| The Epic of Gilgamesh c. 2000 B.C. |
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| Moses and the Exodus c. 1400s B.C. |
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| Joshua c. 1400s B.C. |
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| Samuel c. 1113 B.C. |
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| King David c. 1055 B.C. |
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| King Solomon c. 1015 B.C. |
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| Joel c. 835 B.C. |
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| Obadiah c. 835 B.C. |
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| Homer c. 800 B.C. |
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| Jonah 760 B.C. |
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| Amos c. 760 B.C. |
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| Isaiah 740 B.C |
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| Micah 735 B.C. |
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| Hosea c. 721 B.C. |
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| Nahum 660 B.C. |
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| Daniel 635-536 B.C. |
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| Zephaniah c. 630 B.C. |
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| Jeremiah c. 627 B.C. |
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| Habakkuk c. 607 B.C. |
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| Aesop's Fables 600 B.C. |
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| Ezekiel 597-571 B.C. |
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| Haggai c. 520 B.C. / Zechariah c. 520 B.C. |
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| Zechariah c. sixth century B.C. |
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| Herodotus c. 484 B.C. |
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| Ezra c. 457 B.C. / Artaxerxes c. 457 B.C. |
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| Nehemiah 444 B.C. |
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| Xenophon 430-357 B.C. |
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| Plato 429-347 B.C. |
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| Malachi c. 425 B.C. |
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| Aristotle 384-322 B.C. |
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| Euclid 335-270 B.C. |
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| Cato the Censor 234-149 B.C. |
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| Aristarchus 217-145 B.C |
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| Gaius Julius Caesar c. 100-44 B.C. |
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| Virgil 70-19 B.C. |
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| Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) 43 B.C.-17 A.D. |
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| John first century A.D. |
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| Matthew first century A.D. |
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| Paul 5-67 A.D. / Peter died 67 A.D. |
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| Flavius Josephus 37-100 A.D. |
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| Plutarch c. 46-120 A.D. |
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| James (the lesser) died 62 A.D. |
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| Peter died 67 A.D. |
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| Marcus Aurelius 121-180 A.D. |
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| Irenaeus 130-202 A.D. |
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| Tertullian 160-230 A.D. |
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| Origen 185-254 A.D. |
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| Cyprian died 258 A.D. |
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| Constantine I 285-337 A.D. |
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| Athanasius 293-373 A.D. |
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| Eusebius 300 A.D. |
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| Basil the Great 330-379 A.D. |
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| Gregory of Nazianzen 330-390 A.D. |
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| Gregory of Nyssa 335-394 A.D. |
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| Ambrose 340-397 A.D. |
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| Jerome 340-420 A.D. |
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| John Chrysostom 347-407 A.D. |
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| Augustine 354-430 A.D. |
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| Cyril of Alexandria 375-444 A.D. |
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| Patrick 385-461 A.D. |
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| Nestorius died 451 A.D. |
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| Benedict 480-547 A.D. |
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| Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite 6th century A.D. |
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| Epic of Beowulf 700 A.D. |
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| Bede 673-735 A.D. |
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| John Damascene 676-749 A.D. |
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| Alcuin 735-804 A.D. |
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| Book of Kells 800 A.D. |
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| Anselm 1033-1109 A.D. |
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| Bernard of Clairvaux 1090-1153 A.D. |
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| Moses Maimonides 1135-1204 A.D. |
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| Francis of Assisi 1182-1226 A.D. |
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| Roger Bacon 1214-1292 A.D. |
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| Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274 A.D. |
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| Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 A.D. |
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| John Wycliffe 1328-1384 A.D. |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1340-1400 A.D. |
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| Jan Hus 1369-1415 A.D. |
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| Desiderius Erasmus 1466-1536 A.D. |
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| Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527 A.D. |
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| Martin Luther 1483-1546 A.D. |
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| Ulrich (Huldreich) Zwingli 1484-1531 A.D. |
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| William Tyndale 1494-1536 A.D. |
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| Menno Simons 1496-1561 A.D. |
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| John Calvin 1509-1564 A.D. |
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| John Knox 1514-1572 A.D. |
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| Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618 A.D. |
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| William Shakespeare 1564-1616 A.D. |
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| William Bradford 1590-1657 A.D. |
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| John Eliot 1604-1690 A.D. |
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| Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 A.D. |
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| John Bunyan 1628-1688 A.D. |
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| John Locke 1632-1704 A.D. |
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| Philipp Jakob Spener 1635-1705 A.D. |
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| Cotton Mather 1663-1728 A.D. |
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| Isaac Watts 1674-1748 A.D. |
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| Voltaire 1694-1778 A.D. |
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| John Peter Zenger 1697-1746 A.D. |
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| Christopher Dock 1698-1771 A.D. |
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| Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758 A.D. |
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| Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 A.D. |
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| Jean Jaques Rousseau 1712-1778 A.D. |
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| Edmund Burke 1729-1797 A.D. |
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| Thomas Paine 1737-1809 A.D. |
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| Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 A.D. |
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| Abigail Adams 1744-1818 A.D. |
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| Noah Webster 1758-1843 A.D. |
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| Hans Nielsen Hauge 1771-1824 A.D. |
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| Jane Austen 1775-1817 A.D. |
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| Francis Scott Key 1779-1843 A.D. |
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| Washington Irving 1783-1859 A.D. |
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| John James Audubon 1785-1851 A.D. |
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| Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (The Brothers Grimm) 1785-1863 & 1786-1859 A.D. |
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| James Fenimore Cooper 1789-1851 A.D. |
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| Charles Grandison Finney 1792-1875 A.D. |
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| William Holmes McGuffey 1800-1873 A.D. |
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| Victor Marie Hugo 1802-1885 A.D. |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 A.D. |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 A.D. |
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| Hans Christian Andersen 1805-1875 A.D. |
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 A.D. |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 A.D. |
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| Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 A.D. |
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| Charles Robert Darwin 1809-1882 A.D. |
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| Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 A.D. |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 A.D. |
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| Charles Dickens 1812-1870 A.D. |
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| Frederick Douglass 1817-1895 A.D. |
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| Karl Heinrich Marx 1818-1883 A.D. |
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| Walt Whitman 1819-1892 A.D. |
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| Jules Verne 1828-1905 A.D. |
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| Leo Graf Tolstoy 1828-1910 A.D. |
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| Andrew Murray 1828-1917 A.D. |
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| Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 A.D. |
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| Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 A.D. |
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| Lewis Carroll 1832-1898 A.D. |
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| George Alfred (G. A.) Henty 1832-1902 A.D. |
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| Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 A.D. |
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| Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910 A.D. |
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| Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalani 1838-1917 A.D. |
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| Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904 A.D. |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900 A.D. |
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| Dan Beard 1850-1941 A.D. |
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| Booker T. Washington 1856-1915 A.D. |
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| Lyman Frank Baum 1856-1919 A.D. |
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| Katherine Lee Bates 1859-1929 A.D. |
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 A.D. |
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| Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 A.D. |
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| (Helen) Beatrix Potter 1866-1943 A.D. |
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| Herbert George (H.G.) Wells 1866-1946 A.D. |
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| Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman "Nellie Bly" 1867-1922 A.D. |
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| Amy Carmichael 1867-1951 A.D. |
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| Laura Ingalls Wilder 1867-1957 A.D. |
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| Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton 1874-1922 A.D. |
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| Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 1874-1965 A.D. |
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| Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 A.D. |
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| Leon Lev Bronstein Trotsky 1879-1940 A.D |
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| Anna Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 A.D. |
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| Thomas Edward (T. E.) Lawrence of Arabia 1888-1935 A.D. |
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| T.S. Eliot 1888-1965 A.D. |
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| John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.)Tolkein 1892-1973 A.D. |
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| Pearl Sydenstricker Buck 1892-1973 A.D. |
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| Corrie Ten Boom 1892-1983 A.D. |
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| F. Scott (Francis Scott Key) Fitzgerald 1896-1940 A.D. |
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| Clive Staples (C. S.) Lewis 1898-1963 A.D. |
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| Earnest Miller Hemingway 1899-1961 A.D. |
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| Charles Augustus Lindbergh 1902-1974 A.D. |
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| Watchman Nee (Ni To-sheng) 1903-1972 A.D. |
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| Baroness Maria von Trapp 1905-1987 A.D. |
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| Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945 A.D. |
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| Rachel Louise Carson 1907-1964 A.D. |
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| Mother Teresa of Calcutta 1910-1997 A.D. |
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| Francis & Edith Schaeffer 1912-1984 & 1914-2013 A.D. |
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| Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008 A.D. |
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| William Franklin "Billy" Graham 1918-2018 A.D. |
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| Ray Bradbury 1920-2012 A.D. |
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| Brother Andrew 1928- A.D. |
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| Luis Palau 1934- A.D. |
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| Don Richardson 1935-2018 A.D. |
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| John Rush Born 1955 A.D. |
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