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America
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Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer known to be the first European to have landed in North…
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
5
Gilgamesh is the main character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an Akkadian poem that is considered…
Ramesses II was an Egyptian pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. At age fourteen, Ramses II was…
Democritus ("chosen of the people") was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace,…
Muhammad was the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet and God's…
John Dalton was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his…
Asia + Oceania
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Fu Xi or Fu Hsi of the San Huang Dynasty, was the first of the mythical Three Sovereigns of…
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn…
Aryabhata is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in…
Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary,…