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A biography of the English gentleman and founder of the Pennsylvania Colony, whose Quaker beliefs helped him form peaceful relationships with the American Indians and lay the foundation of religious freedom in America. Full description
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Alexander Hamilton: founding father and statesman
Benjamin Franklin: scientist and statesman
Catherine de Medici: the power behind the French throne
Galileo: astronomer and physicist
Jefferson Davis: president of the Confederacy
John Hancock: signer for independence
Michelangelo: sculptor and painter
Samuel Adams: patriot and statesman
Abraham Lincoln: great American President
Adolf Hitler: dictator of Nazi Germany
Anne Hutchinson: Puritan protester
Benazir Bhutto: Pakistani prime minister and activist
Benjamin Banneker: American scientific pioneer
Crazy Horse: Sioux warrior
Elizabeth I: Queen of Tudor England
Eva Peron: first lady of Argentina
Fidel Castro: leader of communist Cuba
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: the New Deal president
Geronimo: Apache warrior
Henry B. Gonzalez: Congressman of the people
James Beckwourth: mountaineer, scout, and pioneer
John Winthrop: colonial governor of Massachusetts
Joseph Stalin: dictator of the Soviet Union
Lord Baltimore: founder of Maryland
Martin Luther: father of the Reformation
Pope Leo X: opponent of the Reformation
Queen Noor: American-born queen of Jordan
Roger Williams: founder of Rhode Island
Sam Houston: Texas hero
Sarah Winnemucca: scout, activist, and teacher
William Penn: founder of Pennsylvania
William Tyndale: Bible translator and martyr
Wilma Mankiller: chief of the Cherokee Nation
Winston Churchill: British soldier, writer, statesman
Amelia Earhart: legendary aviator
Benito Mussolini: fascist Italian dictator
Clara Barton: founder of the American Red Cross
Indira Gandhi: political leader in India
J. Pierpont Morgan: industrialist and financier
Jesse James: legendary rebel and outlaw
Sequoyah: inventor of written Cherokee
Socrates: ancient Greek in search of truth
Thomas Alva Edison: great American inventor
Thucydides: ancient Greek historian
Will Rogers: cowboy, comedian, and commentator
Yo-Yo Ma: internationally acclaimed cellist
Cesar Chavez: crusader for social change
Elizabeth Dole: public servant and senator
Gerardus Mercator: father of modern mapmaking
Hatshepsut: Egypt's first female pharaoh
Hypatia: mathematician, inventor, and philosopher
Ramses II: Egyptian pharaoh, warrior, and builder
Sir Isaac Newton: brilliant mathematician and scientist
Tycho Brahe: pioneer of astronomy
Mary Walker: Civil War surgeon and feminist
Nikola Tesla: physicist, inventor, electrical engineer
Percy Lavon Julian: pioneering chemist