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Industrial Age Historical Figures
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Gavrilo Princip
1894–1918OtherBIH
He was nineteen years old, standing in the street after a failed assassination attempt, when the archduke's car took a wrong turn and stopped directly in front of him.
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George Canning
1770–1827EuropeUnited Kingdom
He climbed from financial insecurity to the highest office in Britain, but his brief time as prime minister ended almost as soon as it began.
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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
1784–1860EuropeUnited Kingdom
He preferred quiet diplomacy to loud politics, yet found himself leading Britain into the Crimean War, a conflict that tested his cautious instincts and ended his premiership.
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George Stephenson
1781–1848EuropeUnited Kingdom
He grew up illiterate on the Northumberland coalfields and redesigned the way humans moved across the surface of the earth.
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George VI
1895–1952EuropeUnited Kingdom
He never wanted to be king, had a stammer that made public speaking an ordeal, and became the defining symbol of his country's refusal to give in during its darkest years.
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Georges Clemenceau
1841–1929EuropeFrance
He had been waiting his entire career for France to get its revenge on Germany — and when it finally came, he made sure the peace was as harsh as the victory.
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Grover Cleveland
1837–1908AmericasUnited States
He won the presidency, lost it, and won it again four years later — the only president ever to serve two non-consecutive terms until the twenty-first century.
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Gustav Stresemann
1878–1929EuropeGermany
Gustav Stresemann was a German statesman who stabilised the Weimar Republic and reshaped its foreign relations through pragmatic diplomacy after the First World War.
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