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Albert Einstein, Relativity Theory - 1905
Einstein's contributions to physics began in 1905 with three major results: the explanation of Brownian motion in terms of molecules; the explanation of the photoelectric... |
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Alfred Wegener, Discovery Plate Tectonics
German climatologist and geophysicist who, in 1915, published as expanded version of his 1912 book The Origin of Continents and Oceans. This work was one of the first to... |
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Douglas MacArthur, US General WW2
Douglas MacArthur is a major figure in the US military and diplomatic history of WWII and post-WWII. As general of the army, he helped conquer the Japanese Empire and pla... |
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Atatürk, Founder Turkish Republic
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic and its first President, stands as a towering figure of the 20th Century. Among the great leaders of history,... |
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Béla Bartók, Hungarian Composer
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartók is considered one of the greatest compo... |
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Cecil B. DeMille, Film Director
Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning American film director. He was famous in the first half of the 20th century, known for the flamboyance and showmanship o... |
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Alexander Fleming, Discovery Penicillin
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He discovered the antibiotic substance lysozyme and isolated the antibiotic substance penicillin from t... |
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Pablo Picasso
Yet Cubism and Modern art weren't either scientific or intellectual; they were visual and came from the eye and mind of one of the greatest geniuses in art history. Pablo... |
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf, British novelist, also distinguished feminist essayist, critic, and a central figure of the Bloomsbury group.
During the inter-war period Woolf was at... |
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Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd US President
Thirty-Second President USA, 1933-1945. Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in the... |
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. The son of a famous bass singer at the Imperial Opera, Stravinsky showed little inclinat... |
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, b. Prague, Bohemia (then belonging to Austria), has come to be one of the most influential writers of this century. Virtually unknown during his lifetime, th... |
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Theo van Doesburg
In 1917, collaborating with the architects J. J. P. Oud and Jan Wils, van Doesburg founded the group De Stijl and the periodical of the same name; other original members... |
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini ruled Italy as a dictator from 1922 to 1943. He created a fascist state through the use of state terror and propaganda. Using his charism... |
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Anton Webern, Austrian Composer
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the so called Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg,... |
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