Euclides da Cunha

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Also Known As	Euclides Rodrigues Pimenta da Cunha
Born	January 20, 1866 • Brazil
Died	August 15, 1909 (aged 43) • Rio de Janeiro • Brazil
Notable Works	“Rebellion in the Backlands”

Heinrich Harrer

explorer and writer

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Livy

Roman historian

Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala

Inca nobleman, author, and illustrator

Albert Robida

French illustrator

Geoffrey Of Monmouth

English bishop and chronicler

Joinville, Jean, sire de: Histoire de Saint-Louis

Jean, sire de Joinville

French author

Robert Mannyng

English poet

Fernão Lopes

Portuguese historian

Theophylactus Simocattes

Byzantine historian

Étienne Pasquier

French author and lawyer

William Camden

British historian

Saint Nicephorus I

Greek Orthodox patriarch

Palladius

Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler

Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos

Byzantine historian

George Pachymeres

Byzantine scholar

Liutprand of Cremona

Lombard bishop

Damião de Góis

Portuguese humanist

Battle of Sluis during the Hundred Years' War

Jean Froissart

French poet and historian

Sima Guang

Chinese scholar

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