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The Most Prolific Mathematician Who Ever Lived

Roughly 850 works, half of them produced after he went blind: the impossible arithmetic of Leonhard Euler.

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10 Minds Who Changed Medicine Forever

A dairymaid’s folklore, a mouldy dish, and a recipe from 340 AD: ten breakthroughs that added decades to human life.

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The Last Man Who Knew Everything

He proved light is a wave, explained the eye, named energy’s elastic limits, and helped crack Egypt’s hieroglyphs — as a hobby.

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26 Academy Awards: The Oscar Record No One Will Touch

Fifty-nine nominations, four wins in a single night, and one statuette accompanied by seven miniatures: the untouchable records of Walt Disney.

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The First Nobel Prizes: Who Won in 1901?

An X-ray photograph of a wedding ring, a serum against a child-killer, and the most argued-about literature choice ever made: year one of the Nobels.

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The Most Translated Authors on Earth

One queen of crime ahead of Shakespeare, a fairy-tale teller in 125 languages: the writers the whole planet reads.

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The Youngest Composers: Masterpieces Written Before 18

A published polonaise at 7, an immortal octet at 16, an opera at 9: music’s most astonishing teenagers.

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First in Flight: The Pioneers Who Conquered the Sky

Twelve seconds over a beach, thirty-three hours over an ocean: the record-setting firsts that gave humanity wings.

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The Bach Dynasty: The Most Musical Family in History

More than fifty professional musicians across two centuries — and, in central Germany, a surname that literally meant “musician.”

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The Most Prolific Mathematician Who Ever Lived

10 Minds Who Changed Medicine Forever

The Last Man Who Knew Everything

26 Academy Awards: The Oscar Record No One Will Touch

The First Nobel Prizes: Who Won in 1901?

The Most Translated Authors on Earth

The Youngest Composers: Masterpieces Written Before 18

First in Flight: The Pioneers Who Conquered the Sky

The Bach Dynasty: The Most Musical Family in History

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