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Edwards, Jonathan
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1703 -
1758
Puritan. |
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Franklin, Benjamin
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1706 -
1790
Inventor of everything. |
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Francis I
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1708 -
1765
Maria Theresa's husband. |
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Elizabeth
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1709 -
1762
Russian empress. |
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Louis XV
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1710,
February 15 - 1774
Pompadour. |
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Adolf Frederick
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1710, May
14 -
1771
Elected king. |
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Hume, David
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1711 -
1776
Brain from Edinburgh. |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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1712 -
1778
Wrote letters to
people who sat across the table. |
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Frederick II the
Great
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1712 -
1786
Smart Prussian king. |
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Diderot, Denis
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1713 -
1784
Jean-Jacques's buddy. At least for a
while. |
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Maria Theresa
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1717, May 13 -
1780
Knew how to run a country. |
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Pius VI
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1717,
December 25 -
1799
Pope. |
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Charles Gravier de
Vergennes
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1719-1787
French Foreign
Minister. |
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Pontiac
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1720 -
1769
Ottawa chief. |
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Charles Edward Stuart
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1720 -
1788
Bonnie Prince
Charlie. |
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Kant, Immanuel
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1724 -
1804
German philosopher. |
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Paoli, Pasquale
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1725 -
1807
Corsica's hero. |
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Clive, Robert
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1725 -
1774
Baron of Plassey. |
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Turgot, Anne Robert
Jacques
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1727 -
1781
French Finance
Minister. |
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Cook, James
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1728 -
1779
Explorer. |
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Catherine II the Great
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1729,
April 21 -
1796
German Empress
of Russia. |
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Aleksandr V. Suvorov
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1729,
November 24 -
1796
Russian
General. |
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Hamilton, William
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1730 -
1803
British envoy at the court of the
Kingdom of Naples. |
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Washington, George
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1732,
February 22 -
1799
Bank note model. |
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Necker, Jacques
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1732,
September 30 - 1804
Doubling up the
Third Estate. |
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Calonne, Charles
Alexandre de
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1734,
January 20 - 1802
Inviting the
Notables to assemble. |
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Jervis, John
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1735,
January 9 -
1823
Nelson's admiral. |
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Charles William
Ferdinand of Brunswick
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1735,
October 9 -
1806
Prussian. |
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Adams, John
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1735,
October 30 -
1826
Second president of the US. |
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Thugut, Johann von
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1736,
March 31 - 1818
Austrian
politics. |
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Colloredo, Franz de
Paula von
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1736, May 23 -
1806
Tutor of Francis II. |
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Henry, Patrick
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1736, May
29 -
1799
Liberty or
Death. |
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Frederick Josias of
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
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1737 -
1815
Austrian
general. |
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Dumouriez,
Charles-François
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1739 -
1823
French general. |
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Custine, Adam Philippe de
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1740,
February 4 -
1793
French general. |
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Sade, Marquis de
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1740,
June 2 - 1814
Preferred it rough. |
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Joseph II
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1741 -
1790
Holy Roman
Emperor. |
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Jefferson, Thomas
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April 13, 1743 -
1826
Third president of the US. |
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Marat, Jean-Paul
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May 24,
1743-1793
Montagnard. |
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Frederick William II
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1744 -
1797
King of Prussia |
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Gustav III
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1746 -
1792
Enlightened king of Sweden. |
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Goya, Francisco de
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1746 -
1828
Spanish painter |
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Leopold II
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1747, May
5 -
1792
Holy Roman Emperor. |
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Pierre-Roger Ducos
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1747, July
25 - 1816
Consul
alongside Napoleon. |
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William V of Orange
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1748,
March 8 - 1806
Stadtholder
of the Netherlands. |
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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
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1748,
May 3 - 1836
Consul
alongside Napoleon. |
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Charles XIII
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1748,
October 7 -
1818
Brother of Gustav III. |
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Goethe,
Johann Wolfgang von
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1749 -
1832
German genius. |
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Hardenberg, Karl
August von
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1750, May
31 -
1822
Prussian
Foreign Affairs. |
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Frederick Augustus I
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1750,
December 23 - 1827
King of Saxony |
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