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Also Known As Lü Pu-wei
Died 235 BCE • China
Kangxi
emperor of Qing dynasty
Qianlong
Qianlong
emperor of Qing dynasty
Historic book-burner
Qin Shi Huang
emperor of Qin dynasty
Huizong
emperor of Song dynasty
Shang Yang
Shang Yang
Chinese statesman
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Akhenaten
Akhenaten
king of Egypt
Francis I
Francis I
king of France
Paul III
Paul III
pope
Leo X
Leo X
pope
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
Akbar
Akbar
Mughal emperor
Henry the Navigator
Henry the Navigator
prince of Portugal
Julius II
pope
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de’ Medici
Italian statesman