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Science: Galilei, Volta, Galvani, Fermi, Marconi. Philosophy: Thomas Aquinas, Mirandola, Machiavelli, Bruno. Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch. Theatre: Goldoni, Pirandello, Fo. Cinema: Rossellini, Fellini, Antonioni, Leone, Bertolucci, Visconti. Arts: Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Alberti, Leonardo, Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Titian, Palladio, Bernini, Canova. Military: Cesare Borgia.
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Science: Pythegoras, Thales, Democritus, Archimedes, Hippocrates, Ptolemy, Euclid. Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Epicurus, Diogenes, Heraclitus, Anaximander, Anaxagoras. Literature: Homer, Sapho, Pindar, Herodotus, Plutarch. Theatre: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides. Arts: Phidias, Polykleitos, Scopas, Myron, Lysippos, Apelles. Military: Alexander the Great, Philip II, Leonidas, Pericles, Epaminondas, Pyrrhus of Epirus.
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Science: Arrian, Ptolemy, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Hypatia. Philosophy: Cicero, Apuleius, Seneca, Plotinus, Marcus Aurelius, Boethius. Literature: Cato the Elder, Horatio, Vergil, Ovid, Livy, Quintilian, Tacitus, Ammianus Marcellinus. Theatre: Plautus, Terence. Arts: Apollodorus, Vitruvius. Military: Scipio Africanus, Sulla, Gaius Marius, Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Agrippa, Trajan, Aurelian.
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Science: Diderot, Laplace, Pascal, Curie. Philosophy: Descartes, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau. Literature: Montaigne, Balzac, Hugo, Dumas, Zola, Proust, Flaubert, Verne, Maupassant, Rimbaud. Music: Berlioz, Bizet, Offenbach, Debussy, Ravel. Theatre: Moliere, Racine, Corneille, Sartre. Cinema: Lumière, Godard, Truffaut. Arts: David, Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet, Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Cezanne, Rodin, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse. Military: Conde, Turenne, Napoleon, Murat, De Gaulle.
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Science: Kepler, Leibniz, Gauss, Humboldt, Planck, Einstein. Philosophy: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein. Literature: Goethe, Schiller, Heine. Music: Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Strauss. Cinema: Herzog. Arts: Dürer, Holbein, Friedrich. Military: Tilly, Wallenstein, Frederick II, Moltke, Hindenburg, Hitler, Rommel.
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Science: Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Berners-Lee. Philosophy: More, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, Spencer, Mill, Russell. Literature: Swift, Gibbon, Austen, Byron, Shelley, Dickens, Wells, Conan Doyle, Tolkien, Huxley. Music: Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Oasis. Theatre: Shakespeare, Shaw. Cinema: Chaplin, Hitchcock. Arts: Hogarth, Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Rossetti. Military: Marlborough, Nelson, Wellington, Montgomery.
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Science: Lomonosov, Lobachevsky, Mendeleev, Pavlov, Mechnikov, Korolyov, Sakharov. Philosophy: Bakunin, Kropotkin. Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bunin, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn. Music: Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Shostakovich. Theatre: Chekhov, Stanislavsky. Cinema: Eisenstein, Tarkovsky. Arts: Aivazovsky, Repin, Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall. Military: Peter the Great, Suvorov, Zhukov.
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Literature: Servantes, Lorca. Music: Albéniz, Falla, Rodrigo. Theatre: Lope de Vega, Calderón. Cinema: Almodóvar. Arts: El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Gaudi, Picasso, Dali. Military: Alba, Pizarro, Cortes
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Science: Mendel, Freud, Schrödinger, Boltzmann, Lorenz. Philosophy: Popper, Wittgenstein. Literature: Sacher-Masoch, Kafka. Music: Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss. Cinema: Lang, Wilder, Zinnemann. Arts: Erlach, Klimt, Kokoschka. Military: Eugene of Savoy, Schwarzenberg, Radetzky
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Science: Celcius, Linnaeus, Bohr. Philosophy: Swedenborg. Literature: Andersen, Hamsun, Larssen. Theatre: Strindberg, Ibsen. Music: Grieg, Sibelius. Cinema: Bergman, Trier. Arts: Roslin, Thorvaldsen, Munch. Military: Cnut the Great, Gustav Adolph, Charles XII
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Science: Cai Lun, Sima Qian, Zhang Heng. Philosophy: Laozi, Confucius. Literature: Du Fu, Li Bai, Wu Cheng'en. Cinema: Ang Lee. Military: Sun Tzu
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Science: Huygens, Leeuwenhoek, Bernoulli. Philosophy: Erasmus, Spinoza, Grotius. Cinema: Herzog. Arts: van Eyck, Bruegel, Bosch, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Van Gogh. Military: William the Silent, de Ruyter
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Science: Jefferson, Franklin, Morse, Edison, Wright. Philosophy: Khomsky. Literature: Poe, Whitman, Twain, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Vonnegut, Faulkner. Music: S.Joplin, Gershwin, Elvis, M.Davis, Dylan. Theatre: Williams, Miller. Cinema: Disney, Welles, Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsese, Tarantino. Arts: F.L.Wright, Pollock, Warhol. Military: Washington, Lee, MacArthur.
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