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Famous Historical Personalities



  From time to time individual human beings "have lived at the centre of events" such that an outline of their individual lives also tells us a something about the times in which they lived.

  When the wide range of aims these people individually supported are considered it tends to remind us of the perplexing reality that people often sincerely pursue goals that are definitely not shared by others.

Bismarck Burke
Cavour Mazzini
Metternich Mirabeau
Robert Owen Paoli
Cecil Rhodes Robespierre
Abbe Sieyes Talleyrand
From more recent times
Konrad Adenauer Alexander Dubcek
Willy Brandt Lech Walesa
Mikhail Gorbachev Vaclav Havel
From more ancient times
Charlemagne Machiavelli
Confucius Nostradamus
Rasputin Rasputin record lyric
Dramatically Influential Philosophers
Adam Smith Voltaire
Immanuel Kant Karl Marx
Charles Darwin



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