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Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage and determination changed the world. From Christopher Columbus, who set off into unknown seas in a small ship in the fifteenth century, to a young girl, Anne Frank, caught in the turmoil of the twentieth, who wrote a remarkable diary while in hiding in Amsterdam during the Second World War. Their personalities and their achievements make them heroes and heroines for our time also.Included in Famous People in History: Volume I:Christopher ColumbusElizabeth IWilliam ShakespeareWolfgang Amadeus MozartLord NelsonCharles DarwinFlorence NightingaleAbraham LincolnAnne Frank