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Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian, born on June 4, 1975. She has starred in numerous successful films, such as 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' and 'Maleficent', and serves as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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Francis Quarles
1592 – 1644 · United Kingdom
English religious poet. His illustrated emblem book Emblems was among the most popular works of the seventeenth century. He also left the aphorism collection Enchiridion.
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Nathan Meyer Rothschild
1777 – 1836 · United Kingdom
British financier who played a major role in establishing the Rothschild family's grip on global finance. He also contributed decisively to the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.
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Otto von Bismarck
1815 – 1898 · Germany
German statesman. Known as the 'Iron Chancellor,' he unified Germany as Chancellor of Prussia.
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Ludwig Bechstein
1801 – 1860 · Germany
German fairy tale writer and poet. Known for his German Fairy Tales collection.
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Amy Lowell
1874 – 1925 · United States
American poet and critic who led the Imagist movement. She received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize and wrote criticism introducing modern American poetry.
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Richard Le Gallienne
1866 – 1947 · United Kingdom
English writer, poet and essayist associated with the aesthetic movement of the 1890s. His works include the essay collection Prose Fancies.
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Giuseppe Mazzini
1805 – 1872 · Italy
Italian revolutionary and politician. He carried out various activities to promote the unification of Italy.
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Nicolas de Condorcet
1743 – 1794 · France
French mathematician, Enlightenment philosopher, and politician. He believed in the progress of the human mind and championed the rights of women and Black people.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
1883 – 1957 · Greece
Greek novelist and poet. Known for Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ.
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Roger Ascham
1515 – 1568 · United Kingdom
An English scholar and writer who served as tutor to Queen Elizabeth I. He is best known for his educational treatise The Scholemaster and had a significant influence on humanist educational thought.
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