Meet Louis Pasteur: He Treated the Boy Before the Trials Were Finished
He proved microbes cause disease, saved French wine and French silk, and then gambled a child’s life on a rabies vaccine he had not finished testing.
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Meet Muhammad Ali: The Fighter Who Gave Up His Title to Keep His Word
Olympic champion, three-time heavyweight champion, and a man who lost three and a half years of his prime rather than fight a war he opposed.
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Meet Arthur Ashe: The Champion Who Measured Himself by Service
Barred from his hometown’s best courts as a boy, he won three Grand Slams, fought apartheid, and spent his last year campaigning on AIDS.
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Meet Ludwig van Beethoven: The Letter He Never Sent
At thirty-one, going deaf, he wrote his brothers a letter explaining why he had considered ending his life. He kept it among his papers and went on to write most of what he is remembered for.
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Meet Jesse Owens: Four Gold Medals, and a Country That Did Not Call
The sharecropper’s son who broke three world records in forty-five minutes, won four golds in Berlin, and came home to race horses for a living.
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Meet Harriet Tubman: Nineteen Trips Back
She escaped slavery alone in 1849, and then went back — again and again — into the country that would have killed her for it.
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Meet Frederick Douglass: Literacy as the Road to Freedom
He was taught the alphabet until it was forbidden as dangerous — and then spent his life proving that the man who forbade it was right.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Confidence Built, Not Born
A shy, self-doubting girl became one of the century's most fearless voices — not by curing her nerves, but by outworking them.
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Meet Anne Frank: The Writer in the Annex
Two years in hiding, one red-checkered diary — and one of the most honest accounts of a human being ever written.
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