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Roald Dahl
The children’s writer who helped invent a medical device
Roald Dahl helped create something that never appeared in one of his books.
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B1
Claude Monet
When Monet’s garden changed colour
Claude Monet’s garden did not change, but the way he saw it did.
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B1
Joan of Arc
The teenager who answered sixty judges
Joan of Arc faced questions designed to trap her, but many of her answers survived in writing.
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A2
Stephen Hawking
The party announced after it happened
Stephen Hawking organised a party for guests who might arrive from the future.
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A2
Sally Ride
The newspaper advert that reached space
Sally Ride’s route to space began with a small notice in a student newspaper.
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A2
Neil Armstrong
The teenager who flew before he drove
Neil Armstrong learned to control an aeroplane before he could legally drive a car.
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A2
Simone Biles
The rainy field trip that found Simone Biles
A cancelled outdoor activity helped reveal one of gymnastics’ greatest talents.
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A2
Paul McCartney
The world-famous melody that arrived in a dream
Paul McCartney woke with a complete melody in his head and worried that he had accidentally copied it.
09
B1
Alexander Graham Bell
Why sound became personal for Bell
For Alexander Graham Bell, experiments with sound were closely connected to family life.
10
B1
Rachel Carson
The book that made a silent spring imaginable
Rachel Carson asked readers to imagine a spring morning without birdsong.
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B1
Eleanor Roosevelt
The press conferences men could not attend
Eleanor Roosevelt created a simple rule that changed who newspapers employed.
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B1
Anne Frank
Why Anne Frank began rewriting her diary
Anne Frank did not only keep a private diary; she began turning it into a book.
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A2
Leonardo da Vinci
The notebooks designed for a mirror
Many pages in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks run in the opposite direction from ordinary European writing.
14
A2
Michelangelo
Michelangelo did not paint the ceiling lying down
Cinema created a comfortable myth about one of art’s most uncomfortable jobs.
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A2
Coco Chanel
Why Chanel No. 5 kept its laboratory number
One of the world’s most famous perfume names began as a practical label on a sample bottle.
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B1
Andy Warhol
The artist who boxed up ordinary life
Andy Warhol turned the problem of a messy studio into a decades-long artwork.
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B1
Charles Darwin
The beetle Darwin could not let escape
Charles Darwin once valued a rare beetle more than his dignity.
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B1
Florence Nightingale
The nurse who made numbers impossible to ignore
Florence Nightingale knew that a table of numbers was not enough to change policy.
19
A2
Virginia Woolf
The writer who worked standing up
Virginia Woolf did not always sit quietly at a conventional writing desk.
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A2
Isaac Newton
The year Newton worked from home
A closed university gave Isaac Newton the quietest—and most productive—period of his life.