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Leo is the fifth astrological sign of the zodiac, originating from the constellation of Leo. It comes after Cancer and before Virgo. Under the tropical zodiac, the Sun transits this area approximately between July 23 and August 22; the sign spans the 120th to 150th degree of celestial longitude.
Leo is a fixed sign along with Taurus, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Under the tropical zodiac, the Sun transits this area on average between July 23 and August 22 each year, and under the sidereal zodiac, the Sun currently transits this area from approximately August 16 to September 15. The symbol of the lion is based on the Nemean lion, a lion with an impenetrable hide. It is a northern sign and its opposite southern sign is Aquarius. According to Western astrological beliefs, Leos are usually at bay with Aries, other Leos and Sagittarius. Leos often are best suited with the opposing sign Aquarius and others such as Cancer, Scorpio and Taurus. Leos do not see eye to eye with Pisces and in terms for friendship Capricorn and Taurus are well suiting....
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Leo is the fifth astrological sign of the zodiac, originating from the constellation of Leo. It comes after Cancer and before Virgo. Under the tropical zodiac, the Sun transits this area approximately between July 23 and August 22; the sign spans the 120th to 150th degree of celestial longitude.
Leo is a fixed sign along with Taurus, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Under the tropical zodiac, the Sun transits this area on average between July 23 and August 22 each year, and under the sidereal zodiac, the Sun currently transits this area from approximately August 16 to September 15. The symbol of the lion is based on the Nemean lion, a lion with an impenetrable hide. It is a northern sign and its opposite southern sign is Aquarius. According to Western astrological beliefs, Leos are usually at bay with Aries, other Leos and Sagittarius. Leos often are best suited with the opposing sign Aquarius and others such as Cancer, Scorpio and Taurus. Leos do not see eye to eye with Pisces and in terms for friendship Capricorn and Taurus are well suiting....
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George IV of Great Britain and Ireland
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William IV of Great Britain and Ireland
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Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French
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Sir Walter Scott, Scottish Writer & Poet
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Meriwether Lewis, Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Amedeo Avogadro, Italian Chemist
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Simón Bolívar, El Liberator Hispanic America
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic Poet
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Alexandre Dumas, French Writer
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Alexis de Tocqueville, Philosopher
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Alfred Tennyson, British Poet
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Elisha Otis, Founder Otis Elevator Company
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Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé
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Herman Melville, Writer of Moby Dick
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Sir George Stokes, Physicist and Mathematician
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Louis Vuitton, Founder of Louis Vuitton Brand
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Leo Tolstoy, Russian Writer
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Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria
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Madame Blavatsky, Founder of Theosophy
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Eduard Suess, Discovery Supercontinent
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Benjamin Harrison, 23rd US President, 1889-1893
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Frédéric Bartholdi, Designed the Statue of Liberty
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Guy de Maupassant, Master of the Short Story
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Claude Debussy, French Impressionist Composer
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Alexander Fleming, Discovery Penicillin
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Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer
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Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual Art
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Erwin Schrödinger, Schrödinger's Cat
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T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
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H.P. Lovecraft, Science Fiction Writer
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Haile Selassie, Last Emperor of Ethiopia
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Aldous Huxley, Writer
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Amelia Earhart, 1st Female to fly the Atlantic Ocean
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Alfred Hitchcock, Director
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Leni Riefenstahl, German Film Director
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Karl Popper, Philosophy of Science
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Paul Dirac, Prediction Existence of Antimatter
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Deng Xiaoping, Leader of China
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer
Regarded as one of the greatest photographers of his time, Henri Cartier-Bresson was a shy Frenchman who elevated "snap shooting" to the level of a refined and disciplined art. His sharp-shooter’s ability to catch "the decisive moment," his precise e... |
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Lucille Ball, American Actor and Producer
Lucille Désirée Ball Morton was an American actress, comedian, model, film-studio executive, and producer. She was best known as the star of the self-produced sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, and Here's Lucy.
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James Lovelock, Gaia Hypothesis
James Ephraim Lovelock is an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist who lives in Dorset, England. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to k... |
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James Baldwin, American Writer and Activist
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, but most notably in... |
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Fidel Castro, President Republic of Cuba
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as... |
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Stanley Kubrick, Director
Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a... |
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Andy Warhol, American Artist
Andy Warhol was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the... |
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Neil Armstrong, 1st Man on the Moon
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first piloted lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first person to step on the surface of the Moon. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin be... |
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Emmett Till, Lynched in Mississippi, 1955
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew... |
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Larry Ellison, Founder Oracle
Lawrence "Larry" Joseph Ellison is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is co-founder, executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corporation. As of January 2018, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fifth-w... |
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Bill Clinton, 42nd US President, 1993-2001
William Jefferson Clinton served as the forty-second President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as... |
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Steve Wozniak, The Woz
Steve Wozniak, known as Woz, is an American inventor, computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 19... |
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Barack Obama, 44th US President, 2009-2017
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who is the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office and the first president born outside the continental United States. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama... |
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Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is a U.S. Internet entrepreneur and a wiki pioneer who is best known as the founder and leader of Wikipedia, an international collaborative open-source free encyclopedia on the Internet.... |
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Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies. As of June 2014, his personal wealth was estimated to be US$ 30 billion. Toge... |
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