Middle East and North Africa
- Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt - Qansuh al-Ghawri (1501–1516)
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—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)