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BIOGRAPHY


Biographical Dictionary

• Sponsored by S9.com
• Provides brief biographies for over 28,000 notable men and women from ancient times to the present day
• Searchable by name, birth and death date, profession, literary and artistic works and other keywords
• Provides annotated links to other biographical websites


Biography Resource Center

• Johnson & Wales University database restricted to the JWU community
• Biographical information database on more than 185,000 people throughout history
• Contains approximately 250,000 biographies
• Includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals
• Can be searched by birth and death years, places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation and gender


Biography.com

• Sponsored by A&E Television Network
• Searchable and browsable collection of over 25,000 biographical entries from ancient times to the present day
• Biographies provided by the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia


Distinguished Women of Past & Present

• Created and maintained by Danuta Bois
• Provides information on famous women in a wide variety of fields
• Users may search by name or occupation
• Links to related sites


Gale's Literary Resource Center

• Johnson & Wales University database restricted to the JWU community
• Consists of three literary databases, two of which (Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography) provide biographical information
• Authors profiled are past and present and from around the world
• Approximately 100,000 authors are profiled


National Inventors Hall of Fame

• Sponsored by National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Provides indexes to inventors and invention links
• Searchable by keyword


Nobel Prize Internet Archive

• Sponsored by Almaz Enterprises
• Searches by prize category
• Covers 1901 through the present
• Entries for prize winners include short explanation of what the prize was given for, brief biographical data and — when available — links to related sites
• Links to news about Nobel Prizes
• Not affiliated with the Nobel Foundation


POTUS: Presidents of the United States

• Sponsored by Internet Public Library
• Provides basic information on all presidents including vital statistics, portrait, election results, cabinet members and presidency highlights
• Provides links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files
• Index to names and subjects in POTUS


Public Interest Registry

• Sponsored by Public Information Research, Inc.
• Accesses close to 100,000 names and organizations from over 260,000 citations
• Over 700 books and serials utilized in compiling the database
• Searchable by browsing or keyword
• Subject searching by topic: academia, assassinations, big business, cults, drugs, elites, high tech, intelligence, scandals and other controversial topics
• This page is largely concerned with government malfeasance and related "conspiracy theory" issues; quite interesting to search, primarily for material over the last 40 years


Time 100: Choosing the Century's Most Influential People

• Sponsored by Time, Inc.
• Feature's Time's choices for the 20th century's most influential people, the venerable as well as the villainous
• Includes timeline for each person as well as one for the century
• Links to Time 100 Polls for Person of the Century, Phonies and Frauds, Event of the Century, the 100 Worst Ideas


Who's Alive and Who's Dead

• Created and maintained by David Carson
• Currently accesses information for over 1,700 public figures
• Searchable by category (occupation) and by name alphabetically
• Links to related sites, general and specialized


Websites discussed on this page are for informational purposes only. Johnson & Wales University Library is not responsible for the accuracy, content, or stability of any websites linked to this page.

Compiled by Rick Keogh 12/00; updated 4/01, 3/03; links last checked 11/07

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