Gravity. Calculus. Optics. Perhaps the greatest scientific mind in human history.

To be or not to be": Shakespeare, master of the human heart.

Fourier: Master of heat, transformed math with series and transforms.

Peas unlocked heredity," founding genetics.

In Search of Lost Time:" Proust unlocked memory's power.

Czech reformer burned at the stake. His followers fought wars in his name for decades.

Drake: Circumnavigated globe, crushed Armada, sea dog of England.

Piano virtuoso and composer. Championed her husband Robert's work while creating her own legacy.

Don Quixote. First modern novel. One-armed veteran who gave us the knight of La Mancha.

Charlemagne: United Europe, revived learning, forged an empire.

Catholic King" Ferdinand: United Spain, expelled Moors, backed Columbus' voyage.

God is One, but with a thousand names": Akbar, empire builder, tolerant.

Discovered an invisible world. Self-taught scientist who first saw bacteria, launching microbiology.

Empress who blinded her own son for power. Restored icons and ruled Byzantium alone.

Founder of Ethiopia's Solomonic Dynasty who claimed descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, restoring ancient royal legitimacy after overthrowing the Zagwe rulers.

The controversial Tairo who opened Japan to the West by signing the Harris Treaty. A cultured tea master who ruled with an iron fist, he crushed dissent in the Ansei Purge before falling to assassins' blades at Sakuradamon Gate.

Visionary emperor who transformed the Songhai Empire into Africa's largest state through administrative genius, Islamic scholarship, and legendary pilgrimage to Mecca.

I am Paul Gauguin, a painter who abandoned civilization to find authentic expression in the primitive and exotic. From a comfortable bourgeois life as a stockbroker, I fled to Brittany, then Tahiti, seeking a purity of vision uncorrupted by European decadence. My bold colors and simplified forms speak of a world more real than reality itself.

Agincourt victor, Henry V: England's warrior king, briefly France's too.

Defender of the Faith," Henry VIII's first queen, sparked English Reformation.

Father of Gothic architecture. Built Saint-Denis and made light divine.

I am Paul Cézanne, a painter who has spent my life seeking to render nature through color and geometric form. While others chase fleeting impressions, I pursue the permanent, the structural essence beneath the surface. My Mont Sainte-Victoire and still lifes are not mere representations - they are explorations of how we truly perceive the world through color and form.

Athens' populist tyrant: Arts, power, for the people.

Architect of Fall Gelb. Wehrmacht strategist who sliced through France in six weeks.

Medici founder. Banker, politician, art lover. Florence flourished.

Briefly Queen, headless bride: Henry VIII's young wife, forever infamous.

Turbulent reign: Alfonso XIII, last King before Spanish Republic.

'Weep like a woman for what you could not defend as a man.' Queen Mother who fought to save Granada.

Troubled heir to Spain. Prince whose madness and tragedy inspired Schiller and Verdi.

Rabelais: "Eat, drink, and be merry!" Giant satire slammed the Renaissance.

Butcher of the Balkans. Serbian strongman who died at The Hague.

Rape of Lucretia: Rome's monarchy fell, Republic rose.

Pelopidas: Thebes' liberator. Spartan foe. Reformed army, changed history.

Poland's Jadwiga: Queen, peacemaker, patron of arts, forged a dynasty.

Tragic queen, nineteen years a prisoner. Lost her throne, her freedom, and finally her head.

Sisi: Captivating Empress, beauty and charisma masked a complex spirit.

The actor and film producer who became a prominent Brazilian star of the 1970s–1980s pornochanchada sex-comedy film genre.

The physicist who formulated Joule's law and contributed to the law of conservation of energy.

Sixth Dynasty pharaoh who holds the record for the longest reign in history at approximately 94 years, witnessing the gradual decline of the Old Kingdom during his extraordinarily long rule.

Alfonso II: Strengthened Asturias, ignited Reconquista, "All roads lead to Oviedo.

Nubian king who conquered Egypt and became pharaoh. He saw himself not as invader but as restorer—more Egyptian than the Egyptians themselves.

His name became a word for traitor. Norway's Nazi collaborator-in-chief.

The polymath who invented the first seismoscope and made significant contributions to astronomy and mathematics.

Last British monarch to personally lead troops in battle, ruling during a transformative era of colonial expansion and European warfare.

Cranmer: English Reformation architect, *Book of Common Prayer* author, burned for faith.

Il Duce's fascism: Italy's dictator, Hitler's ally, ultimately overthrown.

Maeda Toshiie was one of the most celebrated warriors of the Sengoku period, famous as Yari no Mataza (Mataza of the Spear) for his exceptional skill with the weapon. Rising from a young page in Oda Nobunaga's service, he became one of the most trusted generals through decades of loyal service and battlefield prowess. His friendship with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, forged in their youth as fellow Oda retainers, would shape Japan's future. After Nobunaga's death, Toshiie navigated the treacherous politics between Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuie, ultimately siding with Hideyoshi. He was rewarded with the wealthy Kaga Domain, founding a dynasty that would become the wealthiest daimyo family outside the Tokugawa. As one of the Five Elders appointed to guide Hideyoshi's young heir, his death in 1599 removed the last check on Tokugawa Ieyasu's ambitions.

Fathered Portugal's first king, Afonso I; shaped its early destiny.