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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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Sigmund Freud
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Julius Caesar
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Joseph Stalin
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James Watson
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was a prominent American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and…
John F. Kennedy
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Isabella I of Castile
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Thomas Jefferson
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Hernán Cortés
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Francisco Pizarro
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Nicolaus Otto
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Joseph Lister
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