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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, Greatest Classical Composer in history, who composed the masterpiece Symphony #9, while TOTALLY DEAF!	HIERONYMUS BOSCH Hieronymus Bosch is the genius artist, whose paintings combined irreverent and grotesque images, fantasy, freaks, devils, and bizarre symbolism to depict corruption, indulgence, religious hypocrisy and human greed!	EDGAR ALLAN POE, tortured genius writer of such brilliant masterpieces as "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven", is considered the Master of the Macabre and died peniless at the age of 40.	FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, famous German Philosopher who went insane at 45 years old and declared that "GOD IS DEAD", opposed Christianity and believed in the concept of "WILL TO POWER" and "SUPERMAN": (the ideal human).
LEONARDO DA VINCI, the prototype of the "RENAISSANCE MAN", painted the masterpiece "THE LAST SUPPER" (pictured) and wrote notebooks in his own code of mirror (backwards) writing, which kept his ideas and inventions secret.	JEAN-FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION was a French Egyptologist, linguistic prodigy and the "Father of Egyptology." Through the use of the ROSETTA STONE, Champollion was the FIRST person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.	JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, Baroque Composer who wrote the genius UNFINISHED masterpiece "ART OF FUGUE" in his last years, while SLOWLY GOING BLIND!	WILLIAM BLAKE, ARTIST and POET, was called "HIDEOUS", "INSANE" & a LUNATIC. Pictured is Blake's "THE ANCIENT OF DAYS."
ANTONIO VIVALDI, Baroque Classical Composer who was known as the "RED PRIEST" and was buried in a pauper's grave.	GEORGE WASHINGTON, the FIRST PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in the AMERICAN REVOLUTION & "FATHER OF THE COUNTRY"!	SOCRATES, Philosopher, Prepares to Carry out his DEATH SENTENCE drinking HEMLOCK	WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, died when he was only 35 years old, after being commissioned to compose a Requiem Mass from a mysterious stranger, which Mozart misinterpreted as a pronouncement of his own death.
GALILEO on Trial for HERESY	Self-Portrait of VINCENT VAN GOGH After Cutting His Own Ear	MADAME CURIE in what looks like a POLICE MUG SHOT in France's Excelsior Mag's SMEAR CAMPAIGN	JOAN OF ARC Burning at the Stake
NICCOLO PAGANINI was called "The Devil's Son" and "Witch's Brat" for his demonic and amazing violin virtuosity! Audiences thought Paganini made a pact with the devil to be able to perform supernatural displays of technique!	RICHARD WAGNER, genius opera composer who invented the "LEITMOTIVE" (melodies corresponding to characters) and revolutionized operas with the 4 opera masterpiece "THE RING."	THEODORE ROOSEVELT was the youngest President of the United States at the age of 42. He was a statesman, police commissioner, Nobel Peace Prize winner, author, hero, cowboy, soldier, hunter, naturalist, explorer and leader of the Rough Riders! Roosevelt's policy was "SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK."	THE GREAT KAT, The Only FEMALE Musical Revolutionary, Inventor of "Shred/Classical" Music - Bringing Classical Music to the Masses and The NEW BEETHOVEN of the 21st Century!
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI, genius Opera Composer, suffered from a malady known as "neurasthenia"-a mental disorder with psychosomatic symptoms.		QUEEN ELIZABETH I, known as the Virgin Queen, was the daughter of King Henry VIII and was the Queen of England from 1558-1603. Elizabeth I was a DIPLOMATIC GENIUS, who made England into a major world power.