchi, Zanzibar [now in Tanzania]—died 1991), Tanzanian novelist generally regarded as the father of Swahili popular

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Earl “Butch” Graves Jr.

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Charles Bolden , in full Charles Frank Bolden, Jr. (born August 19, 1946, Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.), American astronaut who served as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from

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Unita Blackwell

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