Persons included: Cheops, Hammurabi, Thothmes III, Akhnaton, Moses, David, Solomon, Ashurbanipal, Cyrus the Great, Darius I, Leonidas, Pericles, Alexander the Great, Chandragupta Maurya Asoka, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus Caesar, Herod the Great, Boudicca, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Constantine the Great, Attila, Justinian I, Mohammed, Abd Al-Rahman, Charlemagne, Harun-al-Rashid, Alfred the Great, King Senceslas, Otto I (The Great), Brian Boru, Canute, William I (The Conqueror), Frederick Barbarossa, Saladin, Henry II (of England), Richard, Coeur de Lion, Genghis Khan, Frederick II, Louis IX (Saint Louis), Kublai Khan, Edward I, Robert Bruce, Edward III, Tamerlane (Timur), Sigismund, Henry V (of England), Louis XI, Mohammed II (The Conqueror), Ivan III (The Great), Richard III, Ferdinand V (The Catholic), Isabella I, Henry VII (of England), Montezuma, Henry VIII, Charles V (Emporer), Catherine de Medici, Philip II, Atahualpa, William the Silent, Akbar, Henry IV (of France), Queen Elizabeth I, Gustavus Adolphus, Oliver Cromwell, Charles I, Charels II, Louis XIV, Peter I (The Great), Charles XII, Frederick II (The Great), Maria Theresa, Catherine II (The Great), George Washington, Louis XVI, Napoleon I, Abraham Lincoln, Victoria, Victor Emmanuel II, Francis Joseph, Cetewayo, Edward VII, Meiji Mutsuhito Chulalongkorn, William II, George V, Sun Yat-Sen, Pilsudski, Lenin, Albert I, Kemal Ataturk, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Mao Tse-Tung, George VI, John F. Kennedy.

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