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Painting by Eugene Delacroix showing Liberty as a woman holding the French flag and leading armed revolutionaries over fallen bodies during the July Revolution of 1830.
Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito shows Machiavelli in black and red robes, holding a document, against a plain background.
John Milton
Profile portrait of Immanuel Kant facing right, framed by a green Ouroboros serpent forming an oval, with a geometric symbol below the frame.
Portrait of German philosopher Karl Marx with a full white beard and hair, wearing a dark suit and white shirt, looking to the side.
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Fidel Castro stands at a row of microphones, wearing a military jacket and looking at the camera during his 1959 visit to Washington, DC.
Fidel Castro
political leader of Cuba
Raúl Castro, 2013
Raúl Castro
head of state of Cuba
Thomas Müntzer
Thomas Müntzer
German religious reformer
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Velupillai Prabhakaran
Sri Lankan revolutionary
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader
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Nora Astorga
Nicaraguan revolutionary and diplomat
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José Luandino Vieira
Angolan author
Jim Bowie, portrait by an unknown artist; in the Capitol Building, Austin, Texas
James Bowie
American soldier
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Vilma Espín Guillois
Cuban revolutionary and women’s rights activist
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Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado
Cuban revolutionary and politician
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Catherine Breshkovsky
Russian revolutionary
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Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, count de Volney
French historian
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Giuseppe Ferrari
Italian historian