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Disciple of Socrates who wrote "The Republic"
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Plato
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Soviet leader during World War II
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Joseph Stalin
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Conqueror who founded the Mongol Empire
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Genghis Khan
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General who led the French Resistance and later served as President
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Charles de Gaulle
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Königsberg philosopher and authority on ethical dilemmas
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Immanuel Kant
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Conquered and united China by 221 BC
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Qin Shi Huang
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"Iron chancellor" who united Germany
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Otto von Bismarck
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Fascist Italian leader known as "Il Duce"
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Benito Mussolini
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Introduced Glasnost and Perestroika to the USSR, before it collapsed
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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First black president of South Africa
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Nelson Mandela
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Westernized Russia and founded St. Petersburg
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Peter the Great
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Initiated the first circumnavigation of the globe
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Introduced free market economy to China
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Deng Xiaoping
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"Prince of Terror" during the French Revolution
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Maximilien Robespierre
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North Vietnamese leader until 1969
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Ho Chi-Minh
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Author of "Don Quijote"
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Italian who discovered the moons of Jupiter and was silenced by the church
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Galileo Galilei
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Painter of the Sistine Chapel
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Michelangelo
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Apostle who is attributed to having written around half of the New Testament
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Saint Paul
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Empress whose reign is called the Golden Age of Russia
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Catherine the Great
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Cuba's "Maximo Líder"
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Fidel Castro
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Discovered polonium and received two Nobel Prizes
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Marie Curie
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Albanian nun known for her charitable work in Calcutta
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Mother Teresa
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Solidarity leader and first Polish president after the fall of Communism
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Lech Wałęsa
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Wrote "Crime and Punishment"
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Fyodor Dostoyevski
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Proposed that the earth revolves around the sun, triggering a Scientific Revolution
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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French feminist who said, "One is not born but becomes a woman."
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Author of the "Divine Comedy"
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Dante Alighieri
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Developed the theory of relativity
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Albert Einstein
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Soviet leader during the Cuba Crisis
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Founder of psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud
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First Roman emperor
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Augustus
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Cubist painter of "Guernica"
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Pablo Picasso
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Designed the first practical automobile
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Carl Benz
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Chilean dictator 1973-1991
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Augusto Pinochet
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Babylonian king whose code of laws introduced an "eye for eye" policy
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Hammurabi
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Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Ruhollah Khomeini
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Greek scientist who went bathing and exclaimed, "Eureka!"
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Archimedes
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United Spain with Ferdinand II and completed the Reconquista
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Isabella of Castile
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Austrian Wunderkind who composed "The Magic Flute"
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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No "Paul" for Saint Paul?