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Abigail Adams, the closest advisor and wife of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams

Abigail Adams (November 22, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the closest advisor and wife of John Adams, as well as...

Eleanor Roosevelt, the longest-serving First Lady of the United States (March 1933 to April 1945)

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the...

George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic who is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an...

Hillary Clinton, First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician who was the 67th United States Secretary of...

Crazy Horse, a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota

Crazy Horse (c. 1842 – September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric poets in the English language, and one of the most influential

Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the first woman to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991

Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author who is the First and...

Martialis, a Roman poet considered the greatest Latin epigrammatist; the creator of the modern epigram

Marcus Valerius Martialis ((March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from...

Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology

Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology....

Lord Byron, British poet whose best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems, Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and the short lyric poem, “She Walks in Beauty”

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was...

William Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the...

Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of ittle Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911)

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best...

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