The historical figures we learn about won battles, led countries and advocated for social change. But many of these people also delivered some of the most savage burns of all time.
Winston Churchill
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John Wilkes
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Truman Capote
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Gandhi
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Sparta
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British General Arthur Wellesley
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Abraham Lincoln
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Pope John XXIII
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Thomas Reed
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Edna Ferber
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Winston Churchill
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Calvin Coolidge
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Reverend Edward Everett Hale
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Winston Churchill
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Dorothy Parker
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Author Ilka Chase
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Nicholas Longworth
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Ed Koch
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