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Guthrie contributed significantly to the welfare of ordinary people and their hardships by writing uplifting folk songs, each one full of hope in the face of travail. Many of his songs are now classics, and his vocal style influenced many younger folk singers.
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Horace Greeley founded the influential newspaper The New York Tribune. Politically motivated, Greeley did hold office briefly, but is principally remembered for his outspokenness.
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Pinkerton founded the fabled detective agency that bears his name. He is also widely credited with formulating many of the methods used in modern investigative processes.
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Gilson is said to have rescued mediaeval philosophy as a subject worth studying, before turning the discipline into a medium through which ideas themselves could be investigated.
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Hakluyt was Oxford University's first professor of modern geography, as well as being an influential promoter of overseas exploration. Although a member of the clergy, his first love was always exploration, and it was in this, rather than religious texts, that he concentrated his study.
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Russian-born American Immanuel Velikovsky was a physician, but made his mark on the world as a historical author, publishing many books that challenged the hitherto dominant theories of the day. Whilst much of what he said has been debunked, som eo fhis pronouncements were subsequently experimentally verified, and he deserves his place in history for at least trying to make people think about the world order.
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Sir Humphry Davy, the English chemist, discovered many important compounds and elements, and turned his hand to invention also.
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Best known for his flamboyant film fantasies, Federico Fellini picked up four oscars in a long career as a director. Critics praised his films for their blend of realism and satire, and his style is sufficiently unique that similar films are known as "Felliniesque".
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Born "Alice Josephine Pons", Lily brought something new to the stale New York opera scene, and was almost single-handedly responsible for saving the Met from bankruptcy during the Depression. She was also a popular singer and appeared in several movies in the late 1930s.
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That Bunsen is not the inventor of the Bunsen Burner does not make him any the less interesting. A glittering career in chemistry saw him make or contribute to many breakthroughs whilst also improving the scientists' lot as a whole.
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