Millennium Top Ten

GREATEST PEOPLE

LISTED IN THE ORDER OF THEIR BITH

The millennium

St. Francis of Assisi

Johannes Gutenberg

Michelangelo

Martin Luther

Galileo

William Shakespeare

Thomas Jefferson

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Albert Einstein

The 20th century

Sigmund Freud

Henry Ford

Mohandas Gandhi

Sir Winston Churchill

Pablo Picasso

Pope John XXIII

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Margaret Sanger

Mother Teresa

Martin Luther King Jr.

WORST VILLAINS

Genghis Khan

Tamerlane

Vlad the Impaler

Cesare Borgia

Ivan the Terrible

Robespierre

Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler

Idi Amin

Pol Pot

EVENTS

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

-- The Crusades

-- Signing of the Magna Carta

-- The Black Death

-- The Renaissance

--...

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