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Eva Peron |
First Lady of Argentina ran the Ministries of Labor and Healthfounded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, theFemale Peronist Party. |
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MK Gandhi |
India leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. |
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Ho Chi Minh |
Vietnam Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam oversaw many successful military actions against the Vichy French and Japanese occupation of Vietnam during World War II |
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Pope John Paul II |
From poland Catholic Pope one of the most travelled world leaders in history upheld the Church's teachings on such matters as artificialcontraception and theordination of women, but also supported the Church's Second Vatican Council and its reforms. |
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Winston churchill |
Britian Prime Minister of the United Kingdomofficer in the British Army, a historian, a writer and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. |
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Edward Teller |
Hungarian born America theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", made numerous contributions tonuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy |
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AlbertEinstein |
German-born physicist developed the general theory of relativity, among other feats. He is considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effectEinstein came up with the equation E=mc2, suggesting that tiny particles of matter could be converted into huge amounts of energy, foreshadowing the development of atomic power. |
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Mao Zedong |
Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier and statesman who led his nation's Cultural Revolution.Chinese Military Leader Led the Chinese Communist Party "Great Leap Forward" (failed) |
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Jawaharlal Nehru |
India leader of India’s nationalist movement and became India’s first prime minister after its independence. Te imparted modern values and thoughtStressed secularismInsisted upon the basic unity of IndiaAnd, in the face of ethnic and religious diversity, carried India into the modern age of scientific innovation and technological progress. |
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Osama Bin Ladin |
arabia terrorist extremist who planned the attacks on the World Trade Center and was intent on driving Western influence from the Muslim world. joined the Afghan resistance. formed the al-Qaeda Osama returned to Saudi Arabia as a hero, and the United States referred to him and his soldiers as "Freedom Fighters." |
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David Ben-Gurion |
Poland first prime minister and defense minister of Israel. Zionist statesman and political leader |
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Lech Walesa |
Polish Labor activist and later Polish president Lech Walesa helped form and lead communist Poland's first independent trade union, Solidarity and won a Nobel Prize for peace. |
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Neil Armstrong |
US American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. aerospace engineer,naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. |
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John Eckert |
US electrical engineer and computer pioneer. designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, |
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Golda Meir |
Isreal Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman and politician and thefourth Prime Minister of Israel. "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics, |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
US American Baptist minister, activist,humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. |
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Nelson Mandela |
South Africa anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served asPresident of South Africa tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racialreconciliation. |
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Andrei Sakharov |
Russian Russian nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident, an activist for disarmament, peace and human rights. renowned as the designer of the Soviet Union's Third Idea, a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons. |
