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•  Erwin Rommel

  Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as the Desert Fox, was a famous German Field Marshal of World War II. He was a highly decorated officer in World War I, awarded the Pour le Mérite for his exploits on the Italian front. In World War II, he further distinguished himself as the commander of the Ghost Division during the 1940 invasion of France.

  

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•  Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis

  Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis KG GCB OM GCMG CSI DSO MC CD PC PC (10 December 1891 – 16 June 1969) was a British military commander and field marshal of Anglo-Irish descent who served with distinction in both world wars, and between 1946 and 1952 served as the 17th Governor General of Canada.

  

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•  Karl Dönitz

  Karl Dönitz (16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German naval Commander who served in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, commanded the German submarine fleet during World War II, and eventually was given control of the entire German Navy. In the final days of the war, Dönitz was named by Adolf Hitler as his successor, and after the Führer committed suicide, the admiral assumed the office of President of Nazi Germany's Flensburg government.

  

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•  Fumimaro Konoe

  Prince Fumimaro Konoe (often Konoye, October 12, 1891 – December 16, 1945) was a Japanese politician who served as the 34th, 38th and 39th Prime Minister of Japan and founder/leader of the Taisei Yokusankai.

  

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•  Michael Polanyi

  Michael Polanyi, FRS (born Polányi Mihály) (March 11, 1891, Budapest – February 22, 1976, Northampton, England) was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended across physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

  

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•  Mario Berlinguer

  Mario Berlinguer (1891-1969) was an Italian lawyer and politician. He descended from a noble Sardinian family. Born in Sassari, in his youth he was a follower of the Meridionalist activist Gaetano Salvemini. After his graduation in law he collaborated with the newspaper La Nuova Sardegna and other Italian newspapers. In 1921 he abandoned the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and adhered to the Italian Communist Party (PCI), with which he was elected in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1924.

  

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•  Otto Dix

  Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker. Noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and of the brutality of war, he, along with George Grosz, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

  

  37.8%
  

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•  Sergei Prokofiev

  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.

  

  39.3%
  

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•  Zora Neale Hurston

  Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

  

  42.3%
  

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•  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Soviet Russian novelist and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

  

  42.9%
  

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•  Optics

  Optics is the branch of physics which studies the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light. Because light is an electromagnetic wave, other forms of electromagnetic radiation such as X-rays, microwaves, and radio waves exhibit similar properties.

  

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•  Kari Rajamäki

  Kari Juhani Rajamäki (born 15 October 1948 in Anjala) is a Finnish politician from the Social Democratic Party and a former Minister of the Interior . Rajamäki has been MP since 1983 and represents Southern Savonia. Before he became a minister he was profiled in public by demanding more funds for road construction projects. Rajamäki was the Minister of the Interior of Finland in Jäätteenmäki and Vanhanen cabinets from 2003 to 2007.

  

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•  Luther von Braunschweig

  Luther von Braunschweig (also known as Lothar; ca. 1275 – April 18, 1335) was the 18th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1331-35. A member of the House of Welf, Luther was born to Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Adelaide, the sister of a north Italian vassal, Boniface of Monferatto. He was the youngest of his siblings and was designated to join the military order.

  

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•  Academic rector

  

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•  Swedish Navy Clothing

  Swedish Navy Clothing is a clothing line set up by the society photographer Allan Warren in 2001 in London. His inspiration for the line of clothing came about after taking photographs of a group of young Swedes who had just joined the Royal Swedish Navy During the shoot whilst changing their outfits he noted the three Royal Swedish Crowns embroidered on their boxers. The combination of the clean cut Viking image and the immaculate underwear, inspired him to create a line of casual clothes.

  

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