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Book

Timelines of extraordinary lives : from Cleopatra and Confucius to Mozart and Malala.

Author

DK Publishing, Inc.,

Call Number

J 920 TIME (CEN, OSH)

Edition

Second edition ; American edition.

Publication Information

New York : DK, 2024.

Physical Description

328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Audience

Ages 9-up.

Summary

"Timelines of Extraordinary Lives focuses on the incredible biographies of a myriad of movers and shakers across millennia. Readers will be fascinated by the lives of a diverse array of kings and queens, humanitarians, scientists, inventors, explorers, activists, writers, artists, and more, from across the globe"--

Notes

"Previously published as Timelines of Everyone"--Cover.

At head of title: Smithsonian.

Includes index and glossary.

Contents

Ramses the Great to Ibn Sina
Mohammed al-Razi to Mumtaz Mahal
Artemisia Gentilischi to Ada Lovelace
Ranavalona I to Nellie Bly
William Randolph Hearst to Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Winston Churchill to Greta Thunberg.

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