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English inventor who invented the water frame
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Richard Arkwright
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English scientist who made discoveries in electromagnetism and electrochemistry
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Michael Faraday
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Hungarian composer and conductor known for 'La campanella'
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Franz Liszt
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American abolitions who led the raid on Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt
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John Brown
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American philosopher known for 'Walden'
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Henry David Thoreau
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American suffragist, activist, and a leader of the women's rights movement
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Female German pianist and composer during the Romantic era
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Clara Schumann
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Emperor of Mexico whose reign ended after the fall of the Second Mexican Empire
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Maximilian I of Mexico
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English author of 'Frankenstein' and pioneer of Gothic literature
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Mary Shelley
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German philosopher and co-founder of Marxist Theory
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Friedrich Engels
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American inventor who developed a code in his name and made the telegraph
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Samuel Morse
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English novelist best known for her works 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma'
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Jane Austen
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Scottish physicist and developer of the theory of electromagnetic radiation
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Belgian King responsible for the colonization of the Congo Free State
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Leopold II of Belgium
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Irish poet and playwright known for his work 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
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Oscar Wilde
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American writer and poet best known for her novel 'Little Women'
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Louisa May Alcott
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American author known for 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'
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Mark Twain
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American abolitionist and author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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English novelist and author of 'Wuthering Heights'
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Emily Brontë
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French novelist and author of 'Madame Bovary'
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Gustave Flaubert
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English cardinal who converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism
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John Henry Newman
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French novelist known for his 'Les Rougon-Macquart' series
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Émile Zola
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Spanish architect who built the Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona
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Antoni Gaudí
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American painter known for his illustrations of birds in 'The Birds of America'
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John James Audubon
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English poet known for her sonnets and epic poem 'Aurora Leigh'
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Elizabeth Barret Browning
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English poet known for his collection 'Men and Women'
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Robert Browning
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British poet who served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Italian opera composer known for 'La Bohéme' and 'Madame Butterfly'
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Giacomo Puccini
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American poet known for his macabre stories such as 'The Raven'
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Edgar Allen Poe
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American-British author of the novel 'The Portrait of a Lady'
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Henry James
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Irish author best known for his Gothic novel 'Dracula'
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Bram Stoker
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French composer known for his work 'Clair de Lune'
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Claude Debussy
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American writer and author of the 'The Last of the Mohicans'
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James Fenimore Cooper
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English novelist and author of 'Jane Eyre'
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Charlotte Brontë
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American novelist and author of 'Moby Dick'
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Herman Melville
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French author of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'
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Jules Verne
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Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary whose reign spanned nearly 68 years
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Franz Joseph I
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English landscape painter known for his series of the River Stour
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John Constable
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English novelist known for her works 'Middlemarch' and 'The Mill on the Floss'
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George Eliot
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American Civil War general known for his "scorched earth" policies
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William T Sherman
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German playwright, poet, and author of The Threepenny Opera
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Bertolt Brecht
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Russian composer known for his work 'The Rite of Spring'
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Igor Stravinsky
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American jazz singer known for her songs like 'Strange Fruit'
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Billie Holiday
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American playwright best known for his work 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
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Tennessee Williams
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American jazz singer known as the "First Lady of Song"
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Irish modernist writer best known for his novel 'Ulysses'
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James Joyce
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British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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American baseball player who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball
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Jackie Robinson
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English actor who pioneered the silent film comedy as 'The Tramp'
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Charlie Chaplin
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English writer best known for his work 'The Lord of the Rings'
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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Soviet leader whose reforms led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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American medical researcher who developed the first effective polio vaccine
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Jonas Salk
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American ciivl rights activist and author of 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
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Maya Angelou
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American singer, actor, and "Rat Pack" member known for his song 'My Way'
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Frank Sinatra
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American composer and conductor best known for his musical 'West Side Story'
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Leonard Bernstein
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American poet, social activist, and leader of the Harlem Renaissance
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Langston Hughes
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U.S. Attorney General under Kennedy who campaigned for the presidency
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Robert F. Kennedy
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French fashion designer who founded her own fashion label in Paris in the 1920s
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Coco Chanel
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British winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on x-ray crystallography
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Dorothy Hodgkin
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First Lady of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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British economist and founder of modern macroeconomics
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John Maynard Keynes
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American activist and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
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Dorothy Day
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First Lady known for her style and efforts to restore and preserve American culture
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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American mathematician who calculated the first U.S. crewed spaceflight
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Katherine Johnson
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American nurse and founder of the American Red Cross
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Clara Barton
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Native American leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe
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Sitting Bull
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English writer known for his novel 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'
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Thomas Hardy
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American landscape architect who designed New York's Central Park
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Frederick Law Olmsted
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Scottish-American naturalist and key figure of the creation of National Parks
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John Muir
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British statesman of the 19th century who served as Prime Minister four times
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William Gladstone
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American political economist known for his work 'Progress and Poverty'
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Henry George
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Founder and editor of the New-York Tribune
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Horace Greeley
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British writer and explorer known for finding Dr David Livingstone
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Henry Morton Stanley
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British surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery
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Joseph Lister
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French neurologist known as the "father of modern neurology"
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Jean-Martin Charcot
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Russian Emperor known for emancipating the serfs in 1861
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Alexander II of Russia
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Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic Table of Elements
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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American sharpshooter known for her role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
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Annie Oakley
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King of the United Kingdom who reigned from 1901-1910
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Edward VII
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Jamaican nurse who played a key role in caring for soldiers in the Crimean War
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Mary Seacole
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American novelist and author of 'The Age of Innocence'
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Edith Wharton
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British Methodist preacher and founder of The Salvation Army
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William Booth
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American inventor known for creating the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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Mexican painter known for his involvement in the Mexican muralism movement
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Diego Rivera
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American blues singer known as the "Empress of the Blues"
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Bessie Smith
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American marine biologist, environmentalist, and author of 'Silent Spring'
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Rachel Carson
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Prussian-American author best known for his novel 'Lolita'
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Vladimir Nabokov
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American anthropologist who studied Pacific Islands in 'Coming of Age in Samoa'
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Margaret Mead
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British conductor known for working with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Disney
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Leopold Stokowski
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Italian inventor known for creating the radio
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Guglielmo Marconi
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American dancer known as the 'Mother of Modern Dance'
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Isadora Duncan
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American photographer known for her Depression-era work 'Migrant Mother'
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Dorothea Lange
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Vietnamese revolutionary and leader of North Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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American jazz saxophonist and composer known for works like 'A Love Supreme'
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John Coltrane
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French painter, sculptor and key figure in Fauvism
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Henry Matisse
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American novelist and social critic known for his work 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'
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James Baldwin
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American composer known for work Rhapsody in Blue' and opera 'Porgy & Bess'
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George Gershwin
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Fourth Prime Minister of Israel and first woman to hold the office
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Golda Meir
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Belgian surrealist artist known for images such as 'The Son of Man'
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Rene Magritte
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American jazz bandleader known as the 'King of Swing'
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Benny Goodman
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German industrialist who saved many Jews in the Holocaust by employing them
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Oskar Schindler
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American poet and first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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American novelist and author of 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'Of Mice and Men'
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John Steinbeck
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Chinese communist revolutionary and founder of the People's Republic of China
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Mao Zedong
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Female tennis player known for winning the "Battle of the Sexes" match in 1973
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Billie Jean King
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American actress first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award
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Dorothy Dandridge
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American poet and author of 'Leaves of Grass'
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Walt Whitman
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Tennis player and first African-American to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open
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Arthur Ashe
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French artillery officer and central figure in the Dreyfus Affair
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Alfred Dreyfus
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Cuban poet and key figure in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain
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José Martí
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South African monarch who transformed the Zulu Kingdom during the early 1800s
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Shaka Zulu
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British businessman in South Africa and founder of De Beers and Rhodesia
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Cecil Rhodes
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Spanish painter known for works like 'The Third of May 1808'
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Francisco Goya
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Chinese politician considered the founding father of the Republic of China
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Sun Yat-sen
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Scottish writer known for works 'The French Revolution: A History'
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Thomas Carlyle
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American industrialist and founder of the Central Pacific Railroad
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Leland Stanford
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Third President of Egypt who played a key role in the Camp David Accords
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Anwar Sadat
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Chilean politician and first Marxist to be elected president in a democratic country
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Salvador Allende
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First Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Patrice Lumumba
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Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate for the Oslo Accords
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Israeli Prime Minister who played a key role in the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
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Menachem Begin
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President of Uganda known for his brutal regime
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Idi Amin
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Jordanian king who modernized Jordan and kept peace in the Middle East
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King Hussein of Jordan
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Argentine First Lady who worked with the labor movement and women's suffrage
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Eva Perón
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Kenyan environmentalist and founder of the Green Belt Movement
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Wangari Maathai
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Yugoslav communist revolutionary who maintained independence from the Soviets
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Josip Broz Tito
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Pakistani leader and first women to lead government in a Muslim-majority country
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Benazir Bhutto
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Chancellor of West Germany known for his Ostpolitik policy
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Willy Brandt
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Leader of the Iranian Revolution and first Supreme Leader of Iran
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Ruhollah Khomeini
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33rd U.S. President known for ordering the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Harry S. Truman
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Iranian Shah and last Iranian monarch before the Revolution
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
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Emperor of Ethiopia known for his leadership during the Italian invasion
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Haile Selassie
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First Prime Minister and President of Ghana
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Kwame Nkrumah
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First Chancellor of West Germany and key figure in post-war reintegration
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Konrad Adenauer
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Leader of the Ismaili Muslims and figure inn founding the All-India Muslim League
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Aga Khan III
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Leader of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang during the Chinese Civil War
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Chiang Kai-shek
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British Prime Minister who established the National Health Service in the U.K.
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Clement Attlee
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Egyptian President and key figure in the Non-Aligned Movement
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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First President of Senegal and proponent of the concept of Negritude
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Leopold Senghor
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Chinese politician who led economic reforms and modernized 20th century China
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Deng Xiaoping
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Yugoslav leader who kept Yugoslavia independent from Soviets in the Cold War
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Marshal Josip Tito
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36th President of the U.S. who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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15th Prime Minister of Canada known for fostering Canadian unity
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Pierre Trudeau
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Founder of the Fascist Party and leader of Italy during World War II
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Benito Mussolini
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Mexican revolutionary leader who became an icon of peasant resistance
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Emiliano Zapata
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General who led campaigns against government in the Mexican Revolution
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Pancho Villa
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Irish revolutionary leader and key figure in the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty
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Michael Collins
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Jamaican politician and activist who promoted Pan-Africanism
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Marcus Garvey
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Polish-German Marxist theorist and co-founder of the Spartacist League
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Rosa Luxemburg
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French political economist, diplomat and a founding father of the European Union
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Jean Monnet
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French philosopher and founder of deconstruction
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Jacques Derrida
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Russian Marxist and founder of the Red Army
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Leon Trotsky
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Spanish military dictator who ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War
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Francisco Franco
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French Prime Minister during WWII and figure in the Treaty of Versailles
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George Clemenceau
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French film director and pioneer of the French New Wave Cinema
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Panamanian leader ousted by a U.S. invasion for his role in drug trafficking
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Manuel Noriega
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Japanese Emperor who led during World War II and post-war recovery
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Emperor Hirohito
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Russian military engineer known for designing the AK-47 assault rifle
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Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Indonesian President & leader of the independence movement against the Dutch
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Sukarno
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First Jewish person and first socialist to serve as Prime Minister of France
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Leon Blum
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Military officer, politician and President of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
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Nguyễn Van Thiếu
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Chancellor of West Germany who unified Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Helmut Kohl
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First President of South Vietnam known for his anti-communist stance
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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President of the Philippines known for his declaration of martial law
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Ferdinand Marcos
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President of Serbia and Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav Wars
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Slobodan Milošević
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Leader of the Soviet Union who initiated the de-Stalinization process
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Prime Minister of Portugal who established the Estado Novo regime
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António Salazar
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French Supreme Allied Commander during World War I
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Ferdinand Foch
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First President of South Korea with anti-communist policies during the Korean War
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Syngman Rhee
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Founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Longest-reigning British monarch throughout the 20th century
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Queen Elizabeth II
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Dictator of the Dominican Republic during the early 20th century
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Rafael Trujillo
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Dutch athlete and gold medal Olympian known as the "Flying Housewife"
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Fanny Blankers-Koen
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Prime Minister of Iran who nationalized the Iranian oil industry
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Mohammad Mosaddegh
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The first African-American student at the segregated University of Mississippi
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James Meredith
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American suffragist who campaigned for the 19th and Equal Rights Amendments
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Alice Paul
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Bosnian Serb nationalist and assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Gavrilo Princip
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American First Lady and founder of a substance abuse center in her name
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Betty Ford
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28th President of the U.S. during WWI and a founder of the League of Nations
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Woodrow Wilson
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Salvadoran Catholic archbishop and outspoken critic of human rights abuses
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Oscar Romero
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Czechoslovak politician and leader of the Prague Spring
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Alexander Dubček
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Konstantin Chernenko
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Russian writer who exposed the Soviet Union's gulag system
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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German/U.S. engineer who helped develop rocket technology in Nazi Germany
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Wernher von Braun
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom known for his role in decolonization post-war
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Harold Macmillan
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President of Argentina who implemented free-market reforms
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Carlos Menem
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First Tunisian President who led Tunisia to independence from France
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Habib Bourguiba
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Soviet cosmonaut and figure in the Soviet Space program and Soyuz 11 mission
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Vladislav Volkov
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Martinican psychiatrist known for his work 'The Wretched of the Earth'
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Frantz Fanon
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Russian composer known for works like 'Peter and the Wolf'
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Sergei Prokofiev
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First President of the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Boris Yeltsin
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Nepali Sherpa mountaineer and one of the first to reach Mount Everest's summit
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Tenzing Norgay
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New Zealand mountaineer and one of the first to reach Mount Everest's summit
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Edmund Hillary
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American military leader and architect of the plan to rebuild Europe after WWII
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George C. Marshall
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Chinese Premier and key figure in the Chinese Communist Party
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Zhou Enlai
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Burkinabé military captain and leader of Burkina Faso
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Thomas Sankara
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Austrian Archduke whose assassinated triggered the events leading to WWI
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Franz Ferdinand
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Last King of Afghanistan who ruled from 1933 until he was overthrown in 1973
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Mohammed Zahir Shah
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American biologist known for the Kinsey Reports
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Alfred Kinsey
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Pashtun independence activist known for his nonviolent opposition to British rule
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Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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British primatologist known for her studies of chimpanzee behavior in Tanzania
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Jane Goodall
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American professional boxer known for his opposition to the Vietnam War
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Muhammad Ali
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Russian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 'Doctor Zhivago'
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Boris Pasternak
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Nicaraguan President and leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front
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Daniel Ortega
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Soviet physicist known for developing the Soviet hydrogen bomb
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Andrei Sakharov
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American economist known for influencing modern conservative economic thought
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Milton Friedman
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Czech playwright and key figure in the Velvet Revolution
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Vaclav Havel
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American birth control activist and founder of Planned Parenthood
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Margaret Sanger
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British writer known for his dystopian novel 'Brave New World'
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Aldous Huxley
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31st President of the U.S. criticized for his handling of the Great Depression
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Herbert Hoover
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President of France who oversaw the modernization of the French economy
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Georges Pompidou
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Haitian dictator nicknamed "Papa Doc" known for his authoritarian regime
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Jean-Claude Duvalier
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South Korean activist awarded the Nobel Prize for peace efforts with North Korea
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Kim Dae-jung
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African-American entrepreneur and first female self-made millionaire in the U.S.
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Madame C.J. Walker
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American architect known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Maya Lin
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Founding Prime Minister of Singapore responsible for its financial positioning
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Lee Kuan Yew
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Polish diplomat and National Security Advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who protested in South Vietnam
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Thích Quang Đức
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Cambodian king who led Cambodia through independence and monarchy
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Norodom Sihanouk
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of China during its economic growth
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Jiang Zemin
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Guatemalan indigenous and human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Rigoberta Menchú
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American actress turned Princess of Monaco
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Grace Kelly
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German actress and singer known for her support for the Allied forces in WWII
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Marlene Dietrich
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American comedian known for her television program 'I Love Lucy'
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Lucille Ball
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South African President of the African National Congress during its years in exile
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Oliver Tambo
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First African-American woman elected to the United States Congress
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Shirley Chisholm
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Canadian leader of the UN peacekeeping mission during the Rwandan Genocide
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Roméo Dallaire
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Israeli politician known for founding the Israeli Defense Force and UN speeches
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Abba Ban
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First woman to become President of Nicaragua who ended the Sandinista regime
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Violeta Chamorro
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First Nigerian President regarded as a founding father of Nigeria
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Nnamdi Azikiwe
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British royal known for charitable work and humanitarian efforts in the 80s and 90s
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Diana, Princess of Wales
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Taoiseach and President of Ireland who fought for Irish independence
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Éamon de Valera
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Mexican writer known for works like 'The Death of Artemio Cruz'
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Carlos Fuentes
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American astronaut and first American to orbit the Earth
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John Glenn
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First President of Tanzania known for his philosophy of Ujamaa
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Julius Nyerere
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Nigerian writer best known for his novel "Things Fall Apart"
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Chinua Achebe
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Soviet film director and pioneer of montage theory known for 'Battleship Potemkin'
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Sergei Einstein
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First American woman to win three gold medals in track & field in a single Olympic
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Wilma Rudolph
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Australian Prime Minister who introduced universal healthcare and free college
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Gough Whitlam
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Argentina Formula One driver who won five World Championships in the 1950s
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Juan Manuel Fangio
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Brazilian architect known for designing the city of Brasília
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Oscar Niemeyer
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First African-American Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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Thurgood Marshall
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Norwegian explorer and first person to reach the South Pole
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Roald Amundsen
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American philanthropist, billionaire, and co-founder of Microsoft
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Bill Gates
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French entertainer, 1920s icon and member of the French Resistance
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Josephine Baker
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French artist known for his paintings and sculptures depicting dancers
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Edgar Degas
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American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Green Revolution
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Norman Borlaug
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Romanian gymnast and first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics
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Nadia Comâneci
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French Nobel Peace Prize winner for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Rene Cassin
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French cabaret singer known for her song 'La Vie en rose'
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Edith Piaf
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