Wicked history
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Grigory Rasputin: holy man or mad monk?
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Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
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English
Description
Describes the life of Henry VIII, from his childhood and ascension to the throne to his infamous multiple marriages and conflicts with the Catholic church.
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Ivan the Terrible: tsar of death
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Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
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English
Description
Tells the story of Leopold II, King of the Belgians, who claimed he was helping the people in a colony of Africa along the Congo River, but was really found to be promoting slavery and other ills.
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Robespierre: master of the guillotine
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Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of Vlad Dracula, a prince who ruled with a thirst for blood so terrible that the most famous vampire in literature was named after him.
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Cixi: evil empress of China?
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Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
He was loved by British Revolutionary War loyalists and hated by American patriots. What made King George III so mad? Hoping to restore glory to the British crown, he instead plunged two countries into a seven-year bloodbath and died plagued by insanity and failure.
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Adolf Hitler
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Idi Amin
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Joseph Stalin
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Mao Zedong
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Otto von Bismarck: Iron Chancellor of Germany
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