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1) Rosa Parks
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A simple introduction to the life of the woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.
2) Jane Austen
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Expert interviews and Austen's own words tell the tales of her brief life and her place in the literary world.
5) Barack Obama
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Follow Obama through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey towards the 2008 Democratic Convention.
8) Jane Austen
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An illustrated biography of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century English novelist Jane Austen.
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Get ready to rumble with BIOGRAPHY: WWE LEGENDS, VOLUME 2 from A & E Network and WWE Studios. This collection of documentaries pulls back the curtain on the twists, turns, and triumphs on the paths to fame and icon status for these WWE Legends. Helmed by some of the industry's top directors and storytellers, these programs reveal that there is more than meets the eye in the over-the-top athleticism and alter-ego swagger of Shawn Michaels®, Ultimate...
12) Abraham Lincoln
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A brief overview of the life of the man who was President of the United States during the difficult years of the Civil War and who issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.
14) Anne Frank
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Profiles the life of a young girl who was forced into hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Anne Frank's life in Amsterdam was happy and full of friends. But as the Nazis gained power during World War II, Anne's family and friends, like other Jews, faced harsh new rules, curfews, arrest, and worse. When the danger struck close to home, the Franks went into hiding in the secret annex, and 13-year-old Anne's life changed forever.
15) Hillary Clinton
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Introduces young readers to Hillary Clinton, senator, secretary of state, and advocate for the less fortunate.
18) Charles Darwin
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Describes the life and scientific career of Charles Darwin, especially his theory of evolution which was published in his famous book in 1859: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
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