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LEARN FROM THE LIFE OF OTHERS
Ashoka the Great - Rise and fall of Budhism
Saint Paul who carried Christ's mission to alien lands and peoples
The Death of Socrates - Why and how Socrates died?
Alexander the Great - an example of megalomania for Power
STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The tragedies in the Life of in Ampere, the discoverer of electromagnetism
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
The Claw of Archimedes
Alhazen, the father of optics, feigned madness to escape from the wrath of Egypt Ruler
Charles Darwin's illness
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Revolutionary Discovery of world's first antibiotic or bacteria killer: Penicillin
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Pascal’s experiments with Vaccum
Premature obituary and the foundation of Nobel Prizes
Albert Einstein’s Love affair and his Marriage
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Alhazen's famous Billiard Table problem
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Alexander Graham Bell’s institute for the Deaf and his deaf wife
Blaise Pascal illness
Friedrich Gauss, the wonderful mental calculator and the dwarf planet
The first step for intelligent computers - the Automatic Computing Engine.
The three Loves of unmarried Alfred Nobel
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
The Archimedes Screw
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
The first commercial automobile - Karl Benz’s Horseless Tri-Car
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Cyanide poisoning of Alan Turing
A man composed a plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Carl Linnaeus’s classification of Human being
The invention of Dynamite by “the merchant of Death
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Albert Bruce Sabin's "live"-virus vaccine
Alan Turing’s signs of the genius and his teachers
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
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Mini Stories of Great Lives
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Archimedes's Last Problem
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
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