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Ammianus Marcellinus

(c. 330 - 395)

W.H. Auden

(1907 - 1973)

Saint Augustine (detail), by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645.

Saint Augustine

(354 - 430)

Bertran de Born

(c. 1140 - c. 1212)

Color photograph of Osama bin Laden, founder of militant Islamist group al-Qaeda.

Osama bin Laden

(1957 - 2011)

Simon Bolivar Buckner

(1823 - 1914)

George W. Bush

Caleb Carr

French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

(1894 - 1961)

Central Intelligence Agency

Winston Churchill

(1874 - 1965)

American poet E.E. Cummings.

E.E. Cummings

(1894 - 1962)

American novelist John Dos Passos.

John Dos Passos

(1896 - 1970)

Albert Einstein in a suit and tie standing in front of a chalkboard

Albert Einstein

(1879 - 1955)

President of the United States and five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

(1890 - 1969)

Elizabeth I

(1533 - 1603)

Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Sigmund Freud

(1856 - 1949)

Statue of French medieval poet and historian Jean Froissart.

Jean Froissart

(c. 1337 - c. 1405)

Eduardo Galeano

(1940 - 2015)

British historian Edward Gibbon.

Edward Gibbon

(1737 - 1794)

Joseph Goebbels

(1897 - 1945)

Black and white photograph of William Golding wearing an ascot.

William Golding

(1911 - 1993)

Ulysses S. Grant

(1822 - 1885)

Gregory of Tours

(c. 538 - 594)