History's 26 Most Incredible Heroes That You Never Heard Of

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History's 26 Most Incredible Heroes That You Never Heard Of

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Correcting glaring errors and omissions in the history books is what our readers do best, and it's a truly noble calling. There are uncounted numbers of people that average humans have never heard of, who made meaningful, important contributions to the world.

So instead of letting the winners write the history books, how about if we focus on people who actually deserve our admiration, like:

CRAOY EUNICE NEWTON FOOTE WAS THE FIRST TO SUGGEST A LINK BETWEEN CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS AND GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RISE In 1856 CIRCUMSTANCES ffecting tbe
MEET ANNIE TURBNO MALONE HOW EMBARRASSING ! think that look attraetive suddenly discover your nose shinyf inow VANISHING CREAM will enable that powde
FRANCES GLESSNER LEE IS KNOWN AS THE MOTHER OF FORENSIC SCIENCE. Without her many of the world's worst criminals would go free ( and shows like CSI wo
Nancy Grace Roman realized that, having no atmosphere, space would be the perfect place from which to make astronomic observations. She pioneered the
LIKE SUSHI? YOU CAN THANK KATHLEEN MARY DREW-BAKER FOR SAVING IT. In 1948, a series of typhoons destroyed most of Japan's seaweed fields, and no one c
CRACKED.c COM Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. During WWIl, this brave Irish priest saved countless civilians, Jews & Allied soldiers from the Nazis. He use
THE FIRST UNIT TO ENTER P ARIS TO LIBERATE THE CITY FROM NAZI CONTROL WAS COMPOSED MOSTLY OF SPANIARDS. LOMAA SPANAT CANIO The 9th Company La Nueva
Margaret CRACKEDOON Hamilton made fundamental advancements to software engineering. In fact. she even created that term. In 1969, she and her team sig
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM paved the way for Obama and Hillary Clinton by becoming the first black woman to run for president. She also served seven TOGETHER as
Keeping cool during the summer? Then you thank can Willis Carrier for inventing air conditioning. Aside from keeping Wal-Mart shoppers comfortable, hi
CRACKED.OON Without Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Martin Luther King's March on Washington would have ended up being a disorganized mess. King's March on Wash
Madam C.J. Walker She was a businesswoman, philanthropist. and activist, who rose from poverty to become one of the first African American female mill

World War II Heroes

Nicholas Winton saved 669 Czech children during WWIl. X His heroism went unnoticed for decades. And, when it was discovered, it was by accident. His w
OROD Imagine fathering MICROBIOLOGY but nobody believes You. It happended to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who was the first to discover things like sperm
We all know about Alan Turing and his Bombe machine, but very few people know about Tommy Flowers and the Colossus computer. While Alan Turing was bus
African-American Pauli Murray was one of the most important legal scholars of the twentieth century. GRAUN Her writings formed the basis of both Thurg
JO Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon who pioneered the storage of blood for transfusions. He resigned from his post as a director of blood plasma program
CWO Hugh Thompson Jr. stopped the My Lai Massacre and was discredited for it. Thompson was flying a scout helicopter when he realized that US Soldiers
Beulah Louise Henry was granted 49 U.S. patents and was responsible for over 100 inventions in the early 20th century. She was self-taught and known a
Thomas Edison pioneered the light bulb, but it was Lewis Howard Latimer who came up the longer lasting carbon filament. Also, together with Alexander
Gino Bartali Aside from being a champion road cyclist who won the Giro d'Italia three times and the Tour de France twice, he was also a humble nationa
Kitty O'Brien Joyner paved the way for female engineers. She won a lawsuit against the University of Virginia to enroll in the then all-male engineeri
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper took a stand against public transportation segregation in Philadelphia in 1858. A suffragette, abolitionist, and author,
Ho Feng-Shan, a Chinese diplomat in Vienna, used his post to save thousands of Jews and never told anyone. Ho issued around five thousand visas for th
Eight years before Brown VS. Board of Education Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez challenged the segregation in their childrens' school system. Their succe
CRACKEDOON MAURICE HILLEMAN HAS SAVED MORE LIVES THAN ANYONE IN HISTORY. HE DEVELOPED OVER 40 VACCINES INCLUDING CHICKENPOX, MENINGITIS, MEASLES MUMPS
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