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Nicolò Paganini was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are his best known compositions and have been inspiration for many composers
Zhuge Kongming - Zhuge Liang, courtesy name Kongming, was a Chinese statesman and military strategist. He is recognised as the most accomplished strategist of his era, and has been compared to Sun Tzu, the author of The Art of War. Zhuge Kongming is also a character in HI3.
Zhangheng - Zhang Heng was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman. But also an astronomer, mathematician, seismologist, hydraulic engineer, inventor, geographer, cartographer, ethnographer, artist, poet, philosopher, politician, and literary scholar.
Wilde - Theres a bunch of Wildes so I hope I got the right 1. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. He is known for The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for “gross indecency” for consensual homosexual acts
Verne - Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. He made the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Thales - Thalês was a Greek philosopher, astronomer and mathematician. He is often referred to as the Father of Science. His hypothesis that the originating principle of nature and the nature of matter was a single material substance: water. This is referenced in the T stigma.
Irene Adler - Irene Adler is also from Holmes’ stories. A former opera singer and actress, she was featured in the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia". While not a criminal and bearing no malice towards Holmes, she outsmarts him and evades his traps.
Holmes - you know who he is; Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The illustration for comparison is from 1904 by Sidney Paget, whose illustrations accompanied Holmes’ story in the magazine they were published on.
Mary Shelley - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which is considered an early example of science fiction.
Dracula - Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler was Vovoide (ruler) of Wallachia (historically Romania) three times between 1448 and 1476. He is often considered one of the most important rulers in Wallachian history and a national hero of Romania.