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Short French military and political leader; spread the French Revolution and his legal code throughout Europe
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Civil War president, Emancipation Proclamation,
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Abraham Lincoln
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Queen of Great Britain, Empress of India, her name is the era
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Queen Victoria
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Italian writer and political activist, "soul of Italy", promoted a unified Italy
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Giuseppe Mazzini
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"El Libertador", led South American colonies to their independence, his name is a country
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Simon Bolivar
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Crimean war nurse, improved hospital practises
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Florence Nightingale
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First and only British-Jewish PM, modernized and led the Conservative Party
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Benjamin Disraeli
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British Prime Minster, Liberal party founder and rival of the above
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William Gladstone
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Explorer, "discovered" source of the Nile, met Stanley
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David Livingstone
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Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times
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Charles Dickens
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The Communist Manifesto, Das Capital
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Karl Marx
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American poet, Transcendentalism,
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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American poet, follower of the above, "Leaves of Grass"
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Walt Whitman
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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British poet, "Charge of the Light Brigade", "Ulysses"
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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One of three sister novelists, Wuthering Heights
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Emily Bronte
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Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
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Utilitarian philosopher
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John Stuart Mill
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UK MP, campaigned against slavery, helped abolish the slave trade
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William Wilberforce
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First women editor of the New York Tribune (not a brush company)
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Margaret Fuller
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US suffargette and advocate for equal rights, dollar coin
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Susan B Anthony
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Non-violent leader of the British suffragette movement (not Farah)
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Millicent Fawcett
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Father of modern computers (rhymes with cabbage)
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Charles Babbage
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On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man
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Charles Darwin
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Fermentation and Pasteurization
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Louis Pasteur
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Electromagnetism, physics
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James Maxwell
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US businessman controlled oil and railroads
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John D Rockefeller
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Electro-magnetic induction, electrolysis
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Michael Faraday
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Small pox vaccine
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Edward Jenner
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Mechanical Engineer, improved the steam engine, built railroads (not Brunei)
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George Stephenson
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Filed over 1,000 patents including the phonograph and light bulb (or did Tesla)
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Thomas Edison
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Polish scientist killed by her own discoveries, won two separate Nobels
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Marie Curie
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Austrian monk and geneticist ignored in his own lifetime
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Gregor Mendel
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The first telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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German writer and thinker, Faust
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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French writer, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Miserables
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Victor Hugo
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Advocate for Irish Home Rule, MP for Ireland and an Anglo-Irish landlord
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Charles Stewart Parnell
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Conservative Prussian statesmen, unified Germany, Chancellor of the German Empire
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Otto von Bismarck
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French politician, conservative republican, served as president and prime minister at different times, put down the Paris Commune
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Adolphe Thiers
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German composer and pianist, did his best work after he went deaf.
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Ludwig von Beethoven
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Invented early forms of photography and processing
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Louis Daguerre
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Invented the telegraph and the code it used
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Samuel Morse
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Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen
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Italian general and politician who helped unify Italy
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Giuseppe Garlbaldi
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Russian Tsar, emancipated the serfs
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Tsar Alexander II
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Leader of the Lakota (Sioux), Battle of Little Bighorn
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Sitting Bull
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President of the Confederate States of America
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Jefferson Davis
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Ruled Austria-Hungary for over 50 years resisting any attempt to modernize it
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Emperor Franz Joseph I
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Norwegian playwright, The Doll House
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Henrik Ibsen
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Expanded US steel industry, the "Gospel of Wealth"
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Andrew Carnegie
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American banker, created General Electric and US Steel
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JP Morgan
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South African politician, mining magnate, helped started the Boer War, founded modern Zimbabwe, and a scholarship fund in his name
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Cecil Rhodes
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Blue jeans
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Levi Strauss
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Dutch painter, the Potato Eaters, Starry Night (one eared)
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Water Lilies, Impressionism
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Claude Monet
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Third President of the US, Louisiana Purchase
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Thomas Jefferson
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Two explorers sent by the above from St Louis to the Pacific, guided by a Fr. Canadian fur trapper and his ShoShone wife
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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Polish pianist and composer, lived in Paris
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Frederic Chopin
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Danish writer famous for his fairy tales, the Little Mermaid
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Hans Christian Andersen
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The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley
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War and Peace, Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
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Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Samuel Clemens
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Mark Twain
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Inventor of a system of reading and writing for the blind which carries his name
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Louis Braille
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German mathematician, logician and philosopher
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Gottlob Frege
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Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventer of dynamite. Now known for his prizes
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Alfred Nobel
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Russian scientist, classic conditioning theory, salivating dogs
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Ivan Pavlov
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Founded the Bahai faith
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Bahaullah
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Russian revolutionary anarchist, founded social or collective anarchism
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Mikhail Bakunin
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Founded the Salvation Army
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William Booth
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Central figure in German philosophy, German idealism and historism, was turned upside down by Marx
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The first existentialist, Danish philosopher, social critic and theologian
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Soren Kierkegaard
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"Property is Theft", French anarchist
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Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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Published "The Liberator" advocating an end to slavery and later full female suffrage
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Founder of modern political Zionism, prompted Jewish migration to Palestine
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Theodor Herzl
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7th US President, Trail of Tears and Indian Removal,
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Andrew Jackson
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First PM of Canada, (spelled differently than the restaurant)
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John A MacDonald
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The ultimate diplomat and politician. He served King Louis XVI, the French Republic, Napoleon, King Louis XVIII, Louis-Philippe
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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African American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy
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Harriet Tubman
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Chancellor and Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire
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Klemens von Metternich
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Hungarian revolutionary, served as regent-president during the 1848 revolution
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Louis Kossuth
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Nurse, founded the American Red Cross
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Clara Barton
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President of Mexico from 1861 to 1872, resisted French occupation, overthrew the Second Mexican Empire, prompted liberal reforms and modernized the country
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Benito Juarez
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American abolitionist, Harper's Ferry, hung for treason
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John Brown
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"Go west young man", journalist, politician, founded the New York Tribune
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Horace Greeley
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Norwegian painter, "the Scream"
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Edvard Munch
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African American composer and pianist, ragtime, "Maple Leaf Rag", (not Janis)
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Scott Joplin
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Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, 1812 Overture
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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German composer and opera writer, friend of Nietzsche, The Ring, Bayreuth, Tristan and Isolde
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Richard Wagner
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Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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French novelist, Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time
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Marcel Proust
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American transcendentalist, thinker, poet, etc, Walden, Civil Disobedience
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Henry David Thoreau
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German engineer, developed the internal combustion engine for automobiles, company is named after him (owed Chrysler for a period of time)
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Gottlieb Daimler
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Russian chemist, formulated the Periodic Law and helped develop the periodic table of elements
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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Irish politician and UK MP, the Great Emancipator, fought for Catholic rights, sought to repeal the Act of Union
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Daniel O'Connell
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Former African American slave, abolitionist, public speaker, advised Lincoln, posted to Haiti as a diplomat
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Frederick Douglass
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British military leader in the Peninsular War, Battle of Waterloo, later a prominent Victorian politician
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Arthur Wesley, Duke of Wellington
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King of the Zulu Kingdom 1816-1828
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Shaka
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American writer, short stories and poetry, modernized horror and gothic story writing, The Raven
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Serbian American inventor and engineer who apparently doesn't get enough respect, fought numerous patent battles, developed the AC electrical current
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Nikola Tesla
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