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•  Charles Baudelaire

  Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a nineteenth-century French poet, critic, and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become a byword for literary and artistic decadence. At the same time his works, in particular his book of poetry Les fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), have been acknowledged as classics of French literature.

  

  21.4%
  

  42.9%
  

  35.7%
  
•  Charles Tupper

  Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian father of Confederation: as the Premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He later went on to serve as the sixth Prime Minister of Canada in 1896, becoming the Canadian prime minister with the shortest term of office (69 days), as Parliament was dissolved before he took the oath of office.

  

  22.2%
  

  44.4%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Ford Madox Brown

  Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style.

  

  20.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  30.0%
  
•  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, Dostoievsky, Dostojevskij, Dostoevski, Dostojevski or Dostoevskij (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881) was a Russian writer and essayist, known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society.

  

  25.0%
  

  41.7%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Gustave Flaubert

  Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.

  

  35.7%
  

  35.7%
  

  28.6%
  
•  Clara Barton

  Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. She is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.

  

  7.1%
  

  35.7%
  

  57.1%
  
•  James Longstreet

  James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse. " He served under Lee as a corps commander for many of the famous battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater, but also with Gen. Braxton Bragg in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater. Biographer and historian Jeffry D.

  

  44.4%
  

  44.4%
  

  11.1%
  
•  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self-educated, innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading insurgent in the postwar years. He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization which launched a "reign of terror" against blacks and Republicans during Reconstruction in the South.

  

  27.3%
  

  36.4%
  

  36.4%
  
•  Churchill Babington

  Churchill Babington (11 March 1821 – 12 January 1889) was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist, born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire. He was first educated by his father, Matthew Drake Babington, and then studied under Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, the orientalist and archaeologist, entering St John's College, Cambridge in 1839 and graduating in 1843, seventh in the first class of the classical tripos and a senior optime.

  

  28.6%
  

  35.7%
  

  35.7%
  
•  Lola Montez

  Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld (17 February 1821 – 17 January 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish-born dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld. Montez is reputed to be the inspiration for the saying, "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets", which, in turn, inspired the popular song by that name."

  

  61.5%
  

  15.4%
  

  23.1%
  

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•  Wart-biter

  The wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) is a bush-cricket in the family Tettigoniidae. Its English and scientific names derive from the age-old practice of using the cricket to bite warts from the skin.

  

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•  Saint ann jamaica

  Saint Ann is the largest parish in Jamaica. It is situated on the north coast of the island, in the county of Middlesex, roughly halfway between the eastern and western ends of the island. It is often called 'the Garden Parish of Jamaica' on account of its natural beauty. Saint Ann is the birthplace of reggae singers Floyd Lloyd, Burning Spear, and Bob Marley, and The Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of Jamaica's seven National Heroes.

  

  35.3%
  

  35.3%
  

  29.4%
  
•  The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti (The Sopranos episode)

  

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•  Velesli, Davachi

  

  36.4%
  

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  40.9%