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Contents : RULERS & LEADERS : Moses -- Alexander the Great -- Julius Caesar (Augusta, Cleopatra) -- Genghis Khan (Akbar the Great, Kublai Khan, Tamerlane) -- Joan of Arc -- Elizabeth I -- Peter the Great (Catherine the Great) -- Napoleon Bonaparte (Horatio, Viscount Nelson) -- Abraham Lincoln (George Washington) -- Winston Churchill (Adolf Hitler) -- Mao Ze Dong (Mao tse tung) -- Indira Gandhi (Strimavo Bandaranaike, Benazir Bhutto, Golda Meir) -- REFORMERS & CHANGERS -- Siddhartha Gautama (the buddha) -- Jesus Christ -- Muhammed (Guru Nanak) -- Martin Luther (John Calvin, Henry VIII) -- Mary Wollstonecraft (Elizabeth Fry, Miranda Stuart) -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Victoria Woodhull) -- Florence Nightingale (Mary Seacole, Mother Teresa) -- Harriet Tubman (Sojourner Truth) -- Karl Marx (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) -- Emmeline Pankhurst (Emily Davison) -- Maria Montessori (Friedrich Froebel) -- Margaret Sanger (Aletta Jacobs, Marie Stopes) -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- Martin Luther King -- Mikhail Gorbachev (Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa) -- Nelson Mandela (F.W. de Klerk) -- SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS -- Archimedes (Hypatia) -- Johannes Gutenburg (William Caxton) -- Galileo Galilei (Nicolaus Copernicus) -- Charles Babbage (Ada Lovelace) -- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (George and Robert Stephenson, James Watt) -- Charles Darwin -- Thomas Edison (Alexander Graham Bell) -- Marie and Pierre Curie -- Guglielmo Marconi (John Logie Baird) -- Alexander Fleming (Howard Florey, Louis Pasteur) -- MEN & WOMEN OF ACTION -- Cheng Ho (James Cook, Marco Polo) -- Christopher Columbus (Vasco de Gama) -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- Simon Bolivar (Toussaint L’Ouverture) -- David Livingstone (Mary Kingsley) -- Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen (Robert Scott) -- Wilbur and Orville Wright (Frank Whittle) -- Yuri Gagarin (Sally Ride, Valentina Tereshkova) -- MEN & WOMEN OF ARTS & INDUSTRY -- Murasaki Shikibu (Queen Matilda of Normandy) -- Leonardo da Vinci (Michelangelo) -- William Shakespeare -- Ludwig van Beethoven (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozard, Clara Schumann) -- Jane Austen (Charles Dickens and other writers) -- Matthew Brady (Louis Daguerre) -- Andrew Carnegie (George Cadbury) -- Henry Ford -- Claude Money (Vincent van Gogh) -- Pablo Picasso (Henry Moore) -- Anna Pavlova (Sergei Diaghilev, Isadora Duncan) -- Bill Gates (Clive Sinclair).