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Mary Wollstonecraft, Feminist
Wollstonecraft's lasting place in the history of philosophy rests upon A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In this classical feminist text, she appealed to egali... |
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Dr. David Livingstone
Few Europeans have contributed as much to the exploration of Africa as a gentle Scottish missionary named David Livingstone. He was a curious combination of missionary, d... |
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Du Bois, Civil Rights Leader
W.E.B. Du Bois was an early African-American civil rights leader and scholar and the first non-white person to receive a doctorate from Harvard University. He was an outs... |
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Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi became the international symbol of a free India. He lived a spiritual and ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and meditation. The Mahatma's political and spiritual ho... |
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Lenin, Founder of the Soviet Republics
LENIN, VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV, founder and guiding spirit of the Soviet Republics and the Communist International, the disciple of Marx, the leader of the Bolshevik part... |
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf, British novelist, also distinguished feminist essayist, critic, and a central figure of the Bloomsbury group.
During the inter-war period Woolf was at... |
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David Ben-Gurion
Having led the struggle to establish the State of Israel in May 1948, Ben-Gurion became Prime Minister and Defense Minister. As Premier,... |
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Marinus van der Lubbe, Reichstag Fire
On 27th February 1933 the Reichstag caught fire. When they police arrived they found Lubbe on the premises. After being tortured by the Gestapo he confessed to starting t... |
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Nelson Mandela
Released on 11 February 1990. He was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on 10 May 1994. Mandela's words, "The struggle is my... |
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Evita Peron
Eva Maria Duarte was born in May of 1919 in Argentina. She grew up very poor with five brothers and sisters, a mother, and no father. Eva moved to Buenos Aires when she w... |
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Lumumba, First Prime Minister of Congo
Patrice Emery Lumumba, African nationalist leader, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (June-September 1960). Forced out of office during a p... |
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Martin Luther King
Any number of historic moments in the civil rights struggle have been used to identify Martin Luther King, Jr. — prime mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, ke... |
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Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian Author
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian author, journalist, government official and political organizer who was brutally executed by the Nigerian dictatorship in response to a very... |
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Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof was the leader of the Boomtown Rats, an Irish "new wave" band of the 1970s and '80s. The group had a string of hits in the United Kingdom an... |
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Osama bin Laden, Leader al-Qaeda
The U.S. government considers Osama bin Laden to be the most dangerous terrorist in the world. Bin Laden joined the Afghanistani resistance in 1979 and became a commander... |
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