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She Gave the Statue of Liberty Its Voice. On Dedication Day, No One Read a Word of It.
Her poem waited twenty years for a wall. A friend browsing in a bookshop put it there.
 • Eric Gold
The First Person to Survive Niagara Falls in a Barrel Was a 63-Year-Old Schoolteacher.
She did it to get rich. She spent the next twenty years selling postcards beside the falls.
 • Eric Gold
She Invented the Game That Became Monopoly. A Salesman Got the Credit. She Got $500.
She built it to show how landlords drain everyone else. The world kept the part where you bankrupt your friends.
 • Eric Gold
He Built the Rocket That Launched the Space Age. His Own Country Kept His Name a Secret.
His country didn't clear him of crimes he never committed until 1957, the same year his rocket put Sputnik into orbit.
 • Eric Gold
He Commanded the Largest Fleet in History — 80 Years Before Columbus. Then a New Emperor Buried the Evidence.
He built something no one else could. His own government decided it never happened.
 • Eric Gold

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