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A & B – Biography Books PDF
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- Gaius Julius Caesar Biography in English
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Calvin, John
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Hilary Rodham Clinton Free Online Biography
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Cohen, Rose Gollup
Columbus, Christopher
Cook, James
Cooper, James Fenimore
Coughlin, Father Charles
Crane Gartz, Kate
Cromwell, Oliver
Cumming, Kate
Curie, Marie Sklodowska
Curie, Pierre
Custer, George Armstrong
D, E & F
- Daly, Augustin
- Dante (Alighieri, Dante)
- Darwin, Charles Robert
- Davies, William Henry
- Davis, Jefferson
- Davis, Miles
- Dean, James
- Debs, Eugene
- Deutsch, Leo
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- Elizabeth, Queen of England
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Isabella d’Este, Consort of Giovanni Francesco II
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- Ford, Gerald R., U.S. President
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- Francis of Assisi, Saint
- Franklin, Aretha
- Franklin, Benjamin
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- Fraser, Mary Crawford
- Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
- Friedan, Betty
- Fulton, Robert
G, H
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Galileo
Gallatin, Albert
Gambetta, Leon Michel
Garfield, James A., U.S. President
Garrison, William Lloyd
Garvey, Marcus
Gauguin, Paul
George, Henry
Geronimo, Apache Chief
Gladstone, William Ewart
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldsmith, Oliver
Goodman, Benny
Gordon, Charles George
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, U. S. President
Grey, Zane
Grissom, Virgil “Gus”
Guevara, Ernesto “Che”
- Hale, Edward Everett
Hamilton, Alexander
Hannibal
Hardie, James Keir
Harding, Warren G., U.S. President
Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Townsend
Harrison, Benjamin, U.S. President
Harrison, William Henry, U.S. President
Harte, Bret
Haviland, Laura
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hayes, Rutherford B., U.S. President
Hefner, Hugh
Hegermann-Lindencrone, Lillie de
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry the Navigator
Henry, Patrick
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Hickok, “Wild Bill”
Hill, Lucy Ann
Hoffa, James
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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Hugo, Victor
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M, N, O
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- Madison, James Jr., U.S. President
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Paine, Ralph Delahaye
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St. Vincent de Paul
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Pitt, William,
Pizarro, Francisco
Poe, Edgar Allan
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Randolph, John
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Rickenbacker, Eddie
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Roosevelt, Theodore, U.S. President Biography PDF
Ross, Diana
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Savonarola, Girolamo Biography PDF
Schubert, Franz Peter Biography Book PDF
Schurz, Carl
Schuyler, Catherine (Van Rensselaer)
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de
Seward, William H.
Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry Biography PDF
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Sherman, William Tecumseh
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
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Smith, Adam
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Stanley, Henry Morton
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Steiner, Edward Alfred
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Strindberg, August
Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots
Sullivan, Louis Henry
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