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First Emperor of the Franks
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Charlemagne
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Started the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther
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British prime minister during WWII
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Winston Churchill
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Spiritual teacher of mindfulness and the transcendence of pain
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Gautama Buddha
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Author of "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"
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Charles Dickens
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Austrian founder of psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud
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English scientist, polymath, and discoverer of microscopic life
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Robert Hooke
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First emperor of unified China
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Qin Shi Huang
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Painter and founder of French Impressionist painting
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Claude Monet
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First aviatrix to fly across the Atlantic
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Amelia Earhart
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Roman general and statesman killed on the Ides of March
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Julius Caesar
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Liberator of South America
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Simón Bolívar
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Former slave who helped others escape slavery with the "Underground Railroad"
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Harriet Tubman
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Influential Japanese filmmaker of samurai movies
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Akira Kurosawa
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French writer who advocated for separation of church and state
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Voltaire
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Mali emperor known for lavish spending and generosity
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Mansa Musa
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French fashion designer who collaborated with Nazi Germany
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Coco Chanel
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Car manufacturer who developed industrial mass production
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Henry Ford
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Discoverer of Jupiter's moons
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Galileo Galilei
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First president of the United States
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George Washington
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French Revolutionary and architect of the Reign of Terror
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Japanese author of the first novel
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Murasaki Shikibu
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Spanish co-founder of modern cubism
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Pablo Picasso
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Said to have played the fiddle while Rome burned
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Nero
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Founder of the Republic of China
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Sun Yat-sen
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Father of English literature and author of the "Canterbury Tales"
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Geoffery Chaucer
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Last pharoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
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Cleopatra
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Author of "The Prince" and the father of modern political science
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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Russian composer of "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake"
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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X-ray crystallographer central to the discovery of DNA's structure
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Rosalind Franklin
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First man to walk on the Moon
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Neil Armstrong
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Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of "Starry Night"
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Vincent van Gogh
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Wrote the "Tao te Ching"
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Laozi
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Conquistador responsible for the fall of the Aztec Empire
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Hernán Cortés
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First female sultan of India
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Razia Sultana
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Emperor of Ethiopia and central figure of Rastafarianism
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Haile Selassie
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Formulated the first physical laws of gravity and motion
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Isaac Newton
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Ancient Chinese moral philospher
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Confucius
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Spartan queen "whose face launched a thousand ships"
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Helen of Troy
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Peace activist and founding member of "The Beatles"
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John Lennon
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Allied Commander of D-Day
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Mongolian ruler of the largest contiguous empire in history
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Genghis Khan
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Marxist revolutionary and guerilla fighter of Latin America
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Che Guevara
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First "Great Unifier" of Japan
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Oda Nobunaga
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Catholic nun and Saint of Calcutta
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Mother Teresa
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American president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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John F. Kennedy
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Made the first circumnavigation of Earth
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Deaf German composer of "Für Elise" and "Moonlight Sonata"
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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English author of "Frankenstein"
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Mary Shelley
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Beloved Hellenistic teacher of astronomy, math, and philosophy
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Hypatia
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Mexican painter of self-portraits and surrealism
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Frida Kahlo
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British WWI officer renown for his role in the Arab Revolt
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T.E. Lawrence
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Sculptor of "David"
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Michelangelo
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First Marxist leader of Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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Sultan of the Ottoman golden age
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Suleiman the Magnificent
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First true historian
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Herodotus
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Founder of the ancient Maurya Empire
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Chandragupta
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United the Gauls in a failed revolt against Julius Caesar's forces
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Vercingetorix
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British explorer of the Pacific islands
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James Cook
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Virgin mother of Jesus in Christianity
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Mary
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Only empress in Chinese history
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Wu Zetian
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Renaissance inventor, polymath, and painter of the "Mona Lisa"
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Founder of Islam
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Muhammad
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First man in space
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Yuri Gagarin
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American civil rights activist who wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
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Maya Angelou
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Restored ancient Egyptian religion before his death at 18-years-old
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Tutankhamun
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First woman in space
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Valentina Tereshkova
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Chinese military strategist who wrote "The Art of War"
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Sun Tzu
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Sumerian king and subject of earliest known work of fiction
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Gilgamesh
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Central prophet of Judaism
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Moses
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Celtic queen who rose against the invading forces of Rome
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Boudica
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South African political leader who fought against Apartheid
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Nelson Mandela
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Theoretical black hole physicist diagnosed with ALS
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Stephen Hawking
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US Naval admiral, computer scientist, and inventor of the compiler
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Grace Hopper
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Virgin Queen of England
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Elizabeth I
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Italian dictator and leader of the National Fascist Party
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Benito Mussolini
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King of Joseon Dynasty and inventor of the Korean alphabet
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Sejong the Great
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Legendary Chinese folk heroine who took her father's place in the army
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Hua Mulan
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Gave "I Have A Dream" speech.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Blind leader of Venice who led the Fourth Crusade
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Enrico Dandolo
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Aztec ruler during the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica
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Moctezuma II
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Started the English Reformation after the Catholic Church forbid his divorce
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Henry VIII
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Introduced the heliocentric model of the solar system
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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German baroque composer of over 1000 compositions
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Ruled Egypt after the collapse of the Macedonian Empire
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Ptolemy I Soter
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Serbian-born inventor and futurist responsible for AC electricity
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Nikola Tesla
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Film actress and co-inventor of FHSS radio guidance
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Hedy Lamarr
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Three Kingdoms warlord who controlled the Chinese emperor
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Cao Cao
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Roman poet of the "Metamorphoses"
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Ovid
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Admiral who defended Korea from Japanese invasion in 1598
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Yi Sun-sin
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With his brother Wilbur flew the first powered aircraft
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Orville Wright
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First king of Hawaii
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Kamehameha
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Japanese emperor during WWII
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Hirohito
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Author of "The Lord of the Rings"
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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First chancellor of Germany
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Otto von Bismarck
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Greek conquerer of Persia
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Alexander the Great
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Babylonian King responsible for the destruction of Solomon's Temple
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Nebuchadnezzar II
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African queen of Ndongo and Matamba who fought against the Portugese
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Nzingha Mbande
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Viking discoverer of Greenland
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Erik the Red
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Greek moral philospher of thought
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Socrates
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Wallachian ruler and ruthless impaler
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Vlad Dracula
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Shawnee chief who organized a Native American confederacy
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Tecumseh
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Roman soldier who stabbed Jesus on the cross
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Longinus
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Last emperor of Russia
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Nicholas II
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Founded the scientific method
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Francis Bacon
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Earliest human skeleton known to exist at 3.2 million years old.
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Lucy
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French heroine of the 100 Years War
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Joan of Arc
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Created the theory of relativity
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Albert Einstein
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Founder of the Persian Empire
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Cyrus the Great
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Zulu King who reorganized the military into a formidable force
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Shaka Zulu
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Author of "Les Misérables"
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Victor Hugo
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First communist leader of Cuba
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Fidel Castro
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Pioneered the research on radioactivity
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Marie Curie
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Modern anthropologist known for her study of chimpanzees
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Jane Goodall
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Venetian merchant and explorer of East Asia
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Marco Polo
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Influential Byzantine empress to Justinian I
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Theodora
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Brought independece to India through non-violent resisitance
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Mahatma Gandhi
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English countess who developed the first computer algorithm
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Ada Lovelace
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Greek philosopher of Cynicism who lived on the street in a ceramic jar
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Diogenes
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Inventor of the World Wide Web
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Tim Berners-Lee
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