Coolest Historical Figures

Not necessarily the most important. The coolest. There is a difference.

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Ada Lovelace
Wrote a computer program before computers existed.
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Benjamin Franklin
Flew a kite in a lightning storm, on purpose.
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Cleopatra
Spoke many languages, outmaneuvered Rome (for a while).
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Genghis Khan
Built the largest contiguous land empire in history.
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Harriet Tubman
Never lost a passenger.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Painted the Mona Lisa, designed helicopters, wrote backwards.
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Marie Curie
Two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
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Nikola Tesla
Electricity's favorite mad genius.
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