Historical Figures Decoder

Guess each historical figure. Then combine the first letters of each historical figure's name to make Benjamin Franklin quote.

Only the last name of people with first and last names are accepted

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	Clue	Figure
N	French conqueror who saw his last defeat at Waterloo	Napoleon
O	Assassin of John F. Kennedy	Lee Harvey Oswald
T	Exiled Soviet leader assassinated in Mexico	Leon Trotsky
H	Emperor of Japan during World War II	Hirohito
I	Ancient Egyptian who has been called history's first architect and doctor	Imhotep
N	British admiral who won the Battle of Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson
G	Indian pacifist who led India to independence	Mohandas Gandhi

I	Spanish Queen of Castille who married the King of Aragon	Isabella I of Castille
S	Greek philosopher who was sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock	Socrates

C	Probably China's most influential philosopher	Confucius
E	Aviatrix who disappeared in 1937	Amelia Earhart
R	Dutch Golden Age painter of "The Night Watch"	Rembrandt
T	Escaped American slave who rescued 70 others	Harriet Tubman
A	Greek conqueror whose empire extended to India	Alexander the Great
I	Russian Tsar whose reign saw the conquest of Siberia	Ivan the Terrible
N	American president who resigned after Watergate	Richard Nixon

B	"Liberator" of South and Central America	Simón Bolívar
U	Pope who called for and launched the First Crusade	Urban II
T	British Prime Minister during Falkland War	Margaret Thatcher

D	King who ruled the Persian Empire at its peak	Darius the Great
E	German scientist famous for the theory E=mc	Albert Einstein
A	First man on the Moon	Neil Armstrong
T	Pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922	Tutankhamun
H	Babylonian king whose code decreed "an eye for an eye"	Hammurabi

A	Hun called the "Scourge of God"	Attila
N	17th century English physicist who discovered gravity	Isaac Newton
D	Portuguese captain who was the first to sail directly from Europe to India	Vasco da Gama

T	Roman Emperor who came after Augustus	Tiberius
A	Founding father of secular Turkey	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
X	Persian emperor who failed to conquer Greece	Xerxes the Great
E	Her father was Henry VIII and her mother Anne Boleyn	Elizabeth I
S	Author of "The Wealth of Nations"	Adam Smith

Ben Franklin Quote
Nothing is certain but death and taxes

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May 18, 2020

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