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Last Queen of France
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Marie Antoinette
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English playright and Bard of Avon
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William Shakespeare
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US President during the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln
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Crossed the Alps during the Punic Wars
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Hannibal
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Chinese warlord of the Three Kingdoms and founder of Shu Han
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Liu Bei
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Greek hero of the Trojan War
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Achilles
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1600's Dutch artist of "The Night Watch"
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Rembrandt
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Inventor of the printing press
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Engineer of the first practical telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Benedictine abbess, sacred composer, and scientific natural historian of 1100's
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Hildegard von Bingen
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Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence
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Alan Turing
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Roman dictator renown for his voluntary surrender of power
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Cincinnatus
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Spanish writer of "Don Quixote"
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Painted "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"
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Hokusai
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Namesake of the theorem a² + b² = c²
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Pythagoras
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Ruler of the Huns and feared enemy of Eastern Rome
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Attila the Hun
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Former Nazi scientist who engineered the Saturn V
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Wernher von Braun
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Queen consort of France and England and leader of the Second Crusade
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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American abolitionist, writer, and statesman who escaped slavery
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Frederick Douglass
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Pakistani female-education activist and youngest Nobel Prize laureate
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Malala Yousafzai
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Chinese explorer, admiral, and diplomat who brought goods back to China
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Zheng He
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Babylonian king who founded first legal code of justice
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Hammurabi
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Viking discoverer of North America
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Leif Eriksson
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Mauryan Emperor who promoted spread of Buddhism
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Ashoka
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Central figure of Christianity
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Jesus
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Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten
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Nefertiti
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Baron and Romantic poet of "Don Juan"
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Lord Byron
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Roman politician defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium
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Mark Antony
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Greek mathematician who discovered the principle of water displacement
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Archimedes
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Chinese pirate leader of the early 1800's
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Ching Shih
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Assassinated Archduke Ferdinand, setting in motion WWI
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Gavrilo Princip
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First Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Robert Walpole
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3rd-century Queen of Palmyra
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Zenobia
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Italian Proto-Renaissance artist of realism and father of European painting
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Giotto
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Jewish girl whose diary depicted life in hiding during WWII
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Anne Frank
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American inventor of the phonograph and motion-picture camera
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Thomas Edison
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Italian general responsible for the unification of Italy
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Theologian of the principle "the simplest explanation is usually the right one"
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William of Ockham
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Canadian astronaut who recorded the first music video in space
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Chris Hadfield
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Biblical son of Enoch said to have lived to 969-years-old
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Methuselah
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Great Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty in China
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Kublai Khan
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First Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty
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Saladin
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Pope who initiated the Crusades
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Urban II
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Moroccan scholar who travelled all across the Old World
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Ibn Battuta
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Discovered nuclear fission
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Lise Meitner
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Founder of the USSR
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Vladimir Lenin
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Father of Modern Medicine
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Hippocrates
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French filmmaker of "A Trip to the Moon"
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Georges Méliès
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First European to discover the Caribbean
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Christopher Columbus
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Longest-ruling Empress of Russia
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Catherine the Great
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Last true samurai
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Saigō Takamori
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Scottish knight who defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge
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William Wallace
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Austrian symbolist painter of "The Kiss"
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Gustav Klimt
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3rd-century Vietnamese warrior who resisted the expansion of Eastern Wu
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Lady Triệu
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Brazilian football player and winner of three World Cups
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Pelé
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Roman poet of the "Aeneid"
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Virgil
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Primary patron saint of Ireland
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Saint Patrick
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Formulated the theory of evolution
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Charles Darwin
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X-ray crystallographer who confirmed the structure of penicillin and insulin
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Dorothy Hodgkin
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Actor and director of "Citizen Kane"
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Orson Welles
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Author of "The War of the Worlds" and "The Time Machine"
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H. G. Wells
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Tahitian Polynesian navigator who assisted James Cook on his voyage
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Tupaia
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Founder of the Incan Empire
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Pachacuti
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Swiss folk hero and expert crossbowman
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William Tell
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First deaf and blind person to graduate from college
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Helen Keller
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Korean scientist who recreated gunpowder from China
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Choe Mu-Seon
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Earliest known king
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Sargon of Akkad
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Nazi propaganda minister during WWII
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Joseph Goebbels
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Qing Empress Dowager who supervised the Tongzhi Restoration
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Cixi
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Ancient Greek lyric poet and symbol of lesbian sexuality
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Sappho
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Roman philosopher and Italian King who wrote "The Consolation of Philosophy"
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Boëthius
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Quantum theoretical physicist and namesake of cat-box thought experiment
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Erwin Schrödinger
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Spanish priest who exposed the oppression of Native Americans
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Bartolomé de las Casas
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Military leader of France who crowned himself Emperor
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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Swedish taxonomist who formalised binomial nomenclature
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Carl Linnaeus
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Greek soldier who ran the first marathon
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Pheidippides
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Native American woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Sacagawea
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Chinese-American martial artist, actor, and film director of the 1970's
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Bruce Lee
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Earliest written name
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Kushim
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English fossil collector and discoverer of the plesiosaur
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Mary Anning
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Italian poet of the "Divine Comedy"
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Dante Alighieri
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US soldier, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"
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Nathan Hale
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Eccentric Spanish artist of surrealist paintings, sculptures, and films
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Salvador Dali
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Tang dynasty general whose rebellion killed 5% of the world population
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An Lushan
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Arab polymath and father of optics
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Ibn al-Haytham
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First Dalai Lama
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Gendün Drubpa
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Discovered Pluto
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Clyde Tombaugh
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English social reformer, statistician and founder of modern nursing
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Florence Nightingale
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German polymath who invented integral calculus independent of Isaac Newton
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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King of England and military leader of the Third Crusade
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Richard the Lionheart
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Last leader of the Soviet Union
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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First queen regnant of Majapahit
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Dyah Gitarja
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Lead vocalist of the rock band Queen
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Freddie Mercury
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Mysterious airplane hijacker who disappeared with 200,000 US dollars
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D.B. Cooper
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African revolutionary who achieved independence for Ghana
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Legendary first Queen of Carthage
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Dido
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First King of the Visigoths who led the Sack of Rome
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Alaric I
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19th-century Queen of England
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Victoria
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Ancient Indian physician and father of plastic surgery
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Sushruta
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Second man on the Moon
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Buzz Aldrin
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Founder of Sikhism
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Guru Nanak
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Astronomer who first discovered evidence of dark matter
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Vera Rubin
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Chinese military general and high priestess of the Shang dynasty
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Fu Hao
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Victorian-era woman who allegedly murdered her parents with an axe
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Lizzie Borden
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Colombian drug lord and wealthiest criminal in history
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Pablo Escobar
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Ancient prophet of Iran
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Zoroaster
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Prime Minister of Australia during WWII
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John Curtin
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Wrote "The Communist Manifesto"
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Karl Marx
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Naga spiritual leader who led a revolt against British rule in India
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Rani Gaidinliu
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Danish transgender woman and early recipient of sex reassignment surgery
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Lili Elbe
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Canadian amputee athlete who ran across the country for cancer awareness
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Terry Fox
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Australian social reformer and first female member of parliament
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Edith Cowan
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Started the Mexican War of Independence
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Miguel Hidalgo
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Discovered penicillin
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Alexander Fleming
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Former slave and prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution
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Toussaint Louverture
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Ancient Queen of Nubia
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Amanitore
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Lakota leader who foresaw victory of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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Sitting Bull
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Japanese Emperor who transformed the nation into an industrial power
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Meiji
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Code name of female Culper Ring spy whose real identity is unknown
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Agent 355
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