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Legacies library · 251 lives
The lives that shaped what we remember.
251 carefully written profiles - from Aristotle to Wangari Maathai. Scientists, writers, reformers, and teachers. Each one a miniature, not a Wikipedia dump.
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A
31 lives
Abdul Sattar Edhi
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Abraham Lincoln
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Ada Lovelace
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Ahmed I
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Alan Turing
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Albert Einstein
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Albert Schweitzer
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Aldo Leopold
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Aldous Huxley
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Alexander Fleming
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Alexander The Great
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Alexander Von Humboldt
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Marshall
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Alfred Tarski
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Alfred Werner
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Ali Mazrui
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Amos Tversky
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André Bazin
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Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
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Anne Boleyn
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Anne Frank
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Ansel Adams
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Antonin Artaud
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Aristotle
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Arthur Danto
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Ashoka
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Audrey Hepburn
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Auguste Comte
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Averroes
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B
5 lives
Barbara Ward
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Barry Commoner
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Bell Hooks
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Benjamin Franklin
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Bertrand Russell
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C
14 lives
Carl Edward Sagan
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Carl Gustaf Rossby
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Carl Gustav Jung
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Carl Ortwin Sauer
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Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin
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Cesare Lombroso
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Charles Darwin
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Charles Dickens
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Charles Lyell
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Christopher Columbus
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Claude Lévi Strauss
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Claude Monet
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Coco Chanel
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Confucius
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9 lives
D T Suzuki
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Dalton Trumbo
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Daniel Defoe
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David Hilbert
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Democritus
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Donella Meadows
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Doreen Massey
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Dorothy Draper
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Douglas Engelbart
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E P Thompson
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edmund Burke
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Edward Said
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Edward Sapir
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Edward W Soja
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Elinor Ostrom
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Emily Dickinson
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Erich Auerbach
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Erik Erikson
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Ernest Rutherford
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Erwin Panofsky
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Eugene Pleasants Odum
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Euripides
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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6 lives
Florence Nightingale
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Frank Herbert
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Frantz Fanon
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Fred Hoyle
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Frida Kahlo
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Gabriel Abraham Almond
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Gabriel García Márquez
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Galileo Galilei
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George Gordon Byron
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George Orwell
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George Washington
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Gilbert Ryle
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Gregor Mendel
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Gunnar Myrdal
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Hal Finney
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Hannah Arendt
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Hans Adolf Krebs
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Hans Morgenthau
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Harriet Martineau
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Harry Hammond Hess
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Hattie Mcdaniel
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Heinrich Schliemann
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Helen Keller
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Henrik Ibsen
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Henry Ford
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Herbert A Simon
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Herbert Marcuse
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Hippocrates
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Howard Hughes
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Ibn Battuta
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Ibn Khaldun
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Immanuel Kant
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Isaac Newton
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Izaak Maurits Kolthoff
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Jalaluddin Rumi
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James Ephraim Lovelock
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James Joyce
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Jan Hendrik Oort
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Jane Austen
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Jane Goodall
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Jane Jacobs
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Jean Piaget
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Jesus Christ
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John Dewey
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John Lennon
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John Maynard Keynes
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John Mccarthy
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John Rawls
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John Stuart Mill
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John Von Neumann
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John Wilder Tukey
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Jonas Salk
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Joseph Beuys
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Julius Caesar
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7 lives
Karl Benz
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Karl Marx
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Karl Popper
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Käthe Kollwitz
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Katia Krafft
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Kenneth L Pike
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Kurt Lewin
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Lewis Fry Richardson
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Linus Carl Pauling
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Louis Pasteur
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Louis Xiii Of France
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Luciano Pavarotti
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Lucie Rie
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Margaret Mead
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Maria Montessori
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Marie Curie
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Mario Molina
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Mark Twain
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Marlene Dietrich
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Marshall Mcluhan
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Martha Graham
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Martin Luther
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Martin Luther King Jr
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Mary Anning
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Mary Leakey
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Max Planck
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Max Weber
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Maya Angelou
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Mehdi Yarrahi
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Michel Foucault
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Milutin Milankovitch
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Mircea Eliade
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Mother Teresa
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Muhammad Akbar
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Murad Iv
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Nam June Paik
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nicolaus Steno
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Niels Bohr
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Nikola Tesla
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Norman L Bowen
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Norman Myers
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Octavio Paz
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Orson Welles
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Oscar Wilde
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Osman Gazi
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10 lives
Pablo Picasso
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Paul Farmer
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Paul J Crutzen
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Paul Rand
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Paul Tillich
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Philip W Anderson
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Pierre Curie
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Piet Mondrian
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Pope John Paul I
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Pope Pius Xii
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1 life
Queen Victoria
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22 lives
Rabindranath Tagore
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Rachel Carson
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Ragnar Frisch
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ram Dass
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Raúl Prebisch
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Richard Phillips Feynman
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Rita Levi Montalcini
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Robert Burns Woodward
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Robert E Horton
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Robert Frost
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Robert Hooke
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Robert Horton
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Robert J Flaherty
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Robert Morris Sr
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Robin Williams
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Roger Randall Dougan Revelle
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Roland Barthes
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Roman Jakobson
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Ronald Aylmer Fisher
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Rosa Parks
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin
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Sappho
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Sigmund Freud
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Simone De Beauvoir
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Socrates
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Stan Lee
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Stanley Kubrick
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Stephen H Schneider
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Stephen Hawking
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Steve Jobs
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Sun Tzu
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Susan Sontag
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7 lives
Taha Hussein
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Theo Colborn
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Thomas Edison
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Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Paine
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Thucydides
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Trevor Kletz
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1 life
Umberto Eco
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3 lives
Vasily Dokuchaev
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Virginia Woolf
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9 lives
W E B Du Bois
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Waldo Tobler
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Walter Benjamin
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Walter Munk
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Wangari Maathai
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Wassily Kandinsky
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William Shakespeare
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William Wordsworth
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Winston Churchill
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2 lives
Yacoub Shaheen
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Yuan Cheng Fung
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Zellig Harris
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Zygmunt Bauman
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