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Amelia Earhart
For writing about the famous pilot, Amelia Earhart: world record, flying lessons, airplane, navigator, rumor, disappearance, Pacific Ocean...
created: Dec 13, 2006
words: 800
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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  Albert Einstein
For writing about the scientist Albert Einstein: theory, relativity, energy, physics, light, speed...
created: Aug 31, 2005
words: 700
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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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: Feb 12, 2006
words: 881
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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  Bruce Lee
For writing about the life of Bruce Lee, martial arts hero and international movie star: championship, karate, producer, screen test, Enter the Dragon...
created: Apr 23, 2004
words: 500
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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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
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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: Dec 30, 2005
words: 400
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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Edward Elgar
For writing about the composer Sir Edward Elgar: orchestral, organist, honor, Pomp and Circumstance, Worcestershire…
created: August 1, 2007
words: 250
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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  Galileo
For writing about the scientist Galileo: astronomer, solar system, physics, telescope, center, orbit, de Medici, heretic…
created: May 28, 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, soybean, slavery...
created: May 2, 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, behavior, breakthrough, autobiography…
created: December 10, 2007
words: 500
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: Apr 9, 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: Apr 9, 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...
created: Oct. 13, 2004
words: 600
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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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
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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
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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: Jan. 19, 2006
words: 800
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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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
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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: Apr 25, 2004
words: 500
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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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: Aug 18, 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: October 2, 2007
words: 800
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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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: Jan 3, 2006
words: 800
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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  Pablo Picasso
For writing about the artist Pablo Picasso: Rose Period, color, Cubism, sculpture, Georges Braque, printmaking, Guernica…
created: September 7, 2007
words: 800
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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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: Dec 28, 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, color, courage...
created: Jan. 18, 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, honor, lie, sacred, George Armstong Custer…
created: May 1, 2008
words: 600
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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  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
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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: June 15, 2004
words: 600
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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William Shakespeare
For writing about the life of William Shakespeare: play, theater, poet, London, Globe Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, Elizabethan...
revised: Dec 28, 2005
words: 400
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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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
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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: Oct 14, 2005
words: 700
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
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