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- Earhart, Amelia (Patria Press)
Provides over a dozen carefully selected resources for studying about Amelia Earhart. 11-01
- Earnhardt, Dale (Mel)
Provides career statistics. 2-01
Papers
- African American Biographies D - F (Learning Network - TeacherVision.com)
Provides short biographies of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Dubois, Duke Ellington, Marian Wright Edelman, Medgar Evers, and Ella Fitzgerald. 2-01
- Da Vinci, Leonardo (Artchive.com)
Provides a biography, as well as examples of some of his more famous works. 3-01
- Da Vinci, Leonardo (LeoNet)
- Da Vinci, Leonardo (Renaissance Man)
- Dalai Lama (ABC News)
Provides a brief background on how the leader of the Tibetan government in exile came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, a picture, and a short biography.
- Dali, Salvador (Artchive.com)
Provides a biography, as well as examples of some of his more famous works. 3-01
- Darwin, Charles (Minnesota State University)
Provides a short biography. 7-99
- De Gaulle, Charles (Biography.com)
The first President of the Fifth Republic of France. Sometimes visitors misspell as deGall, de Galle, or deGalle. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 9-00
- De Soto, Hernando (Sheppard)
Provides a description of de Soto's passage across early America in an article entitled: "Hernando de Soto's Conquest of America." Provides a description of early contacts between Spanish and Native Americans using translations of Native American accounts dating back to the original times.
- Descartes's Face (Lynds)
- Diana - Links to the Royal Web Page
Includes the funeral speech by Earl Spencer. 1-001
- Diana, Princess of Wales (Royal Government of the United Kingdom)
Includes a biography of her life, including pictures of key events. 1-001
- Dickens, Charles (Perry Internet Consulting)
Provides a creative and engaging biography of Charles Dickens, including a summary of key events in his life.
- Dirie, Waris - Waris Dirie Speaks Out (UNICEF)
Provides a short history on Waris Dirie, supermodel who is working with UNICEF to combat FGM, mutilation of young girls practiced within some cultures.
- Douglass, Frederick (America's Story)
Provides a short biography. 12-00
- Douglass, Frederick (Bright)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.
- DuBois, W.E.B. (US Post Office)
Provides a short biography and U.S. postage stamp.
- Eban, Abba (BBC)
"Veteran Israeli politician and diplomat Abba Eban has died in hospital near Tel Aviv at the age of 87."
"He dominated the first decade of Israeli diplomacy following the state's establishment in 1948, serving as its representative to the United Nations and ambassador to Washington."
"He went on to become one of Israel's most respected foreign ministers, serving for eight of the most turbulent years of its history, between 1966 and 1974." 11-02
- Eban, Abba (Kjeilen)
Provides a political profile through a timeline of his life. He died in 2002. 11-02
- Edison, Thomas (Ima Hero)
Provides a short biography for children. 8-01
- Einstein - Short Biography (Routledge)
- Einstein Links (NOVA)
- Einstein's Life and Work (NOVA)
- Einstein, Albert (Discovery.com)
Provides a picture and a short biography of the astronomer. 3-02
- Eisenhower, Dwight D - Library
- El Greco (Artchive.com)
Provides a biography, as well as examples of some of his more famous works. 3-01
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Bibliomania - Simmonds)
Provides a biography, with an emphasis on his contribution to American Literature.
- Environmentalists - Profiles (Natural Resources Defense Council))
Provides profiles on people working to make the environment cleaner and more sustainable. 6-01
- Everybody Has a Story (CBS News)
"Every two weeks someone throws a dart at a map of America. CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman goes wherever it sticks, flips through the local phone book, and picks a name at random. He then does a story on someone at that house (assuming they’re willing, of course)." 1-03
- Explorers - Biographies (DiscoverySchool.com)
Provides biographies of explorers of the United States. 3-01
- Fanning, Shawn (Time.com)
Provides a short biographical statement about why this person was influential in the year 2000, according to Time magazine. 12-00
- Fitzgerald, Ella (Ella Fitzgerald Homepage)
Provides a biography of one of the greatest jazz and popular singers. Includes music. 1-01
- Fitzgerald, Ella (National Women's Hall of Fame)
Provides a biography of a singer, "perhaps the nation's greatest jazz and pop artist." 1-01
- Flipper, Henry O. (CMH)
Provides a short biography of the first African American graduate of West Point. 5-02
- Ford, Gerald R. (Gerald R. Ford Library)
Provides biographical infomation on Gerald Ford, former President of the United States.
- Fossey, Dian (Minnesota State University)
Provides a short biography. 7-99
- Frank, Anne (AnneFrank.com)
Provides pictures and information about her life and times. Frank is famous for her notes as a Jewish girl hiding out from Nazis during World War II. 2-01
- Frank, Anne (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the girl who became famous for her diary during World War II. 8-01
- Franklin, Benjamin (Bibliomania - Simmonds)
Provides a biography, with an emphasis on his contribution to American Literature.
- Franklin, Benjamin (Franklin Institute)
Provides a biography, a family tree, resources, contributions by field and more.
- Franklin, Benjamin (Franklin Institute)
Provides biographical information. 11-01
- Franklin, Benjamin (Franklin Institute)
Provides sources of information on the life of Franklin. 3-00
- Franklin, Benjamin (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Provides a lesson plan on the life of Franklin. 3-00
- Franklin, Benjamin (Ima Hero)
Provides a short biography for children. 8-01
- Franklin, Rosalind (AccessExcellence.org - Ardell)
"By 1952, much was known about DNA, including its exclusive role as genetic material - the sole substance capable of storing all the information needed to create a living being."
"The now familiar double helical structure of DNA, and the base-pairing crucial to its hereditary function, were deciphered in 1953, and the individuals most commonly associated with this remarkable feat are James Watson and Francis Crick. Maurice Wilkins played a crucial role as well, and he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with Watson and Crick for the discovery. However, another important figure remains, without whom the discovery would not have been possible: the brilliant but short-lived Rosalind Franklin." 4-03
- Franklin, Rosalind (PBS.org)
After completing her essential discoveries on DNA, "She turned her attention to viruses, publishing 17 papers in five years. Her group's findings laid the foundation for structural virology." 4-03
- Franklin, Rosalind (University of California San Diego)
"There is probably no other woman scientist with as much controversy surrounding her life and work as Rosalind Franklin. Franklin was responsible for much of the research and discovery work that led to the understanding of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA." 4-03
- Freedman, Milton (Hoover Institution)
Provides a biography of the economist. "He is widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics, which stresses the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument of government policy and as a determinant of business cycles and inflation." 4-02
- Freire, Paulo
Provides exerpts from Paulo Freire's biography.
- Fuller, R. Buckminster - Biography (About.com - Craven)
Provides a short biography and related resources on a very influential architect who invented the geodesic dome, Dymaxion house, and Dymaxion car. Also famous for a structure found in chemistry, "buckyballs," that were named after him because of their geodesic shape. Sometimes visitors misspell as Buckminister or Buck Minister. 3-01
- Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot (University of California San Diego)
"Concentrating first on her contributions to science, she is known as a founder of the science of protein crystallography. Hodgkin's contributions to crystallography included solutions of the structures of cholesterol, lactoglobulin, ferritin, tobacco mosaic virus, penicillin, vitamin B-12, and insulin (a solution on which she worked for 34 years), as well as the development of methods for indexing and processing X-ray intensities." 1-04
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