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First Emperor of the Franks
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Charlemagne
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Started the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther
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British prime minister during WWII
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Winston Churchill
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Spiritual teacher of mindfulness and the transcendence of pain
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Gautama Buddha
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Author of "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"
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Charles Dickens
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Austrian founder of psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud
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English scientist, polymath, and discoverer of microscopic life
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Robert Hooke
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First emperor of unified China
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Qin Shi Huang
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Painter and founder of French Impressionist painting
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Claude Monet
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First aviatrix to fly across the Atlantic
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Amelia Earhart
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Roman general and statesman killed on the Ides of March
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Julius Caesar
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Liberator of South America
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Simón Bolívar
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Former slave who helped others escape slavery with the "Underground Railroad"
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Harriet Tubman
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Influential Japanese filmmaker of samurai movies
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Akira Kurosawa
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French writer who advocated for separation of church and state
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Voltaire
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Mali emperor known for lavish spending and generosity
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Mansa Musa
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French fashion designer who collaborated with Nazi Germany
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Coco Chanel
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Car manufacturer who developed industrial mass production
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Henry Ford
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Discoverer of Jupiter's moons
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Galileo Galilei
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First president of the United States
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George Washington
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French Revolutionary and architect of the Reign of Terror
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Japanese author of the first novel
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Murasaki Shikibu
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Spanish co-founder of modern cubism
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Pablo Picasso
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Said to have played the fiddle while Rome burned
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Nero
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Founder of the Republic of China
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Sun Yat-sen
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Father of English literature and author of the "Canterbury Tales"
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Geoffery Chaucer
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Last pharoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
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Cleopatra
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Author of "The Prince" and the father of modern political science
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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Russian composer of "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake"
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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X-ray crystallographer central to the discovery of DNA's structure
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Rosalind Franklin
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First man to walk on the Moon
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Neil Armstrong
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Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of "Starry Night"
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Vincent van Gogh
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Wrote the "Tao te Ching"
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Laozi
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Conquistador responsible for the fall of the Aztec Empire
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Hernán Cortés
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First female sultan of India
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Razia Sultana
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Emperor of Ethiopia and central figure of Rastafarianism
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Haile Selassie
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Formulated the first physical laws of gravity and motion
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Isaac Newton
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Ancient Chinese moral philospher
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Confucius
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Spartan queen "whose face launched a thousand ships"
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Helen of Troy
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Peace activist and founding member of "The Beatles"
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John Lennon
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Allied Commander of D-Day
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Mongolian ruler of the largest contiguous empire in history
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Genghis Khan
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Marxist revolutionary and guerilla fighter of Latin America
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Che Guevara
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First "Great Unifier" of Japan
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Oda Nobunaga
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Catholic nun and Saint of Calcutta
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Mother Teresa
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American president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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John F. Kennedy
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Made the first circumnavigation of Earth
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Deaf German composer of "Für Elise" and "Moonlight Sonata"
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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English author of "Frankenstein"
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Mary Shelley
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Beloved Hellenistic teacher of astronomy, math, and philosophy
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Hypatia
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Mexican painter of self-portraits and surrealism
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Frida Kahlo
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British WWI officer renown for his role in the Arab Revolt
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T.E. Lawrence
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Sculptor of "David"
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Michelangelo
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First Marxist leader of Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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Sultan of the Ottoman golden age
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Suleiman the Magnificent
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First true historian
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Herodotus
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Founder of the ancient Maurya Empire
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Chandragupta
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United the Gauls in a failed revolt against Julius Caesar's forces
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Vercingetorix
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British explorer of the Pacific islands
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James Cook
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Virgin mother of Jesus in Christianity
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Mary
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