Celebrity Wikipedia

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Elizabeth Taylor?

[Zen]

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Worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 slaves.

After the war, she retired to the family home

She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly

After she died in 1913, she became an icon of American courage and freedom.

was buried with semi-military honors

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Florence Nightengale?

[Phoebe]

Sojourner Truth. Well, darn, I know I'm wrong because dates are off.

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was born Araminta "Minty" Ross

sent to a dry-goods store for supplies. There, she encountered a slave owned by another family, who had left the fields without permission. His overseer, furious, demanded that she help restrain him. She refused, and as he ran away, the overseer threw a two-pound weight at him. He struck her instead, which she said "broke my skull." She later explained her belief that her hair – which "had never been combed and ... stood out like a bushel basket" – might have saved her life. Bleeding and unconscious, she was returned to her owner's house and laid on the seat of a loom, where she remained without medical care for two days. She was sent back into the fields, "with blood and sweat rolling down my face until I couldn't see."[25] Her boss said she was "not worth a sixpence" and returned her to Brodess, who tried unsuccessfully to sell her.[26] She began having seizures and would seemingly fall unconscious, although she claimed to be aware of her surroundings while appearing to be asleep. These episodes were alarming to her family, who were unable to wake her when she fell asleep suddenly and without warning. This condition remained with her for the rest of her life; Larson suggests she may have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy as a result of the injury.

"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven."

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Harriet Tubman?

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[Tahlvin]

[…] was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.

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Frederick Douglass

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Yes!

[Phoebe]

His early studies of philosophy led him to develop and apply Karl Popper's General Theory of Reflexivity to capital markets, which he claims renders him a clear picture of asset bubbles and fundamental/market value of securities, as well as value discrepancies used for shorting and swapping stocks.

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Karl Popper

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------ was 13 years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary. Jewish children were barred from attending school by the Nazis, and ------ and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat ("Jewish Council") which had been established during the occupation.

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Alan Greenspan?

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As of February 2018, ------ had a net worth of $8 billion, after donating $18 billion to his philanthropic agency, Open Society Foundations.

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Warren Buffet?

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He attended the London School of Economics graduating with a bachelor's and eventually a master's degree in philosophy. He began his business career by taking various jobs at merchant banks in England and then the United States, before starting his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1969. Profits from his first fund furnished the seed money to start ------ Fund Management, his second hedge fund, in 1970. Double Eagle was renamed to Quantum Fund and was the principal firm ------advised. At its founding, Quantum Fund had $12 million in assets under management, and as of 2011 it had $25 billion, the majority of his overall net worth. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of Pound sterling, making him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.

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During this period, ------developed the theory of reflexivity based on the ideas of his tutor at the London School of Economics, Karl Popper. Reflexivity posited that market values are often driven by the fallible ideas of participants, not only by the economic fundamentals of the situation. Reflexive feedback loops are created where ideas influence events and events influence ideas. ------ further argued that this leads to markets having procyclical "virtuous or vicious" cycles of boom and bust, in contrast to the equilibrium predictions of more standard neoclassical economics."

Also, everyone here likely knows this person's name, so it's nothing weirdly obscure.

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Sir Richard Branson