6The Pillows of the Grown Prince Were Stained With Blood
30The Man Who Ate Shoestrings—and Liked Them
7They Tried to Shoot Marconi for Inventing Wireless
31He Dreamed of Punching Cows While Yanking Teeth
8She Ruled an Empire, Married an Imbecile and Had a Score of Lovers
32Mrs. Lincoln Flung Hot Coffee in Abraham’s Face
9The Punctual Napoleon Kept Her Waiting Two Hours at the Altar
33He Hated Crowds but He had an Audience of 20,000,000 People a Day
10He Changed the World’s History But Got No Thrill Out of It
34Christ Was Not Born on Christmas Day
11He Made a Fortune out of a Mouse and Three Pigs
35The Grand Duchess who Married so She Gould Wear Silk Stockings
12He Ruled One Sixth of the World—and was Shot in a Dirty Cellar
36The Man Who was Swept out to Sea on an Ice Floe
13The World’s Best Known Man Garries False Teeth in His Loin Cloth
37A Great Author who was Bored by Her Own Masterpiece
14The Navy Couldn’t Use Him But He is now a Famous Admiral
38Woolworth’s Boss Paid Him no Salary Because He was so Dumb
15He was Ashamed of Having Written One of the Most Famous Books in the World
39A Gang of Counterfeiters Tried to Steal Lincoln’s Body
16He Used Bad English But He Got One Pound a Second for Talking
40If H. G. Wells Hadn’t Broken His Leg in His Boyhood, He Might Have Spent the Whole of His Life Clerking in a Draper’s Shop
17The Best Known Wireless Preacher in the World Had a “Wicked” Bible
41Mozart’s Funeral Cost 12/5—and No One Followed His Coffin to the Grave
18He Wrote 1200 Volumes and Boasted That He Had 500 Children
42He Revolutionized Music but He Still Took Three Lessons a Week
19A Cyclone in Petticoats Who Startled America
43They Spent Their Lives Keeping the Big Bad Wolf Away
20The Richest Man in the World Eats Soup With His Fingers
44He Had Twenty-seven Wives and Made Twenty-six of Them Knit Their Own Garters
21Once He Slept in a Packing Box—To-day He is Almost Worshipped
45He Slept with each Leg of His Bed in Salt to Keep Evil Spirits Away
22He Made Thousands of Millionaires and Died With Holes in His Shoes
46She Wrote Mystery Stories—so the Ghosts Decided to Move Right in
23He Got a Quarter of a Million Telegrams in Less than an Hour
47Thomas Edison wasn’t the Only Wise Man with a Bad Memory
24Columbus was the Third Man to Discover America
48They went to Gaol—and it Added to Their Greatness