Historical Figures

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1 Mahatma Gandhi 17x

2 Napoleon 16x

3 Florence Nightingale 16x

4 Marie Antoinette 14x

5 Al Capone 14x

6 Amelia Earhart 13x

7 Rasputin 12x

8 Charles Lindbergh 12x

9 Abraham Lincoln 12x

10 Mother Teresa 11x

11 Jesse James 11x

12 Genghis Khan 11x

13 Cleopatra 11x

14 Carrie Nation 11x

15 Annie Oakley 11x

16 Thomas Jefferson 11x

17 Marie Curie 10x

18 Lenin 10x

19 Julius Caesar 10x

20 Jack the Ripper 10x

21 Bonnie & Clyde 10x

22 Alexander the Great 10x

23 George Washington 10x

24 John Dillinger 10x

25 Christopher Columbus 10x

26 Susan B. Anthony 9x

27 Malcolm X 9x

28 John Wilkes Booth 9x

29 Joan of Arc 9x

30 Helen Keller 9x

31 Brigham Young 9x

32 Aaron Burr 9x

33 Adolf Hitler 9x

34 Winston Churchill 9x

35 Albert Einstein 9x

36 Sally Ride 8x

37 Mark Antony 8x

38 Marco Polo 8x

39 Louis XIV 8x

40 Golda Meir 8x

41 Frank Lloyd Wright 8x

42 Custer 8x

43 Charlemagne 8x

44 Joseph Stalin 8x

45 Franklin Roosevelt 8x

46 Otto von Bismarck 8x

47 William the Conqueror 7x

48 William Jennings Bryan 7x

49 Torquemada 7x

50 Socrates 7x

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In March 1943 he ended a 21-day fast in India with a religious ceremony & a glass of orange juice

Mahatma Gandhi

In 1796 France's new government, the Directory, appointed him commander of the army of Italy

Napoleon

Born 1820; heroine of the Crimean War; good night, nurse as of 1910

Florence Nightingale

Born: Nov. 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria. Died: Oct. 16. 1793, Paris, France

Marie Antoinette

A violent young man, in 1919 he was transferred from the New York to the Chicago branch by superiors Frankie Yale & Johnny Torrio

Al Capone

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