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  • Alexander the Great

  • Aristotle

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  • Bessie Smith

  • Niels Bohr

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  • Oliver Cromwell

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  • Charles Darwin

  • Leonardo da Vinci

  • Emily Dickinson

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  • Thomas Edison

  • Albert Einstein

  • Queen Elizabeth I

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • Sigmund Freud

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  • Galileo Galilei

  • Mohandas Gandhi

  • James Garfield

  • Ulysses S. Grant

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  • Alexander Hamilton

  • Werner Heisenberg

  • Henry VIII

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  • Andrew Jackson

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • John F. Kennedy

  • Joan of Arc

  • John Adams

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  • Johannes Kepler

L

  • Vladimir Lenin

  • Abraham Lincoln

M

  • James Madison

  • Michelangelo Buonarroti

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • James Monroe

  • Mother Jones

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  • Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Isaac Newton

O

  • Georgia O'Keeffe

  • J. Robert Oppenheimer

P

  • Pablo Picasso

  • Max Planck

  • James K. Polk

R

  • Ronald Reagan

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  • Sacajawea

  • Samuel Adams

  • Joseph Stalin

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  • Theodore Roosevelt

V

  • Vincent van Gogh

  • Queen Victoria

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  • George Washington

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • John Winthrop

  • Virginia Woolf

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