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superstardom 37 Cherokee Mankiller remembered 36 pachuco 36 enjoyed meteoric rise 36 rags 36 mythic status 36 Villa Fiorito 36 heydays 36 herded goats 36 perseverance 36 dream 36 inception 36 scraggly blonde wig 36 wheelwright 36 unfaltering dedication 36 Baldemar Huerta 36 mid nineties 36 lofty ambitions 36 origins 36 giddy heights 36 mythic stature 36 riches tale 35 lifelong ambition 35 late'#s 35 Martha Kostyra 35 teaboy 35 indomitable spirit 35 bohemian enclave 35 pioneering 35 greatness 35 to# [002] 35 lofty heights 35 #s [002] 35 unpromising beginnings 35 lifelong dream 35 Nowheresville 35 success 35 genesis 35 Hailing 35 eighties 35 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 35 Push reel mowers 35 Bahariya Oasis rocketed 35 achievements 35 mid Nineties 35 idolized 35 televangelist Rex Humbard 35 popularity 35 unsung heroes 35 Pelham Preparatory Academy 34 railroader 34 shoeshine boy 34 motorcycle sidecars 34 cub reporter 34 graduating 34 lineage 34 Lincoln Barrington Minott 34 Jenny Sanford millionaire 34 tireless devotion 34 dizzy heights 34 tent revivals 34 graduated 34 late#s 34 apprenticed 34 legendary 34 auspicious beginnings 34 fond memories 34 Amalgamated Clothing Workers 34 wildest expectations 34 Jamsetji Tata 34 pioneer 34 Slab Fork W.Va. 34 yeoman farmer 34 entrepreneur 34 hails 34 Rodney Copperbottom Ewan McGregor 34 nineteen thirties 34 phoenixlike 34 Ma Tambo 34 greatgrandfather 34 boyhood summers 34 Born Karol Wojtyla 34 dreamed 34 phenomenally successful 34 Marcy Projects 34 namesake 34 '#s [003] 34 hardscrabble neighborhoods 34 distinguished 34 halcyon days 34 trailblazing 34 herding livestock 33 Henry Phyfe 33 Pawtucket RI Levine 33 the'#s 33 seventies 33 founding fathers 33 wildest dreams 33 freakish athleticism captured 33 farmboy 33 arranger composer 33 mid#s [001] 33 barrio 33 Amedeo Obici 33 Mdingi 33 astute businessman 33 wildest imaginations 33 Mizrahi Jews 33 trailblazer 33 thriving metropolis 33 #s and'#s 33 diverse backgrounds 33 amass fortune 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Massah patient 32 trailblazers 32 Robbie Yohai 32 Peter Boizot 32 budding entrepreneur 32 policy wonk Gregg 32 Sarepta La. 32 humbler beginnings 32 Rhain Davis 32 triumphs 32 outgrew 32 brief stint 32 uncanny resemblance Tsonga 32 Methodist preacher 32 Heinzes 32 butcher Mozilo 32 Hukle 32 indentured laborer 32 ironmonger 32 charismatic personality 32 pastored 32 unsung 32 hardscrabble existence 32 sixties 32 Hillmans 32 Dyess Colony 32 illiterate peasant 32 chitlin circuit 32 brass banding 32 Fred Curly Neal 32 Southern tent revivals 32 harbored ambitions 32 Today TCG constituency 32 Yip Sang 32 Õ#s 32 proudest moments 32 paternal grandfather 32 footsteps 32 founders 32 cultivated friendships 32 adversities 32 orgins 32 herdboy 32 smalltown 32 Jamaican bobsled team 32 exalted status 32 greatest orators 32 hales 32 Kenyan goat herder 32 Everests 32 proudest accomplishment 32 Mabel Dodge Luhan 32 unconquerable spirit 32 blossomed 32 Anzac legend 32 visionary 32 travails 32 leafy suburb 32 AJGA alumni 32 Tamla 32 fondly remembers 32 Huge mansions 32 evokes nostalgia 32 nineteen seventies 32 foot Mount Tapuaenuku 32 Commodore VIC 32 grandparents emigrated 32 Pierre Koffman 32 nineteen forties 32 Mau Mau Revolution 32 Marceline Mo. 32 trail blazed 32 songwriter penning 32 waxes nostalgic 32 Taulbert 32 Nkosi Haven 32 tiny hamlet 32 Geft 32 Rubashkin oversaw 32 enslaved ancestors 32 Albert Mazibuko 32 Heiberger Ala. 32 terraced cottage 32 entrepreneurism 32 heydey 32 pop. 32 Koinonia Farm 32 Mama Afrika 32 befriended 32 baptist minister 32 Turin Bruni Sarkozy 32 bygone era 31 milkman 31 inspiration 31 sharecropping 31 LDDS 31 proudest achievement 31 Jamsetji N. 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Novak 30 bottom rung 30 late bloomer 30 * ecko unltd 30 Abe Saperstein 30 benefited enormously 30 prosperous 30 unwavering dedication 30 Hellen Keller 30 native Houstonian 30 toiling 30 machinist apprentice 30 relative newcomer 30 insurmountable odds 30 Bitches troubled 30 nondescript 30 Ferbos 30 master plasterer 30 Murray Handwerker 30 playwright novelist 30 Palestinian Sobhi Hamami 30 flatlands 30 reminisced 30 birthplace 30 SS Kresge Co. 30 crowning glories 30 vintner Robert Mondavi 30 Servitje 30 Rural Electrification Administration 30 remembers fondly 30 backwater 30 Hal Pastner 30 Ettore Bugatti collapsed 30 gifted wordsmith 30 ambition 30 Schwartzrock 30 boyhood dream 30 flourished 30 Srinivasa Ramanujan 30 Wesleys 30 transcended 30 gristmills 30 successful 30 pastoring churches 30 Kindred spirits 30 persevered 30 hydroplane racer 30 nurtured 30 Richard Sylvan Selzer 30 Braddocks 30 Sakichi Toyoda 30 ascended 30 Petitioned 30 revered statesmen 30 Zach McLeroy 30 inception PRMI 30 diversely talented 30 ironworking 30 overcame adversity 30 Gogol Kal Penn 30 Neen 30 bootblack 30 consummate bachelor 30 wee lad 30 accomplished woodworker 30 Hungarian émigré 30 STEVE EMBER 30 Natty Bumppo 30 Madam CJ 30 Monroeville Ala. 30 Jackson Kaujeua 30 Ohonme 30 eclectic tastes 30 blues harmonica player 30 Rhodes scholar 30 ministered 30 WALVIS BAY Walvis Bay 30 Portuguese colony 30 adversity 30 Foolish trivia 30 agrarian roots 30 Pixley ka Isaka Seme 30 selfless dedication 30 contemporaries 30 Irby Mandrell 30 Rags2Riches 30 Steveland Morris 30 organizer Cesar Chavez 30 northernmost outpost 30 homespun 30 sparsely decorated 30 Flowertown 30 Kristin Obeck 30 generosity 30 Garveyism 30 sparsely furnished apartment 30 unfailing kindness 30 fifties sixties 30 proudest moment 30 sheer dint 30 localvore movement 30 midwesterner 30 entrepreneurial zeal 30 bustling metropolis 30 soapmaker 30 unassuming demeanor 30 boondocks 30 struggles 30 harsh realities 30 Dickens novels 30 grandfather homesteaded 30 blue collar upbringing 30 cosmopolitan flair 30 snappily dressed 30 Emil Gottschalk 30 Madame CJ 30 bean stalk 30 rugged masculinity 30 Freddy Fender 30 glory 30 Facebook LendingClub 30 dogged determination 30 Canadaville 30 ramshackle 30 Rev. Emil Kapaun 30 tinsmith 30 Lester William Polsfuss 30 Sandeep Brar 30 singer songwriter Smokey Robinson 30 Long Haired Lover 30 Yin Jie 30 superdad 30 Steve Cauthen 30 Kakenya Ntaiya 30 foreparents 30 chefdom 30 reminisces 30 excelled academically 30 Sembene Ousmane 30 Madiba Mandela 30 Sybil Stockdale 30 olden days 30 forbears 30 hop skip 30 saddlemaker 30 manual laborer 30 emancipated slave 30 abundant shrimping 30 Xhemal Neza 30 Erastus Corning 30 Fonzarelli 30 Exalted Cyclops 30 proverbial phoenix 30 lifelong Memphian 30 thrived 30 humble upbringings 30 Horatio Alger myth 30 Glue Factory 30 rodeoed 30 grown 30 farmwife 30 bib overalls 30 incorrigible raconteur 30 Tandil 30 circuitous route 30 Caray sarcastic wit 30 toiled 30 untarnished reputation 30 Bliss Cavendar misfit 30 shanty town 30 tireless promoter 30 Lester William Polfuss 30 inspired Shining Path 30 fledging 30 bumpiest ride 30 hippy commune 30 fond remembrances 30 Mumfords 30 natural progression 30 classically trained 30 Singer Sewing Machine 30 Barellan 29 Teddy Osei 29 Reared 29 groundbreaker 29 shined shoes 29 Seventies 29 Sibekiwe 29 Maponya 29 kindie 29 satellite distributed SuperStation 29 fondly recalls 29 Waterford Crystal traces 29 bona fide provocateur 29 Sharona Alperin 29 herded cattle 29 milked cow 29 Gretsch guitars 29 mythologizes 29 De Rothschild 29 Gyuto Tantric monastery 29 grande dames 29 linotype operator 29 striped apron 29 IU alumnus 29 quiet achiever 29 Nills Holland 29 Kaguri 29 Gollywood 29 Jesse Kuhaulua 29 Sazio 29 unfailing devotion 29 gifted orator 29 proto bird Archaeopteryx 29 grist mills 29 herding cows 29 Pearl Fryar 29 brick mason 29 hobby 29 stockcar racing 29 literary modernism 29 sleepy hollow 29 close knit 29 Jamsetji 29 blue collar 29 affectionately known 29 Hilary Devey 29 Tengenenge 29 Tiyo Soga 29 copyboy 29 Hodgenville Kentucky 29 Alice Keesey Mecoy 29 Upwardly mobile 29 telegraph messenger 29 Sekuru Kaguvi 29 Singing Brakeman 29 laidback lifestyle 29 pastorship 29 wife Roma Radzicky 29 illustrious career 29 Juneteenth celebrations 29 chronicles 29 Muddy Waters Howlin Wolf 29 Johnny Carrabba 29 Leonard Dembo 29 Soffront spans 29 brief sojourn 29 undying passion 29 abolitionist Sojourner Truth 29 actress Rosemary Clooney 29 Albert Okura 29 Col. Harland Sanders 29 warrior Shaka Zulu 29 grandmother Madelyn 29 Staplcotn 29 Mutya Buena ilikemusic 29 PT Barnum circus 29 storied 29 phoenix 29 entrepeneur 29 am Sean ODriscoll 29 arid plains 29 Josaitis 29 Mount Kilamanjaro 29 Clay Earles 29 Duzer 29 genealogy buff 29 Ultramagnetic MCs 29 Harlemite 29 groundbreakers 29 Wilf Mannion 29 rubbed shoulders 29 Beit Daras 29 Originating 29 proudly 29 globe trotting adventures 29 segregated Birmingham Ala. 29 Eleanora Fagan 29 fondest memories 29 toils 29 sucess 29 Jerry Falwell Moral Majority 29 reminisces fondly 29 Thomashefsky 29 unsung heroine 29 practiced dentistry 29 Wu Yulu 29 lifelong avocation 29 counterpart Bobby Lowder 29 silk weaver 29 dramatically Ruffo curious 29 Jabali Afrika 29 Rastafari movement 29 Marian McQuade 29 Neighbor Luis Yanez 29 itinerant preacher 29 pecan grove 29 untiring efforts 29 shoeing horses 29 Lokumbe 29 evokes fond memories 29 Cyrille Regis 29 millionaire 29 outgrowing 29 draftsman 29 Zsazsa 29 Barney Barnato 29 Papal apologies 29 Grupedsac 29 sakadas 29 fledgling 29 ascension 29 predecessor Pete Rozelle 29 itinerant 29 Boy Scout scoutmaster 29 sculptural celebratory headpiece 29 Bill Geerhart punking 29 Greenwich Village folk 29 Haight Asbury 29 pugnacious streetwise 29 Pierre Victoire 29 Descended 29 Santiago Munez Kuno Becker 29 illustrious predecessors 29 Texas oilman HL 29 apprentice mechanic 29 loyal clientele 29 hardships 29 emancipator 29 Kwasi Danquah 29 quaint seaside 29 Bata Shoe 29 Horatio Alger Award 29 hardworking 29 poet Kaifi Azmi 29 Golden Gloves boxer 29 Tippo 29 Allans 29 charismatic orator 29 Armoy Armada 29 l# [002] 29 trail blazers 29 Octavius Catto 29 humbles 29 Voortrekkers 29 achievers emblematic 29 choreographer Alvin Ailey 29 ordeals 29 self sufficent 29 ancestral roots 29 Sighet 29 flattop haircut 29 pastorates 29 Week Trivia Answer 29 Nathan Collver 29 in# [003] 29 notoriety 29 clapboard 29 Frog Jump Tenn. 29 Acorn Computers 29 Nyagan Russia 29 evangelist Oral Roberts 29 Samwise Gamgee 29 Newgrass 29 Appalachian foothills 29 Ray Kroc 29 Klip south 29 savage assassins 29 Polyface 29 BP Schulberg 29 Pullman porters 29 Jackpine Gypsies 29 Govan shipyards 29 impresario Sol Hurok 29 PRCA cowboy 29 restless dreamer 29 Iwo Jima survivor 29 shotgun shack 29 sheroes 29 Kinfolks 29 showband era 29 Zapp Potato Chips 29 Piet Koornhof 29 Arlin Sorensen 29 overcomes adversity 29 peripatetic existence 29 agritainment 29 nineteen sixties 29 onetime protege 29 Stu Ungar 29 Weeksville 29 entrepreneurial endeavors 29 humbly 29 Dattel 29 hoof trimmer 29 poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan 29 Agoston Haraszthy 29 backgrounds 29 Keir Hardie 29 unwed teenage mother 29 telegraph operator 29 Zachary DeLorean 29 Afrobeat legend 29 Underground Railroad conductor 29 Szaky 29 doughty fighter 29 Sarcelles working 29 indomitable 29 John Mayall Bluesbreakers 29 Orange Blossoms 29 journey 29 circuitous journey 29 unsung hero 29 garnering accolades 29 mechanical reaper 29 charcoal kettle 29 Planxty 29 Ned McWherter 29 Chingford Essex 29 Nelly Bly 29 countrypolitan sound 29 indoor plumbing 29 enduring legacies 29 Falmouth Kearney shoemaker 29 Lazarovic 29 By DAVID STEGON 29 Riordans 29 PTL Ministries 29 Clarence Birdseye 29 nineteen twenties 29 safari outfitter 29 vanishing breed 29 horizons broadened 29 shining jewel 29 Hendrik Meijer 29 Grace Galindez Gupana 29 fearsome reputation 29 Skil Corp. 29 eureka moment 29 soft spoken 29 Sherrills Ford NC 29 newspaperwoman 29 multimillionaire 29 agrarian society 29 bluecollar 29 justifiably proud 29 furniture restorer 29 Norma Jeane Baker 29 Nat Adderley 29 silky voiced 29 Shri Dhirubhai H. 29 spawned imitators 29 excesses Neverland [002] 29 Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth 29 Isambard Kingdom Brunel 29 La Marque luh 29 upper echelon 29 Fenwal Laboratories 29 Winlock Wash. 29 Melvil Dewey 29 Electric Boogaloos 29 blacksmith shop 29 visionaries 29 Bluesbreakers 29 humbling 29 Wiergate 29 lumber baron 28 Unita Blackwell 28 lilting accent 28 Frances Gumm 28 Bevin Boy 28 Madchester scene 28 Worsening arthritis 28 Souza parlayed 28 Phnom Penh Misiewicz 28 rungs 28 Dr. Orbinski 28 herding cattle 28 adventured 28 grocery bagger 28 nineteen eighties 28 laborer welder 28 DIY ethos 28 Hellfighters 28 entrepreneurial 28 quintessential Englishness 28 Tampico Ill. 28 amassed fortune 28 overcomes obstacles 28 writings Schallenberger 28 dauntless courage 28 steep learning curve 28 undistinguished