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Usama bin Laden

This person is the head of a terrorist organization known as al-Qaeda.

Muhammad Ibn al-Wahhab

This person is a conservative Islamic teacher whose extremist views are taught in private Muslim schools devoted to Islamic fundamentalism.

Mao Zedong

This person was the ruler of Communist China from 1949 to 1976.

Deng Xiaoping

This person introduced market economies to Communist China.

Sir Halford Mackinder

This person wrote a paper arguing that the next great superpower would be a land-based Asian country.

John Snow

This person was a London doctor who mapped the data regarding new cases of cholera and used that data to determine how the disease was spread.

George Marshall

This person was the architect of a plan that helped Europe to rebuild after World War II.

Shamil Basayev

This person launched a relentless terrorist campaign on behalf of Chechen independence.

Gilbert M. Grosvenor

This person started a...

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