Revolution & Modern Icons

George Washington

First president of the United States; lived 1732–1799.

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Abraham Lincoln

Sixteenth president of the United States; lived 1809–1865.

Winston Churchill

British prime minister and wartime leader; lived 1874–1965.

Nikola Tesla

Inventor and electrical engineer; lived 1856–1943.

Albert Einstein

Theoretical physicist; lived 1879–1955.

Frida Kahlo

Mexican painter; lived 1907–1954.

Oscar Wilde

Irish writer and public figure; lived 1854–1900.

Virginia Woolf

English writer and central figure of literary modernism; lived 1882–1941.

Empress Dowager Cixi

Qing dynasty political figure and Empress Dowager of China; lived 1835–1908.

Rasputin

Russian religious figure associated with the late Romanov court; lived 1869–1916.