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Malcolm X (1925–1965) was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular fi...

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Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first ...

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist whose i...

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Martin Ludwig Bormann was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He ga...

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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1817 – February 20, 1895)...

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Margaret Hilda Thatcher was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...

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The United States Invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause occurred between mid-December 1...

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Kim Jong-un (born 8 January 1982) is a North Korean politician. He has been Supreme Leader of North ...

Rosario Alberto Bufalino (born October 29, 1903) was an Italian-born American mobster who became the...

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR...

The Seleucid Empire was a Greek state in Western Asia, during the Hellenistic Period, that existed f...

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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 4...

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper and a Hero of the...

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligen...

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Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and...

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David Ben-Gurion (16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State o...

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