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•  Alexander Graham Bell

  Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work.

  

  32.3%
  

  33.1%
  

  34.6%
  
•  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian American bodybuilder, actor, model, businessman, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California.

  

  31.0%
  

  24.6%
  

  44.3%
  
•  Andrew Carnegie

  Andrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist. He was one of the most famous leaders of industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He emigrated to the United States as a child with his parents. His first job in the United States was as a messenger boy, and he progressed up the ranks of a telegraph company. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H.

  

  29.1%
  

  21.8%
  

  49.1%
  
•  Bill Gates

  William Henry "Bill" Gates III(born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2010, excluding 2007. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock.

  

  26.8%
  

  26.8%
  

  46.3%
  
•  Dan Bricklin

  Daniel Singer "Dan" Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the American co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc. , of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned by Web. com. Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, where he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy during his high school years. He received his B.S.

  

  21.4%
  

  29.7%
  

  49.0%
  
•  Dave Winer

  Dave Winer is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in Berkeley, California. A pioneer in the areas of outliners, content management, XML-RPC, RSS, OPML, and the MetaWeblog API, he is also noted for his contribution to podcasting. Winer is the author of Scripting News, one of the oldest weblogs, established in 1997. ".. Dave Winer... whose Scripting News (scripting. com) is one of the oldest blogs.

  

  30.2%
  

  23.5%
  

  46.3%
  
•  Dolly Parton

  Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music. In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she remains one of the most-successful female artists in the history of the country genre which garnered her the title of 'The Queen of Country Music', with twenty-five number-one singles, and a record forty-one top-10 country albums.

  

  30.1%
  

  23.5%
  

  46.4%
  
•  Dave Thomas (American businessman)

  David "Dave" Thomas (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 2002) was an American restaurant owner and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002–more than any other person in television history.

  

  33.3%
  

  34.1%
  

  32.6%
  
•  Don Tennant

  Donald G. Tennant (November 23, 1922 - December 8, 2001) was an American advertising agency executive. He worked at the Leo Burnett agency in Chicago, Illinois. The agency is noted for putting anthropomorphic faces of "critters" on packaged goods. He was the first to draw Tony the Tiger for Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes in 1952. Tennant was also in charge of the Marlboro account and invented the Marlboro Man.

  

  33.9%
  

  30.3%
  

  35.8%
  
•  Dean L. Kamen

  

  37.6%
  

  26.9%
  

  35.5%
  

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•  Svitava

  The Svitava is a river in the Pardubice and South Moravian regions of the Czech Republic. The Svitava rises near Svitavy, passes through Blansko, and flows into the Svratka in the Moravian city of Brno.

  

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•  Lake Mutirikwe

  Lake Mutirikwe, formerly known as Lake Kyle, lies in south eastern Zimbabwe, south east of Masvingo. It covers about 90 km² and was created in 1960 with the construction of the Kyle Dam on the Mutirikwe River. The dam was built to provide irrigation water to the farming estates on the lowveld to the southwest, around the town of Triangle, where the main crop has been sugar cane.

  

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•  Larry 5

  

  37.5%
  

  29.2%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Lockheed WP-3D

  

  29.2%
  

  25.0%
  

  45.8%
  
•  Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK (BMT Jamaica Line station)

  

  42.9%
  

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