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Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Tier I

323 BCE - Babylon

Fever tightens its grip and my officers circle like creditors, while the empire I built...

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Tier I

1865 - Washington

Victory declared and danger not ended, while the country demands certainty and I feel t...

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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Tier I

44 BCE - Rome

The Republic strains under victories it can no longer absorb, while my own name has bec...

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George Washington

George Washington

George Washington

Tier I

1799 - Mount Vernon

After power has been relinquished, when the republic exists without me and my greatest...

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I

Tier I

1603 - London

Late in my reign, when England stands intact but surrounded by enemies, and the cost of...

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Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

Tier I

1900 - Osborne House

My body shrinks and my empire swells, when grief still sits beside me and the court wat...

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Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Tier I

1793 - The Conciergerie

The city pretends to be a nation, when the corridors stink of judgment and my name has...

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII

Henry VIII

Tier I

1546 - Whitehall

My leg rotting and my court still bowing, when each succession plan sounds like treason...

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Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great

Tier I

1796 - Tsarskoye Selo

My hands betray me and courtiers rehearse their loyalties for the next reign, when the...

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Peter the Great

Peter the Great

Peter the Great

Tier I

1724 - Saint Petersburg

My body hardens into pain and the city I dragged from marshland stands accusing and unf...

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Louis XIV

Louis XIV

Louis XIV

Tier I

1715 - Versailles

The doctors hover and the court calculates, when the sun I trained them to orbit begins...

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne

Charlemagne

Tier I

814 - Aachen

Aachen as the empire settles into inheritance and decay, and I begin to understand that...

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tier I

1945 - Warm Springs

My strength slips and the war's end comes into view, when even my allies watch my face...

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John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Tier I

1963 - The White House

My back in revolt and my enemies in daylight, when every public smile costs me and the...

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Elizabeth Fry

Elizabeth Fry

Elizabeth Fry

Tier I

1844 - London

My strength fades and the causes I served begin to choose their successors, when even m...

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Tier I

1797 - London

My body weakens after birth and the room grows smaller, when my child sleeps beside me...

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Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Tier I

1883 - Battle Creek

My body slows and the crowds move on to newer voices, when the people who praised me be...

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Tier I

1894 - Cedar Hill

The years compress and the nation congratulates itself too easily, when the fight I tho...

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