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George Eastman
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Invented roll film
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Wernher von Braun
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German rocket scientist, worked on US space program
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Archimedes
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Greek mathemitician
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Robert Fulton
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Invented first steamboat engine
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Galileo Galilei
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popularized the telescope, developed first law of motion, supporter of copernicanism
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Robert Goddard
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Invented liquid fuel rocket
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Johann Gutenberg
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Invented printing press
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Invented the radio
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Alfred Nobel
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Invented dynamite
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Edward Teller
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Invented hydrogen bomb
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Vlad the Impaler
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Transylvanian prince, Dracula based on him
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Oscar Wilde
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Gay playwright
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Machiavelli
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Wrote The Prince, political philosopher
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Brian Epstein
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Beatles manager
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Mata Hari
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Female german spy in WWI
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Pol Pot
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Prime Minister of Cambodia, killed 2 million of his people
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Emperor Hirohito
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Emperor of Japan during WWII
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Augusto Pinochet
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Chilean general who staged a coup with the help of the US
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Slobodan Milosevic
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Dictator of yugoslavia
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Heinrich Himmler
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Commander of the SS
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Rudolf Hess
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Edited Mein Kampf, Hitler's deputy
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Dr. Mengele
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the "angel of death", decided who lived and died in the concentration camps
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Hermann Goring
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Founded the Gestapo, headed the Luftwaffe, Hitler's second in command, committed suicide before he could be executed at Nuremburg
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Joseph Goebbels
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Nazi propoganda minister
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Horatio Nelson
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British admiral, died at the Battle of Trafalgar. Won the battles there and at the Nile.
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Plutarch
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Greek biographer
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Cicero
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Roman orator, opponent of Julius Ceaser and was executed after the assassination.
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Demosthenes
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Greek orator
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Plato
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Student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle. Wrote lots of dialogues, wrote The Republic
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Sophocles
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Greek playwright and poet, wrote Oedipus and Antigone
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Euripides
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Greek poet
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Herodotus
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Greek "father of history", wrote "The Histories", about the persian invasion of greece
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Hippocrates
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Greek, early expert on medicine
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Otto von Bismark
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Unified Germany, first chancellor of the German Empire, started the Second Reich.
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Joseph Smith
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Founder of the Mormans
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Erwin Rommel
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Germany army commander on the African front, forced to commit suicide by Hitler for being suspected of a plot against the fuhrer
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John Milton
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English poet, wrote Paradise Lost
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Ivan the Terrible
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The first tsar of Russia.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Prime Minister of Britain in the late 19th century, and author
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David Lloyd George
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Prime Minister of England during WWI.
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William the Conqueror/William of Normandy
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Born in Normandy, France, he became the king of England by winning the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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William Gladstone
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British Prime Minister during the same period as Benjamin Disraeli, and his rival.
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Julius Caeser
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Roman military leader who began the extension of the empire. Was assassinated on the Ides of March.
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Caeser Augustus
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Called Octavian before assuming the new name, he is considered the greatest of the Roman emperors. Adopted son of Julius Caeser. Brought an end to civil war in Rome.
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Francis Drake
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English sailor; first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. Second in command at the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
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Francis Bacon
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English philosopher during 16 and 17th centuries. Developed the forerunner of the scientific method.
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Walter Raleigh
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Crazy English guy; writer, poet, spy, explorer. Story that he took off his coat and put it in a mud puddle so Queen Elizabeth could walk over it. Started the Roanoke Colony.
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Queen Elizabeth I
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Last tudor monarch. Also called the virgin queen for never marrying. Her reign is called the Elizabethan Era.
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Queen Mary I
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Queen before Elizabeth, she is known as Bloody Mary for killing dissenters to the throne and for attempting to return England to Catholicism.
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Karl Popper
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British philosopher of science in the 20th century. Said that a hypothesis must be falsifiable.
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James Levine
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Conductor with crazy hair; music director of the BSO
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General Hideki Tojo
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Military dictator and prime minister of Japan during most of WWII. Forced to resign after a series of military losses.
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Kaiser Wilhelm
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Kaiser of Germany during WWI.
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Robert Oppenheimer
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Head of Los Alamos during the Manhatten Project
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Enrico Fermi
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Italian scientist who discovered the radioactivity of uranium and achieved the first controleld fission chain reaction in the US.
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Gaius Cassius
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The leading conspirator of the cabal against Julius Caeser
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Marcus Brutus
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May have been Julius Caeser's illigitimate son, was part of the cabal against the emperor.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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German theologian and one of the leaders of the resistence movement in Nazi Germany. Executed in 1944.
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Leon Trotsky
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Bolshevik leader and head of the Red Army. Exile after a power struggle with Stain. Believed in a state of "constant revolution", now called Trotskyism.
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Lord Byron
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The most famous English poet of his day (early 19th century). Famous for writing Child Harold's Pilgramage and Don Juan
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Margaret Mitchell
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Wrote Gone With the Wind, published in 1936.
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Adolf Eichmann
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Organized the holocaust
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Reinhard Heydrich
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Became head of the Gestapo. Killed over a million Jews in Nazi occupied Russia. Assassinated in 1942.
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Rudolf Hoess
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Commander of Auschwitz.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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Swedish scienctist, philosopher, and mystic. Experienced a revelation whereafter he could supposedly speak to angels and spirits, who told him the true meanings of the scriptures.
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Auguste Rodin
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French sculptor of The Thinker
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Hieronymus Bosch
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Dutch painter in 15 and 16th centuries. Painted the Garden of Earthly Delights
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Carl Jung
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Swiss psychiatrist in the first half of the 20th century.
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Allen Ginsberg
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Beat Poet of the 50s and 60s. Wrote "Howl".
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William S. Burroughs
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Beat Generation novelist, most famous work was "Naked Lunch"
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Sisyphus
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In Greek mythology, he was resigned to push a boulder up a hill only to have it fall down again, in Hades.
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Persephone
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Queen of the Underworld, daughter of Demeter. Her time up and below earth determine the seasons.
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Helios
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The sun, drove a flaming chariot across the sky.
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Minos
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King of Crete
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Charon
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Ferryman of Hades.
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Cerberus
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Three headed dog who defended the underworld.
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Orpheus
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Representative of the arts and music.
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Artemis
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Goddess of the hunt
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Selene
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Goddess of the moon
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Aphrodite
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Goddess of love and beauty
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Athena
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Goddess of wisdom and war
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Hephaestus
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God of fire and the forge, for smiths and artisans
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Francis Gary Powers
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U2 pilot.
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