Heroes by Paul Johnson.

Suzanne gave me this for Christmas. Johnson writes some short biographies of his various heroes: men and women, famous and not, politican and religious, military and civilian, but always interesting. Heroes includes: Samson, Judith and Deborah; Alexander and julius Caesar; Henry V and Joan of Arc; Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots; Elizabeth I and Walter Ralegh; George Washington, the Duke of Wellington and Lord Nelson; Emily Dickinson; Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee; Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle; Mae West and Marilyn Monroe; Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II

God's Heroes

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The links below are to some paintings. I've done a few of Salome myself so this interests me.

Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio (1598-1599)

Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi(c.1625)

Samson and Delilah by Rubens (1609-1610)

Samson Betrayed by Delilah by Rembrandt (c. 1629-30)

Samson Accusing His Father-in-Law by Rembrandt (1635)

The Blinding of Samson by Rembrandt (1636)

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1922/1923) txt