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John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946).
Very influential British economist.


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Curtis LeMay     'The Bulldog', Cold War-era general

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Richard Clement Moody

British imperialist, founder of modern day British Columbia.


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Richard Case Nagell     Special intelligence operator with advance knowledge of Kennedy assassination



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Ophelia, a character in Shakespeare's play Hamlet.


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Jek Porkins

Red Six - he couldn't hold it.




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Qeops or Cheops or Khufu.
The pharaoh of the Great Pyramid.


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Christian Rosenkreutz (1378-1484)

German allegorical alchemist


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Sappho

Only known female poet of the Archaic period.




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Alan Turing (1912-1954)

British computer scientist and cryptanalyst who has the doubtful honour of having those CAPTCHA's named after him.


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'Umbrella Man'     Suspicious character in Dealey Plaza, November 1963

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Valerian (200 - 264).
Roman Emperor.


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Albrecht von Wallenstein, Bohemian military leader and title figure of a play by Friedrich Schiller.




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Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997)

Chinese statesman


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Torakusu Yamaha (1851 - 1916).
Founder of the Yamaha Corporation.



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Frits Zernike (1888-1966)

Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner


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Leni Reifenstahl     Controversial filmmaker & propagandist

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Her name actually is Riefenstahl, not Reifenstahl.

Douglas Adams, British author.




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Brian Boru (c. 941-1014)

Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig, High King of Ireland 1002-1014

Brian Boru, here depicted as some sort of gargoyle

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El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, 1040-1099).
Spanish campeador.




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