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Benjamin Franklin was not only a son, husband, brother, and scientist; he was also very popular and highly respected in the American colonies, England and France. Franklin was highly intelligent and a very generous and compassionate human being, who often woke up early and would ask himself what good he could accomplish that day.Inside you'll read aboutEarly lifePhiladelphia: The beginning of a Master MindNear and Far: Family Life with Benjamin FranklinScientist: A kite, Electricity and InventionsBits and Pieces: Other Pieces of Benjamin FranklinA Revolution: Benjamin Franklin and the American RevolutionThe End of an Era: Benjamin Franklin's Last ChapterAnd much more!Throughout his life, Benjamin Franklin was determined and hard-working. This book will be a focus of all the pieces in his life that helped make him Benjamin Franklin most people know.

Leonardo da Vinci achieved great things in the areas of Renaissance painting and sculpture, engineering, cartography, astronomy, geology, botany, human anatomy, history and many other areas. Uncharacteristically for the time, he traveled quite widely and worked in many disparate subject areas, because he did not really consider himself to be primarily a painter, even though he is best remembered today as the painter of two of the most critical pieces of renaissance art.Inside you'll read aboutEarly lifeApprenticeship with VerrocchioLeonardo, Master of his CraftMastery of ChiaroscuroWorking in MilanHuman AnatomyFlight from MilanReturn to FlorenceMilitary Engineer for Cesare BorgiaThe Battle of AnchiaroSojourn in MilanRomeFinal YearsLeonardo's Private LifeAnd much more!Leonardo had some strange attributes: he was left-handed at a time when this was not widely accepted as appropriate, he was gay at a time when it was not only socially unacceptable but illegal, and he was a free thinker at a time when northern Italian society was extremely stratified. We are about to embark on a journey through the known life and work of the world's greatest creative genius, examining many of the lesser known facts of his creative and personal life.