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5) Samuel Morse
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English
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Describes Samuel Morse's career as a painter and inventor, and how his development of the Morse's code laid the groundwork for modern telecommunications.
6) Anne Frank
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English
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Traces the life of a Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
11) Eli Whitney
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English
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A biography of the inventor of the cotton gin, whose application of standardized parts to the production of weapons and other machines was a major influence in the development of industry.
15) Cleopatra
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English
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Presents the life of the Egyptian queen whose dream of controlling most of the known world was never fulfilled even though she was allied to a powerful Roman.
18) Ulysses S. Grant
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English
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A biography of the commander of the Union forces in the Civil War who became the eighteenth president of the United States.
20) King George III
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English
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A biography of the eighteenth-century British monarch during whose reign the American colonies fought to break away and form an independent nation.
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