Great Britons
General George Monck (1608-1670)
National Trust. Portrait by Samuel Cooper
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Great Britons
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1689
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Great Britons
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
National Portrait Gallery. After Samuel Cooper, based on a work of 1656
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Great Britons
Edward I (1239-1307)
Portrait in Westminster Abbey likely depicting Edward I
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Great Britons
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1689
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Great Britons
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
World War II image, in the public domain
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Great Britons
Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Attributed to George Gower, c.1585
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
[George Bernard Shaw]
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
[Neil deGrasse Tyson]
We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public offices.
[Aesop]
Eccentric looks at life through the thoughts of a retired working thinker
