Learn English as a second language travelling through time and getting to know famous personalities. From pharaohs and kings to scholars and scientists, learn about dominant personalities who changed the face of history and shaped the world as it is today!
Each episode tracks the rise of one great personality and describes in detail their achievements, successes and even downfall. Narrated in clear, concise English, the programme uses a combination of animation, images and actors to portray these famous personalities and their lives.
Stunning visuals, impressive audio and factual content combine to make Encyclopedia – The Great one of English club TV’s most informative and impressive documentaries through which viewers can learn English as a second language.
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Episode 1
Episode 1 of Encyclopedia the Great on English Club…
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Episode 2
A new approach to English language learning! Encyclopedia The Great…
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Episode 3
Find out about Alexander the Great, the famous conqueror…
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Episode 4
Roald Amundsen
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Episode 5
Apuleius
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Episode 6
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Episode 7
Aristotle
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Episode 8
Willem Barents
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Episode 9
Octavian Augustus
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Episode 10
Archimedes
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Episode 11
Aristophanes
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Episode 12
Attila
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Episode 13
George Berkeley
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Episode 14
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
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Episode 15
Batu-khan
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Episode 16
Auguste Rodin
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Episode 17
Claude Monet
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Episode 18
Leonardo da Vinci
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Episode 19
Harmens van Ryn Rembrandt
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Episode 20
Gustav Klimt
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Episode 21
Diego Velazquez
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Episode 22
Tiziano Vecelli
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Episode 23
El Greco
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Episode 24
Ilya Repin
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Episode 25
Robert Koch
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Episode 26
Franz Joseph Haydn
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Episode 27
Galileo Galilei
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Episode 28
Oscar Wilde
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Episode 29
Dmitry Mendeleyev
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Episode 30
Michael Faraday
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Episode 31
Heinrich Emil Lenz
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Episode 32
Isaac Newton
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Episode 33
Fridtjof Nansen
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Episode 34
Franz Kafka
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Episode 35
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Episode 36
Guy de Maupassant
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Episode 37
Daniel Defoe
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Episode 38
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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Episode 39
Pierre Curie
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Episode 40
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Episode 41
René Descartes
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Episode 42
Catherine de’ Medici
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Episode 43
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
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Episode 44
Hermann Helmholtz
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Episode 45
John Galsworthy
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Episode 46
Benjamin Franklin
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Episode 47
Mark Twain
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Episode 48
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
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Episode 49
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Episode 50
Pedro Calderon
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Episode 51
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Episode 52
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix
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Episode 53
John Davidson Rockefeller
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Episode 54
Pierre de Coubertin
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Episode 55
Elizabeth I Tudor
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Episode 56
Joseph Austen Chamberlain
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Episode 57
Abraham Lincoln
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Episode 58
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Episode 59
Augustine the Blessed
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Episode 60
Jan Hus
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Episode 61
Jean Calvin
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Episode 62
Ferdinand Magellan
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Episode 63
Giovanni Boccaccio
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Episode 64
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Episode 65
Francois Rabelais
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Episode 66
Queen Victoria
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Episode 67
Charles Darwin
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Episode 68
John Milton
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Episode 69
Giacomo Giovanni Casanova
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Episode 70
Francisco Pizarro
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Episode 71
Spartacus
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Episode 72
Benjamin Disraeli
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Episode 73
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Episode 74
Mikhail Glinka
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Episode 75
Francis Drake
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Episode 76
Romulus Augustulus
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Episode 77
Abel Janszoon Tasman
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Episode 78
Gnaeus Pompey
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Episode 79
Diocletian
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Episode 80
Hannibal
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Episode 81
Herodotus of Halicarnassus
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Episode 82
Marcus Licinius Crassus
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Episode 83
Homer
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Episode 84
Simon Bolivar
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Episode 85
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
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Episode 86
Ivan IV Terrible
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Episode 87
Cleopatra the 7
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Episode 88
Thaddeus Kosciusko
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Episode 89
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Episode 90
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Episode 91
Ivan Pavlov
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Episode 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Episode 93
Socrates
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Episode 94
Frederic Chopin
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Episode 95
Johannes Brahms
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Episode 96
Henry the Navigator
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Episode 97
Henry Hudson
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Episode 98
Diogenes
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Episode 99
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
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Episode 100
Giuseppe Verdi
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Episode 101
Jean-Francois de Galaup, Comte de La Perouse
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Episode 102
Franz Liszt
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Episode 103
Sophocles
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Episode 104
Johann Strauss
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Episode 105
Modest Mussorgsky
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Episode 106
Franz Schubert
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Episode 107
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
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Episode 108
Sappho
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Episode 109
Heinrich Schliemann
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Episode 110
Pyrrhus I
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Episode 111
Euclid
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Episode 112
Euripides
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Episode 113
Democritus
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Episode 114
Josephine de Beauharnais
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Episode 115
Claudius Ptolemy
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Episode 116
Heinrich Heine
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Episode 117
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
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Episode 118
King Arthur
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Episode 119
Marcus Antonio
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Episode 120
Denis Diderot
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Episode 121
Napoleon I Bonaparte
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Episode 122
George Jacques Danton
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Episode 123
Leonid I
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Episode 124
Pope Julius II
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Episode 125
Arthur Wellesley Wellington
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Episode 126
Claudius Galen
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Episode 127
Jaroslav Hashek
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Episode 128
George Frideric Handel
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Episode 129
Victor Hugo
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Episode 130
The Montgolfier Brothers
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Episode 131
Ivan Fedorovich Krusenshtern
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Episode 132
Catherine the Great
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Episode 133
Frederick the Great
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Episode 134
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Episode 135
Shota Rustaveli
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Episode 136
Marcus Junius Brutus
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Episode 137
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
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Episode 138
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Episode 139
James Clerk Maxwell
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Episode 140
Karl Linney
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Episode 141
Confucius
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Episode 142
Louis XIV
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Episode 143
Pope Gregory XIII
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Episode 144
Mikhail Kutuzov
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Episode 145
Samuel Morse
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Episode 146
Montezuma the Second
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Episode 147
Tutankhamun
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Episode 148
Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre
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Episode 149
Alfred Bernhart Nobel
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Episode 150
Genghis Khan
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Episode 151
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Episode 152
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Episode 153
Pythagoras of Samos
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Episode 154
Andreas Vesalius
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Episode 155
Jean Paul Marat
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Episode 156
George Washington
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Episode 157
Vladimir II Monomakh
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Episode 158
Pope Urban II
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Episode 160
Plutarch
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Episode 161
Robert Alexander Schumann
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Episode 162
Levi Strauss
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Episode 163
Mary Stuart
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Episode 164
Horatio Nelson
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Episode 165
Joaquin Rossini
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Episode 166
Plato
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Episode 167
Robert Edward Lee
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Episode 168
Maluta Skuratov
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Episode 169
Tommaso Campanella
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Episode 170
Prosper Merimee
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Episode 171
Amerigo Vespucci
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Episode 172
Marco Polo
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Episode 173
Allan Pinkerton
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Episode 174
Thomas Aquinas
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Episode 175
Otto I
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Episode 176
Nostradamus
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Episode 177
Thomas More
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Episode 178
Martin Luther
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Episode 179
Omar Khayyam
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Episode 180
Lope de Vega
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Episode 181
Louis Pasteur
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Episode 182
Marie Sklodowska-Curie
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Episode 183
Auguste Renoir
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Episode 184
Vincent Van Gogh
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Episode 185
Sandro Botticelli
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Episode 186
Durer
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Episode 187
Self-portraits Durer