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Grace Bedell Billings
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Owen Brown
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James Addison Cravens
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Benjamin Robbins Curtis
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William Barker Cushing
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Stephen Johnson Field
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John Adams Gilmer
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William Polk Hardeman
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Alexander Robert Lawton
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Events
Science/Technology | In South Africa, the Cape Colony's first railway line is opened between Capetown and Wellington | 11/04/1863 |