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3 days ago · Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) indexes thousands of English-language biographical dictionaries and other compendia. Not full text; one must do HOLLIS searches for retrieved sources. American National Biography is the standard American source for biographies of major figures.
- Fred Burchsted
- 2010
2 days ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
2 days ago · Tupac Amaru Shakur ( / ˈtuːpɑːk ʃəˈkʊər / TOO-pahk shə-KOOR; born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and songwriter. He is considered to be one of the most influential and successful rappers and African-American music artists of all time.
2 days ago · Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century CE. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and is regarded as its first Chinese patriarch.
4 days ago · Mikhail Bulgakov (born May 15 [May 3, Old Style], 1891, Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died March 10, 1940, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short-story writer best known for his humour and penetrating satire.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · A biography is an account of a person's life, written by someone else. An autobiography is an account of a person's life, written by that person. A memoir is a special type of autobiography in which the person writes about a specific part of their life.
5 days ago · As a detailed biography, Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769-1814 follows an entirely sensible chronological format, divided into four parts: ‘Obscurity and dependence’, covering his childhood, early adulthood and initial military career 1769–96; ‘India and independence’, examining his nine years in India between 1796 and 1805 ...
