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A Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
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Marie Curie
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Through further military campaigns, he ousted Spanish rulers from Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
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Simon Bolivar
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On 2 January 1492 she entered Granada to receive the keys of the city, and the principal mosque was reconsecrated as a church.
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Isabella I
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Tony Blair erroneously accused him of possessing weapons of mass destruction.
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Saddam Hussein
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He told reporters he had designed a superweapon he claimed would end all war. He would call it "teleforce", but was usually referred to as his death ray.
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Nikola Tesla
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Considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the fellow Florentine and client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci.
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Michelangelo
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A Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II.
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Rasputin
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He built a new imperial residence at Byzantium and renamed the city after himself.
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Constantine
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He was the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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Charlemagne
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She made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat.
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Amelia Earhart
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The popular belief is that she was bitten by an asp.
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Cleopatra
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He encouraged black Zimbabweans to violently seize white-owned farms.
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Robert Mugabe
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The new continent was named America after the Latin version of his first name.
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Amerigo Vespucci
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He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching.
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Laozi
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At 19 months old she contracted an unknown illness that left her both deaf and blind.
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Helen Keller
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During his reign, Mali may have been the largest producer of gold in the world.
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Mansa Musa
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According to one account, he nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517.
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Martin Luther
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Two of his songs, "We Are the Champions" and "Bohemian Rhapsody", have also each been voted as the greatest song of all time in major polls
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Freddie Mercury
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It seems it is someone important in American history, but for us non-Americans, this question is quite tough indeed.