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Born October 28, 1793 • Lithuania
Died December 6, 1864 (aged 71) • Lithuania
Subjects Of Study Lithuania
Rolandas Paksas
president of Lithuania
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė
president of Lithuania
Valdas Adamkus
president of Lithuania
Smetona, Antanas
Antanas Smetona
president of Lithuania
Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius
Lithuanian author
Kazys Grinius
Lithuanian statesman
Basanavičius, portrait by A. Varnas; in the Museum of History and Ethnography, Vilnius, Lithuania
Jonas Basanavičius
Lithuanian physician
Mindaugas
ruler of Lithuania
Vincas Kudirka
Lithuanian patriot
Justas Paleckis
prime minister and president of Lithuania
Antanas Merkys
prime minister of Lithuania
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
American historian and illustrator
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
Thucydides manuscript
Thucydides
Greek historian
Ibn Khaldūn
Ibn Khaldūn
Muslim historian
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian

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