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| Abraham Lincoln For writing about Abraham Lincoln: debate, campaign, Civil War, Robert E Lee, slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, assassination… created: 6 January 2009 words: 700 use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Albert Einstein For writing about the scientist Albert Einstein: theory, relativity, energy, physics, light, speed... created: 31 Aug 2005 author: Don Johnston Incorporated words: 700 use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Alexander Graham Bell For writing about Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone: idea, teacher, experiment, Volta Prize, patent, sound, curious, patient, sceptical... created: 12 Feb 2006 words: 903 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Amelia Earhart For writing about the famous pilot, Amelia Earhart: world record, flying lessons, airplane, navigator, rumour, disappearance, Pacific Ocean... created: 13 Dec 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Beethoven For writing about the composer Ludwig van Beethoven: piano, violin, Ninth Symphony, Vienna, composition, favourite, chamber music… created: 9 March 2009 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Bruce Lee For writing about the life of Bruce Lee, martial arts hero and international film star: championship, karate, producer, screen test, Enter the Dragon... created: 23 Apr 2004 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Charles Darwin For writing about Charles Darwin, the British naturalist and his theories on the Origin of the Species: evolution, Galapagos, science, adapt... revised: 30 Dec 2005 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Edward Elgar For writing about the composer Sir Edward Elgar: orchestral, organist, honour, Pomp and Circumstance, Worcestershire… created: 1 August 2007 words: 250 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt For writing about Eleanor Roosevelt: Hyde Park, marriage, FDR, politics, speaking tour, the UN, Universal Declaration of Human Rights… created: 6 August 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Florence Nightingale For writing about Florence Nightingale, pioneer of nursing: Crimea, hospital, honour, military, campaign … Use with the 12K Main Dictionary or higher. created: 5 April 2010 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Frederick Douglass For writing about Frederick Douglass: abolitionist, slavery, escape, orator, honour, education, Baltimore, the North Star, Reconstruction… created: 6 January 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Galileo For writing about the scientist Galileo: astronomer, solar system, physics, telescope, centre, orbit, de Medici, heretic… created: 28 May 2007 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| George W Carver For writing about the African-American scientist, George Washington Carver: Tuskegee, crop rotation, peanut, cotton, soya bean, slavery... created: 2 May 2006 words: 500 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, honour … created: 10 January 2011 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Helen Keller For writing about the life of Helen Keller: teacher, Anne Sullivan, blindess, communicate, behaviour, breakthrough, autobiography… created: 10 December 2007 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Henry VIII For writing about King Henry VIII of England: male heir, armoury, monastery, church, Pope Clement, execution, treason, marry, navy… created: 3 April 2009 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Jane Austen For writing about the novelist Jane Austen: novel, writer, marry, husband, social class, dishonour, Hampshire... created: 10 November 2008 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or |
Jane Goodall For writing about Jane Goodall: Gombe, chimpanzee, research centre, Africa, Louis Leakey, conservation, tool-making, observation, activist… created: 6 February 2009 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| King Arthur 1 Basic words and phrases for writing about the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table: Lancelot, Merlin, quest, tournament, chivalry... created: 9 Apr 2002 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
King Arthur 2 Basic AND advanced words and phrases for the history and stories of the Arthurian legends: Camelot, Merlin, epic, fiction ... Malory, Tennyson, T.H. White... created: 9 Apr 2002 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Leonardo da Vinci For writing about the great artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci: drawing, paint, Florence, Mona Lisa, sketch, design, observation... revised: 13 Oct 2005 words: 600 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, honour… created: 10 December 2007 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Marie Curie For writing about Marie Curie, her husband Pierre, and their discovery of radioactivity: Nobel Prize, radium, Periodic Table, X-ray... created: 19 Jan 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Martin Luther King Jr For writing about Dr Martin Luther King Junior and his role in the civil rights movement: desegregation, bus boycott, inequality, non-violence... revised: 27 Jan 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Mary Seacole For writing about the pioneering nurse Mary Seacole: herb, Jamaica, entrepreneur, Crimea, British Hotel… Use with the 12K Main Dictionary or higher. created: 2 July 2010 words: 300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Michelle Kwan For writing about the international figure-skating champion, Michelle Kwan: choreography, training, Winter Olympics, combination jump, toe loop... revised: 25 Apr 2004 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Mozart For writing about the life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: music, instrument, opera, commission, compose, Don Giovanni, Prague... created: 18 Aug 2004 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K 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: 2 October 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Nelson Mandela For writing about the life of Nelson Mandela: early years, protests against apartheid, imprisonment, and presidency of South Africa. revised: 27 Oct 2005 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Olaudah Equiano For writing about the author and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano: freedom, autobiography, labour, writer, African… created: 6 January 2009 words: 300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Pablo Picasso For writing about the artist Pablo Picasso: Rose Period, colour, Cubism, sculpture, Georges Braque, printmaking, Guernica… created: 7 September 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Robin Hood For writing about the legends of Robin Hood: Sherwood Forest, Sheriff of Nottingham, Merry Men, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, Little John, King Richard... revised: 29 Dec 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K 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, colour, courage... created: 18 Jan 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Samuel Pepys For writing about Samuel Pepys, the diarist: restoration, plague, favour, Fire of London, the Thames, manuscript … created: 5 August 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K 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, honour, lie, sacred, George Armstong Custer… created: 1 May 2008 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Vincent van Gogh For writing about the life and work of Vincent van Gogh: painter, artist, Provence, Dutch, sunflower, suicide... created: 15 Jun 2004 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
William Shakespeare For writing about the life of William Shakespeare: play, theatre, Elizabethan, Globe Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon... revised: 29 Dec 2005 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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Wright Brothers
For writing about the Wright Brothers, their invention of the first
controlled, powered airplane, and the first flights in it. |