František Vladislav Hek

•  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

  Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the nineteenth century. Born in Ireland to a prominent Ascendancy family, he was commissioned an ensign in the British Army in 1787.

  

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•  James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger

  James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger (13 December 1769 – 17 April 1844) was an English judge. He was born in Jamaica, where his father, Robert Scarlett, had property. In the summer of 1785 he was sent to England to complete his education at Hawkshead Grammar School and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his B.A. degree in 1789. Having entered the Inner Temple he was called to the bar in 1791, and joined the northern circuit and the Lancashire sessions.

  

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•  DeWitt Clinton

  DeWitt Clinton was an early American politician who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal. Unlike his adversary Martin Van Buren, who invented machine politics, Clinton became the leader of New York's People’s Party. Clinton is an authentic but largely forgotten hero of American democracy, according to Daniel Walker Howe (2007).

  

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•  Napoleon I of France

  

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•  Alexander von Humboldt

  Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography was foundational to the field of biogeography.

  

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•  Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal

  Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, (September 14, 1769 - March 27, 1843), German jurist, was born at Meissen in Saxony, the son of a lawyer and was the father of Karl Eduard Zachariae. Von Lingenthal received his early education at the famous public school of St. Afra in Meissen and later studied philosophy, history, mathematics and jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig. In 1792 he went to Wittenberg University as tutor to one of the counts of Lippe, and continued his legal studies.

  

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•  Thomas Lawrence (painter)

  Sir Thomas Lawrence RA (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits.

  

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•  Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Ernst Moritz Arndt (December 26, 1769 – January 29, 1860) was a German nationalistic author and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany, and had to flee to Sweden for some time due to his anti-French positions. He is one of the main founders of German nationalism and the movement for German unification.

  

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•  William Smith (geologist)

  William 'Strata' Smith (23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. He is known as the "Father of English Geology" for collating the geological history of England into a single record, although recognition was very slow in coming.

  

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•  Marc Isambard Brunel

  Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS (25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-born engineer who settled in the United Kingdom. He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His most famous achievement was the construction of the Thames Tunnel.

  

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•  Pope Benedict XVI

  Pope Benedict XVI is the 265th and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church and, as such, Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship. He succeeded Pope John Paul II.

  

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•  List of Kings of Rohan

  This is a list of kings of Rohan from the fictional universe of Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien. All dates are in the Third Age, except where noted. All of the Kings were of the same dynasty, the House of Eorl, divided into separate Lines when a king was not succeeded by his direct male descendant (in both cases the nephew of the king ascended the throne).

  

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•  Värtan

  

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•  Battle for the Sun (song)

  

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•  Guillaume Weijzen

  Guillaume "Chick" Weijzen (born January 21, 1935) is a Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Tokyo in 1964. Weijzen's son, Marc, competed in canoeing for the Netherlands at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

  

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