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| Italian trader who was the first European to travel all the way across Asia |
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| the first man to sail around the world |
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| the scientist who taught the world how to protect against germs |
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| famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and for sculpting David and Moses |
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| Italian painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper |
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| Italy's fascist dictator during World War II |
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| the World War II hero who later became president of France's Fifth Republic |
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| the leader of the Prostestant Reformation in France |
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| the French emperor who wanted to conquer all of the world |
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| conquered Mexico for Spain |
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| discovered the St. Lawrence River |
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| the "Father of Modern Music" |
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| musician who composed the Messiah |
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| famous for composing music after he was deaf |
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| Spain's most famous writer |
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| the first European to sail to India by going around Africa |
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| Italian who was one of the founders of modern science |
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| known for discovery of radium |
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| founded the International Red Cross |
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| introduced the Russians to a form of Christianity |
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| first true national leader of a united Russia |
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| the leader of the first Communist state |
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| overthrown by Stalin and exiled from Russia |
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| Communist leader who threatened to "bury" the United States |
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| tried to maintain Communist power by introducing Perestroika and Glasnot |
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| the most powerful man in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union |
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| most famous missionary to the Pacific Islands |
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| English explorer who claimed Australia for Great Britain and who was the first to sail around the Antarctic Circle |
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| the first man to insist that Antarctica was actually a continent |
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| the first man to reach the South Pole |
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| most famous Antarctic explorer; supervising the mapping of Antarctica |
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| brutal Soviet dictator responsible for the Great Purge |
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| Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible |
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| organized a union in Poland called Solidarity |
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| the leader of the National Socialist Party (Nazis)in Germany |
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| the largest country in the world |
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| the only continent with no large desert |
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| Europe's most important inland waterway |
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| Europe's largest mountain system |
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| the highest mountain in the Alps |
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