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•  La Malinche

  La Malinche (c. 1496 or c. 1505 – c. 1529, some sources give 1550), known also as Malintzin, Malinali or Doña Marina, was a woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played an active and powerful role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor and intermediary for Hernán Cortés. She was also a mistress to Cortés and gave birth to his first son, who is considered one of the first Mestizos. In Mexico today, La Malinche remains iconically potent.

  

  23.1%
  

  46.2%
  

  30.8%
  
•  Thomas Abel

  The Blessed Thomas Abel (or Abell) (c. 1497 – 30 July 1540) was an English priest who was martyred during the reign of Henry VIII. The place and date of his birth are unknown. He was educated at Oxford and entered the service of Queen Catherine as her chaplain some time before 1528 and appears to have taught the queen modern languages and music. Catherine sent him to Spain in 1528 to the emperor Charles V on a mission relating to the proposed divorce.

  

  50.0%
  

  37.5%
  

  12.5%
  
•  William Tyndale

  William Tyndale (c. 1494 – 1536) was a 16th-century Protestant reformer and scholar who, influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther, translated considerable parts of the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day.

  

  40.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Hernando de Soto

  Hernando de Soto or (c.1496/1497 - 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who, while leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, was the first European documented to have discovered Mississippi River. A vast undertaking, de Soto's North American expedition ranged throughout the southeastern United States searching for gold and a passage to China.

  

  66.7%
  

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  33.3%
  
•  Pedro de Alvarado

  Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras was a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. Known for his skill as a soldier, Alvarado's cruelty to native populations is represented in various sources, including the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, wherein his conquest is depicted. This document shows that he enslaved natives, and murdered them by means such as hanging, burning, and throwing them to dogs.

  

  20.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  60.0%
  
•  François Rabelais

  François Rabelais (c. 1494 – April 9, 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and Renaissance humanist. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and both bawdy jokes and songs.

  

  44.4%
  

  33.3%
  

  22.2%
  
•  Jean du Bellay

  Jean du Bellay (c. 1493 – February 16, 1560), French cardinal and diplomat, younger brother of Guillaume du Bellay, and bishop of Bayonne in 1526, member of the privy council in 1530, and bishop of Paris in 1532. Subtle and clever, he was well fitted for a diplomatic career, and carried out several missions in England (1527–1534) and Rome (1534–1536).

  

  33.3%
  

  50.0%
  

  16.7%
  
•  Mellin de Saint-Gelais

  Mellin de Saint-Gelais (or Melin de Saint-Gelays or Sainct-Gelais; c. 1491 – October, 1558) was a French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France.

  

  20.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  80.0%
  
•  David Lyndsay

  Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, (c. 1490 – c. 1555) was a Scottish officer of arms and poet of the 16th century, whose works reflect the spirit of the Renaissance.

  

  44.4%
  

  22.2%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Stephen Gardiner

  Stephen Gardiner (c. 1497 – 12 November 1555) was an English Roman Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I of England.

  

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  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  

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•  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the actinoid series in the periodic table of the elements.

  

  52.6%
  

  26.3%
  

  21.1%
  
•  Oregon Convention Center

  The Oregon Convention Center is a convention center in Portland, Oregon. The Oregon Convention Center is located on the east side of the Willamette River in the Lloyd District neighborhood. It is best known for the twin spire towers which provide light into the building's interior and for housing the world's largest Foucault Pendulum. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects.

  

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•  Norm Hamlet

  Norm Hamlet is an American steel guitarist best known as a member of Merle Haggard's Stranger's group. In 2005 Hamlet had quadruple heart bypass surgery and recovered well at his home in Bakersfield, California. In April 2006 while on tour with Merle Haggard Hamlet's Dobro was stolen and a reward was offered and was later found. As of June 17, 2009, Hamlet still tours with Merle Haggard.

  

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•  DVD

  DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc, is an optical disc storage media format, and was developed and invented by Sony, and Philips in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage. DVDs are of the same dimensions as compact discs, but store more than six times as much data.

  

  66.7%
  

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  33.3%
  
•  I Am (song)

  

  38.5%
  

  23.1%
  

  38.5%