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Hildegard of Bingen John Stuart Mill
Moses Maimonides Søren Kierkegaard
Thomas Aquinas Karl Marx
William of Ockham Friedrich Nietzsche
Pico della Mirandola Edmund Husserl
Thomas Hobbes Bertrand Russell
René Descartes Martin Heidegger
Princess Elizabeth Ludwig Wittgenstein
of Bohemia Jean-Paul Sartre
Blaise Pascal Simone
Baruch Spinoza de Beauvoir
John Locke Willard Van
Gottfried Leibniz Orman Quine
George Berkeley Jacques
David Hume Derrida
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Immanuel Kant
G.W.F. Hegel
Mary WollstonecraftPeter Abelard Louis XIV Mahatma Gandhi
Averroës Isaac Newton G. E. Moore
Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi) J. S. Bach Martin Buber
Genghis Khan Voltaire Jacques Martin
Francis of Assisi Thomas Reid Adolf Hitler
Bonaventure J. W. Goethe Gilbert Ryle
Dante Alighieri Mozart A. J. Ayer
Catherine of Siena Napoleon Michel Foucault
Leonardo da Vinci Bonaparte
Martin Luther Beethoven
John Calvin Simon Bolivar
Galileo Queen Victoria
Shakespeare John Dewey
Rembrandt Henri Bergson
George Santayana
Paris University founded Wright brothers
Magna Carta invent airplane
Bubonic Plague World War I
Ming Dynasty in China Russian
Gutenberg invents moveable- Revolution
type printing World War II
Columbus sails to America Korean
Luther begins Protestant Reformation War
English defeat Spanish Armada Vietnam
Charles I executed War
English “Glorious Revolution” First men
Declaration on the
of Independence moon
French Revolution
Chaka founds Zulu Empire
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