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king of Macedon; member of the Agreed dynasty; born in Pella; succeeded Philip II; led unprecedented military campaign through Western Asia and northeast Africa; created one of the largest empires of the ancient world (stretched from Greece to northwestern India); undefeated in battle; considered one of the most successful military commanders
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lady of the Mercians; ruled Mercia in the English Midlands; eldest daughter of Alfred the Great (king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex) and Ealhswith
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third Mughal emperor; succeeded Humayun under regent Bairam Khan (helped expand and consolidate Mughal domains in India)
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FRSA; Scottish economist; philosopher; author; moral philosopher; pioneer of political economy; key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment; "the Father of Economics"; "the Father of Capitalism"; wrote 'the Theory of Moral Sentiments'; wrote 'an Inquiry into the Nature of Causes of the Wealth of Nations' or 'the Wealth of Nations', his magnum opus and first modern work of economics; introduced the theory of absolute advantage
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American statesman; politician; legal scholar; military commander; lawyer; banker; economist; one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; an influential interpreter and promoter of the US Constitution; founder of the United States financial system, the Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard, Bank of North American, the First Bank of the United States and the "New York Post"; first Secretary of the Treasury; main author of the economic policies of George Washington
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statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States; led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War; preserved the Union; abolished slavery; strengthened the federal government; modernized the US economy
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countess of Lovelace; an English mathematician and writer; chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine; the first to recognize that the Analytical Engine had applications beyond pure calculation; published the first algorithm to be carried out by the Analytical Engine; widely regarded as the first to recognize the full potential of computers and one of the first computer programmers
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Scottish-born American inventor; scientist; engineer; credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone; co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
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German-born theoretical physicist; developed the theory of relativity (one of the two pillars of modern physics alongside quantum mechanics); known for influencing the philosophy of science; created the mass-energy equivalence formula (E=mc^2) (the world's most famous equation; received the Novel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect (a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory)
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FRS; FRSE; FRCS; Scottish biologist; physician; microbiologist; pharmacologist; known for discovering the enzyme lysozyme and benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) (the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance) from the mould Penicillium notatum; shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain; wrote articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy
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German politician; leader of the Nazi Party; rose to power as the chancellor of Germany; Führer; initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland during his dictatorship; closely involved in military operations throughout the war; central to the perpetration of the Holocaust
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appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for contribution to literature; English writer; known for 66 detective novels; known for 14 short story collections; created Hercule Poirot; created Miss Marple; wrote "the Mousetrap" (world's longest-running play) (performed at West End); pseudonym Mary Westmacott
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"Scarface"; American gangster; business man; attained notoriety during the Prohibition era; co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit
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OBE; FRS; English mathematician; computer scientist; logician; cryptanalyst; philosopher; theoretical biologist; highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine (a model of a general-purpose computer); widely considered the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence; not fully recognized due to his homosexuality (covered by the Official Secrets Acts)
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