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  2. Historical figure - Wikipedia

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    Historical figure brand is using famous historical person in branding, for instance Mozartkugel, Chopin (vodka) or Café Einstein. Historical figure is a person who lived in the past and whose deeds exerted a significant impact on other people’s lives and consciousness.

  3. Human history - Wikipedia

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    Human history or world history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.

  4. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

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    Each entry is a short biography of the person, followed by Hart's thoughts on how this person was influential and changed the course of human history. He gave additional credit for importance for people whose actions Hart felt were unusual, unlikely, or ahead of their time compared to a hypothesized course of history had this person not lived.

  5. Who Is The Most Famous Person In The World? Meet 15 ... - AOL

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    Image credits: Rafal Oleksiewicz / Getty Images #2 Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi is yet another soccer player on this list. Like Ronaldo, the Argentinian megastar started his football career early on ...

  6. Glossary of history - Wikipedia

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    Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...

  7. Great man theory - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon, a typical great man, said to have created the "Napoleonic" era through his military and political genius. The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes: highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior ...

  8. People's history - Wikipedia

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    A people's history is the history as the story of mass movements and of the outsiders. Individuals not included in the past in other type of writing about history are part of history-from-below theory's primary focus, which includes the disenfranchised, the oppressed, the poor, the nonconformists, the subaltern and the otherwise forgotten people.

  9. Greatness - Wikipedia

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    Dorris's argument in relation to chaotic matching is that access to the resources and learning opportunities essential to the development of key characteristics of an eventual 'great' often occurs not due to the efforts/planning of the individual, but simply due to chance events in the interpersonal, institutional or societal worlds around the ...