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Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976. With over one hundred novels and 103 translations into foreign languages, Christie was by the time of her death the best-selling English novelist of all time.

Chuck Yeager was the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound. A combat pilot in World War II, Yeager was shot down over France in 1943, but managed to escape without being captured. After the war he was put in charge of pilot training for experimental aircraft, and on October 14, 1947 became the first person to break the sound barrier, flying a rocket powered Bell X-1 jet. He helped train the first U.S. astronauts and, as if there were no end to his studliness, flew combat missions over Vietnam in the 1960s. In the 1980s Yeager became a celebrity, thanks in large part to the 1984 film made from Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff, an account of the early U.S. space program.

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British literary critic, scholar and author, known for his classic fantasy stories for children, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA (1950-1956), which show the influence of J.R.R. Tolkien. During his literary career, Lewis was one of the most popular spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world.

"The stone images at first caused us to be struck with astonishment." Explorer Jacob Roggeveen wrote in 1722, shortly after he and his dutch mariners discovered easter island.

Easter Island, known in the native language as Rapa Nui ("Big Rapa") or Isla de Pascua in Spanish, is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. Located 2,237 statute miles west of continental Chile and 1,290 statute miles east of Pitcairn Island, it is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world. The large stone statues, or moai, for which Easter Island is world famous were carved during a relatively short and intense burst of creative and productive megalithic activity. Archeologists now estimate that ceremonial site construction and statue carving took place largely between about AD 1100 and 1600 and may have consumed up to 25% of island-wide resources.