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Really? No Alexander, Scipio Africanus, Hannibal or Caesar? Not even Augustus? Justinian?

Sid Ghosh, via Facebook

On the list I see Amilcar Cabral, who liberated African lands from Portuguese colonial rule, but not Gandhi, who liberated India from British colonial rule, nor Martin Luther King Jr, who led the

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