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Deng Xiaoping, Leader of China
One of the old guard of the Chinese Communist Party, Deng Xiaoping became the party's Secretary General in 1954, but was purged by Chairman Mao in 1966 for his strong obj... |
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Kim Il-sung, Leader of North Korea
Kim Il-sung was the leader of North Korea from its founding in 1948 until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il. He held the posts of Prime Minister fro... |
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Milton Friedman, Economist
Milton Friedman is the twentieth century's most prominent economist advocate of free markets. He was born in 1912 to Jewish immigrants in New York City. He attended Rutge... |
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General Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean general who in 1973 staged a coup d'etat with the help of the CIA. His flair for fashion made him South America's answer to Muammar Qaddafi... |
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Idi Amin, President Uganda
Idi Amin Dada Oumee 'Butcher of Africa' seizes power in a coup in January 1971. Amin has become the subject of many bizarre rumours and myths. There are stories of cannib... |
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Pol Pot
AKA 'Brother Number One'. Birth name Saloth Sar. Country: Cambodia. Kill tally: One to three million (or between a quarter and a third of the country's population).
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Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of al... |
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Gunpei Yokoi, Creator Game Boy
Yokoi was one of the most important figures in the history of the Nintendo video game company. While employed there, Yokoi designed the Game Boy handheld game console and... |
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Herman Brood
Herman Brood was a Dutch musician, painter and media personality. Brood was the Dutch personification of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. After playing piano in Cuby and the... |
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David Bowie
David Bowie, as a musician, performer and song-writer, defied this convention completely, continually re-invented himself and his art at breakneck speed and illogical dis... |
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Timeline of the Hippy Movement
Here are some of the more important events of the 1960s-1970s. They include the antecedents and descendants of the hippy movement, the civil rights, anti-war, women's an... |
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular war in which Americans ever fought. And there is no reckoning the cost. The toll in suffering, sorrow, in rancorous na... |
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The Cultural Revolution, China
The Cultural Revolution (CR), it might sound unfamiliar for most people. It broke out more than thirty years ago in China, and few people know what the CR meant and why i... |
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Baader-Meinhof Timeline
A timeline of events related to the Baader-Meinhof Era. The crisis years between 1968 and 1977 represented the most tumultuous era in West Germany's entire internal socia... |
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A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick's striking visual interpretation of Anthony Burgess's famous novel is a masterpiece. Malcolm McDowell delivers a clever, tongue-in-cheek performance as Al... |
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