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Examines the life and methods of treatment he performed on people as the Father of Medicine

It would be hard to a find a writer who lived a more adventurous life than Ernest Hemingway. Not long after learning to walk, he developed a love of fishing and hunting and other sports that remained for the rest of his life. He survived a serious wound in World War I and decided to try to become a successful writer. His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, made him famous. The continued success of his writing and his rugged lifestyle soon made him an...

Profiles the emperor of Rome who is known for 'fiddling while Rome burned' and eventually took his own life.