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*the "Little Free Library" concept to encourage reading and knowledge - "take a book, give a book"
 
*the "Little Free Library" concept to encourage reading and knowledge - "take a book, give a book"
 
*the solution of one of the greatest unsolved problems of our time, the [[Poincaré conjecture]] (see below)
 
*the solution of one of the greatest unsolved problems of our time, the [[Poincaré conjecture]] (see below)
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*[[Georg Cantor]] taught at an obscure school and never lectured on his brilliant breakthrough in [[mathematics]] for which he is revered today
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*[[Georg Cantor]], founder of the basis for modern math (set theory), trained at second-rate university and taught at an obscure school; he never lectured on his brilliant breakthrough in [[mathematics]] for which he is revered today
 
*[[Ronald Coase]], an originally obscure economist, developed the now-accepted [[Coase theorem]] despite nearly unanimous rejection and opposition by experts
 
*[[Ronald Coase]], an originally obscure economist, developed the now-accepted [[Coase theorem]] despite nearly unanimous rejection and opposition by experts
 
*[[Evariste Galois]], an unknown teenager, developed [[group theory]] and it took the mathematical experts a century to appreciate it
 
*[[Evariste Galois]], an unknown teenager, developed [[group theory]] and it took the mathematical experts a century to appreciate it
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