Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Presents a brief biographical profile and portrait of mostly American and European men known for their contributions in such areas as politics, religion, the arts, and science
Table of Contents
Pharaoh Menes -- Hammurabi -- Moses -- Homer -- Lao Tsu (Lao Tse) -- Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) -- Cyrus the Great -- Confucius (Kung Fu-Tsu) -- Xerxes I -- Pericles -- Herodotus -- Soctrates -- Hippocrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Alexander the Great -- Asoka -- Archimedes -- Shih Huang Ti -- Gaius Julius Caesar -- Caesar Augustus (Octavian) -- Jesus Christ -- St. Paul (Saul of Tarsus) -- Constantine -- Mohammed -- Charlemagne -- Otto I -- William the Conqueror -- Genghis Khan (Temujin) -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- Marco Polo -- Johann Gutenberg -- Christopher Columbus -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Desiderius Erasmus -- Nicholas Copernicus -- Michaelangelo Buonarroti -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Martin Luther -- Henry VIII -- Gelileo Gallilei -- William Shakespeare -- Oliver Cromwell -- Isaac Newton -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) -- Benjamin Franklin -- Frederick II (the Great) -- James Cook -- George Washington -- Thomas Jefferson -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig von Beethoven -- Napolean Bonaparte -- William Clarke and Merriwether Lewis -- Simâon Bolâivar -- Samuel Morse -- Benjamin Disraeli -- Giuseppe Garibaldi -- Charles Darwin -- Abraham Lincoln -- William Ewart Gladstone -- Charles Dickens -- Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck -- Jules Verne -- Chief Sitting Bull (Tatankya Iyotake) -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) -- Thomas A. Edison -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Mutsuhito (Meiji) -- Sigmund Freud -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Henry Ford --