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- Archaeologists - Biographies (About.com - Hirst)
Provides sources of biographies of archaeologists. 2-01
Papers
- Abigail Adams (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the famous wife of the second President of the United States. Includes a picture. 6-00.
- Adams, Gerry (Biography.com)
Provides a short biography of the Northern Ireland politician who has represented the Sinn Fein. May be misspelled by visitors as Jerry. 3-00
- Addams, Jane (Biography.com)
Provides a short biography of the social reformer and pacifist. May be misspelled by visitors as Adams. 3-00
- Addams, Jane (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the woman who was "the first female secretary of state and the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government." 8-01
- Adenauer, Konrad (Biography.com)
Provides a short biography of the former chancellor of Germany. 3-00
- Aeschylus (Biography.com)
Provides a short biography of Aeschylus, known as "the father of Greek tragedy." 3-00
- African American Authors (About.com - Howell)
Provides biographies and other information related to key African American literature. 2-01
- African American Biographies A - C (Learning Network - TeacherVision.com)
Provides short biographies of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Alvin Ailey, Marian Anderson, Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Arthur Ashe, Crispus Attucks, James Baldwin, Benjamin Banneker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Johnson Bunche, George Washington Carver. 2-01
- Albright, Madeleine (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of "one of the first people in America who sought to improve the lives of these desperate poor." Visitors sometimes misspell as Adams. 6-00
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel (ABC News)
Provides a brief background on how the former U.S. Secretary of State came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, a picture, and a short biography.
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel (Northeastern University - Whats New)
Provides a brief biography of the former U.S. Secretary of State. 7-01
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel (Northeastern University - Whats New)
Provides a brief biography of the former U.S. Secretary of State. 7-01
- Ali, Muhammad (Who2.com)
Provides a brief biography of the great boxer and celebrity. 7-01
- Anastasia and the Romanov Family
Provides over a dozen sources of information.
- Annan, Koffi (Time.com)
Provides a short biographical statement about why this person was influential in the year 2000, according to Time magazine. 12-00
- Annan, Kofi (ABC News)
Provides a brief background on how the United Nations Secretary-General came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, a picture, and a short biography. He won the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001. (Sometimes incorrectly called Secretary General, without the hyphen.) 7-00
- Annan, Kofi (United Nations)
Provides a brief background on the United Nations Secretary-General, as well some of his initiiatives with the United Nations. He won the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001. Includes a picture. (Sometimes incorrectly called Secretary General, without the hyphen.) 8-01
- Anthony, Susan B. (Excellent Drawing from the Kansas Collection)
- Anthony, Susan B. (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the famous women's suffragist. 6-00
- Anthropologists - Biographies (Minnesota State University)
Provides over 100 biographies. 2-01
- Aquash, Anna Mae (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the Native rights activist. 6-00
- Arafat, Yasser (Time.com)
Provides a short political biography of the Palestinian leader, as well as a picture. 3-01
- Architects - Biographies (About.com - Craven)
Provides biographies of some of the most influential architects. 3-01
- Armstrong, Lance - Biography (Biography.com)
Provides a biography of the champion cyclist through the year 2000. Armstrong, who has had cancer, won the Tour de France in July of 2001. 7-01
- Armstrong, Louie (RedHotJazz.com)
Provides a biography of the man considered to be the greatest contributor to the development of jazz as a musical form. Includes music 1-01
- Artists - Biographies (About.com - Mulder-Slater)
Provides dozens of biographies of influential artists. 3-01
- Artists - Biographies (Artchive.com)
Provides biographies by style or period of art, including Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, Rothko...), Baroque (Rubens, Rembrandt, Bernini...), Contemporary and Postmodern (Basquiat, Beuys, Clemente...), Dada and Surrealism (Dali, Duchamp, Magritte...), Futurism (Boccioni, Balla...), Impressionism (Monet, Renoir, Degas...), Photographers (Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman...), Post-Impressionism (Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin...), Renaissance (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael...), Romanticism (Friedrich, Delacroix, Fuseli...), Spanish (Goya, Velazquez, El Greco...), Women (O'Keeffe, Cassatt, Kahlo...), American Art (Homer, Hopper, Whistler...), Art Nouveau (Klimt, Schiele, Mucha...), Bauhaus (Kandinsky, Klee...), Cubism (Picasso, Braque, Gris...), Expressionism (Munch, Beckmann, Bacon...), Hudson River School (Bierstadt, Cole, Church...), Neo-Classical (David, Ingres, Poussin...), Pop Art (Warhol, Johns, Rauschenberg...), Pre-Raphaelites (Rossetti, Millais, Hunt...), Rococo (Watteau, Fragonard), Sculptors (Rodin, Brancusi, Moore...), and Symbolism (Blake, Moreau, Redon...). Provides copies of the most famous work of many of the artists. 3-01
- Artists - Biographies (WebMuseum) 3-01
- Augustus (Roman Empire)
Provides an extensive biography of Gaius Julius Octavius, often referred to as Augustus, the Roman Emperor. (Includes some grammatical errors.) 11-00
- Aung Suu Kyi - Interview (Free Burma Coalition)
Aung San Suu Kyi, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, speaks to youth about issues such as power and freedom.
- Aung Suu Kyi Biography and News (Free Burma Coalition)
Provides news related to Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, as well as a biography (upper left corner). She is known for her work to provide democracy in Myanmar (Burma).
- Austen, Jane (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the novelist who "creates as profound an understanding and as precise a vision of the potentialities of the human spirit as the art of fiction has ever achieved. " 8-01
- Austen, Jane - Eighteenth-Century
- Azikiwe, Nnamdi (NewJan Communications - Nigerian Galleria)
Provides a biography of "the father of modern Nigerian nationalism and chief architect of the country's independence." 3-01
- Baez, Joan (Baez and Diamonds and Rust Productions)
Provides a chronology of the life of the folk singer and activist. 8-01
- Ball, Lucille (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the comedian and owner of Desilu studios who has been called "the most popular female comedian on television, and arguably the most popular female practitioner of physical comedy in the first half-century of prime-time television." Visitors sometimes misspell as Lucile, Lucel, Lucelle, or Luciele. 8-01
- Ballard, Robert (EDS - Jason Project)
"Dr. Ballard has led or participated in more than 100 deep sea expeditions including the use of the deep-diving submersibles ALVIN, ARCHIMEDE, TRIESTE II, TURTLE, BEN FRANKLIN, CYANA and NR-1. These expeditions included the first manned exploration of the Mid-Ocean Ridge, the discovery of warm water springs and their unusual animal communities in the Galapagos Rift, the first discovery of polymetallic sulfides, the discovery of high temperature "black smokers," the discovery of R.M.S. Titanic, the discovery of the German battleship Bismarck, 11 warships from the lost fleet of Guadalcanal, The U.S.S Yorktown and exploration of the luxury liner Lusitania." 5-02
- Barak, Ehud (ABC News)
Provides a short political biography of the Israeli leader, as well as a picture. 3-01
- Barak, Ehud (ABC News)
Provides a brief background on how the Israeli Prime Minister came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, a picture, and a short biography.
- Barton, Clara (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the founder of the American Red Cross. 8-01
- Bateson, William (BBC History)
"Initial research into worms led Bateson to invent the language and discipline of genetics." 5-02
- Becket, St. Thomas A. (Biography.com)
Provides a short biography of the famous Archbishop of Canterbury born in 1118. 3-00
- Beethoven, Ludwig van - Biography (Classical Music Pages - Boynick)
Provides a biography, pictures, and a list of works. 2-01
- Besant, Annie (BBC Society and Culture)
Provides a picture and a short biography of the social activist. 11-02
- Biko, Stephen (About.com)
Steve Bantu Biko was the "founder and martyr of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa." 5-03
- Biko, Stephen (Encarta)
"Biko, Stephen (1946-1977), South African political leader of the late 1960s, who became known as a martyr for black nationalism upon his death in prison." 5-03
- Biko, Stephen (Greenwood Arts)
Provides a short biography and a pastel portrait of Biko. 5-03
- Biko, Stephen (Sunday Times - Mangcu)
Biko has been called "an activist for all times."
"A Biko biography is particularly timely given the frequency with which people, from often disparate political perspectives, invoke his name to buttress their respective political arguments. That, in a sense, is an indication of the universality of his ideas. But who was this man who has become such a source of inspiration, affection and contestation in our political life, and why is it important that we know more about his leadership?"
"In his book The Sociological Imagination, the eminent sociologist C Wright Mills suggested that the importance of biographies lies in telling us stories about the interaction between individuals and their societies. Similarly, a biography of Biko would have to tell us something about the manner in which he interacted with his society at a particular point in time. It would also have to tell us more about the personal resources that enabled him to respond in that manner." 5-03
- Biko, Stephen: Leadership of Z. K. Matthews, Nelson Mandela, and Stephen Biko (Questia.com - Juckes)
Provides the full text of the book, Opposition in South Africa.
"Fortunately, this is not a book about South Africa's present, but about its past, written in the belief that a better understanding of current changes is possible if we better understand the past. In particular, it is the story of three influential men who spent their lives in the pursuit of the democratic society that is now emerging. In their own way, in their own time, each is a hero of the struggle." 5-03
- Black History - Biographies (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Provides hundreds of biographies of outstanding African Americans. Loads slowly. 2-01
- Blair, Tony - Prime Minister of Britain (Britannia)
Provides a biography of Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair's political life. leader 5-00
- Boies, David (Time.com - Okrent)
Provides a glimpse of the life style and background of David Boies, lawyer for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, Napster, the U.S. Justice Department (against Microsoft), and many more famous cases. 12-00
- Bolivar, Simon (Daniels)
Provides a short biography. 7-00
- Boone, Daniel
- Boone, Daniel (Arthur)
Provides biographical information compiled from sources in the 1700's. 3-00
- Bradley, Pat (HW Wilson Company)
Provides statistics on her achievements, as well as discussing the disability that she has had to overcome to return as a champion. 7-00
- Bradstreet, Anne (Georgetown University - Cowell)
Provides background information on the first (known) North American to publish a book of poems. Her work is unusual in that, as a Puritan, she uses poetry to express feelings rather than simply use the medium for devotional purposes. 9-00
- Brutus, Marcus (McNeil-Lehrer Productions)
Provides views of teens about the presidential election in the United States and their own countries. Also describes elections in Britain and Italy. 11-00
- Bryan, William Jennings (Zwick)
Provides a speeches by Bryan on Imperialism. 3-00
- Buchanan, Pat (Biography.com)
Provides highlights of Buchanan's career. 8-00.
- Burnell, Susan Jocelyn Bell (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the astronomer. 6-00
- Bush, George - Library
- Bush, George W. (BBC News)
Provides a biography of Bush's political career from a British view. 3-00
- Bush, George W. (Biography.com)
Provides an editorial style of biography of Bush's political and business career. 3-00
- Bush, George W. - Biography (DiscoverySchool.com)
Provides a complete biography on the U.S. President. 3-01
- Bush, George Walker (POTUS)
Provides facts and biographical articles. 1-01
- Bush, Laura Welch (White House)
Provides a short biography of the First Lady for the 43rd President of the United States. 12-01
- Caesar, Julius (Roman Empire)
Provides an extensive biography of Gaius Julius Caesar, often referred to as Caesar, the Roman Emperor. (Includes some grammatical errors.) 11-00
- Cairo, Alberto (Ciriello)
Provides a short statement on a famous doctor, helping severely injured persons in Afghanistan. 12-01
- Carnegie, Andrew (Adkins)
- Carnegie, Andrew (Brian B.)
- Carroll, Lewis (A and E Television Networks)
Provides a short biography of the author of Alice in Wonderland.
- Carson, Ben (TopBlacks.com)
Provides a picture and biography of Dr. Ben Carson, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins. 5-00
- Carter, Jimmy (James Earl) (Biography.com)
The thirty-ninth (39th) President of the United States and the founder of the Carter Center for conflict resolution. 9-00
- Carter, Jimmy - Library (NARA)
Provides historical information related to the thirty-ninth (39th) President of the United States, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr. 9-00
- Carver, George Washington (Hargrove)
Provides quotes, a picture, and many links to biographical information. 3-00
- Castro, Fidel (ABC News)
Provides a brief background on how the leader of Cuba came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, a picture, and a short biography.
- Cepeda, Orlando (Latino Legends in Sports)
Provides key events, achievements, and biography of Cepeda, one of the greatest baseball players. 10-00
- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Provides a short autobiography of the Indian-American Nobel laureate, after whom the Chandra X-ray Observatory is named. 9-00
- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Provides a short biography of the Indian-American Nobel laureate, after whom the Chandra X-ray Observatory is named. 9-00
- Chaney, Dick (Biography.com)
Provides highlights of Chaney's career. 8-00.
- Chao, Elaine L. (Heritage Foundation)
Provides a short professional background on Elaine Chao, George W. Bush's choice for Secretary of Labor. 1-01
- Chirac, Jacques Chirac - President of France (Infoplease.com)
Provides a biography of the leader of France. 5-00
- Chomsky, Naom (Minnesota State University)
Provides a short chronological biography, with an emphasis on Chomsky's influence on linguistics and politics. 7-99
- Cicero, M. Tullius (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Clayton)
Provides a biography. 7-02
- Cicero, M. Tullius (ThinkQuest.org)
Provides a short biography and a picture of a sculpture of Cicero. 7-02
- Clark, Ron - The 2000 Outstanding Teacher of the Year (Oprah.com - Winfrey)
Provides an interview with Ron Clark, a hero recognized by the Disney 2000 Outstanding Teacher of the Year and Oprah Magazine's first "Phenomenal Man." 1-02
- Clemente, Roberto (Latino Legends in Sports)
Provides key events, achievements, and biography of Clemente, one of the greatest baseball players and role model for youth. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 10-00
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the former First Lady, politician, and senator. 8-01
- Coates, Dorothy Love (PBS)
Provides a short background of the African American singer. 12-00
- Cochran, Jackie (Carl Vinson Institute of Government)
Provides short profile of the first woman to travel faster than the speed of sound. 12-01
- Cochran, Jackie (McFadden)
Provides short profile of the first woman to travel faster than the speed of sound. 12-01
- Cochran, Jackie (WomeninAviation.com)
Provides short profile of the first woman to travel faster than the speed of sound. 'At the time of her death on August 9, 1980, Jacqueline Cochran held more speed, altitude, and distance records than any other pilot, male or female, in aviation history.' 12-01
- Coetzee, J. M. - 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
"The 63-year-old writer, long a favorite for the book world's most prestigious prize, was cited as a 'scrupulous doubter, ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of Western civilization.' "
The Swedish Academy said Coetzee's novels, which include Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians and Age of Iron, are also characterized by their 'well-crafted composition, pregnant dialogue and analytical brilliance.' "
- Collins, Eileen (NASA)
Provides a profile of the female astronaut. "Collins was the first woman pilot of a Space Shuttle." 4-02
- Composers - Biographies of Classical Music Composers (Norrish)
Provides brief profiles of famous composers, as well as lesser known composers. 6-02
- Confucius Biography (Chinavoc.com)
Provides a short biography of Confucius. 12-02
- Confucius Biography (Thinkquest.org - 10005)
Provides a short biography of Confucius. 12-02
- Confucius, Mencius, and Confucianism (Wheeler)
Provides a biographies of Confucius and Mencius and a description of the influence of Confucianism. 12-02
- Constantine (Roman Empire)
Provides an extensive biography of Flavius Valerius Constantinus, often referred to as Constantine the Great or Saint Constantine. (Includes some grammatical errors.) 11-00
- Copeland, Aaron (PBS.org)
Provides a short biography and a list of major works. 11-01
- Copernicus, Nicolaus (Discovery.com)
Provides a picture and a short biography of the astronomer. 3-02
- Corrigan, Mairead and Betty Williams (Nobel Foundation)
Provides biographies of the two recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in Ireland. 6-00
- Curie, Marie (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the person who was the first woman to earn a doctorate in Europe and recipient of the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics. 6-00
- Famous People with Name Changes (Famous Name Changes)
Provides a short profile of hundreds of persons in sports, entertainment, acting, singing, politics, or religion. Also provides their name at birth, birth date, death date (if they have died), and place of birth. For example, Tom Cruise was originally Thomas Cruise Mapother and Cher's name used to be Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere. 8-01
- Garrett, Elizabeth (Spartacus)
Provides a picture and a short biography of the social activist who became the first female physician in Britain. 11-02
- Horne, Lena (PBS.org)
Provides a short biography. 11-01
- Porter, Cole (PBS.org)
Provides a short biography. 11-01
- U.S. Court Finds Government Case Against Detainee Unconvincing (Washington Post - Jackman)
"Line by line, a federal judge today dissected the government's reasoning for holding Yaser Esam Hamdi incommunicado in a Navy brig here and indicated that he didn't think prosecutors provided enough facts for him to decide whether Hamdi should have access to a lawyer." 4-02
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