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Person
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He met his future wife, Jacqueline Bouvier, when he was a congressman
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John F. Kennedy
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Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed by her younger half-sister and successor Elizabeth
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Queen Mary I
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The people of France saw her death as a necessary step toward completing the revolution
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Marie Antoinette
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Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico, eliminating the last of his opponents among the former Party leadership
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Joseph Stalin
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He was the first known European to have set foot on continental North America
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Leif Erikson
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The Royalists returned to power along with King Charles II in 1660, and they had his corpse dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded
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Oliver Cromwell
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A Hungarian-born American illusionist, noted for his sensational escape acts
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Harry Houdini
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He argued that the working class should carry out organised revolutionary action to topple capitalism
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Karl Marx
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Early sources that attest to his historical existence include the works of the historians Josephus and Tacitus
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Jesus Christ
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Shakespeare portrays him as having a hunch, a limp and a withered arm
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King Richard III
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A well-known account of his life is presented in the film Braveheart
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William Wallace
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Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed
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William Penn
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He began planning a major novel about social misery and injustice as early as the 1830s, but a full 17 years were needed for Les Misérables to be realised
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Victor Hugo
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His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome
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Virgil
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As a patron of the arts she presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment
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Catherine the Great
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Known as "the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films
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Alfred Hitchcock
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She was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India
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Indira Gandhi
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A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion
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Che Guevara
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And why would someone like Dickens, whose fame might wildly vary depending on the country, be more cause for concern?
I might be off here, but your comment reeks a bit of anglocentrism.