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Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American lead guitarist.

Allman is noted for his slide guitar skills. In 2003 Rolling Stone magazine named Duane Allman as number two on their list of the greatest guitarists of all time, trailing only Jimi Hendrix.He was a noted session musician, was a founding member and the leader of The Allman Brothers Band, and also had a major role on the album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, by Derek and the Dominos, a 1970-71 band led by Eric Clapton. His nickname, "Skydog," was given to him by soul singer Wilson Pickett to replace his earlier nickname, "Dog." Pickett was acknowledging that Duane was always up, always cheerful.

Hear Duane Allman perform "Goin' Down Slow," free from youtube.com.

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William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Born into poverty in Iowa, Sunday spent some years in an orphanage before working at odd jobs and playing for local running and baseball teams. His speed and agility provided him the opportunity to play baseball in the major leagues for eight years, where he was an average hitter and a good fielder known for his base-running.

Take an online tour of Billy Sunday's home.

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Louis-Jacques-Mandι Daguerre (November 18, 1787 – July 10, 1851) was a French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.

Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise, France. He apprenticed in architecture, theater design, and panoramic painting. Exceedingly adept at his skill for theatrical illusion, he became a celebrated designer for the theater and later came to invent the Diorama, which opened in Paris in July 1822.

Read Daguerre (1787–1851) and the Invention of Photography, free from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (February 22, 1882 – November 17, 1940) was a British sculptor, typographer and printmaker , mostly in engraving.

Gill was born in 1882 in Brighton, Sussex (now East Sussex). In 1902 he attended classes, studying lettering under the calligrapher Edward Johnston at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.

See examples of Eric Gill's artwork, free from the Tate Gallery.

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William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer and musician, often known as "the Father of the Blues."

Hear W.C.Handy's Memphis Blues Band perform "St. Louis Blues," streaming in RealAudio, free from redhotjazz.com

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African American author and political activist best known for novels and short stories exploring racism and other social themes.

Life
Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Andrew Jackson and Ann Maria (Sampson) Chesnutt, both "free persons of color" from Fayetteville, North Carolina. His paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder. Issues of miscegenation, "passing", and racial identity would influence his writing throughout his career.

Click here to read The Marrow of Tradition, by Charles Chesnutt, one of seven of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.

Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964) was a senior political leader of India's struggle for independence and served as its first Prime Minister. Popularly referred to as Panditji (Scholar), Nehru was also a writer, scholar and amateur historian, and the patriarch of India's most influential political family.

Read Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru, free from the Internet Archive.

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Clementine Paddleford, (September 27, 1898 – November 13, 1967) was an American food writer active from the 1920s through the 1960s, writing for several publications, including the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Sun, The New York Telegram, Farm and Fireside, and This Week magazine. A Kansas native, she lived most of her life in New York City, where she introduced her readers to the global range of food to be found in that city. She was also a pilot, and flew a Piper Cub around the country to report on America's many regional cuisines.

For much more about Clementine Paddleford, go to the Kansas State University library's site.

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Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American athlete and three time Olympic champion.
Rudolph was born in Clarksville, Tennessee and at early age it was discovered that she, the 20th of 22 children, had polio. Her mother took her to a hospital for blacks 50 miles from their home twice a week, and at age 12, she could walk normally again — and she decided to become an athlete. She lost many of her early races. Slowly she went from last, to second from last, to first in all her races.

See Wilma Rudolph win her 100 meters race versus Russian opponents, plus other stories of the day, in a Universal International newsreel from 1962, free from the Internet Archive.

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Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights. She is credited as the first American "feminist" in the early 1800s but was, more accurately, the initiator of women's political advocacy.

Read A Sermon to the Medical Students, an 1849 moral reform sermon in Philadelphia by Lucretia Mott, with antislavery content. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 – May 9, 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last several years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, with whom he discussed much on issues concerning aesthetics, encouraging Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches; this thereby gave way a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Die Xenien (The Xenies), a collection of short but harshly satiric poems in which both Schiller and Goethe verbally attacked those persons they perceived to be enemies of their aesthetic agenda.

Read Love and Intrigue by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, one of 45 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.

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Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play Les Mamelles de Tirιsias (1917). Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died at 38 of the Spanish flu during a pandemic.

Read Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire, in French, free from Project Gutenberg.

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Morley Safer (born November 8, 1931 in Toronto, Canada) is a reporter and correspondent for CBS News.

Safer began his journalism career as a reporter for various newspapers in Canada and England. Later, he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a correspondent and producer.

Watch Morley Safer discuss safety in the shower, free from YouTube.com

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member of the Tolstoy family.

Read Letter to a Hindu, which spurred a friendship between Tolstoy and Gandhi, one of 20 of his works available in several languages, including Tagalog, free from Project Gutenberg.

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Suleiman I (6 November 1494 – 5/6/7 September 1566) was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as the Lawmaker, for his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system. Suleiman became a prominent monarch of 16th century Europe, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's military, political and economic power. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies to conquer the Christian strongholds of Belgrade, Rhodes, and most of Hungary before his conquests were checked at the Siege of Vienna in 1529. He annexed most of the Middle East in his conflict with the Persians and large swathes of North Africa as far west as Algeria. Under his rule, the Ottoman fleet dominated the seas from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.

Read The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent (1913) by Albert Howe Lybyer, free from archive.org.