George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was an African American scientist famed for developing hundreds of products using peanuts, soya beans and sweet potatoes.
Ada Lovelace
Alice Ball
Humans
King Henry VIII鈥檚 warship the Mary Rose carried crew from North Africa
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Dr Wu Lien-teh
Humans
The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought
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Henrietta Lacks
Humans
British legal deeds were once written on sheepskin to prevent fraud
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Wernher von Braun
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Algorithm reveals contents of fragile letters sealed for 300 years
Sealed letters folded in intricate patterns have gone unread for more than 300 years, but now people have been able to tease out their contents with a combination of X-ray imaging and unfolding algorithms
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Where was the first city in the world?
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Stone Age humans chose to voyage to Japanese islands over the horizon
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Health
How a Jewish ghetto beat a typhus epidemic during the second world war
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Humans
We’ve just found the largest and oldest Mayan monument yet
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