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| 1978-2020 |
Ebru Timtik - Turkish Human Rights lawyer persecuted by the fascist Muslim Erdogan |
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| 1964- |
Keanu Reeves |
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| 1940-1973 |
The Immortal Bruce Lee |
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| 1929-1945 |
Anne Frank - Angel from Heaven |
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| 1934-1968 |
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space |
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| 1925-1941 |
Audie Murphy: the most decorated soldier in U.S. history - and a major film star |
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| 1924-2004 |
Madeline Riffaud, heroine of the French Resistance |
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| 1918-1940 |
Robert Pershing Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived |
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| 1918-2013 |
Nelson Mandela, the legendary campaigner for racial equality |
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| 1913-2005 |
Rosa Parks, an ordinary citizen who made a stand for racial equality |
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| 1912-2011 |
Ruby Crane, the little girl who held blind soldiers' hands |
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| 1912-1954 |
Alan Turing: the truly great mathematician and scientist who cracked the German Enigma Code |
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| 15/4/1912 |
Isidor & Ida Straus - their love and sacrifice in the Titanic disaster |
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| 1888-1958 |
Grace McDaniels: the remarkable "Mule-faced Woman" |
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| 1878-1942 |
Janusz Korczak: sacrificed himself in Treblinka extermination camp looking after his orphans |
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| 1875-1965 |
The Extraordinary Story of Dr Albert Schweizer |
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| 1875 |
The North American Comanche tribe was finally settled on a reservation |
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| 1869-1948 |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| 1867-1932 |
Margret Tobin aka The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
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| 1865 |
Ella Williams, the negro giantess - international performer and celebrity |
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| 1864-1922 |
Nellie Bly - legendary and pioneering reporter |
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| 1861-1947 |
Frederick R. Burnham, 19th century adventurer and inspiration for Baden-Powell's Scout movement |
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| 1860-1926 |
The astonishing story of Annie Oakley: "Little Sureshot" sharpshooter of the West & women's pioneer |
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| 1857-1945 |
Milton Hershey - 'The Chocolate King" philanthropist who made chocolate available to the masses |
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| 1848-1929 |
Wyatt Earp , legendary sheriff in the "Wild West" |
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| 1847-1933 |
Annie Besant: campaigner for women's rights, birth control and Indian independence. |
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| 1846-1917 |
William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: legendary figure of the American West |
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| 1839-1876 |
General George Custer and his "last stand" at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876 |
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| 1835-1919 |
Andrew Carnegie: one of the world's richest men and greatest philanthropists |
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| 1833-1868 |
Kate Warne, the extraordinary Pinkerton detective |
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| 1827-1901 |
Elizabeth Jennings Graham: She did what Rosa Parkes did, but in New York and 100 years before her! |
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| 1823 |
The Texas Rangers: "The Lone Ranger" was one of them! |
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| 1820-1906 |
Susan B. Anthony, a pioneer for Woman's Rights |
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| 1754-1817 |
William Bligh, Captain of H.M.S. The Bounty |
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| 1676-1697 |
Thomas Aikenhead: the last man to be hanged in Britain for blasphemy |
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| 1665 |
The Plague came to Eyam Village, whose people were imbued with The Human Spirit |
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| 1596-1617 |
Pocahontas & John Rolfe |
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| 1570-1606 |
Guy Fawkes |
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| 1480-1521 |
Ferdinand Magellan legendary explorer of the globe |
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| 1451-1512 |
Amerigo Vespucci, the explorer after whom "America" was named in 1507 |
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