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Abraham Lincoln: great American President
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James Beckwourth: mountaineer, scout, and pioneer
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John Winthrop: colonial governor of Massachusetts
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Lord Baltimore: founder of Maryland
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Roger Williams: founder of Rhode Island
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Sam Houston: Texas hero
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William Penn: founder of Pennsylvania
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Benito Mussolini: fascist Italian dictator
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Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biography of the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who invented a method of projecting the curvature of the Earth's surface on to a flat sheet of paper.
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