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First prime minister of Canada and dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, serving from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to 1891

French post-Impressionist painter who developed the revolutionary techniques of chromoluminarism and pointillism

Pioneering 19th-century Russian mathematician, writer, and physicist who was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics and a full professorship in Europe

French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes who influenced modern literature and prefigured surrealism, also a world traveler and arms trader