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Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa,…
John Maurice of Nassau was called "the Brazilian" for his fruitful period as governor of Dutch…
Túpac Amaru II (executed in Cuzco May 18, 1781) was a leader of an indigenous uprising in…
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence…
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, commonly known as Che Guevara, was an Argentine-born…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
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Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal, was born at Valladolid, the only son of the Holy Roman…
Maria Sibylla Merian was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of…
François Le Vaillant was a French explorer, collector and ornithologist. Hugely popular in…
Asia + Oceania
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Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of…