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| Abraham Lincoln For writing about Abraham Lincoln: debate, campaign, Civil War, Robert E. Lee, slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, assassination … created: January 6, 2009 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Afghanistan For writing about Afghanistan: empire, artifact, Genghis Khan, Hindu Kush, Khyber Pass, Islam, border, Taliban, mujahideen, landmine … created: October 7, 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Age of Discovery For writing about European explorations beginning in the 15th century: navigation, trade route, spice, rumor, gold … created: March 2, 2011 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
American Revolution 1 For writing about the American Revolution — people, places, events: Thomas Jefferson, Bunker Hill, Boston Tea Party, boycott … revised: Oct 10, 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| American Revolution 2 An expanded version of American Revolution 1, including Olive Branch Petition, John Jay, self-government, writs of assistance … revised: Oct 10, 2005 words: 1300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Assyria Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Assyria: Nineveh, Mesopotamia, palace, winged statue, military … revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Babylon Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Babylon: law, astronomy, Hammurabi, Hanging Gardens, Mesopotamia, Nebuchadnezzar … revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Egypt 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in ancient Egypt, including buildings, kings, queens, pyramids, and religion. revised: Feb 1, 2006 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Egypt 2 Same as Ancient Egypt 1 with the addition of advanced words and names: artisan, conquest, decline, plunder … Amon-Re, Hyksos, Senusret. revised: Feb 1, 2006 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Greece 1 Basic words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: Jan 17, 2002 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Greece 2 Basic AND advanced words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: Jan 16, 2002 words: 1800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Rome 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in Ancient Rome. Names of famous people and places in the Roman empire. revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Rome 2 Words for Roman religious beliefs, legends, entertainment, achievements, and legacies. Names of people and places in the Roman empire. revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 1200 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Sumer 1 Words and phrases for BASIC writing about life in Ancient Sumer: Ur, Mesopotamia, Babylon, ziggurat, trade route, cuneiform, clay tablet, burial… created: Apr 19, 2002 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Sumer 2 Same as Ancient Sumer 1 but with additional words for ADVANCED writing about life in Ancient Sumer: authentic, economic, sacrificial … Akkadia, Chaldea, Kudumu … created: Apr 19, 2002 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Antarctic Explorers For writing about the exploration of Antarctica: Captain Cook, Robert F. Scott, South Pole, the Endurance, Mawson, Richard Byrd … created: May 6, 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Arctic Explorers For writing about Arctic explorations: John Franklin, Baffin Bay, starvation, expedition, Roald Amundsen, harbor, Inuit, ice, the Northwest Passage … created: May 23, 2006 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Aztecs For writing about the Aztecs: their way of life, religious beliefs, achievements, and legacies. revised: Oct 12, 2005 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Battle of Britain For writing about the Battle of Britain at the beginning of World War II: battle, pilot, Spitfire, English Channel, attack, parachute, coastal defense … created: Mar 23, 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee For writing about “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” a history of the West from the Native American point of view … created: March 2, 2011 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Canadian Confederation For writing about the unification of Canada: British Empire, colony, treaty, convention, Fathers of Confederation, Canada West … created: May 5, 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Canada PreConfederation For writing about the colonial history of Canada: Samuel de Champlain, fur trade, missionary post, Hudson’s Bay Company, Iroquois, settlement, allegiance … created: August 5, 2010 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Cesar Chavez For writing about the life and work of Cesar Chavez: boycott, grape strike, migrant worker, nonviolence, labor union, bracero, discrimination … created: Aug 14, 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
China For writing about the geography and history of China: Great Wall, Ming dynasty, defense, Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong, Beijing, modernization … created: October 16, 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Civil War 1 For writing about the US Civil War and events leading up to it: abolitionist, Abraham Lincoln, Fort Sumter, slavery, Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg … revised: Oct 6, 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Civil War 2 All the words in Civil War 1, plus more names, places, and battles: Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Opequon Creek, the Fire Zouaves … revised: Oct 6, 2005 words: 1600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Economic Issues For writing about current economic issues: bailout, credit crisis, default, oversight, deregulation, bankruptcy, globalization … Updated Feb. 2011. revised: February 7, 2011 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Eleanor Roosevelt For writing about Eleanor Roosevelt: Hyde Park, marriage, F.D.R., politics, speaking tour, the U.N., Universal Declaration of Human Rights … created: August 6, 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| England 1485 to 1714 Britain in the time of the Tudor and Stuart rulers: famous people and events, plus everyday clothing, food, work, transportation, and entertainment. revised: Oct 13, 2005 words: 2700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
European Union For writing about the European Union: parliament, policy, program, EU, democratic, legislate … created: March 2, 2011 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| First Nations Eastern Native Americans and First Nations of the eastern US and SE Canada, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi: history, communities, places, way of life. revised: Oct 25, 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
First Nations Northern Peoples of the Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast: Inuit, First Nations, Native Americans—communities, places, history, way of life. revised: Oct 25, 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| First Nations Plains Native Americans and First Nations of the central Great Plains in the US and Canada: history, communities, places, and way of life. revised: Oct 25, 2005 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
First Nations Western Native Americans and First Nations west of the Rocky Mountains, including parts of the US, Canada and Mexico: history, people, locations, way of life. revised: Oct 25, 2005 words: 1200 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Florence Nightingale For writing about Florence Nightingale, pioneer of nursing: Crimea, hospital, honor, military, campaign … created: April 5, 2010 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Frederick Douglass For writing about Frederick Douglass: abolitionist, slavery, escape, orator, honor, education, Baltimore, the North Star, Reconstruction … created: January 6, 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| French Revolution For writing about the French Revolution: Estates — General, taxes, Louis XVI, Robespierre, the Reign of Terror, tricolor, guillotine … created: October 2, 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
George Washington For writing about George Washington, the first President of the United States: plantation, commander in chief, army, Constitutional Convention, honor … created: January 10, 2011 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Gladiators Words for writing about gladiators in Roman times: amphitheater, contest, Spartacus, trident, net … revised: Oct 13, 2005 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Great Depression USA For writing about the Depression: Wall Street, stock market, Herbert Hoover, breadline, Dust Bowl, bankruptcy, FDR, New Deal … created: February 1, 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Henry VIII For writing about King Henry VIII of England: male heir, armory, monastery, church, Pope Clement, execution, treason, marry, navy … created: April 3, 2009 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Holocaust Words and phrases for writing about the Holocaust: Nazi, Jew, genocide, racism, gas chamber, concentration camp, anti-Semitism, Hitler … revised: Oct 13, 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Immigration History North America For writing about the history of immigration to the USA and Canada: refugee, Ellis Island, labor, quota, assimilation … created: March 10, 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Industrial Revolution For writing about the Industrial Revolution: steam engine, factory, Henry Bessemer, capitalism, labor pool, tenement … created: November 6, 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Iraq War For writing about the US-led attack on Iraq: the people, places, equipment, and events before, during, and after the war. revised: November 11, 2010 words: 1800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Iron Age Britain For writing about life in Iron Age Britain: hill fort, decoration, metal, plow, agricultural … created: February 7, 2011 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Labor History North America For writing about labor history in the USA and Canada: Samuel Gompers, Taft-Hartley Act, injunction, collective bargaining … created: August 17, 2008 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Leonardo da Vinci For writing about the great artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci: drawing, paint, Florence, Mona Lisa, sketch, design, observation … revised: Oct 13, 2005 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Lewis and Clark For writing about the Lewis & Clark Expedition: the people and tribes, camps, forts, rivers, mountain passes, supplies, wildlife, and hardships. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Mahatma Gandhi For writing about the life of Mahatma Gandhi: non-violence, injustice, India, Pakistan, demonstration, partition, fast, honor … created: December 10, 2007 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. For writing about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his role in the civil rights movement: desegregation, bus boycott, inequality, nonviolence … created: Dec 10, 2003 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Mexican History For writing about the history of Mexico: Aztec, conquistador, Spain, independence, Miguel Hidalgo, Emiliano Zapata … created: Apr 21, 2005 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Middle Ages For writing about the Middle Ages: fief, monk, Charlemagne, crusade, armor, feudalism, the Book of Kells … created: February 7, 2011 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Napoleon Bonaparte For writing about Napoleon Bonaparte: First Empire, Trafalgar, blockade, Napoleonic Wars, St. Helena, Waterloo, exile … created: October 2, 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Native American History Native Americans and First Nations of North America: history, communities, places, ways of life. To narrow geographic focus, use a FIRST NATIONS dictionary. created: Oct 28, 2005 words: 2000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Nelson Mandela For writing about the life of Nelson Mandela: early years, protests against apartheid, imprisonment, and presidency of South Africa. revised: Jan 3, 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Odyssey For writing about the Greek epic story of Odysseus: heroic, harbor, Penelope, suitor, disguise, Calypso … created: April 1, 2011 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Olaudah Equiano For writing about the author and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano: freedom, autobiography, labor, writer, African … created: January 6, 2009 words: 300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Old West Words about westward expansion in the U.S. and Canada: people, places, animals, equipment, and activities. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 1500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ottoman Empire For writing about the history, politics, and culture of the Ottoman Empire: sultan, Islam, Turk, architecture, jewelry … created: March 9, 2010 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Panama Canal For writing about the Panama Canal: Theodore Roosevelt, Cape Horn, Colombia, malaria, laborer, locks, channel, mudslide … Created: May 1, 2008 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Pilgrims at Plymouth For writing about the Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower: religion, Plymouth, colony, harbor, dissent … created: October 8, 2010 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Rosa Parks For writing about Rosa Parks and her part in the civil rights movement: bus boycott, Montgomery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, color, courage … created: Jan. 18, 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Russian Revolution For writing about the Russian Revolution: Bolshevik, Lenin, labor union, riot, Duma, Romanov, abdicate, civil war, Marxism … created: April 4, 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Sitting Bull For writing about Sitting Bull: chief, Lakota, Black Hills, Fort Laramie Treaty, honor, lie, sacred, George Armstong Custer … created: May 1, 2008 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Slave Trade Britain For writing about the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire: slavery, abolition, labor, Africa, West Indies, plantation … revised: Mar 27, 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Slavery in USA For writing about slavery in the United States: plantation, cotton, forced labor, overseer, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, abolition … created: May 5, 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
South Africa For writing about the history and geography of South Africa: apartheid, veld, color, Mandela, Boer … created: December 3, 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Terrorism For writing about the Sept 11 attacks, the bombing of Afghanistan, and terrorism in general: bin Laden, anthrax, war, peace, bomb, hijack, invade, escape, rescue … revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Thomas Edison For writing about Thomas Edison: lightbulb, carbon filament, inventor, research laboratory, rivalry, patent, honor … created: April 4, 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Titanic Sailing on the Titanic, its parts & passengers; the disaster of the iceberg; the discovery and exploration of the sunken ship. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Transcontinental Railroad For writing about the first transcontinental railroad: laborer, manifest destiny, tunnel, Chinese, Sierras, Golden Spike … created: March 9, 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| U.S. Constitution For writing about the U.S. Constitution and how it came to be: Independence Hall, the Preamble, James Madison, checks and balances, the Bill of Rights … created: Aug 19, 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
U.S. History thru 1865 Basic words and names covering U.S. history through the Civil War. Does not include Reconstruction. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 2200 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| U.S. Presidential Election For writing about U.S. presidential elections, past and present: delegate, candidate, Democrat, Republican, nominee ... Updated Feb. 2011. revised: February 7, 2011 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
U.S. Presidents For writing about the presidents of the United States: election, inauguration, Cabinet, Jefferson, Civil War, LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate, Reagan, Obama … created: November 10, 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| U.S. Supreme Court For writing about the Supreme Court, past and present: Marbury v. Madison, precedent, appeal, nomination … created: July 2, 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Vietnam War For writing about the Vietnam War: Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh, Henry Kissinger, Tet Offensive, Agent Orange, maneuver, jungle … created: September 7, 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Vikings 1 Basic words for writing about the Vikings - people, places, way of life — and their discovery of North America: longship, Norsemen, Eric the Red, Icelander … revised: May 16, 2004 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Vikings 2 All the words in Vikings 1 plus more words for their conquests and life in Europe: Gokstad, Mjollnir, Uppsala, quernstone, thane, wergeld … revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 2100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| William Wallace For writing about the Scottish hero William Wallace: Braveheart, patriot, rebel, victory, battle, armor, betray, Stirling … created: March 10, 2008 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Women's Vote North America For writing about women’s suffrage in the U.S.A. and Canada: ballot, reform, Susan B. Anthony, franchise, prison, hunger strike, Nineteenth Amendment … created: June 8, 2009 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Women's Vote U.K. For writing about women’s suffrage in the U.K.: franchise, Emmeline Pankhurst, arrest, protest, hunger strike, Women's Social and Political Union … created: June 8, 2009 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
World War I For writing about World War I: the Allies, trench warfare, poison gas, armor, the Western Front, Woodrow Wilson, the Treaty of Versailles … created: Aug 19, 2006 words: 1500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| World War II For writing about World War II: Nazi, Hitler, the Allies, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor, the Normandy invasion, concentration camp, Iwo Jima … created: Dec 11, 2005 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Wright Brothers For writing about the Wright Brothers, their invention of the first controlled, powered airplane, and the first flights in it. revised: Oct 14, 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |