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Download this free copy of the Last Will of Shoeless Joe Jackson (1888-1951).

• Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball in the early part of the 20th century.
• He is notoriously remembered for his part in the "Black Sox" Scandal, when members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox participated in a conspiracy to fix the World Series. As a result of that participation, he was banned from playing professional baseball after the 1920 season.
• Joe got his nickname 'Shoeless' when he was playing for Greenville. He bought a new pair of spikes which gave him blisters that hurt his feet so much, he took them off and played in his sock feet. It was the only game he ever played without his shoes, but he would forever be known as "Shoeless Joe," a nickname he did not like.
• Jackson, who played left field for most of his career, currently has the third highest career batting average. Babe Ruth claimed that he modeled his hitting technique after Jackson's.
• Jackson still holds the White Sox franchise records for triples in a season and career batting average.
• He was immortalized in the Kevin Costner film "Field of Dreams".

Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Walt Disney (1901-1966).

• Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, voice actor, animator, showman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, as well as an innovator in animation and theme par design. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century.
• As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
• Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the opening of his Walt Disney World Resort dream project in Florida.

Biographical information courtesy of Wikipedia.com.

Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).

• Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in northern Europe.
• Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
• In 1895, Nobel signed his last will providing for the establishment of the Nobel Prize. He died in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896.

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933).

• John Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, from 1923 to 1929.
• Coolidge became president after the death of Warren G. Harding while in office.
• Coolidge died in 1933 from a heart attack as he finished a jigsaw puzzle of George Washington.
• This is undoubtedly one of the shortest wills on record.

This is a copy of the Will of Epicurus (341 BC-270 BC).

• Epicurus founded one of the major philosophies of ancient Greece, helping to lay the intellectual foundations for modern science and for secular individualism.
• Many aspects of his thought are still highly relevant some twenty-three centuries after they were first taught in his school in Athens, called 'the Garden.'
• Epicurus's philosophy combines a physics based on an atomistic materialism with a rational hedonistic ethic that emphasizes moderation of desires and cultivation of friendships.
• His world-view is an optimistic one that stresses that philosophy can liberate one from fears of death and the supernatural, and can teach us how to find happiness in almost any situation.
• His practical insights into human psychology, as well as his science-friendly world-view, gives Epicureanism great contemporary signficance as well as a venerable role in the intellectual development of Western Civilization.

The above taken from www.epicurus.net

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Lizzie Andrew Borden (1860-1927).

• A native of Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden was suspected of murdering her father and stepmother.
• Her trial was one of the most sensational in US history, due in large part to the fact that the person charged with the crime was a respectable church-going spinster who taught Sunday school.
• After Lizzie was found not guilty by a jury of locals in spite of a wealth of circumstantial evidence against her, she was socially ostracized by the community. She never married and lived a reclusive life until her death.