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St Paul is one of the greatest contributors to Christianity

Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century and is credited as the person who spread Chan Buddhism to China.

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Xerxes I (Xerxes the Great) was the fourth and the most famous king of the Archaemenid dynasty of Persia

Iranian519 BC592 views

Boudica was a queen of the Celtic Icenic tribe, who led an uprising against Roman invaders

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Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an American film and stage actress during the first half of the twentieth century

Muhammad al-Idrisi was a Muslim cartographer, geographer, traveler and Egyptologist

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Vincent Jules Auriol served as the first President of the Fourth French Republic between 1947 and 1954

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Beulah Louise Henry was an American inventor nicknamed "Lady Edison" for her many inventions