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- This is an article on biographies. For the television series, see Biography (television program).
Biography (from the Greek words bios meaning life, and graphein meaning write) is a genre of literature and other forms of media like film, based on the written accounts of individual lives. While a biography may focus on a subject of fiction or non-fiction, the term is usually in reference to non-fiction. As opposed to a profile or curriculum vitae, a biography develops complex insight and highlights different textures of personality including intimate details of experiences. A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts like birth, education, work, relationships and death. It also delves into the emotions of experiencing such events.
Early forms
The first known biographies were written by scribes commissioned by the various rulers of antiquity: ancient Assyria, ancient Babylonia, ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, among others. Such biographies tended to be chiseled into stone or clay tablets, a method called cuneiform. More on [ Biography ]
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About Famous People - A collection of the biographies of various historical personages.
Meta Description: [ About Famous People The One Stop Site for Biographies and More! - History Celebrities ]
Allperson.com - Visitor-contributed biographies of famous persons.
Meta Description: [ Famous people of the world ]
Biographical Dictionary - More than 25,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world.
Meta Description: [ The Biographical Dictionary containsinformation on 19,000 notable people from ancient times to the present day. The Dictionary is searchable by names, keywords, and dates. ]
Biography Center - Multi-lingual biographical directory.
Meta Description: [ Biography-center is a huge directory of biographies available on the Web ]
Buscabiografias - Database of thousands of short biographies. In English and Spanish.
Meta Description: [ Miles de biografías en nuestra base de datos. Buscador de biografias, celebridades, famosos de todas las épocas, actualidad, curiosidades históricas, efemérides,noticias, biografía de personajes del día, citas famosas, encuestas, galería fotográfica ]
Byzant Encyclopedia of Biography and Quotations - Biographical information about significant mystics, poets and philosophers.
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Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction - Short illustrated profiled of personalities, both historical and fictional, who have inspired and enriched the nation.
Meta Description: [ Collection of short biographies on both historical and fictional Canadian heroes. ]
Dictionary of Labour Biography - Tool for all those interested in nineteenth and twentieth century British history.
Meta Description: [ Web-site of the acknowledged research tool for all interested in 19th and 20th Century British History ]
FemBio - Institute for Women's Biography Research - Luise F. Pusch's FemBio database contains biographical information on over 30,000 notable women worldwide. Accumulated since 1982; entries added continually. Also: Woman of the Day/Week.
Meta Description: [ Luise F. Pusch's FemBio database contains biographical information on over 30,000 notable women worldwide. ]
Great Men and Women of the World - Provides biographies of great men and women of the world. Organized into sections on leaders and activists, heroes and humanitarians and scientists. Profiles available in English and French.
Meta Description: [ Provides biographies of men and women that have made a positive contribution to humanity. Sections on leaders and activists, heroes and humanitarians and scientists. ]
Heroes of History - Selection of noteworthy persons, their accomplishments and failures.
Meta Description: [ Sam Wellman's heroes of history, writers, missionaries, evangelists, preachers, scientists, explorers, David Livingstone, Florence Nightingale, Corrie ten Boom, Billy Graham, C.S. Lewis, Black Elk, John Wesley, Mother Teresa, Mary Slessor, Gladys Aylward, Solzhenitsyn, Luther, Flannery, Columbus,... ]
International Biographical Centre - List of dictionaries in the fields of Music, Literature and Poetry. General and specific biographical titles of today's leading personalities.
Meta Description: [ Homepage of the Melrose Press and the International
Biographical Centre, based in Cambridge, England. Publishers of biographical
reference works and Who's Whos for over thirty years. ]
MyHero.com - Tells the stories of ordinary people who have accomplished extraordinary things.
The Biography Channel - Features 25,000 very brief biographical notes.
Their Stamp on History - Explores the lives of important historical people whose pictures have appeared on U.S. postage stamps.
Time 100 - Profiles the 100 most influential people of the 20th century (as selected by TIME Magazine) in five fields of endeavor.
World Biographical Index - K. G. Saur Publishing - Free access to a large biographical database containing over 2 million references to persons. Search by name (or part of name) in combination with occupation, year of birth or death, year cited, and biographical archive.
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