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Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

States of War

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

Portrait of young Arthur Schopenhauer wearing a brown suit and a cravat.

German philosopher and music critic Theodor Adorno.

Arts & Letters

Arthur Schopenhauer & Theodor Adorno

Painting of William Wordsworth.

Black and white photograph of American revolutionary writer and activist John Reed.

Revolutions

William Wordsworth & John Reed

Neoplatonist Greek philosopher Porphyry.

American rock musician Ted Nugent.

Food

Porphyry & Ted Nugent

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Home

Herbert Asbury & Greg Gopman

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Engraving of Robert Herrick

Youth

Asclepiades & Robert Herrick

Title page of A Dissertation on Locks and Lockpicking, 1856

Technology

Linus Yale Jr. & Co. & Google Security Blog

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Dutch historian Johan Huizinga.

Sports & Games

Bacchylides & Johan Huizinga

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

American lawyer Clarence Darrow.

Crimes & Punishments

Friedrich Nietzsche & Clarence Darrow

Black and white photograph of West-Indian-born civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael.

Revolutions

José Martí & Stokely Carmichael

Painting of an older Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Photograph of English novelist John Fowles.

The Sea

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles

English writer Christopher Marlowe.

French critic Roland Barthes.

Celebrity

Christopher Marlowe & Roland Barthes

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Travel

Charles Baudelaire & W.H. Auden

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

Black and white photograph of a dark-haired man in a white shirt holding a newspaper

Migration

Karl Marx & Cesar Chavez

Music

Ethel Smyth & Björk