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Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with
branches in a number of major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor
Marie Tussaud and was formerly known as "Madame Tussaud's", (though it
still appears in some signage at the New York location). Madame Tussauds
is a major tourist attraction in London, displaying waxworks of
historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and famous
murderers.
Known as "Madame Tussauds" museums , they are owned by a leisure company
called Merlin Entertainments, following the acquisition of The Tussauds
Group in May 2007.
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Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani
democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan
in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996.
She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister of
Pakistan and the founder of the Pakistan People's Party, which she led.
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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current
President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold
the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from
Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in
the 2008 presidential election.
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David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is the Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the
Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. He represents Witney
as its Member of Parliament (MP).The 43-year-old Cameron became the
youngest British Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool 198 years
earlier.
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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953)is a British Labour Party
politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2
May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for
Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to
2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007.
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born 18 July 1918) served as President of
South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African
president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election.
Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the
leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National
Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and
other charges, and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela served 27 years
in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30
January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of
India during the Indian independence movement. His birthday, 2 October,
is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and
worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.Gandhi was
assassinated on 30 January 1948, by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist
who felt Gandhi was sympathetic to the Muslims. January 30, hence is
observed as Martyrs' Day in India.
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher,(born 13 October 1925 - 26
June 2003) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. The first female British prime
minister and the longest-serving of the 20th century, Thatcher's strict
conservative policies, hard line against trade unions and tough rhetoric
in opposition to the Soviet Union earned her the nickname the "Iron
Lady". |