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Simón Bolívar, a Venezuelan military and political leader who played a leading role in the establishment of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama as sovereign states, independent of Spanish rule

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad de Bolívar y Palacios (July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830), generally known as...

Rabbi Samuel ben Nahman,

Samuel ben Nahman (Hebrew: שמואל בן נחמן‎‎) or Samuel [bar] Nahmani (Hebrew: שמואל [בר] נחמני‎‎) was a rabbi of the...

Laozi, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer

Laozi (also Lao-Tzu or Lao-Tze, Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ, literally “Old Master”) was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He...

Lewis Carroll, an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” and its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass”

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll was an...

Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as “Spaceship Earth”

Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (/ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer,...

Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd Vice President of the United States (1893–97), who as Assistant Postmaster General of the United States during Grover Cleveland’s first administration (1885–89), he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with southern democrats

Adlai Ewing Stevenson I (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) served as the 23rd Vice President of the United...

Theodore Roosevelt Jr., a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer...

Harry S. Truman, American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953)

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the...

James Arthur “Jimmy” Baldwin, an American writer and social critic whose essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies

James Arthur “Jimmy” Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and social critic. His essays,...

Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535 – c. 475 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of...

John Keats, English Romantic poet

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main...

David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism

David Hume (May 7, 1711 to August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known...

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