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   Today's focus is on Black History Month.  Per wikitree.com I am:   
      
   18 degrees from Booker T. Washington   
   17 degrees from Muhammad Ali   
   22 degrees from Maya Angelou   
   23 degrees from Ernie Banks   
   25 degrees from Aretha Franklin   
   22 degrees from Henry Louis Gates   
   22 degrees from Althea Gibson   
   21 degrees from Arthur Gregg   
   18 degrees from Langston Hughes   
   22 degrees from Rosa Parks   
   19 degrees from Sidney Poitier   
   21 degrees from Sojourner Truth   
      
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   More about them:   
      
   Booker T. Washington, educator, author, orator, and founder of Tuskegee   
   Institute.   
      
   Muhammed Ali, considered the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.   
      
   Maya Angelou, acclaimed poet, memoirist, and activist.   
      
   Ernie Banks, considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time.   
      
   Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul."   
      
   Henry Louis Gates, historian, professor, literary critic, and host of "Finding   
   Your Roots."   
      
   Althea Gibson, broke the color barrier in tennis and golf.   
      
   Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg, first Black Army officer to attain the rank of Lt.   
   General.   
      
   Langston Hughes, poet and author who helped lead the Harlem Renaissance.   
      
   Rosa Parks, civil rights activist known for her bus seat protest.   
      
   Sidney Poitier, actor, film director, and first African American to win an   
   Academy Award.   
      
   Sojourner Truth, former slave who was an abolitionist and civil rights   
   activist.   
      
   More about them:   
      
   Ansel Adams, naturalist and photographer who used his art to encourage   
   conservation.   
      
   Genie Clark, "The Shark Lady" known for her use of scuba diving in research.   
      
   Jacques Cousteau, marine explorer, researcher, and conservationist who helped   
   develop    
   the aqua lung and shared his adventures in film.   
      
   Gerald Durrell, conservationist, author, and founder of Jersey zoo. His   
   writings about his    
   family inspired the television series "The Durrells in Corfu."   
      
   David Fleay, naturalist who pioneered breeding endangered species in   
   captivity, including    
   the emu and the platypus.   
      
   Dian Fossey, zoologist famous for her 18-year intensive study of gorillas.   
      
   George Bird Grinnell, founder of the National Audubon Society.   
      
   Steve Irwin, conservationist and animal enthusiast who has inspired many to   
   care for    
   animals and their habitat. His wife, Terri, and their children, continue his   
   work at their    
   Australia Zoo.   
      
   John Thomas Miner, "Wild Goose Jack" founded one of North America's first bird    
   sanctuaries and was one of the first to use banding to track migratory birds.   
      
   John Muir, father of the US Parks System.   
      
   Margaret Murie, naturalist who encouraged the passage of the Wilderness Act   
   and in    
   creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.   
      
   Gifford Pinchot, former Pennsylvania governor and a leading voice in   
   environmental    
   conservation at the beginning of the 20th century.   
      
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   I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American,    
   authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust   
   survivors   
   Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters,   
   physicians,    
   politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes.  I guess that I am a   
   collection of    
   all of them, as we ALL are.   
      
   https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly    
   newsletters.  It is totally free and very useful to genealogists.   
      
   If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by    
   giving me some basic information by going to:   
      
   https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm   
   and click on the 'Request Form' link.   
      
   I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family   
   history,    
   and I would love to see how WE are related.   
      
   Mike Dippel   
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