Nikolai Gogol

•  Abraham Lincoln

  Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery.

  

  35.7%
  

  7.1%
  

  57.1%
  
•  Albert Pike

  Albert Pike (December 29, 1809–April 2, 1891) was an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C..

  

  36.6%
  

  36.6%
  

  26.8%
  
•  Edgar Allan Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.

  

  35.4%
  

  32.9%
  

  31.7%
  
•  Hannibal Hamlin

  Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was the 15th Vice President of the United States, serving under President Abraham Lincoln from 1861–1865. He was the first Vice President from the Republican Party. Prior to his election in 1860, Hamlin served in the United States Senate, the House of Representatives, and, briefly, as the 26th Governor of Maine.

  

  54.5%
  

  27.3%
  

  18.2%
  
•  Heinrich Abeken

  Heinrich Abeken (August 19, 1809 – August 8, 1872), German theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, was born and raised in the city of Osnabrück as a son of a merchant, he was incited to a higher education by the example of his uncle Bernhard Rudolf Abeken. After finishing the college in Osnabrück, he moved in 1827 to visit the University of Berlin to study theology.

  

  37.5%
  

  25.0%
  

  37.5%
  
•  Kit Carson

  Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman. Carson left home in rural present-day Missouri at an early age and became a trapper in the West. He gained notoriety for his role as John C. Fremont's guide in the American West. Carson also played a minor role in California during the 1846-48 Mexican-American War. Later he became a rancher in New Mexico.

  

  37.5%
  

  31.3%
  

  31.3%
  
•  William Gladstone

  

  26.9%
  

  38.5%
  

  34.6%
  
•  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (15 January 1809 in Besançon – 19 January 1865 in Passy) was a French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. He was a member of the French Parliament, and he was the first person to call himself an "". He is considered among the most influential theorists and organisers of anarchism. After the events of 1848 he began to call himself a federalist. Proudhon was a printer who taught himself Latin in order to better print books in the language.

  

  42.9%
  

  42.9%
  

  14.3%
  
•  Baron Haussmann

  Georges-Eugène Haussmann (27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), who called himself Baron Haussmann, was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris. He was born in Paris to a Protestant family from Alsace.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

  

  55.6%
  

  0.0%
  

  44.4%
  

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•  Cal Tjader

  Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader (July 16, 1925–May 5, 1982) was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his death. Tjader primarily played the vibraphone. He was also accomplished on the drums, bongos, congas, timpani, and the piano.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Inspur

  Inspur, formerly named Langchao, (浪潮 in Chinese, means "tides") is a Chinese computer technology company famous for its PC server and software products. Inspur's manufacturing base and R&D center is located in Jinan, Shandong Province. Its business activities include server manufacturing and software development. The company also acts as an outsourcing recipient for both the United States of America and Japan. The company's most important product is server hardware.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
• 1535 architecture by likeorhate
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•  Zürich-Kloten Airport

  

  22.7%
  

  59.1%
  

  18.2%