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Georgi Plekhanov
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Russian in exile in Switzerland, formed Russian Democratic Party.
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Alfred Nobel
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Swedish chemist, made dynamite
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Georges Sorel
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retired engineer who advocated violence against capitalism.
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Emile Zola
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Naturalistic writer. Humans like pawns on a chessboard w/o individual freedom.
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Demitri Mendeleyev
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Russian: classified chemical elements.
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Gustave Flaubert
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Madam Bovary
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George Eliot
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(Mary Ann Evans) Silas Marner and Middlemarch
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Thomas Hardy
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naturalism w/ emphasis on chance, fate, and luck. Return of the Native and Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Mathew Arnold
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Poetry w/ dismay. People = "philistines"
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Henrik Ibsen
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Norwegian playwright produced "problem plays" focused on social issues. 'A Doll's House' and 'Ghosts'
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Jules Verne
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Incorporated Geography; Around the World in 80 days and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Women's rights leader in Britain. `
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Michael Faraday
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first primitive generator
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Werner von Siemens
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first dynamo
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Karl Benz
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internal combustion engine
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Rudolph Diesel
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diesel engine w/ combination kerosene and oil.
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Graf von Zeppelin
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Airship (dirigible)
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Louis Pasteur
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germ theory of disease
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Joseph Lister
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first effective disinfectant (carbolic acid) in hospitals
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Henry Bessemer
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Bessamer steel process from pig iron made cheaper and stronger
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Guglielmo Marconi
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radio (transatlantic radio transmission)
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Marie Curie
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radioactivity
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Ernest Rutherford
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alpha and beta rays
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David Livingston
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source of the Nile
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Sigmund Freud
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psychoanalysis
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Max Plank
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quantum theory
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Albert Einstein
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E=mc^2
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Custave Corbet
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French painter who portrayed people realistically. Mocked the classics.
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Ford Maddox Brown
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British painter (realism)
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Clause Monet
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Impression Sunrise --> label impressionism
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Eduard Manet
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realsim originally, then did Luncheon on the Grass w/ nude women.
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H. M. Stanley
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"Dr. Livingston, I presume" exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.
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King Leopold
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was King of the Belgians. Born in Brussels the second (but eldest surviving) son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans,
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Edgar Degas
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cafe scenes. PASTELS OF BALLET DANCERS @ ODD ANGLES
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Paul Cezanne
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post-impressionist: nature based on cone, cylinder, and sphere
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Goerges Surat
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pointilism
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Vinvent van Gogh
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Dutch- Starry Night, Wheat Field and Cypress Trees
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Paul Gauguin
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stockbroker --> moved to Tahiti (primitive)
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Henri de Toulouse La Trec
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painted Parisian night-life. At the Moulin - Rouge. darker scene
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Edward Munch
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Norwegian. The Scream.
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Henri Matisse
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fauve leader (wild beasts) joy of expression. The Red Studio.
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Wassily Kandinsky
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Russian encompassed "fauves" Stopped representing people, totally abstract.
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Pablo Picasso
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Cubism (alternative to Fauvism) most famous- Guernica.
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Marcel Duchamps
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French- geometric shapes. The Bride.
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Rudyard Kipling
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White Man's Burden. Regarded by some as anthems for enlightened and duty-bound empire-building (that captured the mood of the Victorian age), the poems equally were regarded by others as propaganda for brazenfaced imperialism and its attendant racial attitudes; still others saw irony in the poems and warnings of the perils of empire.
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Ceceil Rhodes
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English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. De Beers. Cape to Cairo- RED LINE
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