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One hundred short biographies celebrate seven centuries of Scottish and world history, in a reference that features profiles of Robert the Bruce, John Paul Jones, John Knox, Andrew Carnegie, and Alexander Graham Bell.
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This compendium of biographical portraits includes names like Robert the Bruce, Andrew Carnegie, John Knox, John Marshall, Ulysses S. Grant, Edvard Grieg, Martha Graham, Jackson Pollock, and Thomas Edison, whose achievements have won national freedom, built empires, reformed religion, defined justice, become presidents, composed music, revolutionized dance, redefined art, made pictures move, and built engines run by steam—along with ninety more Scots worldwide who have altered the way all of us live our lives.
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