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Sagittarius is the ninth astrological sign, which is associated with the constellation Sagittarius and spans 240–270th degrees of the zodiac. Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this sign between approximately November 23 and December 21. Greek mythology associates Sagittarius with the centaur Chiron, who mentored Achilles, a Greek hero of the Trojan War, in archery.
Sagittarius, half human and half horse, is the centaur of mythology, the learned healer whose higher intelligence forms a bridge between Earth and Heaven. Also known as the Archer, Sagittarius is represented by the symbol of a bow and arrow.
Along with Aries and Leo, Sagittarius is a part of the Fire Trigon. The symbol of the zodiac sign is a Centaur armed with arrows following an old tradition coming from Ancient Greece and from other cultures of the past. The image of the sign says a lot about his features: he's able to be extremely violent or wise, brave or mild....
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Sagittarius is the ninth astrological sign, which is associated with the constellation Sagittarius and spans 240–270th degrees of the zodiac. Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this sign between approximately November 23 and December 21. Greek mythology associates Sagittarius with the centaur Chiron, who mentored Achilles, a Greek hero of the Trojan War, in archery.
Sagittarius, half human and half horse, is the centaur of mythology, the learned healer whose higher intelligence forms a bridge between Earth and Heaven. Also known as the Archer, Sagittarius is represented by the symbol of a bow and arrow.
Along with Aries and Leo, Sagittarius is a part of the Fire Trigon. The symbol of the zodiac sign is a Centaur armed with arrows following an old tradition coming from Ancient Greece and from other cultures of the past. The image of the sign says a lot about his features: he's able to be extremely violent or wise, brave or mild....
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Nero, 5th Roman Emperor
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Otto The Great, Holy Roman Emperor
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Henry VI of England
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Richard Neville, Warwick the Kingmaker
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Jacob Obrecht, Composer
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Pope Leo X
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Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s 1st wife
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Nostradamus, The Prophecies
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Andrea Palladio, Italian Architect
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Eric XIV, King of Sweden
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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
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Tycho Brahe, Danish Astronomer
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Henry IV, 1st Bourbon King of France
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Piet Hein, Dutch Admiral
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John Harvard, Namesake of Harvard College
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Philip V, 1st Bourbon King of Spain
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Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Joachim Winckelmann, Father of Art History.
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William Blake, Poet and Painter
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Madame Tussaud, Founder Wax Museum in London
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Jane Austen, English Novelist
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Martin Van Buren, 8th US President, 1837-1841
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Zachary Taylor, 12th US President, 1849-1850
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Leopold I, 1st King of the Belgians
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William II of the Netherlands
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Hector Berlioz, French Romantic Composer
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Christian Doppler, Physicist
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Franklin Pierce, 14th US President, 1853-1857
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Disraeli, British Prime Minister
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Ada Lovelace, 1st Computer Programmer
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Werner von Siemens, German Inventor
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Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist
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Emily Dickinson, American Poet
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Gustave Eiffel, French Civil Engineer
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Andrew Carnegie, Steel Magnate
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Mark Twain, Writer of Huckleberry Finn
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Dowager Cixi, Empress of China
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Johannes van der Waals, Physicist
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George Armstrong Custer, Army Officer
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Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota Leader
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Robert Koch, Found Tuberculosis Bacillus
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Karl Benz, 1st Automobile Patent - 1886
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Antoine Becquerel, Evidence of Radioactivity
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Georges Seurat, Post-Impressionist Painter
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Billy the Kid, Outlaw
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Edvard Munch, The Scream
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Habsburg)
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Jean Sibelius, Finnish Composer
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Joseph Stalin, Dictator of the Soviet Union
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Paul Klee, Master of Modern Art
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Charles de Gaulle
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Fritz Lang, Maker of Metropolis - 1927
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Generalísimo Francisco Franco, Dictator of Spain
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J. Paul Getty, American Industrialist
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Marshal Georgi Zhukov, USSR WW2
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C. S. Lewis, Writer
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Werner Heisenberg, Uncertainty Principle
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Walt Disney, Animation Film Innovator
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Gerard Kuiper, Prediction of the Kuiper Belt
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Joe DiMaggio, American Baseball Hero
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General Augusto Pinochet, Dictator of Chile
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian Writer
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Noam Chomsky, Father of Modern Linguistics
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics," Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one o... |
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Jean-Luc Godard, Filmmaker
Jean-Luc Godard is a Franco-Swiss filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave". Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in P... |
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