Society

Herodotus was one of the greatest historians of his time.

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Jackie Robinson is famous for being the first black baseball player to play in the International League.

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Malcolm X was one of the most influential Americans despite being assassinated while in the prime age of his life.

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Marcus Garvey was an important figure in black activism and black nationalism, and is considered by many to be one of the Rastafari prophets.

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Wangari Maathai was the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first and only environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Mark Twain was an important American writer and humorist whose work is often quoted to this day.

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Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

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Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Gnaeus Julius Agricola was responsible for much of the Roman conquest in Britain.

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John Locke was an influential philosopher, known for his contributions to the Age of Enlightenment.

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Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, known for designing more than 1,000 structures, half of which were completed.

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John Ruskin was a leading art critic of the Victorian era.

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Jane Goodall is a famous anthropologist known for her work with chimpanzees.

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Sidney Lee was an English biographer, known for editing the works of Shakespeare.

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Isaac Newton was an extremely influential mathematician, physicist, and scientist.

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Oskar Schindler was a member of the Nazi Party in Germany, who became famous for helping Jewish people in Germany during the Holocaust.

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Anne Frank was a young victim of the Holocaust in the time of World War II, who became famous for her journals that were published posthumously.

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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist.

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Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.

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Jan Hus was an important 15th-century Czech religious reformer.

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