1000 Makers of the Millennium

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Makers of the Millennium
Concise biographies of major figures include scientists, artists, explorers, leaders, and social reformers • Feature boxes focus on important events and a continuous timeline tracks the history of the last millennium • A reference section provides a complete list of British kings and queens, prime ministers, Nobel Prize winners, and much more • An accessible and invaluable reference guide for the whole family
O William Shakespeare @ Diana, Princess of Wales @ Martin Luther King Jr © Amelia Earhart ® Christopher Columbus @ Sigmund Freud © Mohandas Gandhi @ Florence Nightingale @ Salvador Dali ® Galileo Galilei © John Lennon © Maya Angelou
© Nelson Mandela © Leonardo da Vinci © Neil Armstrong ® Albert Einstein ® Abraham Lincoln © Mother Teresa ® Napoleon Bonaparte © Charlie Chaplin ® Elvis Presley @ Queen Victoria © Winston Churchill
Makers of the Millennium
Men and women who have shaped the last 1000 years
This biographical dictionary of the past... Tovább

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Makers of the Millennium
Concise biographies of major figures include scientists, artists, explorers, leaders, and social reformers • Feature boxes focus on important events and a continuous timeline tracks the history of the last millennium • A reference section provides a complete list of British kings and queens, prime ministers, Nobel Prize winners, and much more • An accessible and invaluable reference guide for the whole family
O William Shakespeare @ Diana, Princess of Wales @ Martin Luther King Jr © Amelia Earhart ® Christopher Columbus @ Sigmund Freud © Mohandas Gandhi @ Florence Nightingale @ Salvador Dali ® Galileo Galilei © John Lennon © Maya Angelou
© Nelson Mandela © Leonardo da Vinci © Neil Armstrong ® Albert Einstein ® Abraham Lincoln © Mother Teresa ® Napoleon Bonaparte © Charlie Chaplin ® Elvis Presley @ Queen Victoria © Winston Churchill
Makers of the Millennium
Men and women who have shaped the last 1000 years
This biographical dictionary of the past millennium presents an extensive, international selection of 1000 men and women whose work and achievements have shaped the modern world - from Leonardo da Vinci to Salvador Dali, Jane Austen to Toni Morrison, Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking, Mozart to the Beatles.
Throughout the book, feature boxes examine important events - such as scientific revolutions,
art movements, and social upheavals - that have altered the course of history. These boxes also introduce the names and dates of additional influential figures. A timeline that places each person in geographical and historical context runs along each page, following contemporary events as they unfold around each figure.
1000 Makers of the Millennium sheds new light on the most significant leaders and thinkers, scientists and inventors, writers and artists of the last 1000 years - the ultimate who's who of the past millennium. Vissza