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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Leonhard Euler
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Enrico Fermi
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Johannes Kepler
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Voltaire
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Edward Jenner
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Wilhelm Röntgen
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Abraham Lincoln
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William the Conqueror
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John Adams
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Winston Churchill
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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