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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish…
Jesse Owens was an African American track-and-field star famous for his performance at the…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
5
Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now…
Marcus Junius Brutus, often referred to simply as Brutus, was a politician of the late Roman…
Theodora was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Like her…
Dom Vasco da Gama, (c.1460s-1524) was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to…
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and…
Asia + Oceania
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Gandhi became the international symbol of a free India. He lived a spiritual and ascetic life…