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Gian Galeazzo Visconti (16 October 1351 – 3 September 1402) son of Galeazzo II Visconti and Bianca of Savoy was the first Duke of Milan (1395) and ruled the late-medieval […]

John Frederick Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (18 October 1654 – 22 March 1686) succeeded his father Albert II as margrave of Ansbach in 1667. He married his second wife Eleonore Erdmuthe […]

Pope Leo XIII (2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family was Pope from 20 February 1878 to his death […]

Robert Walpole 1st Earl of Orford KG KB PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745) known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole was a British statesman who is generally […]

David Graeme Garden OBE (born 18 February 1943) is a British comedian author actor artist and television presenter best known as a member of The Goodies.

Photios I (/ˈfoʊʃəs/; Greek: Φώτιος Phōtios; c. 810 – c. 893) also spelled Photius or Fotios was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 867 and from 877 to […]

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (Spanish: [fulˈxensjo βaˈtista i salˈdiβar]; January 16 1901 – August 6 1973) was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and dictator from 1952 […]

Girolamo Savonarola (Italian: [savonaˈroːla]; 1452–1498) was an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence and known for his prophecies of civic glory and calls for Christian renewal. He […]

Otto Neurath (December 10 1882 – December 22 1945) was an Austrian philosopher of science sociologist and political economist. Before he fled his native country in 1934 Neurath was one […]

Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13 1925 – August 3 1966) better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce was an American stand-up comedian social critic and satirist.He was renowned for […]