100 portaits * Joan of Arc * France

Joan of Arc * France

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Jeanne d’Arc,

her name in the original French, was responsible for both repelling English invaders from her homeland and assisting Charles VII in succeeding to the throne of France.

She is a Catholic saint. The only known portrait that she sat for was destroyed, so all we have are renditions.

Date: 1876.

Artist: Eugene Thirion.

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100 iconoc people * Ludwig van Beethoven * Germany

Ludwig van Beethoven
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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist.

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He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential of all composers.

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Date: 1820.

Painter: Joseph Karl Stiele.

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100 iconic people * Neil Armstrong * USA

Neil Armstrong

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American aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the Moon.

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Date: 1969.

Photographer: NASA/Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.

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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Napoleon arranged a coup d’etat which brought him to power in 1799. Five years after that he crowned himself as Emperor of France.

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He led successful military campaigns in Italy and Egypt that bolstered his reputation. His Napoleonic Code is still being used as a basis for law in many countries. Date: 1802. Painter: Antoine-Jean Gros.
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100 iconic people * Christopher Columbubs * Spain

Christopher Columbus

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A Genoese navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean—funded by Queen Isabella of Spain—led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.

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October / 12th / 1492

Novus Mundi

100 iconic people * Leonardo da Vinci / Italy

Leonardo Da Vinci
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Da Vinci defined the “Renaissance Man” with his inventions, art and scientific theories. This self-portrait of the famous artist and inventor was composed in red chalk. Date: 1512-1515. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci.

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100 iconic people * Yuri Gagarin / URSS

Yuri Gagarin

Gagarin was the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the earth. He died in a training flight in 1968 and was buried within the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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Date: Unknown.

Photographer: Unknown.
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100 iconic people * Galileo Galilei / Italy

Galileo Galilei
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The father of modern observational astronomy, Galileo invented improvements to the telescope and supported the theory put forward by Copernicus that the Earth orbited the Sun, and not the other way around. He was also a pioneer in the field of physics. Galileo spent the latter part of his life under house arrest for heresy against the Catholic Church. Date:1605. Artist: Domenico Robusti.
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