From rags to riches : people who started businesses from scratch

Presents brief biographies of the interprising individuals who started such products and companies as Apple computers, Sears, the Dow Jones Index and The Wall Street Journal, J.C. Penney, Hershey's chocolate, Ebony magazine, and Kinney shoes.

Guinness world records : incredible people

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

043979191X

Collation

47 pages : illustration ; 25 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

920 GUI

Remember the ladies : 100 great American women

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Lewis and Clark

Describes the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, which took the explorers from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean.

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Shipwreck

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