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Short biographies of more than thirty men and women who excelled in the field of medical science. Includes Hippocrates, Pare, Vesalius, Harvey, Serturner, Ehrlich, Morton, Fleming, Florey, Chain, Laennec, Roentgen, Leeuwenhoek, Jenner, Semmelweis, Lister, Pasteur, Koch, Laveran, Ross, Metchnikoff, Blackwell, Schweitzer, Virchow, Cannon, Drew, Freud, Curie, Osler, Watson, Crick, Pinel, Sabin, Taussig, Murray, and Salk.

Relates the life stories of thirty-six significant individuals who held important public offices and contributed to the development of the United States from the Declaration of Independence to the nuclear age, including presidents, judges, leaders of the national legislature, and female and minority leaders.

A brief account of the life of that complex personality, King Henry VIII of England.

Tells the story of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's mission to discover a route to the Pacific Ocean in 1804 at the request of President Thomas Jefferson.