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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
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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
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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, skeptical...
created: 12 Feb 2006
words: 903
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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| 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
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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
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| | 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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| | Thomas Edison For writing about Thomas Edison: light bulb, carbon filament, inventor, research laboratory, rivalry, patent, honour… created: 4 April 2008 words: 800
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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
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| | 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
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| William Wallace For writing about the Scottish hero William Wallace: patriot, rebel, victory, battle, armour, betray, Stirling… created: 10 March 2008 words: 400
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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.
revised: 14 Oct 2005
words: 800
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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