Melanie B. (tamajinn) reviewed 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium on + 64 more book reviews
The 1,000 most important people (as determined by the authors, you can debate their conclusions youself!) of the last millennium with a little blurb about each, and cross-referenced. Would be great to read one a day with schoolchildren as a look at all kinds of figures (philosophers, statesmen, inventors, explorers, artists, peacemakers, you name it!) from the past thousand years.
