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1. An American civil war general, famous for his stand at the first Battle of Bull Run. As a result he gained a famous nickname.
2. A great democratic but expansionist Athenian statesman and patron of the arts under whose rule the Parthenon was erected.
3. A mathematican, and professor of astronomy, he designed the present St. Paul's Cathedral.
4. A doctor who noticed that milkmaids with cowpox were immune to smallpox. The first vaccination resulted.
5. Probably the greatest of Greek orators, he delivered the famous Philippic addresses, warning Athens of the skill and dangers of Philip of Macedon
6. Who was the great Danish astronomer, who despite his geocentric view of the universe, made many great and helpful observations which paved the way to further discoveries?
7. A popular actor's son, Pulitzer and Nobel prize winner, wrote 'The Hairy Ape', 'The Emperor Jones' and 'Mourning Becomes Electra'?
8. A great Italian astronomer, physicist and mathematician who, among other things, constructed the first astronomical telescope, discovered mountains on the moon and that the Milky Way consisted of myriads of stars.
9. Unwillingly proclaimed Queen of England , she was imprisoned and beheaded nine days later.
10. The great Greek mathematician and inventor, famous for many things including the discovery of the facts concerning the displacement of liquids, supposedly prompting the cry 'Eureka!'
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