But drawing these fascinating creatures wasn't enough for Maria she wanted to understand their small, mysterious lives. With a keen eye and deft hand, she rendered soft green caterpillars, papery-winged moths, and the dazzling, intricate beauty of the butterflies. Joyce Sidmanīefore Carl Linnaeus began classifying organisms, before John James Audubon drew birds from the wild, before Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, there lived a thirteen-year-old girl named Maria Merian who loved to draw bugs. Earhart - Joseph Jefferson Jackson ('Shoeless Joe') Show book Readers will be fascinated well past the final curtain and will empathize with the flawed humanity of these achievers.Famous successful 'failures' include: Marco Polo - Queen Isabella of Spain - King Montezuma II - Anne Boleyn - Ferdinand Magellan - Isaac Newton - Benedict Arnold - George Armstrong Custer - Vincent Van Gogh - Susan B. Bruce Ismay commissioned the unsinkable marvel of the sea, the 'Titanic'-and then jumped the line of women and children to escape death on a lifeboat. Queen Isabella of Spain is remembered for financing Columbus's expeditions-and for creating the Spanish Inquisition.

His terrible treatment of everyone he met cut his life journey short.

Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they could never escape them, no matter how brilliant their successes! Ferdinand Magellan is credited as the first man to sail around the world.

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