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Abagnale, Frank
Achilles
Adams, John Quincy
Ahmed-Ibn-el-Sayed, Muhammad - "The Mahdi"
Alexander the Great
Alighieri, Dante
Amistad Captives
Anderson, “Bloody” Bill
Andre, John
Anthony, Susan B.
Arnold, Benedict
Arthur, Legendary King
Attila, the Hun
Balliol, John (King of Scotland)
Barrie, J.M.
Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste - See chapter 6
Beethoven, Ludwig von
Beowulf
Bernstein, Leonard - Conducting Beethoven’s 9th after fall of Berlin wall - See chapter 13
Boisjoly, Roger
Boone, Daniel
Boone, Herman
Booth, John Wilkes
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Borden, Lizzie
Borglum, Gutzon - See chapter 9
Bowie, James
Braddock, Jim
Bradford, William
Brashear, Carl
Brockovich, Erin
Brown, John (Abolitionist)
Celia, a Slave
Champollion, Jean Francois
Charles I - See chapter 7
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chawla, Kalpana
Churchill, Winston Spencer - Potsdam Conference
Commanders, D-Day - See chapter 5
Commodus
Crockett, Davy
Czolgosz, Leon
Darius I
Darius III
Doolittle, Lt. Col. Jimmy - See chapters 13 and 14
Dore, Gustave
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Douglass, Frederick
Dracula (Vlad Tepes)
Dyer, Mary
Earp, Wyatt
Edward I, “Longshanks”
Edward of Woodstock, The Black Prince
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, General Dwight David
Elizabeth I
Ellsberg, Daniel
Equiano, Olaudah
Escobar, Pablo
Fawkes, Guy
Feynman, Dr. Richard - See videos, chapter 5
Flag Raisers, Iwo Jima
First Emperor of China
Fisher, Antwone
Flynn, Errol
Ford, Robert
Franklin, John - See chapter 7
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria - See chapter 2
Gagarin, Yuri
Galileo
Garfield, President James
Genda, Minoru - See chapter 4
Glenn, John
Goddard, Dr. Robert
Gordon, Charles George (“Chinese”)
Grendel
Grendel’s Mother
Guiteau, Charles
Hagen, Walter
Hamilton, Alexander - See chapters 3 and 4
Hammurabi
Harlan, Justice John Marshall
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Helen of Troy
Henry VIII - See chapter 2
Hine, Lewis Wickes
Hitler, Adolf - Rise to Power - See chapter 4
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Hosenfeld, Wilm - See chapters 12-14
Howard, Charles S.
Hughes, Howard
Innocent III
Ivan IV (“The Terrible”)
Jackson, Thomas (“Stonewall”)
Jack the Ripper
James VI/I
James, Frank
James, Jesse
Jefferson, President Thomas
Joan of Arc
John “Lackland,” King
Johnson, President Andrew - See chapter 6
Johnson, President Lyndon Baines - Gulf of Tonkin
Johnson, President Lyndon Baines - Refuses to seek second term as president - See chapter 8
Jones, Bobby
Jung, George
Kennedy, President John F.
Kennedy, President John F. - “Ich bin ein Berliner” - See chapter 12
Kennedy, Robert F. (“Bobby”)
Key, Francis Scott
Kim Il Sung - See chapter 13
Kollwitz, Kathe - See chapter 10
Korematsu, Fred
Kuribayashi, Lt. General Tadamichi
Lange, Dorothea - See chapters 3 and 4
Lehder, Carlos
Leonidas, King of Sparta
Leopold (Nathan) and Loeb (Richard)
Lewis, C.S.
Lewis, Helen Joy Davidman Gresham
Lewis (Meriwether) and Clark (William)
Lincoln, President Abraham
Louis XVI
Louis XVII - See chapters 14 and 15
Lovell, Jim (Apollo 13)
MacArthur, General Douglas
Mallory, George Leigh - See chapters 7 and 8
Marcus Aurelius
Marie Antoinette
Marion, Francis (“The Swamp Fox”) - See chapter 17
Marshall, Chief Justice John
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mason, George - See chapter 4
Maybrick, Florence
Mayes, Frances
McAuliffe, Christa
McKinley, President William
Miller, Dorie
Minh, Ho Chi
Moore, Lt. General Harold (“Hal”)
Morris, Jim (“The Rookie”)
Morrison, Herb
Mortara, Edgardo
Muhammad, the Prophet
Murdoch, William McMaster
Murnau, F.W. (Friedrich Wilhelm)
Murphy, Justice Frank
Nash, John
Newton, John
Nixon, Richard M. - Watergate cartoons - See chapters 2-3
Oetzi, the Iceman - See chapter 6
O’Leary, Catherine
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Otis, James - See chapter 2
Packard, Elizabeth
Penn, William
Philip II, of Macedonia
Philip II, of Spain
Pieh, Sengbe (also known as Cinque, Joseph)
Plessy, Homer
Pliny the Younger - On Pompeii - See chapters 4-5
Pollard, John M. (“Red”)
Potter, Beatrix
Prange, Gordon
Pressfield, Steven
Priam, King of Troy
Quantrill, William
Raleigh, Walter
Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke
Regan, President Ronald - “Tear down this wall!” - See chapter 13
Revere, Paul
Robert the Bruce
Robinson, Jackie - See chapter 7
Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad
Romanov, Tsar Nicholas II
Roosevelt, President Franklin - Executive Order 9066
Roosevelt, President Franklin - Pearl Harbor Response
Roosevelt, President Theodore R. - See chapter 15
Sacajawea (Sacagawea)
Saint Nicholas
Saladin
Schliemann, Heinrich
Shepard, Alan
Smith, Captain Edward John
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Still, William
Story, Justice Joseph
Stroop, S.S. Major General Jürgen (Josef) - See chapters 8-10
Sue, the T-rex - See chapter 6
Suffragists, American
Szpilman, Wladyslaw
Tereshkova, Valentina
Tolkien, J.R.R. - See chapter 6
Tone, Theobold Wolfe
Travis, William
Trolls
Truman, President Harry S. - Approves use of atomic bomb - See chapter 16
Truman, President Harry S. - Korean War
Truman, President Harry S. - Potsdam Conference
Tubman, Harriet - See chapter 9
Tutankhamen, King Tut - See chapters 8 and 9
Tweed, William March (“Boss”)
Tyler, Wat
Tyndale, William
Tyne, Billy
van Gogh, Vincent
Verne, Jules - See chapter 5
von Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand
Wagner, Honus - See chapter 11
Wallace, William
Warne, Norman - See chapters 9 and 10
Washington, George and Martha
White, E.B. (“Andy”)
Wilberforce, William
William, the Conqueror
Woolf, George (“Iceman”)
Woolf, Leonard
Woolf, Virginia
World Trade Center Rescuers
Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville
Wycliffe, John
Yeager, Chuck
Zaitsev, Vasily
Zapruder, Abraham
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