William Smith (geologist)

•  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.

  

  27.6%
  

  41.4%
  

  31.0%
  
•  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.

  

  30.0%
  

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  40.0%
  
•  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

  

  44.4%
  

  38.9%
  

  16.7%
  
•  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.

  

  33.3%
  

  16.7%
  

  50.0%
  
•  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.

  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  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.

  

  33.3%
  

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  16.7%
  
•  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.

  

  37.5%
  

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  12.5%
  
•  Isaac Brock

  Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB (6 October 1769 – 13 October 1812) was a British Army officer and administrator. Brock was assigned to Canada in 1802. Despite facing desertions and near-mutinies, he commanded his regiment in Upper Canada successfully for many years. He was promoted to major general, and became responsible for defending Upper Canada against the United States.

  

  50.0%
  

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•  Aloe

  Aloe, also written Aloë, is a genus containing about four hundred species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". The genus is native to Africa, and is common in South Africa's Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighboring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands of Africa. The APG II system (2003) placed the genus in the family Asphodelaceae.

  

  28.6%
  

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•  Tallulah Bankhead

  Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress, talk-show host, and '.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Aldansky Ulus

  Aldansky Ulus is an ulus in the southern section of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located in the water basin of the Aldan River. It borders Khangalassky and Amginsky Uluses in the north, Ust-Maysky Ulus in the north-east, Khabarovsk Krai in the east, Neryungri in the south, and Olyokminsky Ulus in the west and south-west. The administrative center of the ulus is the town of Aldan. Population: 49,346; 63,812.

  

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•  ASUS Eee PC

  

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•  Kintetsu Kōriyama Station

  

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  40.9%