Mrs. Spraggins Meadow Lane Elementary Second Grade

GEORGE WASHINGTON• Time of hero’s life – 1732 to 1799• Why remembered –First President

of the United States from 1789 to 1797 George Washington’s integrity set a pattern for all other Presidents to follow.

• Web site http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html

BEN FRANKLIN

• Inventor of the lightning rod, Franklin stove, odometer, and bifocals.

Web site http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/inventor.html

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

16th President of the United States

President during the Civil War

Assassinated in 1865Web sitehttp://home.att.net/~rjnorton/

Lincoln77.html

WILBUR WRIGHT AND ORVILLE WRIGHT

• In 1903 the Wright brothers built the first powered heavier-than-air flying machine.

• First flight lasted 12 seconds.

• Fourth and fifth flights lasted 59 seconds.

• Web site• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/

AMELIA EARHART

• Amelia was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean – May 29, 1932.

• She was the second person to complete the transatlantic flight solo.

• Web site http://www.ionet.net/~jellenc/eae_intr.html.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.• He led the boycott (1955–56)

by Montgomery blacks against the segregated city bus lines, and he attained national prominence by advocating a policy of passive resistance to segregation. In 1956, he gained a major victory and prestige as a civil rights leader when the Montgomery buses began to operate on a desegregated basis.

JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE• "World's Greatest Female

Athlete" and "Queen of Track and Field". Six Olympic medals; 3 gold, 1 silver 2 bronze, the world and Olympic record in the heptathlon, the American record in the long jump, 50 & 60 meter hurdles, and the respect and admiration of peers and fans alike.

• http://www.sportsstarsusa.com/olympians/joyner-kersee_jackie.html

BILL GATES• Bill Gates is chairman and

chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation. Many people consider him a genius without him today’s computer technology would be the same as 20 years ago.

• Web site• http://

www.microsoft.com/billgates/default.asp

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