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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus
born April 30, 1946, Stockholm, Swed.) King of Sweden from 1973. Grandson of King Gustav VI Adolf (1882–1973), he became crown prince in 1950, his father having died in 1947. After studying at military schools, he became a naval officer. His accession occurred at a time when the role of the [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Nextel Cup Series
Driver #99 Ford
Roush Racing
Hometown: Columbia, MO
Nextel Cup Wins: 2
Rarely has a driver come along that represents the complete NASCAR package better than Carl Edwards. His smile lights up rooms. His &#8220;aw shucks&#8221; Midwestern attitude wins hearts in an instant. His boy next door charm appeals evenly to men, women, and corporate America. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muse Biography</title>
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(baptized April 18, 1605, Marino, near Rome—died Jan. 12, 1674, Rome)  Italian composer. He worked as maestro di cappella at the Collegio Germanico in Rome, a musically important post at a notable Jesuit institution, from 1629 until his death. His approximately 15 oratorios (performed in place of operas during Lent), including Baltazar, Ezechia, Jephte, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Candy Biography (1950-1994)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, comedian. Born John Franklin Candy on October 31, 1950, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Candy took drama courses at a community college and held various odd jobs before winning his first acting job in a children&#8217;s theater group in his native Ontario.
After a series of small parts in television commercials and low-budget Canadian films, Candy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Felix Candela Biography (1910 - 1997)</title>
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(born Jan. 27, 1910, Madrid, Spain—died Dec. 7, 1997, Durham, N.C., U.S.) Spanish Mexican engineer and architect. He immigrated to Mexico in 1939 and began to design and construct buildings there. His ferroconcrete structures are distinguished by thin, curved shells that are extremely strong and economical; his imaginative use of paraboloid barrel-vaulting helped dispel mistaken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helen Churchill Candee Biography (1861-1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author, Titanic survivor. Born Helen Churchill Hungerford on October 5, 1861, in New York, New York. A world traveler and author, Helen Churchill Candee survived in one of the deadliest sea accidents of the twentieth century aboard the luxury liner Titanic in 1912.
One of her earlier works was How Women May Earn a Living (1900), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canaletto Biography (1697 - 1768)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Giovanni Antonio Canal

(born Oct. 18, 1697, Venice [Italy]—died April 20, 1768, Venice) Italian topographical painter whose masterful expression of atmosphere in his detailed views (vedute) of Venice (see ) and London and English country homes influenced succeeding generations of landscape artists.
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(born Jan. 1, 1887, Aplerbeck, Westphalia, Ger.—died April 9, 1945, Flossenbürg concentration camp, Bavaria) German naval officer. Under Adolf Hitler, Canaris became head of military intelligence (Abwehr) in 1935. Believing that the Nazi regime would destroy traditional conservative values and that its foreign ambitions were dangerous to Germany, he enlisted some of the anti-Hitler conspirators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Camus Biography (1913 - 1960)</title>
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(born Nov. 7, 1913, Mondovi, Alg.—died Jan. 4, 1960, near Sens, France) French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as L&#8217;Étranger (1942; The Stranger), La Peste (1947; The Plague), and La Chute (1956; The Fall) and for his work in leftist causes. He received the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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		<title>Luís de Camões Biography (1524 - 1525)</title>
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(born  1524/25, Lisbon—died June 10, 1580, Lisbon) Portuguese poet. A member of the impoverished aristocracy, he may have spent about 17 years in India. His masterpiece, the epic The Lusiads (1572), extols glorious deeds in Portuguese history as it recounts Vasco da Gama&#8217;s discovery of the sea route to India. His numerous lyric pieces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marcel Camus Biography (1912 - 1982)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born April 21, 1912, Chappes, Ardennes, Fr.—died Jan. 13, 1982, Paris) French motion-picture director who won international acclaim for his second film, Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) in 1958. The film was praised for its use of exotic settings and brilliant spectacle and won first prize at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Campion Biography (1567 - 1620)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Campion also spelled Campian

(born Feb. 12, 1567, London—died March 1, 1620) English poet, composer, musical and literary theorist, physician, and one of the outstanding songwriters of the brilliant English lutenist school of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His lyric poetry reflects his musical abilities in its subtle mastery of rhythmic and melodic structure.
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		<title>Jane Campion Biography (1954– )</title>
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(born April 30, 1954, Wellington, N.Z.) New Zealand film director. After training as a painter in Australia, she studied filmmaking and made several notable short films. Her first feature, Sweetie (1989), was followed by the successful An Angel at My Table (1990). She wrote and directed the internationally acclaimed The Piano (1993) and directed The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Campin Biography (1378 - 1444)</title>
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(born  1378, Tournai, Fr.—died April 26, 1444, Tournai) Flemish painter. He is identified with the Master of Flémalle on stylistic grounds. Documents show that Campin was a master painter in Tournai in 1406; two students are listed as entering his studio in 1427: Rogier van der Weyden and Jacques Daret. Campin&#8217;s principal surviving works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Biography (1836 - 1908)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Henry Campbell

(born Sept. 7, 1836, Glasgow, Scot.—died April 22, 1908, London, Eng.) British politician. A member of the House of Commons from 1868, he was elected leader of the Liberal Party in 1899 and served as prime minister (1905–08). His popularity unified his badly divided party. Though much of his legislative program was nullified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexis Carrel Biography (1873 - 1944)</title>
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(born June 28, 1873, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France—died November 5, 1944, Paris) French surgeon who received the 1912 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for developing a method of suturing blood vessels.
Carrel received an M.D. (1900) from the University of Lyon. Soon after graduating, he became interested in the repair of blood vessels, and he developed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venustiano Carranza Biography (1859 - 1920)</title>
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(born December 29, 1859, Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico—died May 20/21, 1920, Tlaxcalantongo) a leader in the Mexican civil war following the overthrow of the dictator Porfirio Díaz. He became the first president of the new Mexican Republic. A moderate who was tainted by his association with Díaz and his alliance with newer forces of economic exploitation, [...]]]></description>
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(born Jan. 27, 1910, Madrid, Spain—died Dec. 7, 1997, Durham, N.C., U.S.) Spanish Mexican engineer and architect. He immigrated to Mexico in 1939 and began to design and construct buildings there. His ferroconcrete structures are distinguished by thin, curved shells that are extremely strong and economical; his imaginative use of paraboloid barrel-vaulting helped dispel mistaken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Campin Biography (1378 - 1444)</title>
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(born  1378, Tournai, Fr.—died April 26, 1444, Tournai) Flemish painter. He is identified with the Master of Flémalle on stylistic grounds. Documents show that Campin was a master painter in Tournai in 1406; two students are listed as entering his studio in 1427: Rogier van der Weyden and Jacques Daret. Campin&#8217;s principal surviving works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Biography (1836 - 1908)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Henry Campbell
(born Sept. 7, 1836, Glasgow, Scot.—died April 22, 1908, London, Eng.) British politician. A member of the House of Commons from 1868, he was elected leader of the Liberal Party in 1899 and served as prime minister (1905–08). His popularity unified his badly divided party. Though much of his legislative program was nullified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judy garland Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Frances Ethel Gumm
WATCH FULL Judy Garland BIOGRAPHY EPISODE.
Visit our Judy Garland Tribute Site to find out more about the singer and actress. View Photo Gallery, Timeline, Quiz, and more!
Actress and singer. Born on Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Judy Garland, the star of many classic musical films, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael (Kirk) Douglas Biography (1944-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Michael Kirk Douglas
 Actor, producer, director. Born Michael Kirk Douglas, on September 25, 1944, to actor Kirk Douglas and mother Diana Dill. He is the brother of Joel, Peter, and Eric.Douglas studied drama at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the American Place Theatre. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobey Maguire Biography (1975-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born Tobias Vincent Maguire on June 27, 1975, in Santa Monica, California. Tobey Maguire&#8217;s aura of youthful sensitivity and his dry, understated delivery have allowed him to corner the market on coming-of-age roles. In the late 1990s, he was a standout in a steady stream of dramatic features. With the premier of Spiderman in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Watson Biography (1949– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Thomas Sturges Watson

(born Sept. 4, 1949, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.) U.S. golfer. Watson attended Stanford University before becoming a professional golfer in 1971. He became one of the sport&#8217;s dominant figures in the 1970s and early &#8217;80s, winning the British Open (1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983), the Masters (1977, 1981), and the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger Woods Biography (1975– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Eldrick Woods
WATCH TIGER WOODS VIDEOS:
Three Questions with Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods Through the Years
A Friendly Game with Tiger Woods
Celebrity Fact or Fiction: Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods will miss the rest of the season because his left knee requires more reconstructive surgery, his Web site announced Wednesday (June 18, 2008).

Woods also revealed he suffered a double [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurt Cobain Biography (1967-1994)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit our special KURT COBAIN Tribute Site for photo gallery, timeline, and more.
Singer, songwriter. Born Kurt Donald Cobain on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. A talented, troubled performer, Kurt Cobain became a rock legend with his band Nirvana in the 1990s. The son of an auto mechanic, he lived in Hoqiuam briefly before moving with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary (Rodham) Clinton Biography (1947 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Hillary Diane Rodham
WATCH our new VIDEO about the life and career of Hillary Clinton &#124;  You might be also be interested in our video about Women in American Politics

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Born: October 26, 1947 (Illinois)
Lives in: Chappaqua, New York
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Family: Married husband and future U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1975, 1 daughter Chelsea
Parents: Hugh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Lucas Biography (1930- )</title>
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Frank Lucas was born September 9, 1930, in Lenoir County, North Carolina.  He moved to Harlem in 1946, becoming the driver and protégé of  gangster Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson. 

When Johnson died in 1968, Lucas took over his heroin empire and expanded it during the drug-fueled period of the late 1960s and early 1970s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jackie Robinson Biography (1919 - 1972)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Jack Roosevelt Robinson
WATCH: New VIDEOS About Jackie Robinson including interview with his daughter, the author of First Class Citizenship, Michael Long, and more.
Visit our Award-Winning Celebrating Black History web site and find more information about Jackie Robinson, meet 200 famous icons, take an interactive journey through Black History with our timeline which includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masiaone  Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Masia One was born in Singapore, grew up in Vancouver BC and moved to Toronto.  She discovered Hip hop culture as a young girl in Singapore after stumbling upon a bootleg version of a Public Enemy Tape in a marketplace.  In her formative years, she dabbled in all elements of Hip hop culture including graffiti [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herdioflo Biography</title>
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Herdian Mohammad also known as HerdiOflo aka OFLO was born in Jakarta, Indonesia on February 28, 1980 approx 6:00 am. He spent 7 years of his life in Cijantung II, Jakarta Timur, where in 1987 he and his family flew to the United States of America to follow his father on continuing his father&#8217;s further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chamillionaire Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are a lot of people who are just followers and do things because everyone else is doing it. I&#8217;m trying to lead by example,&#8221; says Grammy Award winning rapper Chamillionaire. &#8220;I won&#8217;t do anything just for a dollar. Money will make people do crazy things and I’m not one of those people.&#8221;
The Houston-based entrepreneur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus) Augustus Biography (44 - 100)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Gaius Julius Caesar


(born July 12/13, 100? , Rome [Italy]—died March 15, 44 , Rome) celebrated Roman general and statesman, the conqueror of Gaul (58–50 ), victor in the Civil War of 49–45 , and dictator (46–44 ), who was launching a series of political and social reforms when he was assassinated by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Campbell Biography (1777 - 1844)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born July 27, 1777, Glasgow, Scot.—died June 15, 1844, Boulogne, France) Scottish poet, remembered chiefly for his sentimental and martial lyrics; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London.
Campbell went to Mull, an island of the Inner Hebrides, as a tutor in 1795 and two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neve Campbell Biography (1973-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress. Born Neve Adrianne Campbell on October 3, 1973 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. As a child, Campbell’s first love was dance, and she trained at the National Ballet School of Canada throughout her youth. After several injuries left her unable to pursue a professional ballet career, she turned to acting, eventually landing the role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naomi Campbell Biography (1970-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Supermodel and actress Naomi Campbell was released on bail Friday (April 4, 2008) after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer at London’s Heathrow Airport.  She was told to report to a police station in late May pending further inquiries.
Campbell was arrested April 3 when police were called to a disturbance at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs Patrick Campbell Biography (1865 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Beatrice Stella Tanner

(born Feb. 9, 1865, London, Eng.—died April 9, 1940, Pau, France) British actress. She married at age 19 and made her stage debut in 1888, winning fame as Paula in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1893. She originated the role of Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw&#8217;s Pygmalion (1914), and she and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedro Calderón de la Barca Biography (1600 - 1681)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 17, 1600, Madrid, Spain—died May 25, 1681, Madrid) dramatist and poet who succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age. Among his best-known secular dramas are El médico de su honra (1635; The Surgeon of His Honour), La vida es sueño (1635; Life Is a Dream), El alcalde [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Campbell Biography (1904 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 26, 1904, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 31, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii) prolific American author and editor whose works on comparative mythology examined the universal functions of mythology in various human cultures and examined the mythic figure in a wide range of literatures.
Reading American Indian folklore as a child, Campbell later revived his interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Archibald Campbell Biography (1811 - 1889)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 24, 1811, Washington, Ga., U.S.—died March 12, 1889, Baltimore, Md.) U.S. jurist. After being admitted to the bar at age 18, he moved to Alabama, where he gained a large private practice and served in the state legislature. Appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1853, he became known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glen Campbell Biography (1936-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Country singer. Born April 22, 1936, on a family farm in Billstown, Arkansas. A talented guitarist by the age of 15, Campbell dropped out of school and headed West, where he played with bands in Wyoming&#8217;s bars and roadhouses. In 1952, he joined the Sandia Mountain Boys and soon became a popular performer on local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E. Simms Campbell Biography (1906 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Elmer Simms Campbell
born Jan. 2, 1906, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died Jan. 27, 1971, White Plains, N.Y.) first black American cartoonist to publish his work in general-circulation magazines on a regular basis.
Campbell won a nationwide contest in cartooning while still attending high school. He later studied at the University of Chicago and the Art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erskine Caldwell Biography (1903 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 17, 1903, Coweta county, Ga., U.S.—died April 11, 1987, Paradise Valley, Ariz.) U.S. author. Caldwell became familiar with poor sharecroppers through his father&#8217;s missionary work. Fame arrived with Tobacco Road (1932), a controversial novel whose title became a byword for rural squalor; adapted as a play, it ran more than seven years on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roy Campanella Biography (1921 - 1993)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Campy

(born November 19, 1921, Homestead, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died June 26, 1993, Woodland Hills, near Los Angeles, California) American baseball player, a professional National League catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, whose career was cut short as a result of an automobile accident.
Campanella began playing semiprofessional baseball on the Philadelphia sandlots when he was 13, and at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sila María Calderón Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born September 23, 1942, San Juan, Puerto Rico) Puerto Rican politician and governor of Puerto Rico (2001–05), the first woman to hold the post.
Calderón was born into a wealthy and politically active family, her father being a strong supporter of Puerto Rico&#8217;s Popular Democratic Party. After a conventional upbringing and education in Puerto Rico, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Felipe Calderón Biography (1962 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa
born Aug. 18, 1962, Morelia, Michoacán, Mex.) politician who became president of Mexico in 2006.
Calderón studied law at the Free School of Law in Mexico City and later did postgraduate study in economics at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. In 2000 he earned a master&#8217;s degree in public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marcus Furius Camillus Biography (365 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(died 365 ) Roman soldier and statesman. He allegedly defeated the Gauls after their sack of Rome ( 390), for which he was honoured as the city&#8217;s second founder. Awarded four triumphs and made dictator five times, he enjoyed his greatest victory in 396, over the Etruscans at Veii. Though a patrician, he adopted reforms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Calder Biography (1898 - 1976)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Sandy Calder


(born July 22, 1898, Lawnton, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 11, 1976, New York, N.Y.) U.S. sculptor. He was the son and grandson of sculptors, and his mother was a painter. He studied mechanical engineering, and in 1923 attended the Art Students League, where he was influenced by artists of the Ash Can school. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randolph Caldecott Biography (1846 - 1886)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 22, 1846, Chester, Cheshire, Eng.—died Feb. 12, 1886, St. Augustine, Fla., U.S.) British graphic artist and watercolourist. While working as a bank clerk, he began drawing for periodicals such as London Society, and, after he moved to London, Punch and Graphic. He developed a gently satirical style and achieved success with illustrations for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calamity Jane Biography (1852 - 1903)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Martha Jane Cannary


(born May 1, 1852?, near Princeton, Mo.?, U.S.—died Aug. 1, 1903, Terry, near Deadwood, S.D.) U.S. frontierswoman. She grew up in Montana and worked in mining camps, where she acquired riding and shooting skills. In 1876 she settled in Deadwood, S.D., site of new gold strikes; her pursuits there included hauling goods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Margaret Cameron Biography (1815 - 1879)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néePattle

(born June 11, 1815, Calcutta, India—died Jan. 26, 1879, Kalutara, Ceylon) British portrait photographer. In 1864, after receiving a camera as a gift, she set up a studio and darkroom and began taking portraits. Her sitters were friends such as Alfred Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Charles Darwin. Her sensitive portraits of women, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Krishna Caitanya Biography (1485 - 1533)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Vishvambhara Mishra

(born 1485, Navadvipa, Bengal, India—died 1533, Puri, Orissa) Indian Hindu mystic. Born into a Brahman family, he became a teacher. While on a pilgrimage to perform his father&#8217;s death-anniversary ceremony, he had a profound religious experience, and he returned home indifferent to worldly matters. Disciples joined him in worship that consisted of choral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (Mark) Cameron Biography (1911–85)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journalist, born in London, UK. His career began as an office boy for the Weekly News (1935), and progressed to Fleet Street in 1940, working for The Daily Express, Picture Post, and the New Chronicle (1952–60). He became known as a roving reporter on war, poverty, and injustice, renowned for his integrity, dry wit, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Michael Caine Biography (1933 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, Jr.

(born March 14, 1933, London, England) internationally successful British motion-picture actor renowned for his versatility in numerous leading and character roles.
The former Maurice Micklewhite took his screen name from the 1954 film The Caine Mutiny. Caine entered motion pictures in 1956 and played a variety of roles in such British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron Biography (1966 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full David William Donald Cameron


(born Oct. 9, 1966, London, Eng.) British politician, who became head of Britain&#8217;s Conservative Party in 2005.
Cameron, a descendant of King William IV, was born into a family with both wealth and an aristocratic pedigree. He attended Eton College and Brasenose College, Oxford, from which he graduated (1988) with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cain Biography ()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

in the Old Testament, first-born son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel (Genesis 4:1–16). Cain, a farmer, became enraged when the Lord accepted the offering of his brother Abel, a shepherd, in preference to his own. He murdered Abel and was banished by the Lord from the settled country. Cain feared that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rudolph Camerarius Biography (1665 - 1721)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[German Rudolph Camerer

(born Feb. 17, 1665, Tübingen, Ger.—died Sept. 11, 1721, Tübingen) German botanist. One of the first to perform experiments in heredity, he demonstrated sexuality in plants by identifying and defining the male and female reproductive parts of the plant and by describing their function in fertilization, showing that pollen is required for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gustave Caillebotte Biography (1848 - 1894)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 19, 1848, Paris, Fr.—died Feb. 21, 1894, Gennevilliers) French painter and art collector. Born to a wealthy family, he was a naval architect by profession. He pursued his interest in painting at the École des Beaux-Arts and became a prolific painter of contemporary subjects, town and country views, still lifes, and boating scenes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Cambon Biography (1843 - 1924)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 20, 1843, Paris, France—died May 29, 1924, Paris) French diplomat. He worked in the civil service (1870–82) before entering the diplomatic service, in which he served as ambassador to Spain and Turkey. Appointed ambassador to Britain (1898–1920), he spent his first years in smoothing over Anglo-French relations. His efforts were crowned by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Caillaux Biography (1863 - 1944)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 30, 1863, Le Mans, France—died Nov. 22, 1944, Mamers) French politician. Serving several times as minister of finance, he was an early but unsuccessful advocate of a national income tax. He was named premier in 1911 but was forced to resign after negotiating a controversial treaty with Germany over the second of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marie Camargo Biography (1710 - 1770)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 15, 1710, Brussels, Spanish Netherlands—died April 20, 1770, Paris, Fr.) French ballerina. She made her Paris Opéra debut in 1726 and went on to dance in 78 ballets and operas before her retirement in 1751. Admired for her speed and agility, she executed jumping steps previously performed only by male dancers, shortening her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sammy Cahn Biography (1913 - 1993)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Samuel Cohen

(born June 18, 1913, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 15, 1993, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. song lyricist. He became a professional songwriter while still a teenager and later formed a songwriting team with Saul Chaplin; their first hit was “Rhythm Is Our Business” (1935). With Jule Styne he collaborated on songs for many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italo Calvino Biography (1923 - 1985)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 15, 1923, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba—died Sept. 19, 1985, Siena, Italy) Cuban-born Italian writer. After early works inspired by his involvement with the Italian Resistance in World War II, he turned decisively to fantasy and allegory in the 1950s. Cosmicomics (1965) is a collection of whimsical narratives about the creation and evolution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2548</link>
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		<title>James Cagney Biography (1899 - 1986)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full James Francis Cagney, Jr.

(born July 17, 1899, New York, New York, U.S.—died March 30, 1986, Stanfordville, New York) American actor noted for his versatility in musicals, comedies, and crime dramas.

Cagney, the son of an Irish bartender, grew up in the rough Lower East Side of New York City. He toured in vaudeville as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melvin Calvin Biography (1911 - 1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 8, 1911, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.—died Jan. 8, 1997, Berkeley, Calif.) American biochemist who received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemical pathways of photosynthesis.
Calvin was the son of immigrant parents. His father was from Kalvaria, Lith., so the Ellis Island immigration authorities renamed him Calvin; his mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicolas Cage Biography (1964-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Nicholas Coppola
 Born Nicholas Coppola on January 7, 1964, in Long Beach, California, to choreographer Joy Vogelsang and literature professor August Coppola. Cage has two older brothers, Marc and Christopher. He is the nephew of film director Francis Ford Coppola and, as a youth, visited his uncle often at his San Francisco home. At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2545</link>
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		<title>John Calvin Biography (1509 - 1564)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French Jean Cauvin

(born July 10, 1509, Noyon, Picardy, France—died May 27, 1564, Geneva, Switz.) French Protestant theologian and major figure of the Reformation. He studied religion at the University of Paris and law in Orléans and Bourges. When he returned to Paris in 1531 he studied the Bible and became part of a movement that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Cage Biography (1912 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full John Milton Cage, Jr.

(born September 5, 1912, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died August 12, 1992, New York, New York) American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music.
The son of an inventor, Cage briefly attended Pomona College and then traveled in Europe for a time. Returning to the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leonard Calvert Biography (1606 - 1647)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1606, England—died June 9, 1647, St. Mary&#8217;s, Md.) First governor of the Maryland colony. He was the younger brother of Cecil Calvert, the colony&#8217;s proprietor. In 1633 he was sent from England to establish a settlement at St. Mary&#8217;s. He gradually allowed limited legislative initiative in the colony&#8217;s assembly. He lost a land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sid(ney) Caesar Biography (1922– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 8, 1922, Yonkers, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. comedian. He began his career as a band musician but switched to comedy. Noted for his pantomime skills and his ability to mimic foreign languages at high speed, he performed comic routines in live television shows and costarred with Imogene Coca (1908–2001) and Carl Reiner in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles-Alexandre de Calonne Biography (1734 - 1802)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 20, 1734, Douai, France—died Oct. 29, 1802, Paris) French politician. He served as intendant of Metz (1768) and Lille (1774), and his financial genius led to his appointment as controller general of finance (1783). He soon discovered that major reforms were necessary to save France from bankruptcy. His efforts precipitated the governmental crisis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caesar Biography (c.101–44 BC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[modern orbat Qesari

Ancient seaport, Palestine. Located on the coast of present-day Israel south of the city of Haifa, it was originally a Phoenician settlement. Taken by the Romans and rebuilt in the 1st century  by Herod the Great, it was renamed for his patron Augustus. The capital of the Roman province of Judaea in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Calmette Biography (1863 - 1933)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born July 12, 1863, Nice, Fr.—died Oct. 29, 1933, Paris) French bacteriologist. In the 1890s he founded the Pasteur bacteriological institutes in Saigon and later Lille. He discovered in 1908 that tuberculosis bacteria from cattle were weakened when cultured with bile, producing a strain of bacteria that provoked a protective immune reaction without causing disease. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caedmon Biography (658 - 680)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[flourished 658–680) Earliest known Old English Christian poet. According to Bede, he was a herdsman who received a divine call in a dream to sing of “the beginning of things” and began to utter “verses which he had never heard.” He entered a monastery, where he produced vernacular poetry on sacred themes expounded to him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cab(ell) Calloway Biography (1907 - 1994)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Cabell Calloway III
Singer, bandleader, dancer. Born Cabell Calloway III on December 25, 1907, in Rochester, New York. A charming, vibrant performer, Calloway is often associated with the jazz music of the 1930s. Sometimes called the “hi-de-hi-de-ho man,” he perfected the art of scat singing, which uses nonsensical sounds to improvise melodies.
After playing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William, 1st Earl Cadogan Biography (1672 - 1726)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1672, Liscarton, County Meath, Ire.—died July 17, 1726, Kensington, near London, Eng.) British soldier. He served as a trusted colleague with the duke of Marlborough in the War of the Spanish Succession. Later he became involved in intrigues to secure the succession for the Hanoverian George I (1714). He crushed a Jacobite rebellion in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2535</link>
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		<title>Jacques Callot Biography (1592 - 1593)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1592/93, Nancy, Fr.—died March 24, 1635, Nancy) French etcher, engraver, and draftsman. He learned the technique of engraving in Rome. In 1612, at the court of the Medici family in Florence, he was employed to make pictorial records of pageants and feasts. He had a genius for caricature and the grotesque; his series of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Cadbury Biography (1839 - 1922)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 19, 1839, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.—died Oct. 24, 1922, Birmingham) British businessman and social reformer. In 1861 he and his brother Richard took over their father&#8217;s failing business and built it into the highly prosperous Cadbury Brothers cocoa- and chocolate-manufacturing firm. They improved working conditions and introduced a private social security program for employees. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Callimachus Biography (401 - 500)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(flourished late 5th century ) Greek sculptor. Though little is known of his life, he reputedly invented the ornate Corinthian capital ( order) after seeing leaves growing around a basket placed on a girl&#8217;s tomb. He was noted for the elaborate carving and detailed draperies of his sculptures, which survive only as Roman copies.
Copyright © [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giulio Caccini Biography (1550 - 1618)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Giulio Romano

(born  1550, Rome, Papal States—buried Dec. 10, 1618, Florence) Italian composer and singer. He accompanied his patron, Cosimo I, to Florence in the 1570s; there he became associated with the Camerata, an academy that dedicated much attention to producing a revival of ancient Greek drama. His Euridice (1600), embodying the Camerata&#8217;s ideals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Callimachus Biography (240 - 305)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born  305, Cyrene, North Africa—died  240 ) Greek poet and scholar. He migrated to Egypt, where he worked at the Library of Alexandria. Of his voluminous writings, only fragments survive. His best-known poetical work is the Causes ( 270 ), a medley of obscure tales explaining the origins of customs, festivals, and names. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Frances Xavier Cabrini Biography (1850 - 1917)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Mother Cabrini

(born July 15, 1850, Sant&#8217;Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Austria—died Dec. 22, 1917, Chicago, Ill., U.S.; canonized July 7, 1946; feast day December 22) Italian-born U.S. missionary, the first U.S. citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic church. She was determined from childhood to become a missionary, and she took her vows in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plutarco Elias Calles Biography (1877 - 1945)</title>
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(born Sept. 25, 1877, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico—died Oct. 19, 1945, Mexico City) military and political leader who modernized the revolutionary armies and later became president of Mexico. He was the founder of the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR; National Revolutionary Party), which became the major Mexican political party (renamed in 1938 the Partido de la Revolución [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo Biography (1543 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(died Jan. 3, 1543?, off the coast of northern California) Explorer in the service of Spain and discoverer of California. Little is known of his early life, though he may have been born in Portugal. In 1520 he accompanied Spanish explorers to Mexico. He was one of the conquerors of present-day Guatemala, where he may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maria (Meneghini) Callas Biography (1923 - 1977)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos

(born Dec. 2, 1923, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 16, 1977, Paris, France) U.S. soprano of Greek descent. In 1937 she moved to Greece with her mother and made her debut there in 1939. She gained an international reputation for her performance in La Gioconda at the 1947 Verona Festival. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lydia Cabrera Biography (1900 - 1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 20, 1900, Havana, Cuba—died September 19, 1991, Miami, Florida, U.S.) Cuban ethnologist and short-story writer noted for both her collections of Afro-Cuban folklore and her works of fiction. She is considered a major figure in Cuban letters.
The daughter of Cuban historian Raimundo Cabrera, Lydia Cabrera was told African folk legends by her nanny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guillermo Cabrera Infante Biography (1929–2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Writer, born in Gibara, SE Cuba. He studied at Havana University, and emigrated to England, UK in 1966, later taking British citizenship. Film critic, journalist, and translator of Joyce&#8217;s Dubliners (1972), he is known chiefly for his fiction, particularly Tres tristes tigres (1967, Three Sad Tigers), an evocation of seedy nightlife in pre-revolutionary Havana. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morley Callaghan Biography (1903 - 1990)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Sept. 22, 1903, Toronto, Ont., Can.—died Aug. 25, 1990, Toronto) Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Callaghan received a law degree in 1928 but never practiced. He won acclaim for the short-story collection A Native Argosy (1929). His first novel, Strange Fugitive (1928), describes the destruction of a social misfit, a type that recurs in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amílcar Cabral Biography (1921 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1921, Bafata, Portuguese Guinea—died Jan. 20, 1973, Conakry, Guinea) Guinean nationalist politician. In 1956 he founded the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, which in 1962 began a war of liberation against Portuguese forces. By the late 1960s Cabral controlled much of Portuguese Guinea. He was assassinated in 1973. His half-brother, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedro Alvarez Cabral or Cabrera Biography (1467 - 1468)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born 1467/68, Belmonte, Port.—died 1520, Santarém?) Portuguese navigator credited with the discovery of Brazil. A nobleman, Cabral long enjoyed the favour of Manuel I of Portugal, who in 1500 sent him and 13 ships on the second Portuguese voyage to India, following the route taken by Vasco da Gama, to strengthen commercial ties and further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan Biography (1912 - 2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 27, 1912, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng.—died March 26, 2005, Ringmer, East Sussex) British politician. A trade union official, he entered the House of Commons as a Labour Party member in 1945. He served in Labour governments as chancellor of the Exchequer (1964–67), home secretary (1967–70), and foreign secretary (1974–76) before becoming prime minister (1976–79). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sebastian Cabot Biography (1474–1557)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1476, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng., or Venice—died 1557, London) English navigator, explorer, and cartographer. The son of John Cabot, he served at various times both the English and Spanish crowns. In 1525 he took charge of a Spanish expedition, abandoning the original goal of developing trade with the Orient and instead embarking on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Leonard) James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan (of Cardiff) Biography (1912–2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Jim Callaghan
 British statesman and prime minister (1976–9), born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, S England, UK. He joined the Civil Service (1929), served in naval intelligence in World War 2, and in 1945 was elected Labour MP for South Cardiff. As Chancellor of the Exchequer under Harold Wilson (1964–7), he introduced the controversial corporation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Cabot Biography (1450 - 1499)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Giovanni Caboto

(born  1450, Genoa?—died  1499) Italian navigator and explorer. In the 1470s he became a skilled navigator in travels to the eastern Mediterranean for a Venetian mercantile firm. In the 1490s he moved to Bristol, Eng., and, with support from city merchants, he led an expedition in 1497 to find trade routes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Whiton Calkins Biography (1863 - 1930)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 30, 1863, Hartford, Conn., U.S.—died Feb. 26, 1930, Newton, Mass.) philosopher, psychologist, and educator, the first American woman to attain distinction in these fields of study.
Calkins grew up mainly in Buffalo, New York, and moved with her family to Newton, Massachusetts, in 1880. She graduated from Smith College in 1885, and after a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Cabot Biography (1752 - 1823)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 16, 1752, Salem, Mass.—died April 18, 1823, Boston, Mass., U.S.) U.S. Federalist Party leader. After studying at Harvard University, he went to sea; he became a shipowner and successful merchant, retiring from business in 1794. Elected to the U.S. Senate (1791–96), he supported the fiscal policies of Alexander Hamilton. In 1793 he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calixtus II Biography (1124 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Guido of Burgundy

(died Dec. 13/14, 1124, Rome) Pope (1119–24). As archbishop of Vienne in Lower Burgundy, he became known as an advocate of reform and an opponent of Holy Roman emperor Henry V. Elected pope in 1119, he condemned lay investiture and excommunicated Henry. They were later reconciled, and the Concordat of Worms (1122) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2513</link>
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		<title>Bruce Cabot Biography (1904-1972)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Actor. Born Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac on April 20, 1904 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The son of a French Colonel, Bruce Cabot was raised without a mother; she died shortly after giving birth to him. He briefly attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, then worked several odd jobs before winding up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caligula Biography (12 - 41)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Gaius Caesar , in full Gaius Caesar Germanicus

(born Aug. 31  12, Antium, Latium—died Jan. 24, 41, Rome) Roman emperor from 37 to 41, in succession to Tiberius, who effected the transfer of the last legion that had been under a senatorial proconsul (in Africa) to an imperial legate, thus completing the emperor&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antonio de Cabezón Biography (1510 - 1566)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1510, Castrillo de Matajudíos, near Burgos, Spain—died March 26, 1566, Madrid) Spanish composer and organist. Of noble birth, he was blind from early childhood. In 1526 he became organist to Isabella, wife of Charles V. He remained a royal favourite, especially to Philip II, whom he accompanied on his travels. His works, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lee Calhoun Biography (1933 - 1989)</title>
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(born Feb. 23, 1933, Laurel, Miss., U.S.—died June 21, 1989, Erie, Pa.) American athlete, the first to win successive gold medals in the Olympics for the 110-metre hurdles.
Calhoun competed for North Carolina College, winning national collegiate championships in the 120-yard hurdles in 1956 and 1957; he was national outdoor hurdles champion three times (1956, 1957, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Branch Cabell Biography (1879 - 1958)</title>
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(born April 14, 1879, Richmond, Va., U.S.—died May 5, 1958, Richmond) U.S. writer. Cabell attacked American orthodoxies and institutions in his best-known novel, Jurgen (1919), a story replete with sexual symbolism. His other works, many of them allegories set in an imaginary medieval province, include The Cream of the Jest (1917) and The High Place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John C. Calhoun Biography (1782 - 1850)</title>
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(born March 18, 1782, Abbeville district, S.C., U.S.—died March 31, 1850, Washington, D.C.) American political leader who was a congressman, secretary of war, seventh vice president (1825–32), senator, and secretary of state. He championed states&#8217; rights and slavery and was a symbol of the Old South.

Early years
Calhoun was born to Patrick Calhoun, a well-to-do Scots-Irish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Caan Biography (1940-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor. Born March 26, 1940 (some sources say 1939), in the Bronx, New York. Caan briefly attended Michigan State University before transferring to New York’s Hofstra University, where he majored in theater. Upon his graduation, he studied under Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. In 1960, Caan made his stage acting debut in La [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Richard Burton Biography (1821 - 1890)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Sir Richard Francis Burton

(born March 19, 1821, Torquay, Devonshire, Eng.—died Oct. 20, 1890, Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now in Italy]) English scholar-explorer and Orientalist who was the first European to discover Lake Tanganyika and to penetrate hitherto-forbidden Muslim cities. He published 43 volumes on his explorations and almost 30 volumes of translations, including an unexpurgated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gottfried August Bürger Biography (1747 - 1794)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Dec. 31, 1747, Molmerswende bei Halberstadt, Brandenburg—died June 8, 1794, Göttingen, Hanover) German poet. He was associated with the Göttinger Hain, a circle of Sturm und Drang poets who reawakened interest in folk and nature themes. His bizarre ballad “Lenore” (1773) had a profound effect on the subsequent development of literary Romanticism throughout Europe, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hans, baron von Bülow Biography (1830 - 1894)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 8, 1830, Dresden, Saxony—died Feb. 12, 1894, Cairo, Egypt) German conductor and pianist. He studied piano with Clara Schumann&#8217;s father. His meetings with the composers Franz Liszt (1849) and Richard Wagner (1850) led to his decision to give up law for music, and with their help he launched a renowned career as conductor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernhard, prince von Bülow Biography (1849 - 1929)</title>
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(born May 3, 1849, Klein-Flottbek, near Altona, Ger.—died Oct. 28, 1929, Rome, Italy) German imperial chancellor and Prussian prime minister (1900–09). After holding a number of diplomatic posts, he was appointed state secretary for the foreign department in 1897. He quickly became a potent force and succeeded to the chancellorship in 1900. In cooperation with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georg Büchner Biography (1813 - 1837)</title>
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(born Oct. 17, 1813, Goddelau, Hesse-Darmstadt—died Feb. 19, 1837, Zürich, Switz.) German dramatist. As a medical student, he became involved in revolutionary politics and was forced to flee to Zürich. There he wrote plays marked by vivid imagination and unconventional structure, combining extreme naturalism with visionary power; he is regarded as a forerunner of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Busey Biography (1944-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born William Gary Busey, on June 29, 1944, in Goose Creek, Texas. Raised in Oklahoma, Busey attended Kansas State University on a football scholarship before a knee injury caused him to abandon his pursuit of a professional sports career. While turning his attention toward theater studies, he played percussion with Leon Russell, Kris Kristofferson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Burton Biography (1958-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director, producer, screenwriter. Born August 25, 1958, in Burbank, California. As a child, Burton was engrossed with the classic horror films of Roger Corman—many of which featured quintessential screen villain Vincent Price. Burton also developed a penchant for drawing and enrolled at the California Institute of Arts, where he majored in animation. In 1980, upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Burton Biography (1577 - 1640)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(1577–1640) British scholar and writer. He spent most of his life as a vicar at Oxford. His great Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) describes the kinds, causes, symptoms, and cures of melancholy in a lively, elegant, and sometimes humorous style; a mine of classical erudition and curious information, it is an index to the philosophical and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Burton Biography (1925 - 1984)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr.


(born Nov. 10, 1925, Pontrhydyfen, Wales—died Aug. 5, 1984, Geneva, Switz.) British stage and motion-picture actor noted for his portrayals of highly intelligent and articulate men who are world-weary, cynical, or self-destructive.
He was the 12th of 13 children born to a Welsh coal miner. He studied acting under Philip Burton, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Cyril Burt Biography (1883 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 3, 1883, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Eng.—died Oct. 10, 1971, London) British psychologist. He taught at the University of London (1924–50), becoming known for his pioneering work in educational psychology, especially mental testing and statistical analysis. His studies of human intelligence convinced him that intelligence was primarily inherited. Subsequent examination indicated that he had fabricated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellen Burstyn Biography (1932-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born Edna Rae Gillooly, on December 7, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. Burstyn left home at the age of 18 to work as a model. In the late 1950s, she landed her first regular acting gig, as a dancer on television’s The Jackie Gleason Show, billed as Erica Dean. She made her Broadway debut in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William S(eward) Burroughs Biography (1914 - 1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full William Seward Burroughs

(born February 5, 1914, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died August 2, 1997, Lawrence, Kansas) American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world. His sexual explicitness (he was an avowed and outspoken homosexual) and the frankness with which he dealt with his experiences as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William (Seward) Burroughs Biography (1855 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 28, 1855, Auburn, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 15, 1898, Citronelle, Ala.) U.S. inventor. He was self-supporting from age 15. In 1885 he constructed his first calculating machine; though it proved commercially impractical, he patented a practical model in 1892. This machine was a commercial success, but he died before he could earn much money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Burroughs Biography (1837 - 1921)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 3, 1837, near Roxbury, N.Y., U.S.—died March 29, 1921, en route from California to New York) U.S. essayist and naturalist. In his early years he worked as a teacher, farmer, and U.S. Treasury Department clerk. In 1873 he moved to a farm in the Hudson River valley. Traveling extensively, he hiked and camped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edgar Rice Burroughs Biography (1875 - 1950)</title>
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(born Sept. 1, 1875, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died March 19, 1950, Encino, Calif.) U.S. novelist. Burroughs worked as an advertising copywriter before trying fiction. His jungle adventure novel Tarzan of the Apes (1914) became the first of 25 books featuring Tarzan, the son of an English nobleman abandoned in Africa and raised by apes. He wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raymond Burr Biography (1917–93)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Television actor, born in Westminster, Canada. Coming from Canada to study at Stanford University, he began as a stage actor, appearing in regional theatre before moving into television dramas and films. He starred as the burly detective in the Perry Mason (1957–66) and Ironside (1967–75) series, winning two Emmys. He went on to appear in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aaron Burr Biography (1756 - 1836)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born February 6, 1756, Newark, New Jersey [U.S.]—died September 14, 1836, Port Richmond, New York, U.S.) third vice president of the United States (1801–05), who killed his political rival, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel (1804), and whose turbulent political career ended with his arrest for treason in 1807.
Burr, the son of Aaron Burr and Esther [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Burns Biography (1759 - 1796)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Jan. 25, 1759, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scot.—died July 21, 1796, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire) national poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics and songs in the Scottish dialect of English. He was also famous for his amours and his rebellion against orthodox religion and morality.

Life
Burns&#8217;s father had come to Ayrshire from Kincardineshire in an endeavour to improve his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambrose (Everett) Burnside Biography (1824 - 1881)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 23, 1824, Liberty, Ind., U.S.—died Sept. 13, 1881, Bristol, R.I.) Union general in the American Civil War. A graduate of West Point, he was promoted to major general in 1862 and replaced George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac; he was himself replaced after the Union loss at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2488</link>
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		<title>George Burns Biography (1896 - 1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Nathan Birnbaum

(born Jan. 20, 1896, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died March 9, 1996, Beverly Hills, Calif.) American comedian who was popular for more than 70 years in vaudeville, radio, film, and television. He was especially known as part of a comedy team with his wife, Gracie Allen.
Burns began his career at age seven as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fanny Burney Biography (1752 - 1840)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Frances Burney


(born June 13, 1752, King&#8217;s Lynn, Norfolk, Eng.—died Jan. 6, 1840, London) English novelist. The self-educated daughter of Charles Burney, she wrote lively accounts of his social musical evenings. Her habit of recording observations of society led to Evelina (1778), an epistolary novel about an unsure young girl&#8217;s social development; a landmark in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Bush Biography (1924 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full George Herbert Walker Bush

(born June 12, 1924, Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.) politician and businessman who was vice president of the United States (1981–89) and the 41st president of the United States (1989–93). As president, Bush assembled a multinational force to compel the withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War. (For a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heinrich Böll Biography (1917 - 1985)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Heinrich Theodor Böll

(born Dec. 21, 1917, Cologne, Ger.—died July 16, 1985, Bornheim-Merten, near Cologne, W.Ger.) German writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. Böll&#8217;s ironic novels on the travails of German life during and after World War II capture the changing psychology of the German nation.
The son of a cabinetmaker, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jakob Böhme Biography (1575 - 1624)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1575, Altseidenberg, Saxony—died Nov. 21, 1624, Görlitz) German philosophical mystic. Originally a cobbler, Böhme had a religious experience in 1600 that he felt gave him insight into how the tensions of his age could be resolved. He expounded this insight in his work Aurora (1612). The writings of Paracelsus inspired his interest in nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Böhm Biography (1894 - 1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 28, 1894, Graz, Austria—died Aug. 14, 1981, Salzburg) Austrian conductor. Having risen from rehearsal pianist to chief conductor at the Graz Opera House, he was invited to conduct at the Munich Opera in 1921. As director of the Dresden State Opera (1934–42), he conducted numerous premieres. He had a long association with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arnold Böcklin Biography (1827 - 1901)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 16, 1827, Basel, Switz.—died Jan. 16, 1901, Fiesole, Italy) Swiss-born Italian painter. After studies and work in northern Europe and Paris, he won the patronage of the king of Bavaria with his mural Pan in the Bulrushes (1856–58). From 1858 to 1861 he taught at the Weimar Art School and executed mythological frescoes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georg von Békésy Biography (1899 - 1972)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 3, 1899, Budapest, Hungary—died June 13, 1972, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) American physicist and physiologist who received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the physical means by which sound is analyzed and communicated in the cochlea, a portion of the inner ear.
As director of the Hungarian Telephone System [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Béjart, Maurice Biography (1928 - 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maurice-Jean Berger
French dancer and choreographer (born Jan. 1, 1927, Marseille, France—died Nov. 22, 2007, Lausanne, Switz.) was renowned for his flamboyant theatricality, his use of African dance rhythms, and his erotic, often shocking interpretations of such works as Igor Stravinsky&#8217;s Le Sacre du printemps (1959) and Maurice Ravel&#8217;s Bolero (1961). Béjart&#8217;s modern works ranged from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Bárány Biography (1876 - 1936)</title>
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(born April 22, 1876, Vienna—died April 8, 1936, Uppsala, Sweden) Austrian otologist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1914 for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular (balancing) apparatus of the inner ear.
Bárány graduated in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1900. After study at German clinics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Bánzer Suárez Biography (1926 - 2002)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname El Petiso (Spanish: “The Short One”)

(born May 10, 1926, Concepción, Bolivia—died May 5, 2002, Santa Cruz) soldier and politician who was president of Bolivia from 1971 to 1978 and from 1997 to 2001.
Bánzer was educated at the Bolivian Army Military College and in two United States Army training schools. He served as minister of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buenaventura Báez Biography (1810 - 1884)</title>
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(born 1810, Azua de Compostela, Hispaniola [now Azua, Dominican Republic]—died 1884, Puerto Rico) politician who served five terms as president of the Dominican Republic and is noted principally for his attempts to have the United States annex his country.
Báez was a member of a wealthy and prominent family in the Dominican Republic. He was educated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Byron, 6th Baron Byron Biography (1788 - 1824)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Lord Byron

(born Jan. 22, 1788, London, Eng.—died April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece) British Romantic poet and satirist. Born with a clubfoot and extremely sensitive about it, he was 10 when he unexpectedly inherited his title and estates. Educated at Cambridge, he gained recognition with English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), a satire responding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Byrd Biography (1543 - 1623)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1543, Lincoln, Lincolnshire?, Eng.—died July 4, 1623, Stondon Massey, Essex) English organist and composer of the Shakespearean age who is best known for his development of the English madrigal. He also wrote virginal and organ music that elevated the English keyboard style.

Life
Of Byrd&#8217;s origins and early life virtually nothing is known. He was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Byrne Biography (1952– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born May 14, 1952, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scot.) Scottish-born U.S. singer and songwriter. At the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s, he cofounded the rock group Talking Heads as singer and guitarist. Identified with the new wave movement ( punk), the band&#8217;s debut album Talking Heads &#8216;77 (1977) was followed by releases that reflected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard (Evelyn) Byrd Biography (1888 - 1957)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 25, 1888, Winchester, Va., U.S.—died March 11, 1957, Boston, Mass.) U.S. naval officer, aviator, and polar explorer. After serving in World War I, he worked developing navigational aids for aircraft. In 1926 he and Floyd Bennett claimed to have reached the North Pole by airplane, becoming the first to do so. In 1928 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Byles Biography (1870-1912)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Preist
Catholic priest, Titanic victim. Born Thomas Roussel Davids Byles on February 26, 1870 in Yorkshire, England. The eldest of seven children born to a successful minister and businessman, Byles attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he was vice president of the debate society. He taught at St. Edmund&#8217;s College, a boys’ school and Roman Catholic seminary, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A. S. Byatt Biography (1936 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Antonia Susan Drabble

(born Aug. 24, 1936, Sheffield, Eng.) British novelist and scholar. Sister of Margaret Drabble, she was educated at Cambridge and taught at University College, London. Her third novel, The Virgin in the Garden (1978), won high acclaim; the sequel Still Life (1985) followed. Possession (1990), a virtuoso double narrative, won the 1990 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Byas Biography (1912 - 1972)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Carlos Wesley Byas

(born Oct. 21, 1912, Muskogee, Okla., U.S.—died Aug. 24, 1972, Amsterdam, Neth.) black American jazz tenor saxophonist whose improvising was an important step in the transition from the late swing to the early bop eras.
During the late 1930s Byas played in several swing bands, including those of Don Redman and Andy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Buttons Biography (1919 - 2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Aaron Chwatt
Entertainer

American actor, comedian. Born Aaron Chwatt on February 5, 1919, in New York City. At the age of 16, he got a job working as a bellhop and a singer at a bar on City Island in New York. His uniform and his flame-colored hair served as inspiration for his stage name &#8220;Red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dietrich Buxtehude Biography (1637 - 1707)</title>
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(born 1637, probably in Oldesloe, Holstein—died May 9, 1707, Lübeck) Danish organist and composer. He held two organist positions before being appointed organist at the important Marienkirche in Lübeck (now in Germany), where he remained for almost 40 years. There he reinstated the tradition of the Abendmusik, an annual series of church concerts. His reputation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major Archibald Butt Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. military officer, presidential aide. Born Archibald Willingham Butt on September 26, 1865, in Augusta, Georgia. A distinguished military officer and aide to U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft, Major Archibald Butt was one of the heroes of the Titanic disaster of 1912.
A graduate of the University of the South, Butt worked as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Butler Biography (1612 - 1680)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 8, 1612, Strensham, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Sept. 25, 1680, London) British poet and satirist. He held several clerical positions, where he could observe cranks and scoundrels like those whose antics he targeted. He is famous for Hudibras (1663–78), a mock-heroic poem skewering the fanaticism, pretentiousness, pedantry, and hypocrisy he saw in militant Puritanism. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R. A. Butler, baron of Saffron Walden Biography (1902 - 1982)</title>
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(born Dec. 9, 1902, Attock Serai, India—died March 8, 1982, Great Yeldham, Essex, Eng.) British politician. Known as “Rab” Butler, he was elected to Parliament in 1929 and served in various Conservative governments in the 1930s. As minister of education, he was responsible for the 1944 Education Act, which established free secondary education. After the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Octavia E. Butler Biography (1947 - 2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Octavia Estelle Butler

(born June 22, 1947, Pasadena, California, U.S.—died February 24, 2006, Seattle, Washington) African American author chiefly noted for her science fiction novels about future societies and superhuman powers. They are noteworthy for their unique synthesis of science fiction, mysticism, mythology, and African American spiritualism.
Butler was educated at Pasadena City College (A.A., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicholas Murray Butler Biography (1862 - 1947)</title>
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(born April 2, 1862, Elizabeth, N.J., U.S.—died Dec. 7, 1947, New York, N.Y.) American educator, publicist, and political figure who (with Jane Addams) shared the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931 and served as president of Columbia University from 1901 to 1945.
Butler was educated at Columbia College, which became his intellectual and occupational home for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Butler Biography (1692 - 1752)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 18, 1692, Wantage, Berkshire, Eng.—died June 16, 1752, Bath, Somerset) British bishop and moral philosopher. He became dean of St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral in 1740 and bishop of Durham in 1750. His works defended revealed religion against the rationalist thinkers of his time. His The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin F(ranklin) Butler Biography (1818 - 1893)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born , Nov. 5, 1818, Deerfield, N.H., U.S.—died Jan. 11, 1893, Washington, D.C.) U.S. army officer. A prominent attorney in Lowell, Mass., Butler served two terms in the state legislature (1853, 1859). In the American Civil War he commanded Fort Monroe, Va., where he refused to return fugitive slaves to the Confederacy, calling them “contraband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi Biography (1928 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Chief Buthelezi

(born Aug. 27, 1928, Mahlabatini, Natal, S.Af.) Zulu chief and leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party. Descended from Cetshwayo, he assumed leadership of the Buthelezi clan in 1953. He was elected head of the nonindependent black state of KwaZulu in 1972 and revived Inkatha in 1975 after breaking with the African National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Butkus Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Richard J. Butkus

(born Dec. 9, 1942, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) U.S. football player. He played for the University of Illinois before joining the Chicago Bears (1965–73). He became known for his aggression and toughness on the field as much as for his playmaking ability. His career was shortened by injuries; after retirement he became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolf Butenandt Biography (1903 - 1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt

(born March 24, 1903, Bremerhaven-Lehe, Ger.—died  Jan. 18, 1995, Munich) German biochemist who, with Leopold Ruzicka, was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on sex hormones. Although forced by the Nazi government to refuse the prize, he was able to accept the honour in 1949.
Butenandt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute Biography (1713 - 1792)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. John Stuart

(born May 25, 1713, Edinburgh, Scot.—died March 10, 1792, London, Eng.) Scottish-born British statesman. He was the tutor and constant companion of the future George III; when the latter ascended to the throne, he named Bute secretary of state (1761). As prime minister (1762–63), Bute negotiated the peace ending the Seven Years&#8217; War, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vannevar Bush Biography (1890 - 1974)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 11, 1890, Everett, Mass., U.S.—died June 28, 1974, Belmont, Mass.) American electrical engineer and administrator who developed the Differential Analyzer and oversaw government mobilization of scientific research during World War II.

Education
The son of a Universalist minister, Bush received his bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in mathematics from Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) in 1913. Following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Butcher Biography (1954 - 2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Susan Howlet Butcher

(born Dec. 26, 1954, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Aug. 5, 2006, Seattle, Wash.) American sled-dog racer and trainer who dominated her sport for more than a decade. She won the challenging Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska four times.
Butcher began to train dogs at age 16. By 1972 she had moved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirvén Biography (1865 - 1951)</title>
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(born April 13, 1865, Havana—died Aug. 24, 1951, Havana) lawyer, educator, Cuban politician, and international jurist who drew up the Bustamante Code dealing with international private law. Adopted by the sixth Pan-American Congress (Havana, 1928), which also elected him president, his code was ratified without reservations by six Latin American nations and in part by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferruccio Busoni Biography (1866 - 1924)</title>
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(born April 1, 1866, Empoli, Tuscany—died July 27, 1924, Berlin, Ger.) Italian-born German composer and pianist. He first performed in public at age 7, and at 12 he conducted his own Stabat Mater. He taught in Helsinki, Moscow, and Boston before settling permanently in Berlin in 1894. He won fame as a virtuoso pianist and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laura Welch Bush Biography (1946 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Laura Lane Welch


(born November 4, 1946, Midland, Texas, U.S.) American first lady (from 2001)—the wife of George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States.
Laura Welch was the only child of Harold Welch, a home builder, and Jenna Hawkins Welch. Her parents placed a high priority on Laura&#8217;s education and fostered her interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George W. Bush Biography (1946-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full George Walker Bush
 Forty-third president of the United States; former governor of Texas (1994-2000). Born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut. Bush — often referred to as simply &#8220;W&#8221; — is the eldest son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. He grew up in Midland, Texas, where his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jenna Bush Biography (1981-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Jenna Bush, one of President Bush&#8217;s twin daughters, and Henry Hager were married Saturday evening (May 10, 2008) in a very private ceremony on her parents&#8217; 1,600-acre ranch near Crawford, Texas.

The president walked his daughter down the aisle before 200 guests in an outdoor ceremony.

The wedding took place before a white limestone altar topped by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George (Herbert Walker) Bush Biography (1924– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forty-first president of the United States, politician. Born George Herbert Walker Bush on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts. The son of Senator Prescott Bush, he was born into a wealthy, politically active family. Bush attended Phillips Academy, an elite boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts.
On his eighteenth birthday, Bush enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Burney Biography (1726 - 1814)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born April 7, 1726, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Eng.—died April 12, 1814, Chelsea, Middlesex) British music historian. After being apprenticed to Thomas Arne, he taught music and played the organ. In 1770 he set off on European travels, undertaken to research his seminal General History of Music, 4 vol. (1776–89). His accounts of the many famous musicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Bush Biography (1925 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Barbara Pierce
Former first lady. Born Barbara Pierce on June 8, 1925 in Rye, New York. At the age of 16, she met her husband-to-be George Bush at dance. The couple became engaged about 18 months later before George Bush left to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II. She attended Smith College [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Burnett Biography (1960 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full James Mark Burnett

(born July 17, 1960, Myland, Essex, Eng.) English author and television producer and director, best known for introducing Survivor and several other successful reality television shows to the United States.
After completing missions with the British Parachute Regiment in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and Northern Ireland, Burnett moved to Los Angeles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bunyan Biography (1628 - 1688)</title>
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(born November 1628, Elstow, Bedfordshire, England—died August 31, 1688, London) celebrated English minister and preacher, author of The Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress (1678), the book that was the most characteristic expression of the Puritan religious outlook. His other works include doctrinal and controversial writings; a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding (1666); and the allegory The Holy War (1682).

Early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert (William) Burchfield Biography (1923-2004 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Scholar and lexicographer, born in Wanganui, New Zealand. He studied at Victoria University College, Wellington, and at Oxford, where he became a lecturer in English language (1952-63), then a tutorial fellow (1963-79) and senior research fellow at St Peter&#8217;s College (1979-90). In 1957 he was appointed editor of a new Supplement to the Oxford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leo Burnett Biography (1891 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 21, 1891, St. Johns, Mich., U.S.—died June 7, 1971, Lake Zurich, Ill.) pioneer American advertising executive who founded a worldwide agency that ranks among the giants of the industry.
Burnett was a journalism major at the University of Michigan, who got his first job as a reporter on the Peoria (Ill.) Journal. He then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Burchfield Biography (1893 - 1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 9, 1893, Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, U.S.—died Jan. 10, 1967, Gardenville, N.Y.) U.S. painter. He attended the Cleveland School of Art and, after service in World War I, worked as a wallpaper designer in Buffalo, N.Y. In the 1920s and &#8217;30s he was one of the leading painters of American life; his work was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frances (Eliza) Hodgson Burnett Biography (1849 - 1924)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néeHodgson
(born Nov. 24, 1849, Manchester, Eng.—died Oct. 29, 1924, Plandome, N.Y., U.S.) British-U.S. playwright and author. She is best remembered for the popular children&#8217;s novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), about an American boy who inherits an English earldom. The Secret Garden (1911), considered her best work, is a classic of children&#8217;s literature. Other works include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Burnett Biography (1944 - )</title>
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(born April 13, 1944, Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.) American filmmaker who gained critical acclaim for his realistic and intimate portrayals of African American families. Burnett&#8217;s films were revered by critics yet rarely enjoyed any commercial success. His film Killer of Sheep (1977) was placed on the Library of Congress&#8217;s National Film Registry in 1990.
Burnett grew up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Burbidge Biography (1925 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Eleanor Margaret Peachey

(born August 12, 1919, Davenport, Cheshire, England) English-born American astronomer and first woman to be appointed director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. She made notable contributions to the theory of quasars (quasi-stellar sources), to measurements of the rotation and masses of galaxies, and to the understanding of how chemical elements are formed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carol Burnett Biography (1933– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Television comedienne and actress. Born on April 26, 1933, in San Antonio, Texas. Carol Burnett was one of the most popular comediennes on television during the 1960s and 1970s. After studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, she made her way to New York City.
Carol Burnett made her first television appearance in early 1950s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir (Frank) Macfarlane Burnet Biography (1899 - 1985)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

(born Sept. 3, 1899, Traralgon, Australia—died Aug. 31, 1985, Melbourne) Australian physician, immunologist, and virologist who, with Sir Peter Medawar, was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance, the concept on which tissue transplantation is founded.
Burnet received his medical degree in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luther Burbank Biography (1849 - 1926)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born March 7, 1849, Lancaster, Massachusetts, U.S.—died April 11, 1926, Santa Rosa, California) U.S. plant breeder whose prodigious production of useful varieties of fruits, flowers, vegetables, grains, and grasses encouraged the development of plant breeding into a modern science that has lent valuable assistance to the study of genetics.
Reared on a farm, Burbank received little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones Biography (1833 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 28, 1833, Birmingham, Eng.—died June 17, 1898, London) British painter, illustrator, and designer. At Oxford he met his future collaborator, William Morris. In 1856 he became apprenticed to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His paintings portray the romantic medieval imagery favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites, and he drew inspiration from the elongated, melancholy figures of Fra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Burbage Biography (1567 - 1619)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1567, London, Eng.—died March 9/13, 1619, London) British actor. A popular actor by age 20, he was a member of the Earl of Leicester&#8217;s company and the Chamberlain&#8217;s (later King&#8217;s) Men. Closely associated with William Shakespeare, he was the first to play roles such as Richard III, Romeo, Henry V, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anson Burlingame Biography (1820 - 1870)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Nov. 14, 1820, New Berlin, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 23, 1870, St. Petersburg, Russia) U.S. diplomat. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1855–61) and helped found the Republican Party. As U.S. minister to China (1861–67), he implemented a policy of cooperation between China and the Western powers. He so impressed the Chinese government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angelo (The Hillside Strangler) Buono Biography (1934-2002)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Serial killer. Born October 5, 1934 in Rochester, New York. After his parents divorced, Buono was raised by his mother in Glendale, California. From an early age, he developed a deep loathing for women. Though he married several times and had numerous children, Buono showed nothing but brutality toward the women in his life.By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Bunsen Biography (1811 - 1899)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born March 31, 1811, Göttingen, Westphalia—died Aug. 16, 1899, Heidelberg, Baden) German chemist. With Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, he observed ( 1859) that each element emits light of a characteristic wavelength, opening the field of spectrochemical analysis. They discovered several new elements (including helium, cesium, and rubidium) by spectroscopy. His only book discussed methods of measuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Thacker Burleigh Biography (1866 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 2, 1866, Erie, Pa., U.S.—died Sept. 12, 1949, Stamford, Conn.) American baritone and composer, a noted arranger of African American spirituals.
Burleigh studied under Antonín Dvoák at the National Conservatory of Music, New York City, and through his singing acquainted Dvoák with the traditional black vocal music of the United States. He was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin Biography (1870 - 1953)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Oct. 10 [Oct. 22, New Style], 1870, Voronezh, Russia—died Nov. 8, 1953, Paris, France) poet and novelist, the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933) and one of the best of Russian stylists.
While working as a journalist and clerk Bunin wrote and translated poetry; his first volume of verse was published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denis P. Burkitt Biography (1911 - 1933)</title>
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(born Feb. 28, 1911, Enniskillen, N.Ire.—died March 23, 1993, England) British surgeon and medical researcher. He discovered Burkitt lymphoma, a lethal cancer of the lymphatic system with a high incidence among children. He showed that it was common in equatorial African regions where malaria and yellow fever are endemic and linked it to Epstein-Barr virus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Bundy Biography (1946 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Theodore Robert Bundy
born Nov. 24, 1946, Burlington, Vt., U.S.—died Jan. 24, 1989, Starke, Fla.) American serial killer and rapist, one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century.
Bundy had a difficult childhood—he had a strained relationship with his stepfather, and his shyness made him a frequent target of bullying. Later, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solomon Burke Biography (1936 - )</title>
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(born 1936, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) American singer whose success in the early 1960s in merging the gospel style of the African-American church with rhythm and blues helped to usher in the soul music era.
Born into a family that established its own church, Burke was both a preacher and the host of a gospel radio program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McGeorge Bundy Biography (1919 - 1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 30, 1919, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Sept. 16, 1996, Boston) U.S. public official and educator. He served in World War II as an intelligence officer. He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1949 and became dean of arts and sciences in 1953. As special assistant for national security to presidents John F. Kennedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenneth Burke Biography (1897 - 1993)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Kenneth Duva Burke

(born May 5, 1897, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 19, 1993, Andover, N.J.) American literary critic who is best known for his psychologically based analyses of the nature of knowledge and his views of literature as “symbolic action,” that is, a symbolic means by which the writer can act out his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph J(ohnson) Bunche Biography (1904 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Ralph Johnson Bunche

Diplomat, statesman. Born Ralph Johnson Bunche on August 7, 1904 in Detroit, Michigan. He worked his way through college and then travelled, taught at Howard University (1928–41), and wrote A World View of Race (1937). He served in the Office of Strategic Services (1941–4) and then the State Department (1944–7).

At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edmund Burke Biography (1729 - 1797)</title>
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(born January 12?, 1729, Dublin, Ire.—died July 9, 1797, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Eng.) British parliamentarian, orator, and political philosopher. The son of a lawyer, he began legal studies but lost interest, became estranged from his father, and spent some time wandering about England and France. Essays he published in 1757–58 gained the attention of Denis Diderot, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippe Jean Bunau-Varilla Biography (1859 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 26, 1859, Paris, France—died May 18, 1940, Paris) French engineer. He worked for the French Panama Canal Co. (1884–89) until the project failed. He helped to instigate the revolution that resulted in Panamanian independence and was appointed by the provisional government to negotiate a treaty with the U.S. for the construction of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Buridan Biography (1300 - 1358)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1300, Béthune?, France—died 1358) French philosopher, logician, and scientific theorist. He studied under William of Ockham at the University of Paris and later taught there. According to his modified version of determinism, though one must choose what presents itself as the greater good, the will is free to delay reason&#8217;s judgment by suggesting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Bulwer-Lytton Biography (1803 - 1873)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[later 1st Baron Lytton (of Knebworth)

(born May 25, 1803, London, Eng.—died Jan. 18, 1873, Torquay, Devonshire) British politician, novelist, and poet. His first novel, Pelham, was published in 1828. He entered Parliament as a Liberal in 1831, retired in 1841, and returned in 1852 as a Tory. In the interim he wrote his long historical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Burgoyne Biography (1722 - 1792)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[nickname Gentleman Johnnie
(born 1722, Sutton, Bedfordshire, Eng.—died June 4, 1792, London) British general. After serving in the Seven Years&#8217; War he was elected to the British House of Commons in 1761 and 1768. Assigned to Canada in 1776, he began a campaign to join British forces from the north, south, and west to isolate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer Biography (1801 - 1872)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[later Baron Dalling and Bulwer of Dalling

(born Feb. 13, 1801, London, Eng.—died May 23, 1872, Naples, Italy) British diplomat. In the diplomatic service from 1829, he negotiated the Ponsonby Treaty (1838), which was advantageous to British trade with the Ottoman Empire. As ambassador to the U.S. (1849–52), he negotiated the controversial Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thornton W(aldo) Burgess Biography (1874–1965)</title>
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(born Jan. 14, 1874, Sandwich, Mass., U.S.—died June 5, 1965, Hampden, Mass.) U.S. children&#8217;s author and naturalist. He loved nature as a child. His first book, Old Mother West Wind (1910), introduced the animal characters that were to populate his subsequent stories, which were published in many languages. He promoted conservationism through his “Wildlife Protection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rudolf (Karl) Bultmann Biography (1884 - 1976)</title>
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(born Aug. 20, 1884, Wiefelstede, Ger.—died July 30, 1976, Marburg, W.Ger.) German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar. The son of a Lutheran pastor, he studied at the University of Tübingen and later taught many years at Marburg (1921–51). He established his reputation with his analysis of the Gospels in History of the Synoptic Tradition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guy Burgess Biography (1911 - 1963)</title>
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(born 1911, Devonport, Devon, Eng.—died Aug. 30, 1963, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) British diplomat and Soviet spy. At the University of Cambridge in the 1930s, he became part of a group of young men, including Donald Maclean (1913–83), who shared a disdain for capitalist democracy. They were recruited by Soviet intelligence operatives and supplied information from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wynn Bullock Biography (1902 - 1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born April 18, 1902, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Nov. 16, 1975, Monterey, Calif.) U.S. photographer. He was strongly influenced in his early work—mainly “solarizations,” in which the image is partly negative and partly positive—by the avant-garde experiments of László Moholy-Nagy. In 1948 Edward Weston persuaded him to focus on realism and tonal beauty, and Bullock followed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Burgess Biography (1917 - 1993)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. John Anthony Burgess Wilson

(born Feb. 25, 1917, Manchester, Eng.—died Nov. 22, 1993, London) English novelist, critic, and composer. His experiences in Southeast Asia produced the novel trilogy The Long Day Wanes (1956–59). A Clockwork Orange (1962; film, 1971), his most original work, is a satire on extreme political systems. His other novels, which combine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sandra Bullock Biography (1964-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress. Born Sandra Annette Bullock on July 26, 1964, in Arlington, Virginia. In the 1990s, Bullock established herself as a marketable leading lady in a series of comedy and action films.Born on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., to a German opera singer and a voice teacher, Bullock grew up largely on the road. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warren (Earl) Burger Biography (1907 - )</title>
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(born Sept. 17, 1907, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.—died June 25, 1995, Washington, D.C.) U.S. jurist. He graduated with honours from St. Paul (now William Mitchell) College of Law in 1931, after which he joined a prominent law firm and became active in the Republican Party. He was appointed an assistant U.S. attorney general (1953) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim J. Bullock Biography (1955- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born James Jackson Bullock in 1955. Witty and charming, Jim J. Bullock started out as just another struggling actor-waiter in Los Angeles and became a television star in the 1980s. Raised in Texas, he was brought up Baptist by his deeply religious and conservative parents. Bullock even attended Oklahoma Baptist University where he studied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan (Louis Charles) Bullock, Baron Bullock Biography (1914-2004 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ British historian. He studied at Oxford, was appointed censor of St Catherine&#8217;s Society, Oxford (1952-62), and became Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1969-73), and Master of St Catherine&#8217;s College, Oxford (1960-80). He was chairman of the Schools Council (1966-9), and also of the Committee on Reading and Other Uses of the English Language (1972-4), the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William F(rank), Jr Buckley Biography (1925–2008)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full William Frank Buckley, Jr.

Author and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. died Wednesday (Feb. 27, 2008), at his home in Stamford, Connecticut.  He was 82.

Buckley, who had been ill with emphysema and diabetes, was found dead at his desk in the study of his home by his cook, his assistant Linda Bridges said.

&#8220;I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha Biography (301 - 600)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Siddhartha Gautama

(flourished  6th–4th century , b. Lumbini, near Kapilavastu, Shakya republic, Kosala kingdom [now in Nepal]—died Kusinara, Malla republic, Magadha kingdom [now Kasia, India]) Spiritual leader and founder of Buddhism. The term buddha (Sanskrit: “enlightened one”) is a title rather than a name, and Buddhists believe that there are an infinite number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bud Abbott Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, comedian
Actor, comedian. Born William Alexander Abbott on October 2, 1897 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
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		<title>Jacob Burckhardt Biography (1818 - 1897)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born May 25, 1818, Basel, Switz.—died Aug. 8, 1897, Basel) Swiss historian of art and culture. After abandoning his study of theology, Burckhardt studied art history, then a new field, at the University of Berlin (1839–43). As he matured he became a cultural conservative, alienated from the contemporary world and preoccupied with reclaiming the past. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betty Lynn Buckley Biography (1947-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress born in Fort Worth, Texas. Buckley started honing her performance skills very early on, singing in her church at the age of two and taking dance lessons a year later. Her professional stage debut came at the tender age of 15 in a production of Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s Gypsy. She gained additional experience by performing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Bullins Biography (1935 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 2, 1935, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) American playwright, novelist, poet, and journalist who emerged as one of the leading and most prolific dramatists of black theatre in the 1960s.
A high-school dropout, Bullins served in the U.S. Navy (1952–55) before resuming his studies in Philadelphia and at Los Angeles City College, San Francisco State College, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2400</link>
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		<title>George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Biography (1592 - 1628)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called (1614–16) Sir George Villiers , or (1616–17) Baron Whaddon, Viscount Villiers , or (1617–18) Earl of Buckingham , or (1618–23) Marquess of Buckingham

(born August 28, 1592, Brooksby, Leicestershire, England—died August 23, 1628, Portsmouth, Hampshire) royal favourite and statesman who virtually ruled England during the last years of King James I and the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ole Bull Biography (1810 - 1880)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 5, 1810, Bergen, Nor.—died Aug. 17, 1880, Lysøen, near Bergen) Norwegian violinist. After training in his native Bergen, he freelanced in Christiania (now Oslo) in 1828–31. His Paris concerts, which featured Norwegian songs played on a folk violin, won much attention, and he toured Europe and the U.S. for two decades. A longtime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd duke of Buckingham Biography (1628 - 1687)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. George Villiers

(born Jan. 30, 1628, London, Eng.—died April 16, 1687, Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire) English politician. Born eight months before the assassination of his father, the 1st duke of Buckingham, he was brought up with the family of Charles I. He fought for Charles II in the English Civil Wars, and after the Restoration in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2397</link>
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		<title>John Bull Biography (1562 - 1628)</title>
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(born 1562/63, Radnorshire, Wales?—died March 12/13, 1628, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands) British composer. He became organist of Hereford Cathedral in 1582, then organist at the Chapel Royal in 1591. In 1613 he departed for the continent to escape punishment for adultery; he held important organist positions in Brussels and Antwerp until his death. He wrote many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearl S. Buck Biography (1892 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, pseudonym John Sedges

(born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, W.Va., U.S.—died March 6, 1973, Danby, Vt.) American author noted for her novels of life in China. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
Pearl Sydenstricker was raised in Chenchiang in eastern China by her Presbyterian missionary parents. Initially educated by her mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nikolay Bulganin Biography (1895 - 1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 11, 1895, Nizhy Novgorod, Russia—died Feb. 24, 1975, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet statesman and industrial and economic administrator. After supporting Nikita Khrushchev in the latter&#8217;s power struggle with Georgy Malenkov, Bulganin was made premier of the Soviet Union (1955–58). Though closely identified with Khrushchev, he joined an “antiparty group” that tried to oust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linda B. Buck Biography (1947 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born January 29, 1947, Seattle, Washington, U.S.) American scientist and corecipient, with Richard Axel, of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for discoveries concerning the olfactory system.
Buck received a B.S. (1975) in both microbiology and psychology from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. (1980) in immunology from the University of Texas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mikhail Bulgakov Biography (1891 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born May 15, 1891, Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died March 10, 1940, Moscow, Russian S.F.S.R., U.S.S.R.) Russian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He wrote and staged many popular plays in the years 1925–29, including dramatizations of his own novels, but by 1930 his trenchant criticism of Soviet mores had caused him to be effectively prohibited from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2392</link>
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		<title>Art Buchwald Biography (1925–2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Buchwald
Newspaper columnist, author. Born on October 20, 1925, in Mount Vernon. A humorist and satirist, Buchwald poked fun at much of what was going around him in his illustrious career that spanned more than five decades. It was remarkable that he could find the humor in so many things considering his difficult childhood. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Bulfinch Biography (1763 - 1844)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Aug. 8, 1763, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony—died April 4, 1844, Boston, Mass., U.S.) First professional U.S. architect. He studied at Harvard University and then toured Europe, visiting major architectural sites in France and Italy. Most of his works incorporate Classical orders and show a mastery of proportion. Chiefly a designer of government buildings, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2390</link>
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		<title>Hans Buchner Biography (1850 - 1902)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 16, 1850, Munich, Bavaria—died April 5, 1902, Munich, Ger.) German bacteriologist. He served as a physician in the Bavarian army in the 1870s and taught at the University of Munich from 1880 until his death. Buchner was one of the first to note that a substance in blood serum could destroy bacteria. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2389</link>
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		<title>Charles (Henry) Bukowski Biography (1920 - 1994)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 16, 1920, Andernach, Ger.—died March 9, 1994, San Pedro, Calif., U.S.) American author noted for his use of violent images and graphic language in poetry and fiction that depict survival in a corrupt, blighted society.
Bukowski lived most of his life in Los Angeles. He briefly attended Los Angeles City College (1939–41) and worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eduard Buchner Biography (1860 - 1917)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 20, 1860, Munich, Bavaria [Germany]—died  Aug. 13, 1917, Focani, Rom.) German biochemist who was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for demonstrating that the fermentation of carbohydrates results from the action of different enzymes contained in yeast and not the yeast cell itself. He showed that an enzyme, zymase, can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2387</link>
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		<title>al-Bukhr Biography (810 - 870)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 19, 810, Bukhara, Central Asia—died Aug. 31, 870, Khartank, near Samarkand) Muslim compiler and scholar of adth. He began his study as a child in Central Asia and traveled as far as Mecca and Cairo to learn about Muhammad and his utterances. Of the 600,000 traditions he collected, he deemed 7,275 authentic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat (Patrick J.) Buchanan Biography (1938-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writer, politician. Born November 2, 1938, in Washington, D.C. The third of the nine children of Washington accountant William Baldwin Buchanan and his wife, Catherine, Buchanan attended Catholic schools and Georgetown University, graduating in 1961 with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in English. He earned a master of science from New York City&#8217;s Columbia University Journalism School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nikolay Bukharin Biography (1888 - 1938)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 9, 1888, Moscow, Russia—died March 14, 1938, Moscow) Russian communist leader and economist. After the Bolsheviks seized power, he became the editor of the party newspaper Pravda (1917–29). A member of the Politburo and a prominent leader of the Comintern, he also wrote several theoretical economic works. In 1938 he was a defendant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fernando Bujones Biography (1955-2005 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Dancer, born in Miami, Florida, USA. He studied with Alicia Alonso in Havana and at the School of American Ballet in New York City. In 1972 he joined American Ballet Theatre, rising to the status of principal in 1974, the same year that he won the gold medal in Varna, Bulgaria.
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		<title>James M. Buchanan Biography (1919 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full James McGill Buchanan

(born Oct. 2, 1919, Murfreesboro, Tenn., U.S.) American economist and educator who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1986 for his development of the “public-choice theory,” a unique method of analyzing economic and political decision making.
Buchanan attended Middle Tennessee State College (B.S., 1940), the University of Tennessee (M.A., 1941), and—after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferdinand-Édouard Buisson Biography (1841 - 1932)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Dec. 20, 1841, Paris, France—died Feb. 16, 1932, Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine) French educator who reorganized the French primary school system and who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1927 jointly with the German pacifist Ludwig Quidde.
Refusing to take the teacher&#8217;s oath of loyalty to the French Second Empire of Napoleon III, Buisson went to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Buchanan Biography (1791 - 1868)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


(born April 23, 1791, near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died June 1, 1868, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania) 15th president of the United States (1857–61), a moderate Democrat whose efforts to find a compromise in the conflict between the North and the South failed to avert the Civil War (1861–65). (For a discussion of the history and nature of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ettore Bugatti Biography (1881 - 1947)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Sept. 15, 1881, Milan, Italy—died Aug. 21, 1947, Paris, France) Italian builder of racing and luxury automobiles. His factory at Mosheim, Alsace (founded 1909), produced a highly successful low-powered racer for Le Mans. His luxurious Type 41 (“Golden Bugatti” or “La Royale”), produced in the 1920s, was probably the most meticulously built of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Buford Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr.


(born November 22, 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) astronaut who was the first African American launched into space.
Bluford received an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1964 and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he trained as a fighter pilot. He flew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G. L. Leclerc, comte de Buffon Biography (1707 - 1788)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Sept. 7, 1707, Montbard, Fr.—died April 16, 1788, Paris) French naturalist. He studied mathematics, medicine, and botany until a duel forced him to cut short his studies. He settled on his family&#8217;s estate, where he researched the calculus of probability, the physical sciences, and forest management. Appointed keeper of the royal botanical garden (Jardin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Buchanan Biography (1506 - 1582)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born February 1506, Killearn, Stirlingshire, Scot.—died Sept. 29, 1582, Edinburgh) Scottish humanist, scholar, and educator. As a teacher of Latin in Paris, Buchanan wrote bitter attacks on the Franciscans that landed him in jail for heresy. He escaped and became a teacher in Bordeaux, where Michel de Montaigne was one of his pupils. There he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warren Buffett Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investment entrepreneur and executive. Born August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska. A stockbroker&#8217;s son, Buffett studied at the University of Nebraska and Columbia University, and formed his own firm, Buffett Partnership, in his hometown in 1956. His investment successes, particularly in buying undervalued companies whose stocks shortly began to rise, made him extremely rich and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sergey Bubka Biography (1963 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 14, 1963, Voroshilovgrad, Ukr., U.S.S.R.) Ukrainian pole-vaulter. He first cleared 6 m (19 ft 8 in.), long considered impossible, in Paris in 1985. In 1991 he cleared 6.1 m (20 ft), and he remains the only pole-vaulter to have done so. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1988 but failed to place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimmy Buffett Biography (1946-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer, songwriter. Born on December 25, 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Buffett was raised in Mobile, Alabama, where he attended Catholic high school. He left Mobile to attend the University of Southern Mississippi, where he apparently took up the guitar to meet women. After college, he moved to Nashville to pursue a career as a country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Buber Biography (1878 - 1965)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Feb. 8, 1878, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died June 13, 1965, Jerusalem) German Jewish religious philosopher and biblical translator. Brought up in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine), he studied in Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, and Zürich. Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s heroic nihilism led Buber, a nonobservant Jew, to Zionism. He advocated Jewish-Arab cooperation in Palestine and saw Hasidism as a healing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Carlos Buell Biography (1818 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 23, 1818, near Marietta, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 19, 1898, Rockport, Ky.) U.S. general. A graduate of West Point, he was appointed general of volunteers at the start of the American Civil War, and he helped organize the Union&#8217;s Army of the Potomac. He was sent to Kentucky to succeed William T. Sherman and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luis Buñuel Biography (1900 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 22, 1900, Calanda, Spain—died July 29, 1983, Mexico City) Spanish director and filmmaker, noted especially for his early Surrealist films and for his work in the Mexican commercial cinema. He is distinguished for his highly personal style and controversial obsession with social injustice, religious excess, gratuitous cruelty, and eroticism.

Life
Buñuel was born in northeastern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semyon Budenny Biography (1883 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born April 13, 1883, Kozyurin, near Rostov-na-Donu, Russia—died Oct. 17, 1973, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Russian army officer. In 1919 he joined the Communist Party and, as commander of the 1st Cavalry Army in the Russian Civil War, he played a crucial role in defeating the White (anti-Bolshevik) generals Anton Denikin and Pyotr Wrangel and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About Mistah participating in campus events led him to Link with the 9 man part IKJ crew &#8220;Penjahat&#8221; Whom most of it&#8217;s members were B-Boys and had but 2 MC&#8217;s. Recording there first unreleased EP in 2004 &#8220;Penjahat&#8221; had small success in the underground market and was known for it&#8217;s rowdy live shows and Radio T.V [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Diplomats International</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About The Diplomats International The Multi-National and Cross-Continental group known as The Diplomats International is taking Indonesian Hip Hop to new heights. The “buzz” is building strong for this underground Jakarta-based Hip Hop crew with members across 7 countries. Fronted by Mistah, Wizzow and Vandal, each emcee brings their own unique style, while blending English and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Browning Biography (1812 - 1889)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born May 7, 1812, London—died Dec. 12, 1889, Venice) major English poet of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. His most noted work was The Ring and the Book (1868–69), the story of a Roman murder trial in 12 books.

Life.
The son of a clerk in the Bank of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anton Bruckner Biography (1824 - 1896)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Josef Anton Bruckner

(born Sept. 4, 1824, Ansfelden, Austria—died Oct. 11, 1896, Vienna) Austrian composer of a number of highly original and monumental symphonies. He was also an organist and teacher who composed much sacred and secular choral music.
Life and career.

Bruckner had essentially only one symphonic conception, which evolved slowly over the course of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pieter Bruegel, the Elder Biography (1525 - 1569)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Peasant Bruegel, Dutch Pieter Bruegel De Oudere, or Boeren Bruegel, Bruegel also spelled Brueghel, or Breughel

(born c. 1525, , probably Breda, duchy of Brabant [now in The Netherlands]—died Sept. 5/9, 1569, Brussels [now in Belgium]) the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, whose landscapes and vigorous, often witty scenes of peasant life are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isambard Kingdom Brunel Biography (1806 - 1859)</title>
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(born April 9, 1806, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng.—died Sept. 15, 1859, London) British civil and mechanical engineer. He was the son of Marc Brunel. His introduction of the broad-gauge railway, with rails 7 ft (2 m) apart, made possible high speeds and provided a great stimulus to railroad progress. He was responsible for building more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gro Harlem Brundtland Biography (1939 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néeHarlem

(born April 20, 1939, Oslo, Norway) politician who served three terms as prime minister of Norway in the 1980s and &#8217;90s and later was director general of the World Health Organization (WHO; 1998–2003). Trained as a physician, she became identified with public health and environmental issues and with the rights of women.
The daughter of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filippo Brunelleschi Biography (1377 - 1446)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1377, Florence [Italy]—died April 15, 1446, Florence) architect and engineer who was one of the pioneers of early Renaissance architecture in Italy. His major work is the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo) in Florence (1420–36), constructed with the aid of machines that Brunelleschi invented expressly for the project. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avery Brundage Biography (1887 - 1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Sept. 28, 1887, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died May 8, 1975, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, W.Ger.) U.S. sports administrator. He competed in the decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games. He served as president of the U.S. Olympic Association and Committee 1929–53 and as vice president (1945–52) and president (1952–72) of the International Olympic Committee. Controversial and domineering, he demanded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heinrich Brüning Biography (1885 - 1970)</title>
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(born Nov. 26, 1885, Münster, Ger.—died March 30, 1970, Norwich, Vt., U.S.) German politician. Elected to the Reichstag in 1924, he became noted as a financial expert. Leader of the Catholic Centre Party from 1929, he became chancellor of Germany in 1930. In response to the Great Depression, he instituted harsh austerity measures that paralyzed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidji Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nidji is a band from Jakarta, Indonesian band, formed in February 2008, debuting their first major album BREAKTHRU&#8217; at 2006, has been received double platinum award.
The band&#8217;s line-up is Muhammad Adri Prakarsa/ Adri (drums), Andi Ariel Harsya / Ariel (lead guitar), Giring Ganesha Jumaryo/ Giring (vocals), Muhammad Andro Regantoro/ Andro (bass), Muhammad Ramadista Akbar/ Rama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yul Brynner Biography (1920-1985)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Taidje Khan
Actor. Born Taidje Khan in Sakhalin Island, Russian S.F.S.R.After a brief career as a circus acrobat in France, Brynner started actingwith a touring company in the early 1940s. He made his Broadway debut inLute Sang in 1946. He began playing his most famous role, the king of Siamin The King and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yvonne Bryceland Biography (1925 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Yvonne Heilbuth

(born Nov. 18, 1925, Cape Town, S.Af.—died Jan. 13, 1992, London, Eng.) South African actress who was known both for her inspired interpretations of the antiapartheid works of South African playwright Athol Fugard and for defying racial segregation in South Africa with her second husband, Brian Astbury, by founding the country&#8217;s first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erik Bruhn Biography (1928 - 1986)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Belton Evers
born Oct. 3, 1928, Copenhagen, Den.—died April 1, 1986, Toronto, Ont., Can.) Danish ballet dancer. From 1937 he studied at the Royal Danish Ballet training school, and in 1947 he joined the company. He performed as guest soloist with many other companies, including American Ballet Theatre in the 1950s and &#8217;60s, dancing leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kobe Bryant Biography (1978-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Basketball player. Born August 23, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Named after a Japanese steakhouse, 
in full Kobe Bean Bryant
Kobe is the son of former NBA player Joe “Jellybean” Bryant. In 1984, after ending his NBA career, the elder Bryant took the family to Italy where he played on the Italian League. Growing up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baltasar Brum Biography (1883 - 1933)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 18, 1883, Salto, Uruguay—died March 31, 1933, Montevideo) statesman noted for his reform of the educational and welfare systems in Uruguay and for his proposal of an American league of nations. His dedication to democracy was so firm that he committed suicide to protest the suspension of the Uruguayan constitution and assumption of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bear Bryant Biography (1913 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Paul William Bryant

(born Sept. 11, 1913, Kingsland, Ark., U.S.—died Jan. 26, 1983, Tuscaloosa, Ala.) U.S. collegiate football coach. He was an all-state tackle in high school and went on to play blocking end at the University of Alabama (1932–36). As head coach at the University of Kentucky (1946–53), his team won 60 games, lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bryant Martin Biography (1967-1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Mass murderer. Born on May 7, 1967. Bryant Martin killed 35 people and injured 19 others in Tasmania in 1996 in what has since been called &#8220;The Port Arthur Massacre.&#8221; Even as a child, he seemed odd, often detached from the people around him. While in school, Martin was discovered to have a substantially below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Jennings Bryan Biography (1860 - 1925)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born March 19, 1860, Salem, Ill., U.S.—died July 26, 1925, Dayton, Tenn.) U.S. politician and orator. He practiced law at Jacksonville, Ill. (1883–87), before moving to Lincoln, Neb., where he was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1890. In the U.S. House of Representatives (1891–95), he became the national leader of the Free Silver Movement; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Brugmann Biography (1849–1919)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 16, 1849, Wiesbaden, Nassau—died June 29, 1919, Leipzig, Ger.) German linguist. A professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics, he belonged to the Neogrammarian school, which asserted the inviolability of phonetic laws and adhered to strict research methodology. Among the best known of his 400 publications are the two volumes on sounds and forms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bryan Freeman Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Murderer. The eldest of three sons born to Brenda and Dennis Freeman, Bryan Freeman had a strict Jehovah&#8217;s Witness upbringing. He and his brother David resented the religion’s harsh rules and restrictions, and by the time they were teenagers had become active Skinheads. Though Bryan was an imposing six feet tall and 215 pounds, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marcus Junius Brutus Biography (42 - 85)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Quintus Caepio Brutus


(born 85—died 42 , near Philippi, Macedonia) Roman politician, leader of the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar in 44 . He joined Pompey&#8217;s army against Caesar in the civil war (49) but was pardoned by Caesar after Pompey&#8217;s death. He joined the plot to murder Caesar out of his desire to restore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jan Bruegel, the Elder Biography (1568 - 1625)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1568, Brussels—died Jan. 13, 1625, Antwerp) Flemish painter and draftsman, second son of Pieter Bruegel. Early in his career he went to Italy, where he painted under the patronage of Cardinal Federigo Borromeo. After returning to Antwerp in 1596, he enjoyed a highly successful and prestigious career. In 1608 he was appointed court painter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexey Brusilov Biography (1853 - 1926)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 31, 1853, Tiflis, Russia—died March 17, 1926, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Russian general. He distinguished himself in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) and was promoted to general in 1906. In World War I he led the Russian campaign in Galicia (1914) and was most famous as commander of the “Brusilov breakthrough” on the Eastern Front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Max Bruch Biography (1838 - 1920)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 6, 1838, Cologne, Prussia—died Oct. 2, 1920, Friedensau, near Berlin, Ger.) German composer. Bruch held many conducting positions and taught for 20 years at the Berlin Academy. He was known in his lifetime principally for his many sacred and secular choral pieces, including Odysseus (1872) and Das Lied von der Glocke (1879). Today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean de Brunoff Biography (1593 - 1649)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 25, 1593, Condé-sur-Vire, Normandy—died March 16, 1649, Saint-Ignace, New France; canonized 1930; feast day October 19) French Jesuit missionary to New France. Ordained in 1623, he arrived in New France in 1625 to work as a missionary among the Huron. Forced out by the English in 1629, he returned to “Huronia” in 1634. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lenny Bruce Biography (1925–66)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Leonard Alfred Schneider

(born Oct. 13, 1925, Mineola, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 3, 1966, Hollywood, Calif.) U.S. stand-up comedian. He studied acting and began performing stand-up routines in nightclubs in the 1950s, soon developing a style marked by black humour and punctuated with obscenity. As he gained notoriety, he focused his material on criticisms of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giordano Bruno Biography (1548 - 1600)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Filippo Bruno

(born 1548, Nola, near Naples—died Feb. 17, 1600, Rome) Italian philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, and occultist. He entered a Dominican convent in 1565 and was ordained a priest in 1572. He abandoned the order in 1576 after being accused of heresy. He moved to Geneva in 1578 and thereafter traveled Europe as a lecturer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blanche K. Bruce Biography (1841 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 1, 1841, Prince Edward county, Va., U.S.—died March 17, 1898, Washington, D.C.) black senator from Mississippi during the Reconstruction era.
The son of a slave mother and white planter father, Bruce was well educated as a youth. After the American Civil War, he moved to Mississippi, where in 1869 he became a supervisor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Bruno of Querfurt Biography (974 - 1009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Saint Boniface of Querfurt
(born  974, Querfurt, Saxony—died March 14, 1009, near Braunsberg, Prussia; feast day June 19) Missionary and martyr. A member of a noble family, he was attached to the clerical household of the emperor Otto III. After the martyrdom of St. Adalbert (997), Bruno entered a monastery, taking the name Boniface, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave Brubeck Biography (1920 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. David Warren Brubeck

(born Dec. 6, 1920, Concord, Calif., U.S.) U.S. jazz pianist and composer. Brubeck studied composition with Darius Milhaud before working as a jazz pianist. He formed a quartet with saxophonist Paul Desmond in 1951. His use of unconventional metres contributed to his immense appeal: the recording of Desmond&#8217;s “Take Five” became the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emil Brunner Biography (1889 - 1966)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 23, 1889, Winterthur, Switz.—died April 6, 1966, Zürich) Swiss Reformed theologian. After serving as a pastor at Obstalden (1916–24), he taught for many years at the University of Zürich (1924–53); he lectured widely during this time and was a delegate to the founding session of the World Council of Churches in 1948. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tod Browning Biography (1880 - 1962)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Charles Albert Browning

(born July 12, 1880, Louisville, Ky., U.S.—died Oct. 6, 1962, Malibu, Calif.) U.S. film director. He was a circus performer and vaudeville comic before joining the Biograph film studio in 1915. He wrote several screenplays, then directed melodramas and adventure films (1917–25). He directed the macabre film The Unholy Three (1925), starring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brunhild Biography (534 - 613)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  534—died 613, Renève, Burgundy) Queen of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia. Daughter of a king of the Visigoths, she married the Austrasian king Sigebert I in 567. One of the most forceful monarchs of the Merovingians, she urged Sigebert to reclaim her murdered sister&#8217;s lands from Chilperic I. When her husband was assassinated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography (1806 - 1861)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Barrett

(born March 6, 1806, near Durham, Durham, England—died June 29, 1861, Florence, Italy) English poet whose reputation rests chiefly upon her love poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh, now considered an early feminist text. Her husband was Robert Browning.
Elizabeth was the eldest child of Edward Barrett Moulton (later Edward Moulton Barrett). Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Marc Brunel Biography (1769 - 1849)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 25, 1769, Hacqueville, France—died Dec. 12, 1849, London, Eng.) French-born British engineer and inventor. He perfected a method for making ships&#8217; blocks (pulleys) by mechanical means rather than by hand; the system of 43 machines, run by 10 men, produced blocks superior in quality and consistency to those previously handmade by more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Thomas Browne Biography (1605 - 1682)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 19, 1605, London, Eng.—died Oct. 19, 1682, Norwich, Norfolk) British physician and author. While practicing medicine, he began a parallel career as a writer. His best-known work, Religio Medici (1642), is a journal of reflections on the mysteries of God, nature, and man. A larger work commonly known as Browne&#8217;s Vulgar Errors (1646) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ray Brown Biography (1926-2002)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Raymond Matthews Brown
Best known as a contributing member of the bebop jazz movement and a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio, jazz bassist Ray Brown performed with jazz giants from Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker to his wife Ella Fitzgerald. Despite Fitzgerald&#8217;s short-lived marriage to Brown (1947-1953), she remained a lifelong friend and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jackson Browne Biography (1948 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Clyde Jackson Browne

(born October 9, 1948, Heidelberg, Germany) German-born American singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, who helped define the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s.
Born in Germany to a musical family with deep roots in southern California, Browne grew up in Los Angeles and Orange county. His interest in music led to his membership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Brownback Biography (1956 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Samuel Dale Brownback


(born Sept. 12, 1956, Garnett, Kan., U.S.) American politician, who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995–96) and of the U.S. Senate (1996– ) and who pursued the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
Brownback was raised on his family&#8217;s farm near Parker, Kan., and was the state president of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willie Brown Biography (1934 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Willie Lewis Brown, Jr.
born March 20, 1934, Mineola, Texas, U.S.) American politician who was the first African American speaker of the California State Assembly, the longest-serving speaker of that body (1980–95), and mayor of San Francisco (1996–2004). Born into poverty in rural Texas, he moved to San Francisco after graduating from high school. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herbert (Charles) Brown Biography (1912–2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Herbert Brovarnik
 Chemist, born in London, UK. His Ukrainian family moved to Chicago when he was two years old. He studied at Chicago University, and later became professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (1947–78), where he spent most of his academic career. He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979 with Georg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Wells Brown Biography (1814 - 1884)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally William

(born 1814?, near Lexington, Ky., U.S.—died Nov. 6, 1884, Chelsea, Mass.) American writer who is considered to be the first African-American to publish a novel. He was also the first to have a play and a travel book published.
Brown was born to a black slave mother and a white slaveholding father. He grew up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hallie Quinn Brown Biography (1850 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 10, 1850, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.—died Sept. 16, 1949, Wilberforce, Ohio) American educator and elocutionist who pioneered in the movement for African American women&#8217;s clubs in the United States.
Brown was the daughter of former slaves. From 1864 she grew up in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, and in 1870 she entered Wilberforce University in Ohio. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sterling Brown Biography (1901 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Sterling Allen Brown

(born May 1, 1901, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Jan. 13, 1989, Takoma Park, Md.) influential African-American teacher, literary critic, and poet whose poetry was rooted in folklore sources and black dialect.
The son of a professor at Howard University, Washington, D.C., Brown was educated at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. (A.B., 1922), and Harvard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown, Gordon Biography (1951 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 27, 2007, after serving 10 years as one of the U.K.&#8217;s most successful chancellors of the Exchequer (equivalent to the finance minister in most countries), Gordon Brown achieved his long-held ambition of becoming prime minister when his old friend Tony Blair stepped down. Within hours of taking over as prime minister, Brown faced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruth Brown Biography (1928 - 2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Ruth Alston Weston

(born Jan. 12, 1928, Portsmouth, Va., U.S.—died Nov. 17, 2006, Las Vegas, Nev.) American singer and actress, who earned the sobriquet “Miss Rhythm” while dominating the rhythm-and-blues charts throughout the 1950s. Her success helped establish
Atlantic Records
(“The House That Ruth Built”) as the era&#8217;s premier rhythm-and-blues label.
The oldest of seven children, Brown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Brown Biography (1818 - 1880)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 29, 1818, Edinburgh, Scot.—died May. 9, 1880, Toronto, Ont., Can.) Canadian journalist and politician. He immigrated to New York in 1837 and in 1843 moved to Toronto, where he founded The Globe (1844), a reformist political newspaper. As a member of the Canadian assembly (1857–65), he advocated proportional representation, the confederation of British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ron(ald Harmon) Brown Biography (1941 - 1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Ronald Harmon Brown
U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Born Ronald Harmon Brown on August 1, 1941 in Washington, D.C. Raised in Harlem, New York, Brown graduated from Vermont’s Middlebury College. He joined the Army in 1962 and served four years in South Korea and Germany. Upon his return home, Brown joined the National Urban League [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford Madox Brown Biography (1821 - 1893)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 16, 1821, Calais, France—died October 6, 1893, London, England) English painter whose work is associated with that of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, although he was never a member.
Brown studied art from 1837 to 1839 in Bruges and Antwerp, Belgium. His early work is characterized by sombre colour and dramatic feeling suited to the Byronic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Brown Biography (1773 - 1858)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Dec. 21, 1773, Montrose, Angus, Scot.—died June 10, 1858, London, Eng.) Scottish botanist best known for his description of the natural continuous motion of minute particles in solution, which came to be called Brownian movement. In addition, he recognized the fundamental distinction between the conifers and their allies (gymnosperms) and the flowering plants (angiosperms), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2268</link>
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		<title>Clifford Brown Biography (1930 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Brownie

(born Oct. 30, 1930, Wilmington, Del., U.S.—died June 26, 1956, Pennsylvania) African-American jazz trumpeter noted for lyricism, clarity of sound, and grace of technique. He was a principal figure in the hard-bop idiom.
Brown attended Delaware State College and Maryland State College and played in Philadelphia before joining, first, Tadd Dameron&#8217;s band in Atlantic City, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul (E) Brown Biography (1908 - 1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Paul Eugene Brown

(born September 7, 1908, Norwalk, Ohio, U.S.—died August 5, 1991, Cincinnati, Ohio) American gridiron football coach known for his cerebral approach, innovative methods, iron rule, and cool demeanour. Brown coached winning teams in high school, college, armed forces, and professional football.
Brown was an undersized quarterback at Miami University (Ohio), where he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2266</link>
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		<title>Claude Brown Biography (1937 - 2002)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born February 23, 1937, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 2, 2002, New York City) American author who wrote Manchild in the Promised Land (1965), a landmark work in African American literature that chronicled his poverty-stricken childhood in the Harlem district of New York City.
Brown turned to crime at a young age and eventually was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Molly Brown Biography (1867 - 1932)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Margaret Tobin

(born July 18, 1867, Hannibal, Mo, U.S.—died Oct. 26, 1932, New York, N.Y.) U.S. philanthropist, social reformer, and socialite. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she attended a grammar school and later worked at a tobacco factory. She followed her brother  1884 to Colorado, where she met and married James Brown, a miner. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2264</link>
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		<title>Chris Brown Biography (1989- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer, songwriter, actor. Born on May 5, 1989, in Tappahannock, Virginia. Although he is still in his teens, Chris Brown is already on his way to music superstardom with his smooth voice, amazing dance moves, and boy-next-door charm. Growing up in a small town of roughly 2,000 people, he was a born entertainer. Brown enjoyed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2263</link>
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		<title>Earl Browder Biography (1891 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 20, 1891, Wichita, Kan., U.S.—died June 27, 1973, Princeton, N.J.) U.S. Communist Party leader (1930–44). He was imprisoned in 1919–20 for his opposition to U.S. participation in World War I. In 1921 he joined the U.S. Communist Party; he served as the party&#8217;s general secretary from 1930 to 1944 and was its presidential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Brown Biography (1773 - 1858)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Dec. 21, 1773, Montrose, Angus, Scot.—died June 10, 1858, London, Eng.) Scottish botanist best known for his description of the natural continuous motion of minute particles in solution, which came to be called Brownian movement. In addition, he recognized the fundamental distinction between the conifers and their allies (gymnosperms) and the flowering plants (angiosperms), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2261</link>
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		<title>Charles Brockden Brown Biography (1771 - 1810)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 17, 1771, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 22, 1810, Philadelphia) U.S. writer. Brown left his law studies to devote himself to writing. His gothic novels in American settings were the first in a tradition later adapted by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Wieland (1798), his best-known work, shows the ease with which mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Brown Biography (1922 - 1999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Sept. 13, 1922, Texas City, Texas, U.S.—died Jan. 21, 1999, Oakland, Calif.) American blues singer of the late 1940s and early 1950s who was best known for his melodic ballads.
One of the most influential singers of his day, Brown was an accomplished classical pianist whose career began in 1943 after he moved to Los [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul (E) Brown Biography (1908 - 1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Paul Eugene Brown

(born September 7, 1908, Norwalk, Ohio, U.S.—died August 5, 1991, Cincinnati, Ohio) American gridiron football coach known for his cerebral approach, innovative methods, iron rule, and cool demeanour. Brown coached winning teams in high school, college, armed forces, and professional football.
Brown was an undersized quarterback at Miami University (Ohio), where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Molly Brown Biography (1867 - 1932)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 18, 1867, Hannibal, Mo, U.S.—died Oct. 26, 1932, New York, N.Y.) U.S. philanthropist, social reformer, and socialite. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she attended a grammar school and later worked
orig. Margaret Tobin


at a tobacco factory. She followed her brother  1884 to Colorado, where she met and married James Brown, a miner. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael S(tuart) Brown Biography (1941 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Michael Stuart Brown
born April 13, 1941, New York, N.Y., U.S.) American molecular geneticist who, along with Joseph L. Goldstein, was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their elucidation of a key link in the metabolism of cholesterol in the human body.
Brown graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adriaen Brouwer Biography (1605 - 1606)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1605/06, Oudenaarde, Flanders—died January 1638, Antwerp) Flemish painter. After studying with Frans Hals in Haarlem  1623, he returned to Flanders and by 1631 had settled in Antwerp. His pictures, mostly small and painted on panels, typically depict peasants drinking and brawling in taverns. The coarseness of his subjects was in direct contrast to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louise Brown Biography (1978-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born July 25, 1978, in Oldham, England. Louise Joy Brown is best known as the world&#8217;s first &#8220;test-tube baby.&#8221; Her birth by Caesarian section shortly before midnight on July 25, 1978, at Oldham General Hospital in England, made headlines around the world.
Since 1968, Drs. Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe had been researching fertility methods that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Brougham Biography (1837 - 1921)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 3, 1837, near Roxbury, N.Y., U.S.—died March 29, 1921, en route from California to New York) U.S. essayist and naturalist. In his early years he worked as a teacher, farmer, and U.S. Treasury Department clerk. In 1873 he moved to a farm in the Hudson River valley. Traveling extensively, he hiked and camped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2239</link>
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		<title>Pierce Brosnan Biography (1953– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born Pierce Brendan Brosnan on May 16, 1953, in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. After an unsettled childhood, he moved to London, where he joined an experimental theater group and studied at the Drama Centre. After several stage roles in London, he moved to Los Angeles, where he was offered the lead in the detective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Brown Biography (1735 - 1788)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1735, Buncle, Berwickshire, Scot.—died Oct. 17, 1788, London) British propounder of the “excitability” theory of medicine, which classified diseases according to whether they had an over- or an understimulating effect on the body.
Brown studied under the distinguished professor of medicine William Cullen at the University of Edinburgh, but was forced to receive his M.D. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Bill Broonzy Biography (1893 - 1958)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of William Lee Conley Broonzy

(born June 26, 1893, Scott, Miss., U.S.—died Aug. 14, 1958, Chicago, Ill.) American blues singer and guitarist who represented a tradition of itinerant folk blues.
Broonzy grew up in Arkansas. He served in the army (1918–19) and moved to Chicago in 1920, where six years later he made his recording debut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim, Brown Biography (1936 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of James Nathaniel Brown

(born February 17, 1936, St. Simons, Georgia, U.S.) outstanding American professional gridiron football player who led the National Football League (NFL) in rushing for eight of his nine seasons. He was the dominant player of his era and one of the small number of running backs rated as the best of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Van Wyck Brooks Biography (1886 - 1963)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 16, 1886, Plainfield, N.J., U.S.—died May 2, 1963, Bridgewater, Conn.) U.S. critic, biographer, and literary historian. Brooks attended Harvard University. His Finders and Makers series, tracing American literary history in rich biographical detail from 1800 to 1915, includes The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 (1936, Pulitzer Prize); New England: Indian Summer, 1865–1915 (1940); [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Brown Biography (1933–2006 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[nicknames the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Soul Brother Number One
Musician. Born James Joseph Brown, Jr. on May 3, 1933 in Barnwell, South Carolina. One of the most significant figures in black pop music, he began his singing career in Macon, GA with the Gospel Starlighters. In 1954 he formed a vocal group, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Brooks Biography (-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Brooks attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, before moving to New York City to study acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in 1980.
Brooks began his professional work on the stage, appearing in Equus and Twelfth Night, and creating a role for the premiere of August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romaine Goddard Brooks Biography (1874 - 1970)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Beatrice Romaine Goddard

(born May 1, 1874, Rome, Italy—died Dec. 7, 1970, Nice, Fr.) U.S. painter. Born to wealthy American parents, she studied painting in Italy. After a brief marriage, in 1905 she moved to Paris where she established herself in literary, artistic, and homosexual circles. Her reputation reached its height in 1925 with several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rodney Allen Brooks Biography (1954 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Dec. 30, 1954, Adelaide, S.Aus., Austl.) Australian computer scientist. By the time he finished his doctorate (1981) at Stanford University, Calif., Brooks was disillusioned by the traditional “model-based” approach to artificial intelligence (AI). After moving to the Mobile Robotics Laboratory at MIT in 1984, he built simple robots that could perform “insectlike” actions on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2225</link>
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		<title>Phillips Brooks Biography (1835 - 1893)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born , Dec. 13, 1835, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died  Jan. 23, 1893, Boston) American Episcopal clergyman renowned as a preacher.
A member of a wealthy old Brahmin family of New England, Brooks attended Harvard University (1851–55) and taught briefly at the Boston Latin School before attending the Episcopal Seminary at Alexandria, Va., being ordained there on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mel Brooks Biography (1926– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Melvin Kaminsky
born June 28, 1926, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. director, producer, and actor. He wrote comedy routines for Sid Caesar&#8217;s television shows (1949–59) and cocreated the TV series Get Smart (1965). He wrote and directed his first feature film, The Producers (1968, Academy Award for writing), which was later transformed into a hit Broadway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) Brooks Biography (1917 - 2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Poet.  Born June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Brooks graduated from Chicago&#8217;s Wilson Junior College (1936) and was publicity director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1930s). Her poetry is rooted in Chicago&#8217;s poor and mostly African American South Side. After her first book of poetry was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily Bronte Biography (1818-1848)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[pseudonym Ellis Bell
 Writer. Born July 30, 1818 in Yorkshire, England. Said to be the brightest, most intense, and most difficult of the Brontes, Emily was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt after her mother and two eldest siblings died. She and her sister Charlotte attended the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Brody Biography (1979-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor. Born Adam Jared Brody on December 15, 1979, in San Diego, California. In 1999, Brody moved to Hollywood from San Diego to launch his acting career. After a few supporting television roles, including Growing Up Brady and Gilmore Girls, he landed the role of geeky teenager Seth Cohen on the hit Fox series [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2218</link>
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		<title>Samuel Bronfman Biography (1891-1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A native of Canada, Bronfman was the son of Russian-Jewish emitters. Adistiller, he became a wealthy man during the U.S. Prohibition by supplyingAmerican bootleggers with alcohol, a precious commodity in the 1920s. HisMontreal-based distillery, Distillers Corp., Ltd. acquired Seagram &#38; Sonsin 1928. The newly-formed conglomerate grew rapidly through the 1920s and30s and became, by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis (Brucker) Bromfield Biography (1896 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 27, 1896, Mansfield, Ohio, U.S.—died  March 18, 1956, Columbus, Ohio) American novelist and essayist.
The son of a farmer, Bromfield studied journalism at Columbia University and was decorated for his service in the French army, which he joined at the outbreak of World War I. After the war he worked as a music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooks &#038; Dunn Biography ()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leon Eric [“Kix”] Brooks and Ronnie Gene Dunn
Country music band. Leon Eric &#8220;Kix&#8221; Brooks III was born May 12, 1955 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Ronnie Gene Dunn was born June 1, 1953 in Coleman, Texas. Brooks performed in the club circuit in Alaska and Maine before moving to Nashville to pursue his career in music in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Brome Biography (1652 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born c. 1590—died Sept. 24, 1652, London, Eng.) English dramatist generally deemed the most considerable of the minor Jacobean playwrights.
Nothing is known of Brome&#8217;s origins. As early as 1614, he is known to have been in Ben Jonson&#8217;s service, probably acting as Jonson&#8217;s secretary and domestic. The relationship developed into friendship, and knowledge of Brome&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garth Brooks Biography (1962-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Country singer. Born Troyal Garth Brooks, on February 7, 1962, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Brooks got his start in music singing in bars and clubs while attending Oklahoma State University. In 1987, he moved to Nashville for the second time&#8211;his first attempt was unsuccessful&#8211;with his wife, Sandy, to try to make it in country music. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Brokaw Biography (1940- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[popular name of Thomas John Brokaw
Television journalist. Born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota. The eldest son of a construction worker and a post office clerk, Tom Brokaw graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in political science in 1962.  He started as a radio reporter in college and worked as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis-Victor, 7e duke de Broglie Biography (1892 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7e duc de Broglie


(born Aug. 15, 1892, Dieppe, France—died March 19, 1987, Paris) French physicist best known for his research on quantum theory and for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons. He was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Early life
Broglie was the second son of a member of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adrien Brody Biography (1973-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born December 23, 1973 in New York City. The son of Hungarian-born photojournalist Sylvia Plachy, Brody accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the camera. He attended New York&#8217;s American Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of 12 and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Brooke Biography (1919 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Edward William Brooke

(born Oct. 26, 1919, Washington, D.C.) American lawyer and legislator, the first African-American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate.
Brooke earned his undergraduate degree at Howard University (Washington, D.C.) in 1941 and served as an infantry officer during World War II. After being discharged, he earned two law degrees at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur Brooke Biography (1563 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brooke also spelled Broke
died 1563) English poet and author of The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562), the poem on which Shakespeare based Romeo and Juliet. It is written in rhymed verse and was taken from the French translation of one of the stories in Matteo Bandello&#8217;s Novelle (1554–73; French trans., 1564–82). Brooke altered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Brodsky Biography (1940 - 1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original Russian name Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky

(born May 24, 1940, Leningrad [now Saint Petersburg], Russia, U.S.S.R.—died Jan. 28, 1996, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Russian-born American poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems.
Brodsky left school at age 15 and thereafter began to write poetry while working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Brook Biography (1925 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Peter Stephen Paul Brook

(born March 21, 1925, London, England) English producer-director of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays whose daring productions of other dramatists&#8217; works contributed significantly to the development of the 20th century&#8217;s avant-garde stage.
Attaining at an early age the status of one of the foremost British directors, Brook directed his first Shakespeare play, King John, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Broderick Biography (1962– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor and director, born in New York City, USA. He starred as the computer hacker who nearly starts World War 3 in War Games (1983), and gained commercial success in Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off (1986). He earned a Tony award for the Broadway production of the Neil Simon comedy hit Brighton Beach Memoirs (1982–3), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Il Bronzino Biography (1503 - 1572)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Agnolo di Cosimo

(born Nov. 17, 1503, Monticelli, duchy of Milan—died Nov. 23, 1572, Florence) Italian painter active in Florence. He was the student and adopted son of Jacopo da Pontormo. He excelled as a portraitist and was court painter to Cosimo I for most of his career. His portraits were emotionally inexpressive, but in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bertram Neville Brockhouse Biography (1918 - 2003)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Bertram Neville Brockhouse
born July 15, 1918, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada—died October 13, 2003, Hamilton, Ontario) Canadian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1994 with American physicist Clifford G. Shull for their separate but concurrent development of neutron-scattering techniques.
Brockhouse was educated at the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1947) and at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lou Brock Biography (1939 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Louis Clark Brock

(born June 18, 1939, El Dorado, Arkansas, U.S.) professional National League baseball player whose career 938 stolen bases (1961–79) set a record that held until 1991, when it was broken by Rickey Henderson.
Brock followed his childhood interest in baseball by playing at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hermann Broch Biography (1886 - 1951)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 1, 1886, Vienna—died May 30, 1951, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) Austrian writer. A student of physics, mathematics, and philosophy, Broch published his first major work, The Sleepwalkers (1931–32), when he was in his 40s. A trilogy tracing the disintegration of European society between 1888 and 1918, it exemplifies his innovative multidimensional novels in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Bronte Biography (1820-1849)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Writer. Born January 17, 1820 in Yorkshire, England. Said to be the meeker and less talented Bronte sister, Anne was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt after her mother and two eldest siblings died.Largely educated at home, Anne worked as a governess for a several years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippe de Broca Biography (1933-2004 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Film-maker, born in Paris, France. His films are generally light-hearted comedies or exotic adventures, and his leading man of choice in a number of films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. Le Bossu (1997) starring Daniel Auteuil is a classic example of his swashbuckling adventure stories set against a historical background.
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		<title>Emily (Jane) Brontë Biography (1818 - 1848)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[pseudonym Ellis Bell

(born July 30, 1818, Thornton, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Dec. 19, 1848, Haworth, Yorkshire) English novelist and poet who produced but one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative novel of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors. Emily was perhaps the greatest of the three Brontë sisters, but the record of her life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Broca Biography (1824 - 1880)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 28, 1824, Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Fr.—died July 9, 1880, Paris) French surgeon. His study of brain lesions contributed significantly to understanding of the origins of aphasia. Much of Broca&#8217;s research concerned the comparative study of the skulls of the races of humankind, work that aided the development of modern physical anthropology. He originated methods to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Broadbent Biography (1950-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor
Actor. Born in 1950, in Lincolnshire, England. After attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in London, England, Broadbent launched a distinguished stage career in the 1970s, performing with such acclaimed British directors as Trevor Nunn, Richard Eyre, and Mike Leigh, whose long and fruitful professional association with Broadbent began with the plays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Bronson Biography (1922 - 2003)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Charles Buchinsky
Film actor, born on November 3, 1921 in Ehrenfield, Pennsylvania, USA. Born Charles Buchinsky, he was the 11th of 15 children of Lithuanian immigrant parents. As a youth, he worked as a coal miner until he was drafted to serve in World War II. Bronson made his name with roles such as Bernardo O&#8217;Reilly in The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Edward) Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (of Aldeburgh) Biography (1913 - 1976)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Nov. 22, 1913, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1976, Aldeburgh, Suffolk) British composer. He studied at the Royal College of Music, where he met the tenor Peter Pears (1910–86), who would become his lifelong companion. His auspicious Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (1937), for string orchestra, won him international acclaim. In 1945 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacques-Pierre Brissot Biography (1754 - 1793)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Jan. 15, 1754, Chartres, France—died Oct. 31, 1793, Paris) French revolutionary politician. He founded the popular newspaper Le Patriote Français and became a leader of the Girondins (often called Brissotins) in the French Revolution. Elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1791, he advocated war against Austria, arguing that war would consolidate the Revolution. Along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EAZY-E Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compton, California is a small suburb of Los Angeles, a place known for its vast history of rags-to-riches stories, stardom, glamour, and fame. Compton has emerged from being just another surrounding area of Los Angeles to one of the country’s most well known cities. That fact is attributed to the music in which Compton helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snoop Dogg Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading the pack of second-generation West                      Coast gangsta-rappers, Snoop Dogg (a protégé                      of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NWA Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[N.W.A.,                                  the unapologetically violent and sexist pioneers                [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D12 Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the post-Motown landscape of Detroit, brothers rocking                    the mic are still being considered the voice of young America.                  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Cube Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About Ice Cube:
Known to be one of the Most Important figures in rap history, Ice Cube began his career with the Notorious West Coast Gangsta Rap Group N.W.A two decades ago. At the height of the group’s success, Ice Cube broke away to start his own solo career. His initial release, “Amerikkka&#8217;s Most Wanted” (Priority, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Dre Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than any other rapper,                        Dr. Dre was responsible for moving away from the avant-noise                  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eminem ( Slim Shady ) Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The average rapper wouldn&#8217;t be able to grace the pages of Rap Pages, VIBE, Rolling Stone, Spin, The Source, URB and Stress and go on a national tour months before their major-label debut album is released. Then again, Eminem isn&#8217;t an average rapper. He&#8217;s phenomenal.
The impending release of the The Slim Shady LP, his first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T.I ( King of the South ) Bioraphy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Father, astute businessman, fashion icon, King of the South, future Hollywood A-Lister, and hip-hop standard bearer. With all these titles, no wonder Atlanta, GA native Clifford Harris needs two monikers to tell his whole story. And with the release of the year&#8217;s most anticipated rap album, T.I. vs. TIP, we get both sides of one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joss Stone Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joss Stone has sold more than 7.5 million albums worldwide; been nominated for four Grammy Awards; appeared onstage with James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Patti Labelle, Mavis Staples, Donna Summer, and Smokey Robinson; sat for an interview with Oprah Winfrey; starred in two major ad campaigns for the Gap; and performed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich Boy Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite what it alludes to, Zone 4/Interscope Records rap signee Rich Boy insists his moniker is just a neighborhood nickname (&#8221;It doesn&#8217;t stand for being rich or anything like that.&#8221;), not a glimpse into his finances. Maybe so, but with the multifaceted talents that 23-year-old Marece Richards possesses, his nom de plume will be even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Brisbane Biography (1809 - 1890)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 22, 1809, Batavia, N.Y., U.S.—died May 1, 1890, Richmond, Va.) U.S. social reformer. The son of wealthy landowners, he went to Europe in 1828 to study social reform with great thinkers of his age. Disappointed with François Guizot in Paris and G.W.F. Hegel in Berlin, he later discovered the works of Charles Fourier, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johannes Andreas Brinkman Biography (1902 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 22, 1902, Rotterdam, Neth.—died May 6, 1949, Rotterdam) Dutch architect. After graduating from the Delft Technical University, he helped design the van Nelle tobacco factory (1928–30) in Rotterdam, one of the most architecturally important industrial buildings of the 1920s. An outstanding example of Modernist architecture, its unbroken expanses of glass convey a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christie Brinkley Biography (1954-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Model. Born February 4, 1954, in Malibu, California. Blonde, blue-eyed and athletic, Brinkley embodies the all-American look that dominated the fashion industry in the 1980s.
Although Brinkley was born into the glitz and glamour of the West Coast media scene &#8212; her father is television producer and writer Don Brinkley &#8212; she harbored artistic ambitions from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sergey Brin Biography (1973-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Internet entrepreneur, computer scientist. Born in August 1973 in Moscow, Russia. The son of a Soviet mathematician economist, Brin and his family emigrated to the United States to escape Jewish persecution in 1979. After receiving his degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park, Brin entered Stanford University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Jean) Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Biography (1755 - 1826)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 1, 1755, Belley, Fra.—died Feb. 2, 1826, Paris) French lawyer and gastronome. Mayor of the town of Belley, he fled France during the Reign of Terror but returned to sit on France&#8217;s highest court, where he remained the rest of his life. His celebrated Physiologie du goût (“Physiology of Taste”; Eng. trans. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bright Biography (1811 - 1889)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 16, 1811, Rochdale, Lancashire, Eng.—died March 27, 1889, Rochdale) British reform politician and orator. He entered Parliament in 1843 and served three times as a member of William E. Gladstone&#8217;s cabinet. He was active in campaigns for free trade, lower grain prices, and parliamentary reform. His Quaker beliefs shaped his politics, which consisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Percy Williams Bridgman Biography (1882 - 1961)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 21, 1882, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.—died Aug. 20, 1961, Randolph, N.H.) American experimental physicist noted for his studies of materials at high temperatures and pressures. For his work he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1946.
Bridgman was the son of a journalist. He entered Harvard University in 1900, receiving his M.A. in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Bridget of Sweden Biography (1303 - 1373)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bridget also spelled Birgit, or Brigid, Swedish Sankta Birgitta Av Sverige

(born c. 1303, Sweden—died July 23, 1373, Rome [Italy]; canonized Oct. 8, 1391; feast day July 23, formerly October  patron saint of Sweden, founder of the Brigittine Order, and a mystic whose revelations were influential during the European Middle Ages. In 1999 Pope John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Bridges Biography (1844 - 1930)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 23, 1844, Walmer, Kent, Eng.—died April 21, 1930, Boar&#8217;s Hill, Oxford) English poet. He published several long poems and poetic dramas, but his reputation rests on the lyrics collected in Shorter Poems (1890, 1894), which reveal his mastery of prosody. His 1916 edition of the poetry of his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins rescued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyd Bridges Biography (1913-1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. in San Leandro, California.Bridges, who began his film career with B-grade movies for Columbia in the1940s, starred in more than 150 films in his fifty year Hollywood career.After memorable roles in Home of the Brave and High Noon, Bridges careerwas interrupted when he was blacklisted by the FBI during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Bridges Biography (1901 - 1990)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Alfred Bryant Renton

(born July 28, 1901, Kensington, near Melbourne, Vic., Austl.—died March 30, 1990, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.) Australian-born U.S. labour leader. He arrived in the U.S. as a seaman in 1920, and he soon settled in San Francisco and became active in the local branch of the International Longshoremen&#8217;s Association (ILA). In 1937 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvin B(lackman) Bridges Biography (1889 - 1938)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 11, 1889, Schuyler Falls, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1938, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. geneticist. He entered Columbia University in 1909 and assisted Thomas Hunt Morgan in designing experiments using Drosophila that showed that variations in the insect could be traced to observable changes in its genes. These experiments led to the construction of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Bridger Biography (1804 - 1881)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. James Bridger

(born March 17, 1804, Richmond, Va., U.S.—died July 17, 1881, near Kansas City, Mo.) U.S. frontiersman. From 1822 he led fur-trapping expeditions to Utah and Idaho. He was apparently the first white man to visit the Great Salt Lake (1824) and among the first to explore Wyoming&#8217;s Yellowstone River region. In 1843 he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fanny Brice Biography (1891 - 1951)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Fannie Borach
born Oct. 29, 1891, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died May 29, 1951, Los Angeles, Calif.) popular American singing comedienne who was long associated with the Ziegfeld Follies.
Brice appeared first at age 13 in a talent contest at Keeney&#8217;s Theatre in Brooklyn, where she sang “When You Know You&#8217;re Not Forgotten by the Girl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristide Briand Biography (1862 - 1932)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born March 28, 1862, Nantes, France—died March 7, 1932, Paris) statesman who served 11 times as premier of France, holding a total of 26 ministerial posts between 1906 and 1932. His efforts for international cooperation, the League of Nations, and world peace brought him the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1926, which he shared with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Biography (941 - 1014)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Brian Boru
born 941, near Killaloe, Ire.—died Apr. 23, 1014, Clontarf, near Dublin) high king of Ireland from 1002 to 1014.
In 976 Brian became king of a small state, later called Dál Cais, and also king of Munster, whose Eóghanachta rulers had been defeated (964) by Brian&#8217;s half brother. Brian destroyed first the Eóghanachta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean-Claude Brialy Biography (1933– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French actor (born March 30, 1933, Aumale, French Algeria [now Sour el-Ghozlane, Alg.]—died May 30, 2007, Paris, France) epitomized New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) cinema with natural charm and finesse in such classics of the genre as Claude Chabrol&#8217;s Le Beau Serge (1958; Handsome Serge) and Les Cousins (1959; The Cousins), François Truffaut&#8217;s Les Quatre Cents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leonid Ilich Brezhnev Biography (1906 - 1982)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 19, 1906, Kamenskoye, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Nov. 10, 1982, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet leader. He worked as an engineer and director of a technical school in Ukraine and held local posts in the Communist Party, becoming regional party secretary in 1939. In World War II he was a political commissar in the Red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Breyer Biography (1938 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 15, 1938, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.) U.S. jurist. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1964. After clerking for Arthur Goldberg (1964–65), he taught at Harvard (1967–81). He served as special counsel (1974–75) and chief counsel (1979–81) of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee before being appointed to the First U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Brewster Biography (1567 - 1644)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1567, England—died April, 1644, Plymouth, Mass.) Anglo-American Puritan leader of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. He studied briefly at the University of Cambridge and became leader of a small Puritan congregation at Scrooby. Government persecution forced Brewster and his followers to emigrate to Holland in 1608, and he printed religious books in Leiden. In 1620 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir David Brewster Biography (1567 - 1644)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born 1567, England—died April, 1644, Plymouth, Mass.) Anglo-American Puritan leader of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. He studied briefly at the University of Cambridge and became leader of a small Puritan congregation at Scrooby. Government persecution forced Brewster and his followers to emigrate to Holland in 1608, and he printed religious books in Leiden. In 1620 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marcel Breuer Biography (1902 - 1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born May 21, 1902, Pécs, Hung.—died July 1, 1981, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Hungarian-U.S. architect and furniture designer. He studied and then taught at the Bauhaus (1920–28), where in 1925 he invented the famous tubular steel chair. He moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 1937 to teach at Harvard University and practice with Walter Gropius. Their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David J(osiah) Brewer Biography (1837 - 1910)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 20, 1837, Smyrna, Ottoman Empire—died March 28, 1910, Washington, D.C., U.S.) U.S. jurist. Born to U.S. missionaries, he grew up in Connecticut and practiced law in Kansas from 1858. He served in local judgeships (1861–70), on the state supreme court (1870–84), and on the federal circuit court. Appointed by Pres. Benjamin Harrison to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brett Butler Biography (1958- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress, comedienne. Born Brett Ashley Anderson on January 30, 1958, in Montgomery, Alabama. A talented stand-up comedienne, Brett Butler found fame on television as Grace Kelly, a divorced, working-class mother of three on the hit comedy Grace Under Fire. Her early days were filled with strife. Her mother left her father after reportedly suffering years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>André Breton Biography (1896 - 1966)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 18, 1896, Tinchebray, France—died Sept. 28, 1966, Paris) French writer, critic, and editor. In 1919 he helped found the Dada magazine Littérature. Influenced by psychiatry and the Symbolist movement, he wrote poetry using the automatic-writing technique. In 1924 his Manifeste du surréalisme provided a definition of Surrealism, of which he was the chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Bresson Biography (1907 - 1999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Sept. 25, 1901, Bromont-Lamonthe, Puy-de Dôme, France—died Dec. 18, 1999) French film director. He worked as a painter and photographer before making his first film in 1934. His feature-length Les Anges du péché (1943) established his austere, intellectual style. Noted for intense psychological probing and the subordination of plot to visual imagery, he also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimmy Breslin Biography (1930– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. James Earl Breslin
Journalist, born in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, USA. Starting as a sportswriter for the New York Herald Tribune, he evolved into a self-described ‘street reporter’. His columns, for a sequence of New York papers, offered vignettes, character sketches, and commentary, in a scrappy, colloquial style. Also a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franz Brentano Biography (1838 - 1917)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 16, 1838, Marienberg, Hesse-Nassau—died March 17, 1917, Zürich, Switz.) German philosopher. Nephew of Clemens Brentano, he was ordained a priest in 1864 and taught at the University of Würzburg (1866–73). Religious doubts led to his resignation from the priesthood in 1873. To present a systematic psychology that would serve as a science of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clemens von Brentano Biography (1778 - 1842)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Sept. 9, 1778, Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz—died July 28, 1842, Aschaffenburg, Bavaria) German poet, novelist, and dramatist. He was one of the founders of the Heidelberg Romantic school, which emphasized German folklore and history. With his brother-in-law Achim von Arnim (1781–1831), he published Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08; The Youth&#8217;s Magic Horn), a collection of German [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Brent Biography (1600 - 1669)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born  1600, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died 1669/71, Westmoreland county, Va.) British colonial landowner in North America. She arrived in Maryland in 1638 and obtained a patent for 70 acres, becoming the first woman in the colony to hold land in her own right. By 1657 she was among the colony&#8217;s largest landowners. In a border dispute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Brenner Biography (1927 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born January 13, 1927, Germiston, South Africa) South-African born biologist who, with John E. Sulston and H. Robert Horvitz, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2002 for their discoveries about how genes regulate tissue and organ development via a key mechanism called programmed cell death, or apoptosis.
After receiving a Ph.D. (1954) from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William J(oseph), Jr Brennan Biography (1906 - 1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 25, 1906, Newark, N.J., U.S.—died July 24, 1997, Arlington, Va.) U.S. jurist. He studied under Felix Frankfurter at Harvard Law School, receiving his degree in 1931. He practiced labour law in New Jersey until 1949, when he was appointed to the state Superior Court. He rose through the ranks of the New Jersey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Karl) Ferdinand Braun Biography (1850 - 1918)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Karl Ferdinand Braun


(born June 6, 1850, Fulda, Hesse-Kassel [now in Germany]—died April 20, 1918, Brooklyn N.Y., U.S.) German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 with Guglielmo Marconi for the development of wireless telegraphy.
Braun received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1872. After appointments at Würzburg, Leipzig, Marburg, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walter von Brauchitsch Biography (1881 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 4, 1881, Berlin, Ger.—died Oct. 18, 1948, Hamburg) German army officer. A member of the general staff in World War I, he rose to become field marshal and army commander in chief (1938). In World War II, he successfully directed Germany&#8217;s ground war until Adolf Hitler forced his resignation after suffering major losses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fernand Braudel Biography (1902 - 1985)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 24, 1902, Luméville, France—died Nov. 28, 1985, Haute-Savoie) French historian and educator. While a prisoner of the Germans during World War II, Braudel wrote from memory his thesis on the history of the Mediterranean region in the 16th century, later published as The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2128</link>
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		<title>Walter H(ouser) Brattain Biography (1902 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Walter Houser Brattain
born Feb. 10, 1902,  Amoy, China—died  Oct. 13, 1987, Seattle, Wash., U.S.) American scientist who, along with John Bardeen and William B. Shockley, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for his investigation of the properties of semiconductors—materials of which transistors are made—and for the development of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2126</link>
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		<title>Benjamin Bratt Biography (1963-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born in San Francisco, California, on December 16, 1963, Bratt is the third of five children. He is the grandson of Broadway actor George Bratt and the son of a Peruvian Quechua Indian mother from Lima, who moved to the United States at age 14. His father, a sheet-metal worker, and his mother divorced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brassaï Biography (1899 - 1984)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Gyula Halász


(born Sept. 9, 1899, Brassó, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary—died July 8, 1984, Eze, France) Hungarian-born French photographer, poet, and sculptor. His pseudonym derives from his native city. In 1924 he settled in Paris, where he became acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí. He earned his living as a journalist and found it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johannes Brahms Biography (1833 - 1897)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 7, 1833, Hamburg [Germany]—died April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]) German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, choral compositions, and more than 200 songs. Brahms was the great master of symphonic and sonata style in the second half of the 19th century. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Karl) Hjalmar Branting Biography (1860 - 1925)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 23, 1860, Stockholm, Swed.—died Feb. 24, 1925, Stockholm) Swedish statesman and pioneer of social democracy whose conciliatory international diplomacy in the first two decades of the 20th century was recognized by the award of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Peace, which he shared with Norwegian diplomat Christian Lous Lange.
After studying science in Stockholm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sebastian Brant Biography (1458 - 1521)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born 1457, Strassburg—died May 10, 1521, Strassburg) German poet. He taught law and later was appointed imperial councillor and court palatine by Maximilian I. His varied writings include works on law, religion, politics, and especially morals. His best-known work is The Ship of Fools (1494), an allegory telling of fools on a ship bound for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walter Brennan Biography (1894 - 1974)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 25, 1894, Lynn or Swampscott, Mass., U.S.—died September 21, 1974, Oxnard, Calif.) American character actor, best known for his portrayals of western sidekicks and lovable or irascible old codgers.
During his lifetime Brennan offered so many different versions of his early years that it is virtually impossible to separate fact from fancy. He may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Brant Biography (1742 - 1807)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mohawk name Thayendanegea


(born 1742, banks of the Ohio River—died Nov. 24, 1807, near Brantford, Ont., Can.) Mohawk Indian chief and Christian missionary. Brant was converted to the Anglican church while attending a school for Indians in Connecticut. He fought for the British in the last French and Indian War (1754–63). He led four of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Brendan Biography (484 - 486)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brendan also spelled Brandon, or Brandan, also called Brendan of Clonfert, Brendan the Voyager, or Brendan the Navigator, Gaelic Brénaind

(born c. 484, /486, Tralee, now in County Kerry, Ire.—died 578, Annaghdown, County Galway; feast day May 16) Celtic saint, monastic founder, abbot, and hero of legendary voyages in the Atlantic Ocean. Reputedly raised and educated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willy Brandt Biography (1913 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm


(born December 18, 1913, Lübeck, Germany—died October 8/9, 1992, Unkel, near Bonn) German statesman, leader of the German Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or SPD) from 1964 to 1987, and chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Prize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2113</link>
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		<title>Brendan Gleeson Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor. Born March 29,1956 in Dublin, Ireland. Though Brendan Gleeson yearned to be an actor from a young age, he spent a decade as a high school teacher before pursuing his dream. His big screen debut was a bit part in Jim Sheridan’s The Field in 1990. And while he appeared in several films [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wernher von Braun Biography (1912 - 1977)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Engineer and rocket expert, born in Wyrzysk, Poland (formerly Wirsitz, Germany). Developer of the V-2 flying bomb that was deployed against Britain (1944), he was one of the most important of the German weapons specialists to work on rocketry and jet propulsion in the USA after the war. Hitler personally released him when he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John C(abell) Breckinridge Biography (1821 - 1875)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 21, 1821, near Lexington, Ky., U.S.—died May 17, 1875, Lexington) 14th vice president of the United States (1857–61), unsuccessful presidential candidate of Southern Democrats (November 1860), and Confederate officer during the American Civil War (1861–65).
Descended from an old Kentucky family distinguished in law and politics, Breckinridge was the only son of Joseph Cabell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Brandt Biography (1904 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Hermann Wilhelm Brandt

(born May 1904, Hamburg, Ger.—died Dec. 20, 1983, London, Eng.) German-born British photographer. In 1929 he worked in the studio of Man Ray in Paris. He returned to England in 1931 and took up photojournalism, documenting English industrial workers in the 1930s and covering the home front during World War II. His [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2108</link>
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		<title>Jacques Brel Biography (1929–78)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 8, 1929, Brussels, Belg.—died Oct. 9, 1978, Bobigny, near Paris, France) Belgian singer and songwriter. He began his career singing in French cafés. His songs, frequently sharply satirical and often implicitly religious, became hugely popular in Europe. He acted in and directed a number of films from 1967 to 1973. His U.S. reputation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2103</link>
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		<title>Marlon Brando Biography (1924-2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska. Brando grew up in Illinois, and after expulsion from a military academy, he dug ditches until his father offered to finance his education. Brando moved to New York to study with acting coach Stella Adler and at Lee Strasberg&#8217;s Actors&#8217; Studio. Adler has often been credited as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2101</link>
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		<title>(Eugene) Bertolt (Friedrich) Brecht Biography (1898 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
born Feb. 10, 1898, Augsburg, Ger.—died Aug. 14, 1956, East Berlin) German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes.
Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was born, studied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Brandeis Biography (1856 - 1941)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Nov. 13, 1856, Louisville, Ky., U.S.—died Oct. 5, 1941, Washington, D.C.) U.S. jurist. The son of Bohemian Jewish immigrants, he attended schools in Kentucky and Germany before obtaining his law degree from Harvard (1877). As a lawyer in Boston (1877–1916), he was known as “the people&#8217;s attorney” for his defense of the constitutionality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Biography (1852 - 1905)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 26, 1852, near Rome [Italy]—died Sept. 14, 1905, Dakar, Seneg., French West Africa) French explorer and colonial administrator. Born to Italian nobility in Brazil, he joined the French navy. In 1875–78 he explored the Ogooué River (in present-day Gabon). Racing his British-U.S. counterpart, Henry Morton Stanley, Brazza was sent to explore the Congo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Brand Biography (1744 - 1806)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 19, 1744, Washington, Durham, Eng.—died Sept. 11, 1806, London) British antiquary and topographer who contributed to the study of English folklore with the publication of Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne&#8217;s Antiquitates Vulgares (1777).
Ordained in 1773, Brand occupied positions as a teacher and curate in and near Newcastle upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicolás Bravo Biography (1786 - 1854)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born c. 1786, Chilpancingo, Mex.—died 1854, Chilpancingo) soldier and statesman, one of the founders of republican Mexico, serving as its president or acting president at various times.
Bravo and his family joined the peasant leader José María Morelos y Pavón and his band in 1811 and thus became one of the first of the wealthy Creole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eva Braun Biography (1912 - 1945)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 6, 1912, Munich, Ger.—died  April 30, 1945, Berlin) mistress and later wife of Adolf Hitler.
She was born into a lower middle-class Bavarian family and was educated at the Catholic Young Women&#8217;s Institute in Simbach-am-Inn. In 1930 she was employed as a saleswoman in the shop of Heinrich Hoffman, Hitler&#8217;s photographer, and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Brand Biography (1744 - 1806)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 19, 1744, Washington, Durham, Eng.—died Sept. 11, 1806, London) British antiquary and topographer who contributed to the study of English folklore with the publication of Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne&#8217;s Antiquitates Vulgares (1777).
Ordained in 1773, Brand occupied positions as a teacher and curate in and near Newcastle upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Karl) Ferdinand Braun Biography (1850 - 1918)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Karl Ferdinand Braun
born June 6, 1850, Fulda, Hesse-Kassel [now in Germany]—died April 20, 1918, Brooklyn N.Y., U.S.) German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 with Guglielmo Marconi for the development of wireless telegraphy.
Braun received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1872. After appointments at Würzburg, Leipzig, Marburg, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenneth (Charles) Branagh Biography (1960 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Kenneth Charles Branagh

(born December 10, 1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K.) Irish-born English stage and motion-picture actor, director, and writer who is best known for his film adaptations of Shakespearean plays.
At age nine Branagh moved with his family from Northern Ireland to London. He began acting in school plays and graduated from the Royal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fernand Braudel Biography (1902 - 1985)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 24, 1902, Luméville, France—died Nov. 28, 1985, Haute-Savoie) French historian and educator. While a prisoner of the Germans during World War II, Braudel wrote from memory his thesis on the history of the Mediterranean region in the 16th century, later published as The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2085</link>
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		<title>Joseph Bramah Biography (1748 - 1814)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 13, 1748, Stainborough, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Dec. 9, 1814, London) British engineer and inventor. Originally a cabinetmaker, Bramah in 1784 devised a pick-proof lock, which defied all efforts for 67 years. Since the success of his locks depended on their complexity, they could be produced in quantity only after the creation of a set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walter von Brauchitsch Biography (1881 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 4, 1881, Berlin, Ger.—died Oct. 18, 1948, Hamburg) German army officer. A member of the general staff in World War I, he rose to become field marshal and army commander in chief (1938). In World War II, he successfully directed Germany&#8217;s ground war until Adolf Hitler forced his resignation after suffering major losses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2081</link>
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		<title>Donato Bramante Biography (1444 - 1514)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Donato di Pascuccio d&#8217;Antonio
born 1444, probably at Monte Asdruvaldo, Duchy of Urbino—died April 11, 1514, Rome) Italian architect and perspectivist painter. The son of a farmer, he was working as a painter by 1477. His early architectural works included the church of Santa Maria presso San Satiro ( 1480), in which the choir is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2080</link>
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		<title>Walter H(ouser) Brattain Biography (1902 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Walter Houser Brattain


(born Feb. 10, 1902,  Amoy, China—died  Oct. 13, 1987, Seattle, Wash., U.S.) American scientist who, along with John Bardeen and William B. Shockley, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for his investigation of the properties of semiconductors—materials of which transistors are made—and for the development of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2079</link>
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		<title>Brassaï Biography (1899 - 1984)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Gyula Halász


(born Sept. 9, 1899, Brassó, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary—died July 8, 1984, Eze, France) Hungarian-born French photographer, poet, and sculptor. His pseudonym derives from his native city. In 1924 he settled in Paris, where he became acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí. He earned his living as a journalist and found it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2077</link>
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		<title>Benjamin Bratt Biography (1963-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born in San Francisco, California, on December 16, 1963, Bratt is the third of five children. He is the grandson of Broadway actor George Bratt and the son of a Peruvian Quechua Indian mother from Lima, who moved to the United States at age 14. His father, a sheet-metal worker, and his mother divorced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2076</link>
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		<title>Louis Braille Biography (1809 - 1852)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Jan. 4, 1809, Coupvray, near Paris, France—died Jan. 6, 1852, Paris) French educator who developed the Braille system of printing and writing for the blind. Himself blinded at the age of three in an accident, he went to Paris in 1819 to attend the National Institute for Blind Children, and from 1826 he taught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brahmagupta Biography (598 - 665)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 598—died  665, possibly Bhillamala, Rajasthan, India) Indian mathematician and astronomer. His principal work, the Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta (“The Opening of the Universe”), most of which deals with planetary motion, also contains important proofs of various geometrical theorems on quadratic equations, the geometry of right triangles, and the properties of geometric solids.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tycho Brahe Biography (1546 - 1601)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born December 14, 1546, Knudstrup, Scania, Denmark—died October 24, 1601, Prague) Danish astronomer whose work in developing astronomical instruments and in measuring and fixing the positions of stars paved the way for future discoveries. His observations—the most accurate possible before the invention of the telescope—included a comprehensive study of the solar system and accurate positions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2071</link>
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		<title>Sir William (Henry) Bragg Biography (1862 - 1942)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Sir William Henry Bragg
born July 2, 1862, Wigton, Cumberland, Eng.—died March 12, 1942, London) pioneer British scientist in solid-state physics who was a joint winner (with his son Sir Lawrence Bragg) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for his research on the determination of crystal structures. He was knighted in 1920.
William [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Lawrence Bragg Biography (1890 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Sir William Lawrence Bragg
born March 31, 1890, Adelaide, S. Aus., Australia—died July 1, 1971, Ipswich, Suffolk, Eng.) Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of the Bragg law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner (with his father, Sir William Bragg) of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2069</link>
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		<title>Braxton Bragg Biography (1817 - 1876)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 22, 1817, Warrenton, N.C., U.S.—died Sept. 27, 1876, Galveston, Texas) U.S. and Confederate army officer. He graduated from West Point and served in the Seminole Wars and the Mexican War. When North Carolina seceded, he joined the Confederate army and fought in the American Civil War. He was promoted to general in 1862 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2068</link>
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		<title>Billy Bragg Biography (1957 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Steven William Bragg
born December 20, 1957, Barking, Essex, England) British singer, songwriter, and guitarist who became a critic&#8217;s darling and a champion of populist activism in the mid-1980s as he fused the personal and the political in songs of love and conscience.
Born into a working-class family in eastern Greater London, Bragg played briefly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William A. Brady Biography (1863 - 1950)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 19, 1863, San Francisco—died Jan. 6, 1950, New York City) American actor, manager, stage and motion-picture producer, and sports promoter.
Brady made his acting debut in San Francisco in 1882 and began touring with his own company by 1888. He became a producer after successfully bringing the melodrama After Dark to the New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wayne Brady Biography (1972-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Comedian, actor. Born June 2, 1972, in Orlando, Florida. After several years performing in Florida theaters and clubs, including a stint as Tigger at Walt Disney World, Brady decided to move to Los Angeles in 1996 to pursue a career in acting.Brady received his big break when he was asked to appear on ABC’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Brady Biography (1977- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Thomas Edward Patrick Brady, Jr.
Athlete, professional football player. Born on August 3, 1977, in San Mateo, California. The quarterback of the New England Patriots, Tom Brady is considered one of the leading players in the National Football League (NFL) today. As a teenager, he excelled at both football and baseball at Junipero Serra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mathew Brady Biography (1823 - 1896)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born  1823, near Lake George, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 15, 1896, New York, N.Y.) U.S. photographer. He learned to make daguerreotypes from Samuel F.B. Morse. In 1844 he opened the first of two studios in New York City and began photographing famous people (including Daniel Webster, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry Clay). In 1847 Brady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Bradstreet Biography (1612 - 1672)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Anne Dudley
born  1612, Northampton, Northamptonshire?, England—died September 16, 1672, Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony [U.S.]) one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies. Long considered primarily of historical interest, she won critical acceptance in the 20th century as a writer of enduring verse, particularly for her sequence of religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Bradman Biography (1908 - 2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 27, 1908, Cootamundra, N.S.W., Austl.—died Feb. 25, 2001, Adelaide, S.Aus.) Australian cricketer. One of the greatest run scorers in the history of the game, in test (international) matches Bradman scored 6,996 runs for Australia and set a record with his average of 99.94 runs per match. In 1948 he was captain of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Bradley Biography (1917 - 1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Thomas Bradley

(born December 29, 1917, Calvert, Texas, U.S.—died September 29, 1998, Los Angeles, California) American politician, the first African American mayor of a predominantly white city, who served an unprecedented five terms as mayor of Los Angeles (1973–93).
The son of sharecroppers and the grandson of slaves, Bradley grew up in poverty. When he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Omar (Nelson) Bradley Biography (1893 - 1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born February 12, 1893, Clark, Missouri, U.S.—died April 8, 1981, New York, New York) U.S. Army officer who commanded the Twelfth Army Group, which helped ensure the Allied victory over Germany during World War II; later he served as first chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (1949–53).
Bradley graduated from the United States Military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milton Bradley Biography (1836–1911)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manufacturer, born in Vienna, Maine, USA. After various positions as a draughtsman, he became interested in lithography and introduced the first lithograph press to Springfield, MA (1860). He printed and personally sold a new parlour game, ‘The Checkered Game of Life’, which became so profitable that he formed Milton Bradley and Company (1864) to print [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Bradley Biography (1943 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of William Warren Bradley
born , July 28, 1943, Crystal City, Mo., U.S.) collegiate and professional basketball player who later served as a U.S. senator.
Bradley began to play basketball at age nine and became one of the best players in Missouri high school basketball history. At Princeton University (N.J.), Bradley, a forward, was a playmaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>F. H. Bradley Biography (1846 - 1924)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 30, 1846, Clapham, Surrey, Eng.—died Sept. 18, 1924, Oxford) British idealist philosopher. Influenced by G.W.F. Hegel, he considered mind to be more fundamental than matter. In Ethical Studies (1876), he sought to expose confusions in utilitarianism. In The Principles of Logic (1883), he denounced the psychology of the empiricists. His most ambitious work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A. C. Bradley Biography (1851 - 1935)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 26, 1851, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Sept. 2, 1935, London) literary critic and pre-eminent Shakespearean scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bradley attended Oxford and held professorships of modern literature at the University of Liverpool (1882–90), of English language and literature at the University of Glasgow (1890–1900), and of poetry at Oxford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin (Crowninshield) Bradlee Biography (1921– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 26, 1921, Boston, Mass., U.S.) U.S. newspaper editor. Bradlee was a reporter for The Washington Post before joining Newsweek in Paris and then in Washington. Returning to the Post, he served as its executive editor 1968–91. During his tenure the Post published the Pentagon Papers, broke much of the story surrounding the Watergate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Bradford Biography (1663 - 1752)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 20, 1663, Leicestershire, England—died May 23, 1752, New York, New York [U.S.]) printer who issued one of the first American almanacs, Kalendarium Pennsilvaniense or America&#8217;s Messenger (1685), the first American Book of Common Prayer (1710), and many political writings and pamphlets.
Bradford learned the printer&#8217;s trade in London and then immigrated to Pennsylvania in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Bradford Biography (1590 - 1657)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 1590, Austerfield, Yorkshire, Eng.—died May 9, 1657, Plymouth, Mass. [U.S.]) governor of the Plymouth colony for 30 years, who helped shape and stabilize the political institutions of the first permanent colony in New England. Bradford also left an invaluable journal chronicling the Pilgrim venture, of which he was a part.
As a boy in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Bradford Biography (1823 - 1892)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 30, 1823, Fairhaven, Mass., U.S.—died April 25, 1892, New York City) U.S. marine painter whose pictures attracted much attention by reason of their novelty and colour effects.
He was a Quaker and a self-taught artist, painting the ships and the marine views he saw along the coasts of Massachusetts, Labrador, and Nova Scotia; he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James J(oseph) Braddock Biography (1905 - 1974)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name James Walter Braddock


(born December 6, 1905, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 29, 1974, North Bergen, New Jersey) American world heavyweight boxing champion from June 13, 1935, when he outpointed Max Baer in 15 rounds at the Long Island City Bowl in New York City, until June 22, 1937, when he was knocked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Braddock Biography (1695 - 1755)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1695, Perthshire, Scot.—died July 13, 1755, Great Meadows, Pa.) British army commander in the French and Indian War. After service in Europe, he arrived in Virginia in 1755 to command British forces in North America against the French. He undertook an expedition to attack the French-held Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh, Pa.); his force, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ray(mond Douglas) Bradbury Biography (1920 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Ray Douglas Bradbury

(born Aug. 22, 1920, Waukegan, Ill., U.S.) American author best known for highly imaginative science-fiction short stories and novels that blend social criticism with an awareness of the hazards of runaway technology.
Bradbury published his first story in 1940 and was soon contributing widely to magazines. His first book of short stories, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Paisley Biography (1972- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Country music singer, songwriter.
Country music singer, songwriter. Born October 28, 1972 in Glen Dale, West Virginia. Paisley&#8217;s passion for music began at age 8, when his grandfather gave him his first guitar. Soon, the young musician was singing in church and at civic meetings, eventually securing a regular spot on Jamboree USA, a popular country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Bracegirdle Biography (1663 - 1673)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born c. 1671—died  1748, London, Eng.) actress, one of the earliest on the English stage.
Bracegirdle studied acting with Thomas Betterton, her guardian, and appeared on the stage as early as six years of age. In 1688 her performance in Thomas Shadwell&#8217;s The Squire of Alsatia at Drury Lane Theatre, London, brought her notice. Different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Boyle Biography (1627 - 1691)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 25, 1627, Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ire.—died Dec. 31, 1691, London, Eng.) Irish-born English chemist and natural philosopher. The son of Richard Boyle, the “Great Earl of Cork” (1566–1643), he settled at Oxford in 1654 and, with his assistant Robert Hooke, began his pioneering experiments on the properties of gases, including those expressed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Boyle Biography (1935-2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born October 18, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The son of local television personality &#8220;Uncle Pete,&#8221; Boyle graduated from LaSalle College in 1957. Soon after, he became a Christian Brothers monk, leaving the priesthood in the early 1960s to pursue a career as an actor.
After moving to New York and performing off-Broadway, Boyle joined a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kay Boyle Biography (1902 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 19, 1902, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1992, Mill Valley, Calif.) U.S. writer. Boyle lived in Europe during the 1920s and &#8217;30s. Later she served as a European correspondent for The New Yorker (1946–53). Her writing is noted for its elegant style and consistently leftist stance. Her novels, which include Plagued by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimmy Boyle Biography (1944– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[popular name of James Boyle
Convicted murderer, born in the Gorbals, Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. A member of a powerful gang in Glasgow, he was twice charged with murder and cleared, and was eventually imprisoned for serious assault. His reputation as ‘Scotland&#8217;s Most Violent Man’ appeared to be confirmed when he was convicted for the murder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pappy Boyington Biography (1912 - 1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Gregory Boyington

(born Dec. 4, 1912, Coeur d&#8217;Alene, Idaho, U.S.—died Jan. 11, 1988, Fresno, Calif.) American World War II flying ace who shot down 28 enemy Japanese planes, organized the legendary Black Sheep Squadron in the South Pacific in 1943, and was awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor.
Boyington, a 1934 graduate of the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul D Boyer Biography (1918 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Paul Delos Boyer
born July 31, 1918, Provo, Utah, U.S.) American biochemist who, with John E. Walker, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for their explanation of the enzymatic process involved in the production of the energy-storage molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which fuels the metabolic processes of the cells of all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2033</link>
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		<title>Charles Boyer Biography (1897 - 1978)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 28, 1897, Figeac, Lot, Fr.—died Aug. 26, 1978, Phoenix, Ariz., U.S.) stage and motion-picture actor known as the prototypical suave Gallic lover.
Though committed to an acting career in his teens, Boyer nevertheless acceded to his mother&#8217;s request that he graduate from the Sorbonne (with a degree in philosophy) before studying acting at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Boyd Biography (1898 - 1972)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Bill Boyd


(born June 5, 1898, Hendrysburg, Ohio, U.S.—died Sept. 12, 1972, Hollywood) American motion-picture and television actor who was best known for his portrayal of Hopalong Cassidy in a series of western films.
Although born in Ohio, he grew up (from the age of 7) in Oklahoma and attended school only until he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd Orr (of Brechin Mearns) Biography (1880 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called (1935–49) Sir John Boyd Orr


(born Sept. 23, 1880, Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scot.—died June 25, 1971, Edzell, Angus) Scottish scientist and authority on nutrition, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1949.
Boyd-Orr was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he enrolled as a theological student before turning to the study of nutrition. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir William Bowman Biography (1816 - 1892)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 20, 1816, Nantwich, Cheshire, Eng.—died March 29, 1892, near Dorking, Surrey) English surgeon and histologist. His studies of organ tissues with his teacher Robert Todd led to major papers on the structure and function of voluntary muscle and of the kidneys and on the detailed anatomy of the liver. In the kidneys, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2029</link>
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		<title>Paul Bowles Biography (1910 - 1999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 30, 1910, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 18, 1999, Tangier, Mor.) U.S.-Moroccan composer, writer, and translator. Bowles studied musical composition with Aaron Copland and wrote music for more than 30 plays and films. He moved to Morocco in the 1940s. He set his best-known novel, The Sheltering Sky (1948; film, 1990), in Tangier. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1567</link>
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		<title>Chester Bowles Biography (1901 - 1986)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 5, 1901, Springfield, Mass., U.S.—died May 25, 1986, Sussex, Conn.) U.S. advertising executive and diplomat. A graduate of Yale University, he and William Benton established the Benton and Bowles advertising company (1929), which became one of the largest in the world. After selling his interest in 1941, Bowles served as director of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1566</link>
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		<title>Houari Boumédienne Biography (1927 - 1978)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Mohammed ben Brahim Boukharouba

(born Aug. 23, 1927, near Guelma, Alg.—died Dec. 27, 1978, Algiers) Algerian political leader and president (1965–78). During Algeria&#8217;s fight for independence, he helped raise an Algerian army in the safety of Morocco and Tunisia. He deposed President Ahmed Ben Bella in 1965. His policies in the 1970s created tensions with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Bowie Biography (1796 - 1836)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. James Bowie

(born 1796?, Logan county, Ky., U.S.—died March 6, 1836, San Antonio, Texas) U.S. soldier. Bowie migrated with his parents to Missouri (1800) and then to Louisiana (1802), where later he owned a sugar plantation and served in the state legislature. In 1828 he settled in Texas, assumed Mexican citizenship, acquired land grants, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1564</link>
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		<title>Matthew Boulton Biography (1728 - 1809)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Sept. 3, 1728, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.—died Aug. 17, 1809, Birmingham) British manufacturer and engineer. With James Watt and William Murdock (1754–1839), he established the steam-engine industry by installing pumping engines to drain the Cornish tin mines. Foreseeing great industrial demand for steam power, he urged Watt to make various design improvements. Applying steam power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Boucher Biography (1738 - 1804)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 12, 1738, Cumberland, Eng.—died April 27, 1804, Epsom, Surrey) English-American clergyman. He went to Virginia in 1759 as a private tutor. As rector of Annapolis, Md., he tutored George Washington&#8217;s stepson and became a family friend. His royalist views cost him his position and he was forced to return to England in 1775. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Bowie Biography (1947 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name David Robert Jones
born Jan. 8, 1947, London, Eng.) British singer, songwriter, and actor who was most prominent in the 1970s and best known for his shifting personae and musical genre hopping.
To call Bowie a transitional figure in rock history is less a judgment than a job description. Every niche he ever found was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Boulsover Biography (1706 - 1788)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1706, Elkington, Derbyshire, Eng.—died September 1788, Sheffield) British inventor of fused plating (“old Sheffield plate”). As a craftsman of the Cutlers Co. in 1743, while repairing a copper-and-silver knife handle, he discovered that the two metals could be fused and that when the fused metals were rolled in a rolling mill they behaved like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1560</link>
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		<title>François Boucher Biography (1703 - 1770)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Sept. 29, 1703, Paris, Fr.—died May 30, 1770, Paris) French painter, engraver, and designer. He was probably trained by his father, a minor painter. In 1723 he won the Prix de Rome, but he was unable to travel to Italy until 1728. For his first major commission he produced 125 engravings of drawings by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Bowes Biography (1874 - 1946)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Major Bowes

(born June 14, 1874, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.—died June 14, 1946, Rumson, N.J.) U.S. radio personality. He promoted attendance at New York City&#8217;s Capitol Theatre by starting a variety show, the Major Bowes Capitol Family, which became the radio program Original Amateur Hour (1935–46). The show (later revived for television as The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Étienne-Louis Boullée Biography (1728 - 1799)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 12, 1728, Paris, Fr.—died Feb. 6, 1799, Paris) French architect, theorist, and teacher. He studied architecture and opened his own studio by age 19. Through his investigation of the properties of geometric forms, to which he attributed innate symbolic qualities, Boullée achieved a pure, modern Classicism. His greatest influence was as a teacher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1557</link>
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		<title>Sandro Botticelli Biography (1445 - 1510)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi


(born 1445, Florence—died May 17, 1510, Florence [Italy]) Italian Renaissance painter. As a youth he may have been apprenticed to a goldsmith, and he later trained with Fra Filippo Lippi in Florence. By 1470 he had developed a distinctive style and was established as a master. In 1481 he was among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norman L(evi) Bowen Biography (1887 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 21, 1887, Kingston, Ont., Can.—died Sept. 11, 1956, Washington, D.C., U.S.) Canadian geologist. He worked on and off for more than 35 years for the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C., where he researched silicate systems. During World War I he made a brief foray into optics, but after the war he returned to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pierre Boulle Biography (1912 - 1994)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Pierre-Franois-Marie-Louis Boulle

(born Feb. 20, 1912, Avignon, France—died Jan. 30, 1994, Paris) French novelist who successfully combined adventure and psychology in works dealing largely with his experiences in Southeast Asia, especially in Malaya.
Boulle studied to become an electrical engineer but instead went to Asia, where he spent eight years as a planter and soldier. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walther Bothe Biography (1891 - 1957)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe

(born Jan. 8, 1891, Oranienburg, Ger.—died Feb. 8, 1957, Heidelberg, W.Ger.) German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 with Max Born for his invention of a new method of detecting subatomic particles and for other resulting discoveries.
Bothe taught at the universities of Berlin (1920–31), Giessen (1931–34), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole) Bowen Biography (1899 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 7, 1899, Dublin, Ire.—died Feb. 22, 1973, London, Eng.) Irish-born British novelist and short-story writer. Among her novels are The House in Paris (1935), The Death of the Heart (1938), and The Heat of the Day (1949). Her short-story collections include The Demon Lover (1945). Her finely wrought prose style frequently details uneasy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>André-Charles Boulle Biography (1642 - 1732)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or André-Charles Boule

(born Nov. 11, 1642, Paris, Fr.—died Feb. 29, 1732, Paris) French cabinetmaker. After studying drawing, painting, and sculpture, he achieved fame as the most skillful furniture designer in Paris. In 1672 Louis XIV appointed him royal cabinetmaker at Versailles; his other patrons included Philip V of Spain and the duke of Bourbon. Boulle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1551</link>
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		<title>P(ieter) W(illem) Botha Biography (1916 - 2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 12, 1916, Paul Roux, S.Af.—died Oct. 31, 2006, Wilderness, near George) Prime minister (1978–84) and first state president (1984–89) of South Africa. Elected to parliament as a National Party candidate in 1948, Botha served in several subsequent posts before replacing John Vorster as prime minister in 1978. His government faced serious difficulties, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Bowdler Biography (1754 - 1825)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 11, 1754, Ashley, near Bath, Somerset, Eng.—died Feb. 24, 1825, Rhydding, near Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales) English doctor of medicine, philanthropist, and man of letters, known for his Family Shakspeare (1818), in which, by expurgation and paraphrase, he aimed to provide an edition of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays that he felt was suitable for a father [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pierre Boulez Biography (1925 - )</title>
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(born March 26, 1925, Montbrison, France) most significant French composer of his generation, as well as a noted conductor and music theorist who championed the work of 20th-century composers.
Boulez, the son of a steel manufacturer, majored in mathematics at the Collège de Saint-Étienne, where he also studied music; he later studied mathematics, engineering, and music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Botha Biography (1862 - 1919)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Sept. 27, 1862, near Greytown, Natal [South Africa]—died Aug. 27, 1919, Pretoria, Transvaal) First prime minister (1910–19) of the Union of South Africa. Botha was elected to the South African Republic&#8217;s parliament in 1897, where he sided with moderates against Pres. Paul Kruger&#8217;s hostile policy toward Uitlanders (non-Boer, mostly English, settlers). In the South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nathaniel Bowditch Biography (1773 - 1838)</title>
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(born March 26, 1773, Salem, Mass., U.S.—died March 16, 1838, Boston, Mass.) U.S. mathematician and astronomer. He was largely self-educated. After investigating the accuracy of J.H. Moore&#8217;s The Practical Navigator, he produced a revised edition in 1799. In 1802 he published The New American Practical Navigator; adopted by the U.S. Department of the Navy, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nadia Boulanger Biography (1887 - 1979)</title>
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(born Sept. 16, 1887, Paris, France—died Oct. 22, 1979, Paris) conductor, organist, and one of the most influential teachers of musical composition of the 20th century.
Boulanger&#8217;s family had been associated for two generations with the Paris Conservatory, where her father and first instructor, Ernest Boulanger, was a teacher of voice. She received her formal training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fernado Botero Biography (1932–)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Artist and Sculptor

Fernando Botero was born on April 19, 1932 in Medellin, Colombia. Despite living in a city of considerable size, Botero’s childhood was devoid of trips to museums and other cultural events. Fernando Botero’s artistic talents were evident while he was still quite young; he wrote and illustrated an article about Pablo Picasso, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clara Bow Biography (1905 - 1965)</title>
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(born July 29, 1905, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 27, 1965, Los Angeles, Calif.) American motion-picture actress called the “It” Girl after she played in It (1927), the popular silent-film version of Elinor Glyn&#8217;s novel of that name. She personified the vivacious, emancipated flapper of the 1920s. From 1927 to 1930 she was one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georges Boulanger Biography (1837 - 1891)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 29, 1837, Rennes, France—died Sept. 30, 1891, Brussels, Belg.) French general and politician. He entered the army in 1856, helped suppress the Paris Commune (1871), and rose in rank to brigadier general (1880) and director of infantry (1882). Named minister of war in 1886, he introduced various military reforms and was seen as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kate Bosworth Biography (1983-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress. Born Catherine Anne Bosworth on January 2, 1983 in Los Angeles. Bosworth grew up on the East Coast, eventually moving back to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Her first supporting role was in Robert Redford’s 1998 film The Horse Whisperer, for which she received positive reviews. Her first starring role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Bovet Biography (1907 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 23, 1907, Neuchâtel, Switz.—died April 8, 1992, Rome, Italy) Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who received the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of certain chemotherapeutic agents—namely, sulfa drugs, antihistamines, and muscle relaxants.
Bovet studied at the University of Geneva, graduating with a doctorate in science in 1929. That same year, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud Biography (1796 - 1881)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 16, 1796, Garat, Fr.—died Oct. 29, 1881, Paris) French physician and researcher. He established the speech centre&#8217;s location in the brain and differentiated between speech loss because of inability to create and remember word forms and inability to control speech movements. In cardiology, he established the connection between carditis and acute articular rheumatism. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Boswell Biography (1740 - 1795)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 29, 1740, Edinburgh, Scot.—died May 19, 1795, London, Eng.) Scottish friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. Boswell, a lawyer, met Johnson in 1763 and visited him often (1772–84), making a superlatively detailed record in his journals of Johnson&#8217;s conversations. His two-volume Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is regarded as one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theodor Heinrich Boveri Biography (1862 - 1915)</title>
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(born Oct. 12, 1862, Bamberg, Bavaria—died Oct. 15, 1915, Würzburg) German cell biologist. Working with roundworm eggs, Boveri proved that chromosomes are separate units within the nucleus of a cell. With Walter S. Sutton, he was the first to propose that genes were located on chromosomes. Boveri proved Edouard von Beneden&#8217;s theory that the ovum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolphe William Bouguereau Biography (1825 - 1905)</title>
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(born Nov. 30, 1825, La Rochelle, Fr.—died Aug. 19, 1905, La Rochelle) French painter. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1846 and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1850. On his return from Italy in 1854, he became a successful proponent of academic painting and was instrumental in the exclusion of the radical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph Boston Biography (1939 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born May 9, 1939, Laurel, Mississippi, U.S.) American athlete who set a world record in the long jump and was the first man to jump more than 27 feet (8.23 metres).
Boston attended Tennessee State University, where, in addition to the long jump, he excelled in the high and low hurdles, the high jump, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dierick Bouts Biography (1400 - 1475)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Dirk, or Thierry
born  1415, Haarlem, Holland—died May 6, 1475, Louvain, Brabant) Netherlandish painter. He was active in Louvain, where he was influenced by Rogier van der Weyden. His best-known works are a triptych altarpiece (1464) for the church of St. Peter in Louvain, its panels representing the Last Supper and four Old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis-Antoine de Bougainville Biography (1729 - 1811)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 11, 1729, Paris, France—died Aug. 3, 1811, Paris) French navigator. In 1764 he established a colony for France in the Falkland Islands. Commissioned by the government to circle the Earth in a voyage of exploration, he put to sea in 1766; after touching Samoa and the New Hebrides he continued west into waters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Biography (1627 - 1704)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Sept. 25, 1627, Dijon, France—died April 12, 1704, Paris) French bishop. Ordained a priest in 1652, he gained a reputation as a great orator and popular preacher. In 1681 he became bishop of Meaux. He was the most eloquent and influential spokesman for the rights of the French church against papal authority in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boutros Boutros-Ghali Biography (1922 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 14, 1922, Cairo, Egypt) Sixth secretary-general of the United Nations (1992–96), the first Arab and first African to hold the office. A descendant of a distinguished Egyptian Coptic family, he was educated at Cairo University and the University of Paris. After teaching at universities around the world, he joined Egypt&#8217;s foreign ministry in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elias Boudinot Biography (1740 - 1821)</title>
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(born May 2, 1740, Philadelphia, Pa.—died Oct. 24, 1821, Burlington, N.J., U.S.) U.S. public official. He became a lawyer in 1760. Though a conservative Whig, he supported the American Revolution. He was president of the Continental Congress in 1782–83 and later served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1789–95) and as director of the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subhas Chandra Bose Biography (1897 - 1945)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Netaji (‘Respected Leader’)
(born Jan. 23, 1897, Cuttack, Orissa, India—died Aug. 18, 1945, Taipei, Taiwan [China]?) Indian revolutionary. Preparing in Britain for a career in the Indian civil service, he resigned his candidacy on hearing of nationalist turmoil back home. Sent by Mohandas K. Gandhi to organize in Bengal, he was deported and imprisoned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auguste Bournonville Biography (1805 - 1879)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 21, 1805, Copenhagen, Den.—died Nov. 30, 1879, Copenhagen) Danish dancer, choreographer, and director of the Royal Danish Ballet for almost 50 years. After studying and performing in Paris and Copenhagen, in 1830 he became director and choreographer of the Royal Danish Ballet, where he continued to dance until 1848. He established the Danish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1528</link>
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		<title>Eugène Boudin Biography (1824 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 12, 1824, Honfleur, France—died Aug. 8, 1898, Deauville) one of the first French landscape painters to paint in the open air, directly from nature. His many beach scenes directly link the carefully observed naturalism of the early 19th century and the brilliant light and fluid brushwork of late 19th-century Impressionism.
Encouraged at an early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint John Bosco Biography (1815 - 1888)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Italian in full San Giovanni Melchior Bosco , byname Don Bosco

(born Aug. 16, 1815, Becchi, near Turin, Piedmont, kingdom of Sardinia [Italy]—died Jan. 31, 1888, Turin; canonized April 1, 1934; feast day January 31) pioneer in educating the poor and founder of the Salesian Order.
Bosco was ordained a Roman Catholic priest (1841) in Turin and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Bourke-White Biography (1906 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Margaret White
born June 14, 1906, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 27, 1971, Stamford, Conn.) U.S. photographer. She began her professional career as an industrial and architectural photographer in 1927. She gained a reputation for originality and in 1929 was hired by Henry R. Luce for his magazine Fortune. She covered World War II for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boudicca Biography (60 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Boadicea

(died  60) ancient British queen who in  60 led a revolt against Roman rule.
Boudicca&#8217;s husband, Prasutagus, was king of the Iceni (in what is now Norfolk) as a client under Roman suzerainty. When Prasutagus died in 60 with no male heir, he left his private wealth to his two daughters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Bosch Biography (1861 - 1942)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Robert August Bosch

(born Sept. 23, 1861, Albeck, near Ulm, Württemberg [Germany]—died March 9, 1942, Stuttgart, Ger.) German engineer and industrialist who was responsible for the invention of the spark plug and magneto for automobiles and whose firm produced a wide range of precision machines and electrical equipment in plants throughout the world.
Trained in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Habib Bourguiba Biography (1903 - 2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 3, 1903, Al-Munastr, Tun.—died April 6, 2000, Al-Munastr) President of Tunisia (1957–87). He studied at the Sorbonne, where he met independence-minded Algerians and Moroccans. He founded a nationalist newspaper in 1932. In 1934 he founded the Neo-Destour Party and became central to the Tunisian liberation movement. His efforts led the French to imprison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juan Bosch Biography (1909 - 2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Juan Bosch Gaviño

(born June 30, 1909, La Vega, Dominican Republic—died November 1, 2001, Santo Domingo) Dominican writer, scholar, and politician elected president of the Dominican Republic in 1962 but deposed less than a year later.
Bosch, an intellectual, was an early opponent of Rafael Trujillo&#8217;s dictatorial regime. He went into exile in 1937 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Léon Bourgeois Biography (1851 - 1925)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Léon-Victor-Auguste Bourgeois


(born May 21, 1851, Paris, France—died Sept. 29, 1925, Château d&#8217;Oger, near Épernay) French politician and statesman, an ardent promoter of the League of Nations, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1920.
Trained in law, Bourgeois entered the civil service in 1876 and by 1887 had advanced to the position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louise Bourgeois Biography (1911 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born December 25, 1911, Paris, France) French-born sculptor known for her monumental abstract and often biomorphic works that deal with the relationships of men and women.
Born to a family of tapestry weavers, Bourgeois made her first drawings to assist her parents in their restoration of ancient tapestries. She attended the Sorbonne, where she studied mathematics. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hieronymus Bosch Biography (1450 - 1516)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Jheronimus Bos, pseudonym of Jerome Van Aeken, also spelled Aquen, or Aken, also called Jeroen Anthoniszoon

(born c. 1450, , &#8217;s Hertogenbosch, Brabant [now in The Netherlands]—died Aug. 9, 1516, &#8217;s Hertogenbosch) brilliant and original northern European painter of the late Middle Ages whose work reveals an unusual iconography of a complex and individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dion Boucicault Biography (1820 - 1822)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot

(born Dec. 26, 1820/22, Dublin, Ire.—died Sept. 18, 1890, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Irish-born U.S. playwright. He began acting in 1837 and wrote the successful comedy London Assurance (1841) and The Corsican Brothers (1852). In 1853 he moved to New York City, where he was instrumental in obtaining the first copyright law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Bosch Biography (1874 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 27, 1874, Cologne, Germany—died April 26, 1940, Heidelberg) German industrial chemist who developed the Haber-Bosch process for high-pressure synthesis of ammonia and received, with Friedrich Bergius, the 1931 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for devising chemical high-pressure methods.
Bosch was educated at the University of Leipzig, where he studied under Johannes Wislicenus and obtained his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernard Bosanquet Biography (1848 - 1923)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born June 14, 1848, Alnwick, Northumberland, Eng.—died Feb. 8, 1923, London) British philosopher. He helped revive in Britain the absolute idealism of G.W.F. Hegel and sought to apply its principles to social and political problems. His debt to Hegel is most evident in his works on ethics, aesthetics, and metaphysics. His Some Suggestions in Ethics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barry Bonds Biography (1964 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Barry Lamar Bonds

Federal prosecutors have tripled the number of felony charges against baseball’s all-time home run record holder Barry Bonds, who is accused of lying under oath about his alleged use of steroids.

The new indictment was unsealed Tuesday (May 13, 2008) in San Francisco after a judge told prosecutors to rework their initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Frederick Borden Biography (1847 - 1917)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born May 14, 1847, Cornwallis, Nova Scotia—died Jan. 6, 1917, Canning, Nova Scotia, Can.) Canadian politician. After studying at Harvard University, he returned to Nova Scotia to practice medicine. In 1874 he was elected as a Liberal Party member to the House of Commons, where he served almost continuously until 1911. As minister of militia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francesco Borromini Biography (1599 - 1667)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Francesco Castelli
(born Sept. 25, 1599, Bissone, Duchy of Lombardy—died Aug. 2, 1667, Rome) Italian architect who was a chief formulator of Baroque architectural style. Borromini (who changed his name in about 1627) secured a reputation throughout Europe with his striking design for a small church, S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome. He differed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lizzie (Andrew) Borden Biography (1860 - 1927)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Lizzie Andrew Borden

(born July 19, 1860, Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.—died June 1, 1927, Fall River) American woman suspected of murdering her stepmother and father; her trial became a national sensation in the United States.
Borden was the daughter of a well-to-do businessman who married for a second time in 1865, three years after Lizzie&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonnie Franklin Biography (1944- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress, singer, dancer. Born on January 6, 1944, in Santa Monica, California. For nearly a decade, Bonnie Franklin played Ann Romano, a loving, but tough divorced mother on the hit television show, One Day at a Time. She started out as a tap dancer as a child and landed a few television roles while barely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jorge Luis Borges Biography (1899 - 1986)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland) Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose works have become classics of 20th-century world literature.

Life
Borges was reared in the then-shabby Palermo district of Buenos Aires, the setting of some of his works. His family, which had been notable in Argentine history, included British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lizzie Borden Biography (1955 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Linda Elizabeth Borden
born Feb. 3, 1955?, Detroit, Mich., U.S.) American filmmaker whose feminist perspective informed her eclectic style and subjects, which largely defy mainstream cinema.
Borden earned her bachelor&#8217;s degree in fine arts at Wellesley College and received a master&#8217;s in fine arts from Queens College of the City University of New York. Regroupings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonnie and Clyde Biography ()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
born October 1, 1910, Rowena, Texas, U.S.—died May 23, 1934, Gibsland, Louisiana) (born March 24, 1909, Telico, Texas, U.S.—died May 23, 1934, Gibsland, Louisiana) robbery team that became notorious in the United States through their flamboyant encounters with police and the sensationalization of their exploits by the country&#8217;s newspapers.
Barrow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Borzage Biography (1893 - 1962)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 23, 1893, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.—died June 19, 1962, Los Angeles, Calif.) American motion-picture director and producer noted for his romantic transcendentalism and luminous filmmaking.
The son of a master stonemason, Borzage began his association with acting at age 13. He went to Hollywood in 1912 to work as a film actor. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William E(dgar) Borah Biography (1865 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 29, 1865, Fairfield, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 19, 1940, Washington, D.C.) U.S. senator (1907–40). He practiced law in Boise, Idaho, and in 1892 became the state&#8217;s Republican Party chairman. In the Senate he wielded great power as chairman of the foreign relations committee from 1924. A champion of isolationism in foreign policy, he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William H Bonney Biography (1859–81)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Billy the Kid, originally (?) Henry McCarty
Outlaw and murderer, born in New York City, New York, USA. Moving with his family to Coffeyville, Kansas (1862), Colorado, and Silver City, New Mexico (1868), he allegedly killed his first man at age 12. After killing three Indians in Arizona (1876) and rampaging throughout the Southwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Charles Borromeo Biography (1538 - 1584)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Italian San Carlo Borromeo

(born Oct. 2, 1538, Arona, Duchy of Milan—died Nov. 3, 1584, Milan; canonized 1610; feast day November 4) cardinal and archbishop who was one of the most important figures of the Counter-Reformation in Italy.
Borromeo received a doctorate in civil and canon law from the university of Pavia in 1559. The following year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franz Bopp Biography (1791 - 1867)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Sept. 14, 1791, Mainz, archbishopric of Mainz—died Oct. 23, 1867, Berlin, Prussia) German linguist. He published the first lengthy comparative analysis of Indo-European languages, his voluminous Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavic, Gothic, and German (1833–52). Though the relation of Sanskrit to European languages was known at the time, Bopp was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georges-Étienne Bonnet Biography (1889 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 23, 1889, Bassillac, France—died June 18, 1973, Paris) French politician. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies (1924–40), he became a leader of the Radical-Socialist Party. He served as finance minister (1937–38) and foreign minister (1938–39) and was a prominent supporter of appeasement of Nazi Germany. He also supported the Vichy regime. After the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mikhail Borodin Biography (1884 - 1951)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Mikhail Gruzenberg

(born July 9, 1884, Yanovichi, Russia—died May 29, 1951, Siberia) Russian diplomat. He joined the Bolshevik faction in 1903, was arrested (1906), and lived in exile in the U.S. He returned to Russia in 1917 and in 1923 was sent to China as an adviser to Sun Yat-sen. There he built the loosely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Booth Biography (1829 - 1912)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 10, 1829, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died Aug. 20, 1912, London) British religious leader, founder and general (1878–1912) of the Salvation Army. At age 15 he underwent a religious conversion and became a revivalist preacher. In 1849 he went to London, where he became a regular preacher of the Methodist New Connection (1852–61) and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yves Bonnefoy Biography (1923 - )</title>
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(born June 24, 1923, Tours, France) French poet. A student of mathematics, Bonnefoy moved to Paris and came under the influence of the Surrealists. His poetry describes a thought universe brought to life by an intuition of the “real world.” Among his poetry collections are In the Shadow&#8217;s Light (1987), The Beginning and End of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aleksandr Borodin Biography (1833 - 1887)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 12, 1833, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Feb. 27, 1887, St. Petersburg) Russian composer. From 1862 he took lessons from Mily Balakirev; fired by nationalist sentiment, the two men became the core of the group of Russian composers known as The Five. A professor of chemistry for much of his life, he left a small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shirley Booth Biography (1898 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Thelma Booth Ford
born August 30, 1898, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died October 16, 1992, North Chatham, Mass.) American actress who was equally deft in both dramatic and comedic roles and who was the recipient of three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and an Oscar.
An amateur actress at age 12, Booth made her professional debut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pierre Bonnard Biography (1867 - 1947)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 3, 1867, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Fr.—died Jan. 23, 1947, Le Cannet) French painter and printmaker. He studied at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts (1888–89). In the 1890s he became a leading member of the Nabis group and came under the influence of Art Nouveau and Japanese prints. With his friend Édouard Vuillard, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Max Born Biography (1882 - 1970)</title>
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(born Dec. 11, 1882, Breslau, Ger. [now Wrocaw, Pol.]—died Jan. 5, 1970, Göttingen, W.Ger.) German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 with Walther Bothe for his probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Born came from an upper-middle-class, assimilated, Jewish family. At first he was considered too frail to attend public school, so he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Wilkes Booth Biography (1838 - 1865)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born May 10, 1838, near Bel Air, Md., U.S.—died April 26, 1865, near Port Royal, Va.) U.S. actor and assassin of Pres. Abraham Lincoln. Born into a family of famous actors, he achieved success in Shakespearean roles but resented the greater acclaim enjoyed by his brother, Edwin Booth. A fanatical believer in slavery and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Bormann Biography (1900 - 1945)</title>
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(born June 17, 1900, Halberstadt, German Empire—died May 1945, Berlin, Ger.) German Nazi leader. He joined the Nazi party in 1925 and served as Rudolf Hess&#8217;s chief of staff (1933–41). He was appointed head of the party chancellery in 1941 and became one of Adolf Hitler&#8217;s closest lieutenants. A shadowy but extremely powerful presence, Bormann [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1490</link>
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		<title>Edwin Booth Biography (1833 - 1893)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Edwin Thomas Booth
born Nov. 13, 1833, near Belair, Md., U.S.—died June 7, 1893, New York, N.Y.) renowned tragedian of the 19th-century American stage, best-remembered as one of the greatest performers of Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet. He was a member of a famous acting family; his brother was John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1489</link>
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		<title>Richard Parkes Bonington Biography (1802 - 1828)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 25, 1801, Arnold, Eng.—died Sept. 23, 1828, London) British painter active in France. In 1818 he went to Paris to study with Antoine-Jean Gros. His skill in watercolour, a novelty in Paris, attracted many imitators. He exhibited at the famous “English” Salon of 1824 and won a gold medal. With John Constable and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1488</link>
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		<title>Norman (Ernest) Borlaug Biography (1914 - )</title>
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(born March 25, 1914, Cresco, Iowa, U.S.) American agricultural scientist, plant pathologist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1970. He was one of those who laid the groundwork of the so-called Green Revolution, the agricultural technological advance that promised to alleviate world hunger.
He studied plant biology and forestry at the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin Biography (1914- 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Writer, academic, and librarian, born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He studied at Harvard, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, and was admitted to the English bar (1937). He became professor of American history at the University of Chicago (1944-69) and director of the National Museum of History and Technology (1969-73). His major works include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Boniface Biography (675 - 754)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Latin Bonifatius , original name Wynfrid or Wynfrith
born c. 675, Wessex, England—died June 5, 754, Dokkum, Frisia [now in The Netherlands]; feast day June 5) English missionary and reformer, often called the apostle of Germany for his role in the Christianization of that country. Boniface set the church in Germany on a firm course of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boris I Biography (907 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Mikhail
died May 2, 907, Preslave, Bulg.) Khan of Bulgaria (852–89). He resolved to use Christianity to unite his ethnically divided country, and an unsuccessful war with the Byzantines led to his baptism in the Orthodox faith (864). Boris&#8217;s attempt to enforce mass baptism set off a pagan rebellion, which he quelled, and he helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Boorman Biography (1933 - )</title>
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(born Jan. 18, 1933, Shepperton, Middlesex [now Surrey], near London, Eng.) British motion-picture director who came to film via a distinguished career in radio and documentary television.
Boorman began writing film criticism for British publications at 17 years of age; he later joined Television News as a film editor and then produced documentaries for Southern Television. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boniface VIII Biography (1235 - 1240)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Benedict Caetani
born  1235, Anagni, Papal States—died Oct. 11, 1303, Rome) Pope (1294–1303). Born into an influential Roman family, Caetani studied law in Bologna and rose through the papal government to become cardinal-deacon (1281) and pope. In 1296 his attempt to end hostilities between Edward I of England and Philip IV of France became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernest Borgnine Biography (1917-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born Ermes Effron Borgnine, on January 24, 1917, in Hamden, Connecticut. His parents, Charles and Anna, immigrated to America from Italy at the turn of the century. The family settled in Connecticut, where Borgnine attended public school in New Haven. Upon graduating from high school, in 1935, he joined the Navy as an apprentice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Boone Biography (1734 - 1820)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born , c. Nov. 2, 1734, Berks County, Pa.—died ,  c. Sept. 26, 1820, St. Charles, Mo., U.S.) early American frontiersman and legendary hero who helped blaze a trail through Cumberland Gap, a notch in the Appalachian Mountains near the juncture of Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Boone had little formal schooling but learned to read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dietrich Bonhoeffer Biography (1906 - 1945)</title>
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(born February 4, 1906, Breslau, Germany [now Wrocaw, Poland]—died April 9, 1945, Flossenbürg, Germany) German Protestant theologian important for his support of ecumenism and his view of Christianity&#8217;s role in a secular world. His involvement in a plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler led to his imprisonment and execution. His Letters and Papers from Prison, published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gutzon Borglum Biography (1867 - 1941)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 25, 1867, St. Charles, Idaho, U.S.—died March 6, 1941, Chicago, Ill.) U.S. sculptor. Born to Danish immigrant parents, he studied art in Paris. In 1901 he opened a studio in New York City. His bronze group The Mares of Diomedes was the first U.S. sculpture purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Boole Biography (1815 - 1864)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 2, 1815, Lincoln, Eng.—died Dec. 8, 1864, Ballintemple, Ire.) British mathematician. Though basically self-taught and lacking a university degree, in 1849 he was appointed professor of mathematics at Queen&#8217;s College in Ireland. His original and remarkable general symbolic method of logical inference is fully stated in Laws of Thought (1854). Boole argued persuasively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosa Maria Bonheur Biography (1822 - 1899)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Marie-Rosalie Bonheur
born March 16, 1822, Bordeaux, France—died May 25, 1899, Melun) French animal painter. She was trained by her father, an art teacher, and began exhibiting regularly at the Paris Salon in 1841. Her unsentimental paintings of lions, tigers, horses, and other animals became very popular; The Horse Fair (1853) gained her an international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucrezia Borgia Biography (1480 - 1519)</title>
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(born April 18, 1480, Rome—died June 24, 1519, Ferrara, Papal States) Italian noblewoman. The daughter of the future pope Alexander VI and sister of Cesare Borgia, she was probably more an instrument for their ambitious projects than, as has been suggested, an active participant in their many crimes. Her three marriages into prominent families helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arna Bontemps Biography (1902 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Arna Wendell Bontemps
born Oct. 13, 1902, Alexandria, La., U.S.—died June 4, 1973, Nashville, Tenn.) American writer who depicted the lives and struggles of black Americans.
After graduating from Pacific Union College, Angwin, Calif., in 1923, Bontemps taught in New York and elsewhere. His poetry began to appear in the influential black magazines Opportunity and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cesare Borgia Biography (1475 - 1476)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[later duc de Valentinois
born  1475/76, probably Rome—died 1507, near Viana, Spain) Italian military leader, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, and brother of Lucrezia Borgia. He was made archbishop of Valencia (1492) and cardinal (1493). After his brother&#8217;s murder (1497), he took command of the papal armies. In 1498 he resigned his ecclesiastical offices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giovanni Bononcini Biography (1670 - 1747)</title>
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(born July 18, 1670, Modena, Duchy of Modena—died July 9, 1747, Vienna) Italian composer. His father was Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642–78), maestro di cappella of Modena Cathedral and the composer of numerous church and chamber sonatas. Giovanni himself served as maestro di cappella at San Giovanni in Monte; he later held desirable positions in various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helena Bonham Carter Biography (1966– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born on May 26, 1966, in London, England. Helena Bonham Carter is perhaps best known for playing quintessential English heroines. She made her cinematic debut as Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane (1985). Later film credits include Hamlet (1990), Howard&#8217;s End (1992), Mary Shelley&#8217;s Frankenstein (1994), and Twelfth Night (1996).
In 2001, Bonham Carter appeared in the remake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Bone Biography (1755 - 1834)</title>
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(born Feb. 6, 1755, Truro, Cornwall, Eng.—died Dec. 17, 1834, London) English painter whose miniature portraits in enamel were among the most outstanding produced in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
By 1800 the beauty of his portrait pieces had attracted the notice of the Royal Academy, to which he was admitted in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victor Borge Biography (1909 - 2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Borge Rosenbaum
born Jan. 3, 1909, Copenhagen, Den.—died Dec. 23, 2000, Greenwich, Conn., U.S.) Danish-born U.S. comedian and pianist. He studied at the Copenhagen Music Conservatory and later in Vienna and Berlin. Initially performing as a concert musician, he soon developed a style that combined comedy with classical music, and he toured throughout Europe. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonny Bono Biography (1935-1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Musician, politician. Born in Los Angeles, California.Bono began his music career as a songwriter and singer for Johnny Otis&#8217;sDig Records label in the early 1960s. In 1964, he recorded his first songwith then-girlfriend Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian), which was soon followed bya number of hits including, &#8220;I Got You Babe.&#8221; Sonny and Cher performed innightclubs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Hermann Bondi Biography (1919-2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Mathematical physicist and astronomer, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied at Cambridge, where he held academic posts (1945–54) after working for the British Admiralty during World War 2. He was appointed professor of mathematics at King&#8217;s College, London (1954), director-general of the European Space Research Organisation (1967–71), chief scientific adviser, Ministry of Defence (1971–7), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Björn Borg Biography (1956 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 6, 1956, Södertälje, Swed.) Swedish tennis player. Turning professional at age 14, Borg was noted for his powerful serve and two-handed backhand. He became the first man to win the Wimbledon singles championship five successive times (1976–80) since Laurie Doherty (1902–6) and the first to win the French Open four times in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chastity Bono Biography (1969-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress, activist. Born March 4, 1969 in Los Angeles, California. The daughter of pop duo Sonny Bono and Cher, Chastity was named after her mother’s first feature film. The openly gay activist was outed by a tabloid in 1990, and she is currently a member of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracy Bond Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fictional character. “Born in 1943,” the character of Tracy Bond appeared first in Ian Fleming’s book, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963) and later in the 1969 film adaptation. Originally, she was Teresa Draco, the daughter of Marc-Ange Draco, the leader of an organized crime syndicate. She was educated at a Swiss boarding school where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jules Bordet Biography (1870 - 1961)</title>
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(born June 13, 1870, Soignies, Belg.—died April 6, 1961, Brussels) Belgian physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1919 for his discovery of factors in blood serum that destroy bacteria; this work was vital to the diagnosis and treatment of many dangerous contagious diseases.
Bordet&#8217;s research on the destruction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bono Biography (1960-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Paul David Hewson
 Singer, activist. Born Paul Hewson on May 10, 1960, in Dublin, Ireland. The son of a Roman Catholic postal worker, Bono’s Protestant mother died when the boy was just 14. He joined the band U2 in October 1976 when he was in high school, and was dubbed “Bono Vox” (good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julian Bond Biography (1940 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born January 14, 1940, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) U.S. legislator and black civil rights leader, best known for his fight to take his duly elected seat in the Georgia House of Representatives.
The son of prominent educators, Bond attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he helped found a civil rights group and led a sit-in movement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Robert Borden Biography (1854 - 1937)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 26, 1854, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia—died June 10, 1937, Ottawa, Ont., Can.) Prime minister of Canada (1911–20). He practiced law in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1874 and later founded one of the largest law firms in the Maritime Provinces. In 1896 he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons; he became leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonnie Lu Nettles Biography (1927-1985)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cult leader, nurse. Born Bonnie Lu Trusdale in 1927. Bonnie Nettles will be best remembered as one of “The Two” who started the so-called UFO cult often referred to as Heaven’s Gate with Marshall Herff Applewhite. Raised in Houston as a Baptist, she knew the Bible well, but became interested in other worldly pursuits as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Bonaventure Biography (1217 - 1274)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Italian San Bonaventura, original name Giovanni Di Fidanza
born c. 1217, , Bagnoregio, Papal States—died July 15, 1274, Lyon; canonized April 14, 1482; feast day July 15) leading medieval theologian, minister general of the Franciscan order, and cardinal bishop of Albano. He wrote several works on the spiritual life and recodified the constitution of his order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simón Bolívar Biography (1783 - 1830)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname The Liberator , Spanish El Libertador
born July 24, 1783, Caracas, New Granada [now in Venezuela]—died December 17, 1830, near Santa Marta, Colombia) South American soldier and statesman who led the revolutions against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of New Granada. He was president of Gran Colombia (1819–30) and dictator of Peru (1823–26).
The son of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giovanni Boccaccio Biography (1313 - 1375)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1313, Paris, Fr.—died Dec. 21, 1375, Certaldo, Tuscany [Italy]) Italian poet and scholar, best remembered as the author of the earthy tales in the Decameron. With Petrarch he laid the foundations for the humanism of the Renaissance and raised vernacular literature to the level and status of the classics of antiquity.

Youth.
Boccaccio was the son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucien Bonaparte Biography (1775 - 1840)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born May 21, 1775, Ajaccio, Corsica—died June 29, 1840, Viterbo, Italy) French nobleman and politician. A brother of Napoleon, he became president of the Council of Five Hundred, and he helped Napoleon seize power in the Coup of 18–19 Brumaire. Lucien&#8217;s belief that Napoleon&#8217;s ambition jeopardized the cause of democracy led to strained relations between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giambattista Bodoni Biography (1740 - 1813)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 16, 1740, Saluzzo, Piedmont—died Nov. 29, 1813, Parma, French Empire) Italian typographer. Son of a printer, he served an apprenticeship at the press of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome. In 1768 he assumed management of the Royal Press of the duke of Parma. By the 1780s he was designing his own typefaces; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Bonaparte Biography (1778 - 1846)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Sept. 2, 1778, Ajaccio, Corsica—died July 25, 1846, Livorno, Italy) French nobleman and soldier. A brother of Napoleon, he accompanied Napoleon on the Italian campaign of 1796–97 and was his aide-de-camp in Egypt (1798–99). At Napoleon&#8217;s insistence, he married Hortense de Beauharnais in 1802, but the union proved unhappy and did not last. Proclaimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johann Jakob Bodmer Biography (1786 - 1864)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 6, 1786, Zürich, Switz.—died May 30, 1864, Zürich) Swiss inventor of machine tools and textile-making machinery. In 1824 he established a small factory in England to make textile machinery, and by 1833 he had a shop equipped with his own machine tools. Between 1839 and 1841 he patented more than 40 specialized machine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jérôme Bonaparte Biography (1784 - 1860)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 15, 1784, Ajaccio, Corsica—died June 24, 1860, Villegenis, France) French nobleman. He was the youngest brother of Napoleon, from whom he became estranged after marrying a U.S. resident (1803) without Napoleon&#8217;s consent; he later allowed his marriage to be annulled. Napoleon then married Jérôme to Princess Catherine of Württemberg and made him king [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johann Georg Bodmer Biography (1786 - 1864)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 6, 1786, Zürich, Switz.—died May 30, 1864, Zürich) Swiss inventor of machine tools and textile-making machinery. In 1824 he established a small factory in England to make textile machinery, and by 1833 he had a shop equipped with his own machine tools. Between 1839 and 1841 he patented more than 40 specialized machine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1450</link>
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		<title>Joseph Bonaparte Biography (1768 - 1844)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 7, 1768, Corte, Corsica—died July 28, 1844, Florence, Tuscany, Italy) French lawyer, diplomat, and soldier. Elder brother of Napoleon, he served during Napoleon&#8217;s reign as king of Naples (1806–08), where he abolished feudalism, reformed the monastic orders, and reorganized the judicial, financial, and educational systems. He was named king of Spain in 1808, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Bodin Biography (1530 - 1596)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1530, Angers, Fr.—died June 1596, Laon) French political philosopher. He studied at the University of Toulouse and later taught law there (1551–61). In 1571 he entered the household of the king&#8217;s brother, François, duke d&#8217;Alençon. He favoured negotiation with the Huguenots, with whom the government was engaged in a civil war, and opposed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caroline Bonaparte Biography (1782 - 1839)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 25, 1782, Ajaccio, Corsica—died May 18, 1839, Florence) Queen of Naples (1808–15). The youngest sister of Napoleon, she married Joachim Murat in 1800. Her ambitious nature was partially responsible for her husband&#8217;s becoming king of Naples, among other achievements. Her relations with Napoleon became strained as she associated herself with Murat&#8217;s shifting allegiances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niels Bohr Biography (1885 - 1962)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Niels Henrik David Bohr

(born Oct. 7, 1885, Copenhagen, Den.—died Nov. 18, 1962, Copenhagen) Danish physicist who was the first to apply the quantum theory, which restricts the energy of a system to certain discrete values, to the problem of atomic and molecular structure. For this work he received the Nobel Prize for Physics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bodhidharma Biography (501 - 600)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chinese Damo Japanese Daruma
(flourished 6th century ) Legendary Indian monk credited with the establishment of the Chan (Sn, or Zen) school of Buddhism. Considered the 28th Indian successor in a direct line from the Buddha Gautama, he is recognized by the Chan school as its first patriarch. Legend states that he traveled from India to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Marie-) Pauline Bonaparte Biography (1780 - 1825)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 20, 1780, Ajaccio, Corsica—died June 9, 1825, Florence) French noblewoman. A sister of Napoleon, in 1797 she married one of his staff officers, Gen. C.V.E. Leclerc (1772–1802). After Leclerc&#8217;s death, she married Prince Camillo F.L. Borghese (1803) and went with him to Rome. She soon tired of him and returned to Paris, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc &#8220;T Rex&#8221; Bolan Biography (1947–1977)</title>
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Marc Bolan was born Mark Feld on September 30, 1947 in East London. As a child, he discovered the rock and roll of artists such as Chuck Berry and became a Mod. When he was 9, he received a guitar and immediately began playing and performing. At 14, he was kicked out of school. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bodawpaya Biography (1740 - 1741)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1740/41—died 1819, Amarapura, Myanmar) King of Myanmar (Burma) (r. 1782–1819). He was a son of Alaungpaya and the sixth monarch of the Alaungpaya dynasty. Bodawpaya deposed his grandnephew to become king. In 1784 he invaded the kingdom of Arakan and deported more than 20,000 of its people as slaves; in 1785 he attempted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Bon Jovi Biography (1962-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Musician, actor. Born John Francis Bongiovi Jr. on March 2, 1962 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Jon was raised by his parents, Carol and John Bongiovi, a hairdresser. By his early teens, he was hanging out at local clubs, convinced that one day he would be a rock star.Idolizing local rising stars such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean-Bédel Bokassa Biography (1921 - 1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Bokassa I
(born Feb. 22, 1921, Bobangui [Central African Republic]—died Nov. 3, 1996, Bangui, Central African Republic) President of the Central African Republic (1966–77) and self-proclaimed emperor of the Central African Empire (1977–79). Son of a village chief, Bokassa joined the French army in 1939 and later received the Croix de Guerre for his service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Bochco Biography (1943– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 16, 1943, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. television writer, director, and producer. He worked as a scriptwriter and producer for Universal Studios (1966–78) and MTM Enterprises (1978–85) before forming his own production company in 1987. He cowrote and produced such successful television dramas as Hill Street Blues (1981–86), L.A. Law (1986–94), and NYPD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erma Bombeck Biography (1927-1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Humorist, writer, columnist, journalist. Born Erma Louise Fiste on February 21, 1927, in Dayton, Ohio. Erma Bombeck found the humor in the everyday experiences of being a wife and mother and shared it with her readers. But her early days were no laughing matter. Bombeck lost her father at the age of nine and her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Bok Biography (1863 - 1930)</title>
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(born Oct. 9, 1863, Den Helder, Neth.—died Jan. 9, 1930, Lake Wales, Fla., U.S.) Dutch-born U.S. editor. Raised in a poor immigrant family in Brooklyn, N.Y., Bok pursued a career in book and magazine publishing. As editor of the Ladies&#8217; Home Journal (1889–1919) he devised departments to inform women on diverse subjects and led campaigns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrea Bocelli Biography (1958– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tenor, born in Lajatico, Tuscany, NW Italy. Interested in music from an early age, he learned to play the piano, flute, and saxophone, and was often asked to sing at family gatherings. Visually impaired from birth, he became blind at the age of 12 following a football injury. He later studied law at the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alain Louis Bombard Biography (1924-2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Physician and marine biologist, born in Paris, France. In 1952, after preliminary trials in the Mediterranean, he set out across the Atlantic alone in his rubber dinghy L&#8217;Hérétique without food or water to prove his claim that shipwreck castaways could sustain life on nothing more than fish, plankton, rain water and controlled drinking of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrigo Boito Biography (1842 - 1918)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito
born Feb. 24, 1842, Padua, Lombardy-Venetia—died June 10, 1918, Milan, Italy) Italian composer and librettist. As a composer, he is remembered for his opera Mefistofele (1868). He wrote the text for Giuseppe Verdi&#8217;s Inno delle nazioni (1862) and revised the libretto for his Simon Boccanegra (1881), tasks that led to his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Umberto Boccioni Biography (1882 - 1916)</title>
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(born Oct. 19, 1882, Reggio di Calabria, Italy—died Aug. 16, 1916, Verona) Italian painter, sculptor, and theorist. He was trained in the studio of Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) in Rome. The most energetic member of the Futurist group ( Futurism), Boccioni helped publish Technical Manifesto of the Futurist Painters (1910), promoting the representation of modern technology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ludwig Boltzmann Biography (1844 - 1906)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 20, 1844, Vienna, Austria—died Sept. 5, 1906, Duino, Italy) Austrian physicist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Vienna and thereafter taught at several German and Austrian universities. He was one of the first European scientists to recognize the importance of James Clerk Maxwell&#8217;s electromagnetic theory. He explained the second law of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicolas Boileau Biography (1636 - 1711)</title>
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(born Nov. 1, 1636, Paris, France—died March 13, 1711, Paris) French poet and literary critic. His L&#8217;Art poétique (1674), a didactic treatise in verse setting out rules of composition of poetry in the classical tradition, provides valuable insight into the literary controversies of the period. He also translated the classical treatise On the Sublime, attributed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luigi Boccherini Biography (1743 - 1805)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 19, 1743, Lucca—died May 28, 1805, Madrid, Spain) Italian composer. Son of a musician, he received excellent early training and toured widely in Europe as a cellist. He held positions at the courts of Madrid and Prussia. His vast chamber music output includes some 125 string quintets (more than any other composer), some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guy Bolton Biography (1884 - 1979)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 23, 1884, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died Sept. 5, 1979, London) British-born U.S. playwright and librettist. The son of American parents, Bolton studied architecture before he began writing plays. His first play appeared on Broadway in 1911, but it was not until he began contributing to Broadway musicals that his fame spread. In collaboration with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adrien Boieldieu Biography (1775 - 1834)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 16, 1775, Rouen, France—died Oct. 8, 1834, Jarsy) French composer. Well known as a concert pianist, he taught piano at the Paris Conservatoire from 1798. His early opéras comiques won popularity in Paris, and he wrote several more operas as director of the French Opera in St. Petersburg (1804–10). Of his approximately 40 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lorena Bobbitt Biography (1970 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perpetrator of domestic abuse. Born Lorena Leonor Gallo in 1970 in Bucay, Ecuador. Lorena Bobbitt married John Wayne Bobbitt on June 18, 1989. Five years later, on the night of June 23, 1993, she severed her husband&#8217;s penis with a kitchen knife while he was sleeping. She then got in her car and flung the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Bolt Biography (1924 - 1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Robert Oxton Bolt
born Aug. 15, 1924, Sale, near Manchester, Eng.—died Feb. 20, 1995, near Petersfield, Hampshire) English screenwriter and dramatist noted for his epic screenplays.
Bolt began work in 1941 for an insurance company, attended Victoria University of Manchester in 1943, and then served in the Royal Air Force and the army during World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aage N. Bohr Biography (1922 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Aage Niels Bohr

(born June 19, 1922, Copenhagen, Den.) Danish physicist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physics with Ben R. Mottelson and James Rainwater for their work in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
Bohr was educated at the University of Copenhagen, where he received his doctorate in 1954. During the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Uecker Biography (1935 -)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baseball player, sportscaster, comedian, actor. Born Robert George Uecker on January 26, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An aspiring athlete, Bob Uecker was a huge fan of minor league baseball as a kid. In 1956, he signed with the Milwaukee Braves where he played catcher. Uecker, who later poked fun at his undistinguished playing career, did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce A(lan) Bolt Biography (1930-2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Seismologist, born in Largs, Australia. Director of the seismographic station of the University of California, Berkeley since his immigration in 1963, he related elastic wave dynamics to earthquakes and nuclear explosions.
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		<title>David Bohm Biography (1917 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 20, 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Penn., U.S.—died Oct. 27, 1992, London, Eng.) American-born British theoretical physicist who developed a causal, nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Born to an immigrant Jewish family, Bohm defied his father&#8217;s wishes that he pursue some practical occupation, such as joining the family&#8217;s furniture business, in order to study science. After receiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Schieffer Biography (1937 -)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Television journalist. Born Bob Lloyd Schieffer on February 25, 1937 in Austin, Texas. Raised in Fort Worth, Bob Schieffer attended Texas Christian University, where the journalism school was later named after him. He graduated and served in the U.S. Air Force before becoming a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He briefly worked for WBAP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Bolivar Biography (1783–1830)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname The Liberator , Spanish El Libertador
Political Figure
Simón José Antonio de la Santísma Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios was born on July 24, 1783 in Caracas, New Granada (now Venezuela). Bolívar was born into a prosperous family, who took their money from rich gold and copper mines they owned in Venezuela. Young Bolívar moved to Spain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul James Bohannan Biography (1920–2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthropologist, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA in 1920. He taught at Northwestern University (1959–75) and ended his career at the University of Southern California (1982–7). He published studies of African legal and economic anthropology, Africa and Africans (with Philip Curtin, 1964, revised 1971), Tiv Economy (1968, with L Bohannan), and Western middle-class concepts of marriage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Biography (1678 - 1751)</title>
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		<title>Wojciech Bogusawski Biography (1757 - 1829)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 9, 1757, Glinna, Pol.—died July 23, 1829, Warsaw) Polish actor, director, and playwright. He joined the Polish National Theatre in Warsaw as an actor in 1778 and later became its director (1783–1814). Considered the father of Polish theatre, he wrote over 80 plays, including numerous comedies adapted from western European writers as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Edwards Biography (1947- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Radio journalist and host, author. Born Robert Alan Edwards on May 16, 1947, in Louisville, Kentucky. Bob Edwards is best known as the host of the long-running public radio news program Morning Edition, a post he held for close to 25 years. Born and raised in Louisville, he went to the University of Louisville and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Boleyn Biography (1507 - 1536)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Bullen
born 1507?—died May 19, 1536, London, Eng.) British royal consort. After spending part of her childhood in France, Anne lived at the court of Henry VIII, who soon fell in love with her and began secret proceedings to rid himself of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. For six years Pope Clement VII [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Dirk Bogarde Biography (1921–99)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Derek Niven van den Bogaerde

(born March 28, 1921, London, Eng.—died May 8, 1999, London) British actor. The son of a Dutch-born art critic, he made his stage debut in 1939 and won a film contract from the Rank studios after World War II. After appearing for a decade mainly in light comedies such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Boateng Biography (1951 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Paul Yaw Boateng

(born June 14, 1951, London, England) British politician, the first person of African descent to serve in a British cabinet. He was the son of Kwaku Boateng, a lawyer who served as a cabinet minister in the Ghanaian government of Kwame Nkrumah, and Eleanor Boateng. He received his early education in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boethius Biography (470 - 475)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

(born  470–475?, Rome—died 524, Pavia?) Roman scholar, Christian philosopher, and statesman. Born to a patrician family, he became consul in 510 and subsequently chief minister to the Ostrogothic king Theodoric. Accused of treason and condemned to death, he wrote his Neoplatonic The Consolation of Philosophy while in prison awaiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franz Boas Biography (1858 - 1942)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born July 9, 1858, Minden, Westphalia, Prussia [Germany]—died Dec. 22, 1942, New York, N.Y., U.S.) German-born American anthropologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the founder of the relativistic, culture-centred school of American anthropology that became dominant in the 20th century. During his tenure at Columbia University in New York City (1899–1942), he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddy Bolden Biography (1868 - 1931)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Charles Joseph Bolden
born Sept. 6, 1877, New Orleans, La., U.S.—died Nov. 4, 1931, Jackson, La.) cornetist and founding father of jazz. Many jazz musicians, including Jelly Roll Morton and the great trumpeter Louis Armstrong, acclaimed him as one of the most powerful musicians ever to play jazz.
Little is known about the details of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hermann Boerhaave Biography (1668 - 1738)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 31, 1668, Voorhout, Neth.—died Sept. 23, 1738, Leiden) Dutch physician. As a professor at the University of Leiden, he was renowned as a teacher, and he is often credited with founding the modern system of teaching medical students at the patient&#8217;s bedside. His reputation as one of the greatest physicians of the 18th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bo Juyi Biography (772 - 846)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Po Chü-i
born 772, Xinzheng, China—died 846, Luoyang) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. He began composing poetry at age 5, and at age 28 he passed the examinations for the Chinese civil service. He rose steadily in official life and became the informal leader of a group of poets who rejected the courtly style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, prince von Wahlstatt Biography (1742 - 1819)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 16, 1742, Rostock, Mecklenburg—died Sept. 12, 1819, Krieblowitz, near Kanth, Silesia, Prussia) Prussian military leader. He joined the Prussian army in 1760 and commanded troops against the French (1793–94) and in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1813 he came out of retirement to command Prussian troops against the French, defeating them at Wahlstatt and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlo Blasis Biography (1803 - 1878)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Nov. 4, 1803, Naples, Kingdom of Naples—died Jan. 15, 1878, Cernobbio, Italy) Italian ballet teacher and writer on the technique, history, and theory of dance. He danced briefly at the Paris Opéra before being appointed director of the ballet school at Milan&#8217;s La Scala in 1837, where he would train many of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enid Blyton Biography (1897 - 1968)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 11, 1897, London, Eng.—died Nov. 28, 1968, London) English children&#8217;s writer. Trained as a schoolteacher, she published her first book, Child Whispers, in 1922. She went on to produce more than 600 children&#8217;s books and numerous magazine articles. She is probably best known for several book series, including those featuring Noddy, the Famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Biography (1867 - 1928)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 29, 1867, Valencia, Spain—died Jan. 28, 1928, Menton, France) Spanish writer and politician. An ardent republican, he was elected to the Cortes (parliament) but later settled on the French Riviera because of his opposition to the military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. His early novels are primarily intense depictions of life in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Bly Biography (1926 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 23, 1926, Madison, Minn., U.S.) U.S. poet and translator. Bly attended Harvard University and the University of Iowa. In 1958 he founded the magazine The Fifties (later The Sixties), which published the works of young poets. He helped found American Writers Against the Vietnam War, and he donated his 1968 National Book Award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blondie Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US new wave group, formed in 1974 with members Deborah ‘Debbie’ Harry (1945– , vocals) and Chris Stein (1950– , guitar), later joined by Jimmy Destri (1954– , keyboards), Gary Valentine (bass), and Clem Burke (1955 –, drums). Their 1978 album Parallel Lines included the hit single ‘Heart Of Glass’, which reached number 1 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimmy Blanton Biography (1921 - 1942)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of James Blanton
born October 1918, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.—died July 30, 1942, Monrovia, California) African American jazz musician whose innovative string bass techniques and concepts, displayed during his two years in the Duke Ellington band, made him by far the major influence on subsequent jazz bassists for several decades.
While based in St. Louis, Blanton played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nellie Bly Biography (1864 - 1922)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Elizabeth Cochrane
born May 5, 1864, Cochran&#8217;s Mills, Pa., U.S.—died Jan. 27, 1922, New York, N.Y.) U.S. newspaper writer. Bly started writing for The Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1885, producing feature articles on such subjects as divorce and slum life. After joining the New York World, she feigned insanity to get into an asylum and wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aleksandr Blok Biography (1880 - 1921)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 28, 1880, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Aug. 7, 1921, Petrograd [St. Petersburg]) Russian poet and dramatist. He was the principal representative of Russian Symbolism ( Symbolist movement). He later rejected what he termed their sterile bourgeois intellectualism and embraced the Bolshevik movement as essential for the redemption of the Russian people. Influenced by early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Louis) Auguste Blanqui Biography (1805 - 1881)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 1, 1805, Puget-Théniers, France—died Jan. 1, 1881, Paris) French socialist and revolutionary. A legendary martyr-figure of French radicalism, Blanqui believed that there could be no socialist transformation of society without a temporary dictatorship that would eradicate the old order. His activities, including the formation of various secret societies, caused him to be imprisoned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Blunt Biography (1907 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 26, 1907, Bournemouth, Hampshire, Eng.—died March 26, 1983, London) British art historian and spy. He began his espionage for the Soviet Union after meeting Guy Burgess at the University of Cambridge in the 1930s. From 1937 Blunt had a brilliant career as an art historian, publishing scores of scholarly works that largely established [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicolaas Bloembergen Biography (1920 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 11, 1920, Dordrecht, Neth.) Dutch-born American physicist, corecipient with Arthur Leonard Schawlow of the United States and Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn of Sweden (qq.v.) of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physics for their revolutionary spectroscopic studies of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. Bloembergen made a pioneering use of lasers in these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fanny Blankers-Koen Biography (1918- 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[neéFrancina Elsje Koen
born April 26, 1918, Baarn, The Netherlands—died January 25, 2004, Amsterdam) versatile Dutch track-and-field athlete, who was the first woman to win four gold medals at a single Olympics. She set world records in seven events.
Blankers-Koen first achieved success as a teenager, winning a Dutch national championship in the 800-metre run in 1935; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judy Blume Biography (1938– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néeSussman
Writer, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA. She studied at New York University (1960), married in 1959, and was divorced in 1976. Bored with suburban life, she developed a creative outlet in writing and illustrating children&#8217;s stories. After many rejection slips, she published Are You There God? It&#8217;s Me, Margaret (1970), Blubber (1974), Tiger Eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc Bloch Biography (1886 - 1944)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 6, 1886, Lyon, France—died June 16, 1944, near Lyon) French historian. He served in the French infantry in World War I. From 1919 he taught medieval history at the University of Strasbourg, where he cofounded the important periodical Annales d&#8217;histoire économique et sociale. He taught economic history at the Sorbonne from 1936. During [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Blanda Biography (1927 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Sept. 17, 1927, Youngwood, Pa., U.S.) U.S. football player. He played for the University of Kentucky. As a professional quarterback and kicker, he played for the Chicago Bears (1949–58), Houston Oilers (1960–66), and Oakland Raiders (1967–76), setting still-standing records for most seasons played (26), most games played (340), and most points after touchdowns (943). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baruch S(amuel) Blumberg Biography (1925 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Baruch Samuel Blumberg

(born July 28, 1925, New York, N.Y., U.S.) American research physician whose discovery of an antigen that provokes antibody response against hepatitis B led to the development by other researchers of a successful vaccine against the disease. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 with D. Carleton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Konrad (Emil) Bloch Biography (1912 - 2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Konrad Emil Bloch

(born January 21, 1912, Neisse, Germany [now Nysa, Poland]—died October 15, 2000, Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S.) German-born American biochemist who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Feodor Lynen for their discoveries concerning the natural synthesis of cholesterol and fatty acids.
After receiving a chemical engineering degree in 1934 at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby “Blue” Bland Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Robert Calvin Bland
born Jan. 27, 1930, Rosemark, Tenn., U.S.) American rhythm-and-blues singer noted for his rich baritone voice, sophisticated style, and sensual delivery.
Bland began his career in Memphis, Tennessee, with bluesman B.B. King and ballad singer Johnny Ace (all three were part of a loose aggregation of musicians known as the Beale Streeters). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Léon Blum Biography (1872 - 1950)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 9, 1872, Paris, France—died March 30, 1950, Jouy-en-Josas) French politician and writer. He made a name as a brilliant literary and drama critic, then entered politics in the French Socialist Party. As a member of the Chamber of Deputies (1919–28, 1929–40), he became a leader of the Socialists from 1921. The chief architect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry and Richard Bloch Biography ()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Accountants and brothers: Henry Wollman Bloch (1922- ) and Richard A Bloch (1926-2004), born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The sons of a lawyer whose own father came west as a scout for Kit Carson, the brothers founded the tax preparation firm H &#38; R Bloch in Kansas City in 1955, opening a branch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rufino Blanco-Fombona Biography (1874 - 1944)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 17, 1874, Caracas, Venezuela—died October 17, 1944, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Venezuelan literary historian and man of letters who played a major role in bringing the works of Latin American writers to world attention.
Jailed during the early years of the dictatorship (1908–35) of Juan Vicente Gómez, Blanco-Fombona fled to Europe, where he established Editorial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Blow Biography (1649 - 1708)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[baptized Feb. 23, 1649, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died Oct. 1, 1708, Westminster, London) British composer, organist, and teacher. He was appointed organist at Westminster Abbey in 1668; in 1774 he became master of the children at the Chapel Royal, and he later held various equally prominent posts, in which he influenced many students, including composer Henry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Felix Bloch Biography (1905 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 23, 1905, Zürich, Switz.—died  Sept. 10, 1983, Zürich) Swiss-born American physicist who shared (with E.M. Purcell) the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1952 for developing the nuclear magnetic resonance method of measuring the magnetic field of atomic nuclei.
Bloch&#8217;s doctoral dissertation (University of Leipzig, 1928) promulgated a quantum theory of solids that provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cate Blanchett Biography (1969-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress. Born in Melbourne, Australia. Blanchett began making a name for herself in the theater world soon after graduating from Australia&#8217;s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. She quickly won roles in the Sydney Theater Company&#8217;s productions of Top Girls and Kafka Dances and won the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Newcomer Award for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Blount Biography (1749 - 1800)</title>
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(born March 26, 1749, Bertie county, N.C.—died March 21, 1800, Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.) U.S. politician. He served in the American Revolution before being elected to six terms in the North Carolina legislature. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. As the first governor of lands ceded to the U.S. by North Carolina, he worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernest Bloch Biography (1880 - 1959)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 24, 1880, Geneva, Switz.—died July 15, 1959, Portland, Ore., U.S.) Swiss-born U.S. composer. He conducted and lectured at the Geneva Conservatory before moving in 1916 to the U.S., where he served as director of the San Francisco Conservatory (1925–30) and taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1942–52). He worked in tonal, atonal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Blanchard Biography (1788 - 1864)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 24, 1788, Sutton, Mass., U.S.—died April 16, 1864, Boston, Mass.) U.S. inventor. In 1818 he invented a lathe capable of turning irregular shapes, such as a gunstock. It duplicated the form of a pattern object by transmitting to the cutting tool the motion of a friction wheel rolling over the pattern. His invention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Blount Biography (1565 - 1633)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blount also spelled Blunt

(born c. 1565—died after 1632) publisher and translator who, with Isaac and William Jaggard, printed the First Folio of William Shakespeare&#8217;s plays (1623).
After serving as an apprentice to London publisher William Ponsonby, Blount in 1588 became a freeman of the Stationers&#8217; Company and opened a bookshop in London. His early publications include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Günter Blobel Biography (1936 - )</title>
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(born May 21, 1936, Waltersdorf, Silesia, Ger. [now Niegosawice, Pol.]) German-born cellular and molecular biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1999 for his discovery that proteins have signals that govern their movement and position in the cell.
Blobel received a medical degree at Eberhard-Karl University of Tübingen, Germany, in 1960 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean-Pierre-François Blanchard Biography (1753 - 1809)</title>
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(born July 4, 1753, Les Andelys, France—died March 7, 1809, Paris) French balloonist. In 1785 he made the first aerial crossing of the English Channel, accompanied by John Jeffries, a U.S. doctor. He invented a parachute in 1785. His balloon flights in other European countries and in the U.S. in 1793 spurred an interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leonard Bloomfield Biography (1887 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born April 1, 1887, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died April 18, 1949, New Haven, Conn.) U.S. linguist. He began his career as a philologist trained in Indo-European, especially Germanic languages. He taught Germanic philology at the University of Chicago (1927–40) and linguistics at Yale (1940–49). In Language (1933), one of the clearest 20th-century presentations of linguistics, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hans Blix Biography (1928 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 28, 1928, Uppsala, Swed.) Swedish diplomat, who was director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA; 1981–97) and served as the chief weapons inspector for the United Nations (UN; 2000–03) during the lead-up to the Iraq War.
Blix studied at Uppsala University in Sweden and Columbia University in New York City before earning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doc Blanchard Biography (1924– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[popular name of Felix Anthony Blanchard Jr
Player of American football, born in McColl, South Carolina, USA. A powerful fullback, he paired with halfback Glenn Davis to lead West Point teams to undefeated seasons (1944–6), while earning All-America honours and the 1945 Heisman Trophy.
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		<title>Amelia Bloomer Biography (1818 - 1894)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Amelia Jenks
Social reformer, women’s suffrage activist, writer, publisher. Born on May 27, 1818, in Homer, New York. While she is best known for advocating a certain style of dress reform, Amelia Bloomer also worked on behalf of women’s rights and in the temperance movement. Around 1840, she married Dexter Bloomer. Despite having little formal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc Blitzstein Biography (1905 - 1964)</title>
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(born March 2, 1905, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Jan. 22, 1964, Fort-de-France, Martinique) U.S. composer. He studied at the Curtis Institute, then with the conductor Nadia Boulanger in Paris and the composer Arnold Schoenberg in Berlin. His best-known works were for the theatre: The Cradle Will Rock (1937), the circumstances of whose production by Orson Welles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mel Blanc Biography (1908 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born May 30, 1908, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.—died July 10, 1989, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. entertainer. He began his career as a musician on NBC radio, and in 1933 he joined a daily radio program, for which he created several voices to augment the cast. In 1937 he joined the cartoon department of Warner Brothers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasker Bliss Biography (1853 - 1930)</title>
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(born Dec. 31, 1853, Lewisburg, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 9, 1930, Washington, D.C.) U.S. general. After attending West Point (1875), he served in various military assignments, including that of instructor at West Point and military attaché at the U.S. legation in Madrid. In the Spanish-American War, he was chief of staff under Gen. James H. Wilson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leonard Bloomfield Biography (1887 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 1, 1887, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died April 18, 1949, New Haven, Conn.) U.S. linguist. He began his career as a philologist trained in Indo-European, especially Germanic languages. He taught Germanic philology at the University of Chicago (1927–40) and linguistics at Yale (1940–49). In Language (1933), one of the clearest 20th-century presentations of linguistics, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1356</link>
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		<title>Sir Arthur Bliss Biography (1891 - 1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 2, 1891, London, Eng.—died March 27, 1975, London) British composer. He studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. Though he was compositionally adventurous at first, he later adopted a conservative, Romantic style. His works include A Colour Symphony (1922), Pastoral (1928), the choral symphony Morning Heroes (1930), Music for Strings (1936), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfred Blalock Biography (1899 - 1964)</title>
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(born April 5, 1899, Culloden, Ga., U.S.—died Sept. 15, 1964, Baltimore, Md.) U.S. surgeon. He received an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. His research, showing that traumatic and hemorrhagic shock resulted from loss of blood volume, led to volume-replacement treatment, which saved countless lives during World War II. He is remembered for his development, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amelia Bloomer Biography (1818 - 1894)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Amelia Jenks
Social reformer, women’s suffrage activist, writer, publisher. Born on May 27, 1818, in Homer, New York. While she is best known for advocating a certain style of dress reform, Amelia Bloomer also worked on behalf of women’s rights and in the temperance movement. Around 1840, she married Dexter Bloomer. Despite having little formal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Bligh Biography (1754 - 1817)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 9, 1754, county of Cornwall, Eng.—died Dec. 7, 1817, London) English admiral. He went to sea at the age of seven and joined the Royal Navy in 1770. After serving as the sailing master on Capt. James Cook&#8217;s final voyage (1776–80), he was named to command the HMS Bounty in 1787. While en [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art Blakey Biography (1919 - 1990)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Abdullah Ibn Buhaina
born Oct. 11, 1919, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 16, 1990, New York, N.Y.) American drummer and bandleader noted for his extraordinary drum solos, which helped define the offshoot of bebop known as “hard bop” and gave the drums a significant solo status. His style was characterized by thunderous press rolls, cross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Bloomberg Biography (1942-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Michael Rubens Bloomberg
 Businessman, politician. Born Michael Rubens Bloomberg on February 14, 1942 in Medford, Massachusetts. The son of a bookkeeper, Bloomberg put himself through Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University, where he earned an MBA in 1966. His first Wall Street job was with Salomon Brothers, where he quickly climbed the ladder, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eugen Bleuler Biography (1857 - 1939)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 30, 1857, Zollikon, Switz.—died July 15, 1939, Zollikon) Swiss psychiatrist. He is best known for his studies of schizophrenia and for introducing (1908) the term for the disorder previously called dementia praecox. Bleuler argued (against accepted wisdom) that schizophrenia was more than one disease, was not always incurable, and did not always progress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert (Francis) Blakeslee Biography (1874 - 1954)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 9, 1874, Geneseo, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 16, 1954, Northampton, Mass.) U.S. botanist and geneticist. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. In his dissertation he became the first person to describe sexuality in the lower fungi. His later experimental work focused on higher plants. After a long tenure with the Carnegie Institution&#8217;s Cold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helena Blavatsky Biography (1831 - 1891)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Helena Petrovna Hahn known as Madame Blavatsky
born Aug. 12, 1831, Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died May 8, 1891, London, Eng.) Russian spiritualist and writer. After a brief marriage, she studied occultism and spiritualism and traveled through Europe, Asia, and the U.S. In 1873 in New York City she became a close companion of Henry Olcott [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harriot Stanton Blatch Biography (1856–1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néeStanton
Women&#8217;s rights activist, writer. Born on January 20, 1856, in Seneca Falls, New York. The daughter of activists, Harriot Stanton Blatch followed in her mother’s footsteps to become an important contributor to the women’s suffrage movement. She worked with her mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony on the second volume of History of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Bloom Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 11, 1930, New York City, New York, U.S.) American literary critic known for his innovative interpretations of literary history and of the creation of literature.
Bloom&#8217;s first language was Yiddish, and he also learned Hebrew before English. He attended Cornell (B.A., 1951) and Yale (Ph.D., 1955) universities and began teaching at Yale in 1955; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claire Bloom Biography (1931 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Claire Blume

(born February 15, 1931, London) English dramatic actress noted for her moving portrayals of Shakespearean heroines. She also played on stage, in television, and in motion pictures.
She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. At age 14 she tried out for the part of Juliet with the company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Blass Biography (1922 - 2002)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of William Ralph Blass
born June 22, 1922, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.—died June 12, 2002, New Preston, Connecticut) American designer who helped define the relaxed, pared-down elegance that would characterize American fashion in the late 20th century.
Blass left home at age 17 to attend the Parsons School of Design in New York City. He served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Blake Biography (1757 - 1827)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 28, 1757, London, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1827, London) English poet, painter, engraver, and visionary. Though he did not attend school, he was trained as an engraver at the Royal Academy and opened a print shop in London in 1784. He developed an innovative technique for producing coloured engravings and began producing his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blondin Biography (1824 - 1897)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Jean-François Gravelet

(born Feb. 28, 1824 , Hesdin, Fr.—died Feb. 22, 1897, Little Ealing, near London, Eng.) French tightrope walker. After training as an acrobat, he achieved fame, first in 1859, with his many crossings of Niagara Falls on a tightrope 1,100 ft (335 m) long, 160 ft (48 m) above the water. Each time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama Biography (1961-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
QUICK FACTS
Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)
Lives in: Chicago, Illinois
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Height: 6&#8242; 1&#8243; (1.87m)
Family: Married wife Michelle in 1992, 2 daughters Malia and Sasha
Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)
Religion: United Church of Christ
Drives a: Ford Escape hybrid, Chrysler 300C
Education:
- Graduated: Columbia University (1983) - Major: Political Science
- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Chow Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Chow, a damn fine person, friend of the community, Ultimate Fighting Championship contestant, member of the Save the Whales Foundation, the man who controls the black market on baby seal pelts and member of the “probably yo’ daddy” foundation.
Master of The TechZone and TTZ Media Network. Creator of some of the fastest computers the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ShoeMoney Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[n the 1980’s, Jeremy Schoemaker’s mom purchased an Apple IIc. Schoemaker found it amazing! He began to write simple programs on the Apple, mostly consisting of repeating test messages that said, “My mom is cool.
1995-Schoemaker was an appliance salesman at Sears when a customer offered him a job at an ISP in Moline, IL. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Blake Biography (1933-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor. Born Michael Gubitosi (professionally known as Robert Blake), on September 18, 1933, in Nutley, New Jersey. Introduced to the entertainment industry at an early age, Blake spent his childhood performing with his family’s vaudeville act. After moving to California, he had a five-year stint with MGM Studios, where he appeared in a string [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Black Biography (1890 - 1945)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 20, 1890, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.—died March 4, 1945, London) British manager and producer of entertainments. Black originated the brilliant, long-lived “Crazy Gang” revues at the London Palladium and later at the Victoria Palace, London, and was a pioneer of the motion-picture business.
As a young man, Black helped his father establish the first permanent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eubie Blake Biography (1883-1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of James Hubert Blake
 Pianist and composer. Born James Hubert Blake on February 7, 1883 in Baltimore, Maryland. The son of former slaves, Blake began playing his family’s pump organ at the age of four, launching a music career that would span eight decades.At 15, Blake was playing in local saloons and brothels, eventually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clint Black Biography (1962-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Country singer and songwriter. Born February 4, 1962, in Long Branch, New Jersey. A native of New Jersey, Black was raised in Houston, Texas. Influenced by a wide variety of musical acts, including George Jones, Lefty Frizzell, and Dire Straits, Black was playing acoustic guitar and singing by age 15. After dropping out of high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Blake Biography (1833 - 1912)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 13, 1833, Adelaide, Upper Canada—died March 1, 1912, Toronto, Ont., Can.) Canadian politician. Blake was called to the bar in 1856 and created a queen&#8217;s counsel in 1864. In 1867 he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons. He served as premier of Ontario (1871–72) and minister of justice (1875–77) in Alexander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Hawk Biography (1767 - 1838)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indian name Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak


(born 1767, Sauk Sautenuk, Virginia Colony—died October 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, Iowa) leader of a faction of Sauk and Fox Indians. Supported by part of the two tribes, Black Hawk contested the disposition of 50 million acres (20 million hectares) of territory that had supposedly been granted to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marie-Claire Blais Biography (1939 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 5, 1939, Quebec, Que., Can.) French-Canadian novelist and poet. In two early, dreamlike novels, Mad Shadows (1959) and Tête blanche (1960), she staked out her territory, working-class people doomed to unrelieved sorrow and grinding poverty. A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (1965) received the Prix Médicis and was widely translated and discussed. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1328</link>
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		<title>Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson Biography (1832 - 1910)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 8, 1832, Kvikne, Nor.—died April 26, 1910, Paris, France) poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, editor, public speaker, theatre director, and one of the most prominent public figures in the Norway of his day. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903 and is generally known, together with Henrik Ibsen, Alexander Kielland, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Blair Biography (1953 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Anthony Charles Lynton

(born May 6, 1953, Edinburgh, Scot.) British politician and prime minister (1997–2007). He was the United Kingdom&#8217;s youngest prime minister since 1812 and the longest-serving Labour Party prime minister. Blair was a lawyer before winning election to the House of Commons in 1983. Entering the shadow cabinet of the Labour Party in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1326</link>
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		<title>Jussi Björling Biography (1911 - 1960)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Johan Jonaton Björling
(born Feb. 2, 1911, Stora Tuna, Swed.—died Sept. 9, 1960, Siarö) Swedish tenor. He began to sing in public as a child and toured Europe and the U.S. with his family. Recruited by the Royal Swedish Opera in 1928, he was soon a star performer. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1325</link>
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		<title>Linda Blair Biography (1959-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress. Born Linda Denise Blair on January 22, 1959 in Westport, Connecticut. The daughter of a job-placement executive and a real estate agent, Blair began modeling and acting at the age of six. When she was 15, she received a Golden Globe for her supporting role as Regan, a young teen possessed by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Björk Biography (1965 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Björk Gudmundsdottir

(born Nov. 21, 1965, Reykjavík, Iceland) Icelandic singer-songwriter and actress, best known for her solo work covering a wide variety of music styles.
Björk recorded her first solo album, a collection of cover versions of popular songs, as an 11-year-old music student in 1977. Throughout her teens she performed with various short-lived bands, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry William Blair Biography (1834 - 1920)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 6, 1834, Campton, N.H., U.S.—died March 14, 1920, Washington, D.C.) U.S. politician. He practiced law from 1859 and served in the New Hampshire state legislature before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (1875–79) and Senate (1879–91). In 1876 he sought to give revenues from the sale of public lands to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bjork Biography (1965-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer.
Musician, singer, actress. Born Bjork Gudmundsdottir on November 21, 1965 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Having grown up in a highly musical household, Bjork released her first album of traditional Icelandic folk songs when she was only 11.
Throughout her teen years, Bjork sang for a series of anarchist punk bands. In 1986, Bjork and fellow Kukl members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonnie Kathleen Blair Biography (1964-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professional Speed skater
Speed skater. Born Bonnie Kathleen Blair on March 18, 1964 in Cornwall, New York.  The youngest of six children, Bonnie Blair was raised in Champaign, Ilinois, and joined the national speed skating team after graduating from high school. She made a promising show at her first Olympics in Sarajevo at age 19, finishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georges Bizet Biography (1838 - 1875)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet

(born Oct. 25, 1838, Paris, France—died June 3, 1875, Bougival) French composer. Son of a music teacher, he gained admission to the Paris Conservatoire at age 9, and at age 17 he wrote the precocious Symphony in C Major (1855). Intent on success on the operatic stage, he produced The Pearl Fishers (1863), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1319</link>
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		<title>James G. Blaine Biography (1830 - 1893)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 31, 1830, West Brownsville, Pa., U.S.—died Jan. 27, 1893, Washington, D.C.) U.S. politician and diplomat. He moved to Maine in 1854 to become editor of the Kennebec Journal, a crusading Republican newspaper. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1863–76), becoming speaker in 1868. An advocate of moderation in the Republican Party, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Bixby Biography (1934-1993)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born Wilfred Bailey Bixby on January 22, 1934 in San Francisco, California. After graduating from Lowell High School, Bixby attended San Francisco College to pursue a major in acting and then switched to the University of California at Berkeley. After college he held numerous odd jobs, including modeling, before landing his first television appearance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Blackwell Biography (1821 - 1910)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Physician, educator. Born on February 3, 1821, near Bristol, England. Elizabeth Blackwell broke into the field of medicine to become the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. She became a leading public health activist during her lifetime.
At the age of 11, Elizabeth Blackwell and her family moved to the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Otto, prince von Bismarck Biography (1815 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 1, 1815, Schönhausen, Altmark, Prussia—died July 30, 1898, Friedrichsruh, near Hamburg) Prussian statesman who founded the German Empire in 1871 and served as its chancellor for 19 years. Born into the Prussian landowning elite, Bismarck studied law and was elected to the Prussian Diet in 1849. In 1851 he was appointed Prussian representative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Joseph Blackwell Biography (1929 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 10, 1929, New Orleans, La., U.S.—died Oct. 7, 1992, Hartford, Conn.) American jazz drummer who was known for his role in the development of free jazz beginning in the 1960s.
Blackwell played with rhythm-and-blues groups in New Orleans, where he was influenced by the city&#8217;s musical tradition and by such drummers as Paul Barbarin. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1314</link>
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		<title>William Avery Bishop Biography (1894 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Billy Bishop
(born Feb. 8, 1894, Owen Sound, Ont., Can.—died Sept. 11, 1956, West Palm Beach, Fla., U.S.) Canadian World War I fighter ace. Educated at the Royal Military College, he transferred from the cavalry to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915. While serving in France in 1917, he shot down 72 enemy aircraft, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1313</link>
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		<title>Sir William Blackstone Biography (1723 - 1780)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 10, 1723, London, Eng.—died Feb. 14, 1780, Wallingford, Oxfordshire) British jurist. Orphaned at age 12, he was educated at public school and later at Pembroke College, Oxford, at the expense of his uncle, a London surgeon. He was elected a fellow of All Souls College in 1744, and in 1746 he became a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joey Bishop Biography (1918-2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Abraham Gottlieb
Comedian and actor Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of Frank Sinatra&#8217;s Rat Pack, died Wednesday night (Oct. 17, 2007) of multiple causes at his home in Newport Beach, California.
Bishop was born Joesph Abraham Gottlieb on February 3, 1918, in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents.  He grew up in South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Blackstone Biography (1885–1965)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Harry Boughton
Magician, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. In a career that began in vaudeville in 1904 and continued in television in the 1960s, he enjoyed his greatest success touring with a full evening magic show (1920–50). Although he featured elaborate ‘effects’ magic - a floating lightball, a vanishing birdcage - he was also adept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J(ohn) Michael Bishop Biography (1936 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full John Michael Bishop

(born Feb. 22, 1936, York, Pa., U.S.) American virologist and co-winner (with Harold Varmus) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1989 for achievements in clarifying the origins of cancer.
Bishop graduated from Gettysburg College (Pa.) in 1957 and from Harvard Medical School in 1962. After spending two years in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry A(ndrew) Blackmun Biography (1908 - 1999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 12, 1908, Nashville, Ill., U.S.—died March 4, 1999, Arlington, Va.) U.S. jurist. He received his law degree from Harvard (1932) and taught law at the St. Paul College of Law (1935–41) while advancing to general partner in a Minnesota law firm. After serving as resident counsel to the Mayo Clinic (1950–59), he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1308</link>
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		<title>Elizabeth Bishop Biography (1911 - 1979)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born February 8, 1911, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 6, 1979, Boston, Massachusetts) American Pulitzer-Prize winning poet known for her polished, witty, descriptive verse. Her short stories and her poetry first were published in The New Yorker and other magazines.
Bishop was reared by her maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia and by an aunt in Boston. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick M.S. Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea Biography (1897 - 1974)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

(born Nov. 18, 1897, London, Eng.—died July 13, 1974, London) winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948 for his discoveries in the field of cosmic radiation, which he accomplished primarily with cloud-chamber photographs that revealed the way in which a stable atomic nucleus can be disintegrated by bombarding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Werner Bischof Biography (1916 - 1954)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 26, 1916, Zürich, Switz.—found dead May 16, 1954, Peruvian Andes) Swiss photojournalist. He studied at the Zürich Arts and Crafts School (1932–36). In 1942 he began working for the picture magazine Du, for which he photographed war-torn France, Germany, and The Netherlands. In 1949 he joined the cooperative photographers&#8217; agency Magnum Photos. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackbeard Biography (1718 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Edward Teach, Teach also spelled Thatch

(born , Bristol?, England—died November 22, 1718, Ocracoke Island, North Carolina [U.S.]) one of history&#8217;s most famous pirates, who became an imposing figure in American folklore.
Thought to have been active as a privateer for the British during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–13), Blackbeard was first heard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Harrison Birtwistle Biography (1934– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born July 15, 1934, Accrington, Lancashire, Eng.) British composer. He began as a clarinetist, shifting to composition in his 20s. He cofounded the Pierrot Players with Peter Maxwell Davies (1967) but felt limited by the group&#8217;s size. He concentrated on exploring large-scale time structures; his music&#8217;s form is controlled by complex cyclical principles that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir James Black Biography (1924 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Sir James Whyte Black

(born June 14, 1924, Uddingston, Scot.) British pharmacologist who (along with George H. Hitchings and Gertrude B. Elion) received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for his development of two important drugs, propranolol and cimetidine.
Black earned a medical degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James G. Birney Biography (1792 - 1857)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 4, 1792, Danville, Ky., U.S.—died Nov. 25, 1857, Eagleswood, N.J.) U.S. politician and antislavery leader. He practiced law in Danville, Ky., before moving to Alabama, where he was elected to the state legislature in 1819. He became active in the abolition movement and in 1837 was elected secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1301</link>
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		<title>Earle Birney Biography (1904 - 1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born May 13, 1904, Calgary, Alta., Northwest Territories [Canada]—died Sept. 3, 1995, Toronto, Ont.) Canadian poet and educator. Birney received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and brought out his first collection of poetry, David (1942, Governor General&#8217;s Award), during his time there. After serving in World War II, he published Now Is Time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Black Biography (1969-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, Musician
Actor, musician. Born on April 7, 1969, in Santa Monica, California. One of the more popular character actors of recent years, Black&#8217;s acerbic wit and high-energy antics have made him a standard bearer for the Generation X demographic.
Black attended UCLA where he became a member of Tim Robbins&#8217; Actors Gang, a Los Angeles-based performance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st earl of Birkenhead Biography (1872 - 1930)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 12, 1872, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Eng.—died Sept. 30, 1930, London) British politician. Elected to the House of Commons in 1906, he became noted as an orator and soon became a leader of the Conservative Party. As attorney general (1915–18), he successfully prosecuted Roger Casement. As lord chancellor (1919–22), he secured passage of the Law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1298</link>
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		<title>Hugo Black Biography (1886 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Hugo La Fayette Black


(born Feb. 27, 1886, Harlan, Clay county, Ala., U.S.—died Sept. 25, 1971, Bethesda, Md.) lawyer, politician, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1937–71). Black&#8217;s legacy as a Supreme Court justice derives from his support of the doctrine of selective incorporation, according to which the Fourteenth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1297</link>
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		<title>Vannoccio Biringuccio Biography (1480 - 1539)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Oct. 20, 1480, Siena—died August 1537, Rome) Italian metallurgist and armaments maker. He is chiefly known for the first clear, comprehensive work on metallurgy, De la pirotechnia (published posthumously in 1540). His book, which contrasts strikingly with the obscure alchemical writings of the time, is replete with lavish woodcuts illustrating equipment and processes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1296</link>
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		<title>Benazir Bhutto Biography (1953-2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Hundreds of thousands of mourners paid last respects to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Friday (Dec. 28, 2007) as she was buried at her family&#8217;s mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, the southern province of Sindh.

Bhutto was killed when an assassin fired shots and then blew himself up after an election campaign rally in Rawalpindi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarence Birdseye Biography (1886 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 9, 1886, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 7, 1956, New York) U.S. businessman and inventor. He developed a highly efficient process for freezing foods in small packages suitable for retailing. He achieved rapid freezing by placing packaged food, including fish, fruits, and vegetables, between two refrigerated metal plates. Though his were not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xavier Bichat Biography (1771 - 1802)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 11/14, 1771, Thoirette, Fra.—died July 22, 1802, Lyon) French anatomist and physiologist. In addition to bedside observations of patients, he conducted autopsies to study the changes disease causes in various organs. With no knowledge of the cell as the functional unit of living things, Bichat was among the first to see the organs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry (Joe) Bird Biography (1956 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Larry Joe Bird
born Dec. 7, 1956, West Baden, Ind., U.S.) American basketball player who led the Boston Celtics to three National Basketball Association (NBA) championships (1981, 1984, and 1986) and is considered one of the greatest pure shooters of all time.
Bird was raised in French Lick, Ind., and attended Indiana State University, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenneth (The Hillside Strangler) Bianchi Biography (1951-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Serial killer. Born Kenneth Alessio Bianchi on May 22, 1951 in Rochester, New York. Bianchi, whose natural mother was an alcoholic prostitute, was adopted at birth and had a love-hate relationship with women even as a young child. Interested in police work but unable to secure a job, he eventually settled for a post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thora Birch Biography (1982-_</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born on March 11, 1982, in Los Angeles, California. Over the course of her short lifetime, Birch as come-of-age on film, graduating from roles in traditional, child-actor fare to playing layered, complex characters.
Named after the Norse god Thor, Birch began acting at the age of four in a series of commercials for California raisins. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Biography (1928 - 1979)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 5, 1928, near Larkana, Sindh, India—died April 4, 1979, Rawalpindi, Pak.) President (1971–73) and prime minister (1973–77) of Pakistan. Son of a prominent politician, he was educated in India, the U.S., and Britain. He served eight years in the government of Mohammad Ayub Khan (1907–74) then resigned to form the Pakistan People&#8217;s Party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolfo Bioy Casares Biography (1914 - 1999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[pseudonyms Javier Miranda and Martin Sacastru
born September 15, 1914, Buenos Aires, Argentina—died March 8, 1999, Buenos Aires) Argentine writer and editor, known both for his own work and for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges. His elegantly constructed works are oriented toward metaphysical possibilities and employ the fantastic to achieve their meanings.
Born into a wealthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Kurtis Biography (1940- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journalist, producer, author. Born on September 21, 1940, in Pensacola, Florida. Bill Kurtis has more than 40 years of experience as an award-winning journalist. He grew up in Independence, Kansas, and studied journalism at the University of Kansas. After earning his degree, Kurtis decided to go to law school at Washburn University.
At the start of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhumibol Adulyadej Biography (1927 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Phumiphon Adunlayadet or Rama IX
born Dec. 5, 1927, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.) Ninth king of the Chakri dynasty and Thailand&#8217;s longest-ruling monarch. A grandson of King Chulalongkorn, he succeeded to the throne in 1946 after the death of his older brother, King Ananda Mahidol (r. 1935–46). His role as head of state is largely ceremonial, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt(hew) Biondi Biography (1965– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 15, 1965, Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.) U.S. swimmer. Biondi, 6 ft 7 in. (2 m) tall, won 11 medals, including eight gold medals, in three consecutive Olympic Games (1984, 1988, and 1992). Along with Mark Spitz, he is the most successful U.S. swimmer in Olympic history.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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		<title>Steve Biko Biography (1946 - 1977)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Bantu Stephen Biko
born Dec. 18, 1946, King William&#8217;s Town, S.Af.—died Sept. 12, 1977, Pretoria) founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. His death from injuries suffered while in police custody made him an international martyr for South African black nationalism.
After being expelled from high school for political activism, Biko enrolled in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhaskara II Biography (1114 - 1185)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1114, Biddur, India—died  1185, probably Ujjain) The leading mathematician of the 12th century. He was the lineal successor of Brahmagupta as head of an astronomical observatory at Ujjain, the leading mathematical centre of ancient India. His mathematical works were the first to make full and systematic use of the decimal system. He evidently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juliette Binoche Biography (1964 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born March 9, 1964, Paris, France) French actress, who was widely regarded as one of film&#8217;s most respected actresses for the intelligence she brought to her complex and varied roles.
Binoche&#8217;s father was a sculptor and a theatre director, and her mother was a teacher and an actress. After completing her general education, she studied acting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abebe Bikila Biography (1932 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 7, 1932, Mont, Ethiopia—died Oct. 25, 1973, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Ethiopian marathon runner who won a gold medal and set a world record while running barefoot at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, then bested his own record at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. He was the first athlete to win two Olympic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Caleb Bingham Biography (1811 - 1879)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 20, 1811, Augusta county, Va., U.S.—died July 7, 1879, Kansas City, Mo.) American frontier painter noted for his landscapes, portraits, and especially for his representations of Midwestern river life.
In 1819 Bingham&#8217;s family moved to Franklin, Missouri, on the Lewis and Clark trail. After the death of his father, the family relocated to Arrow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Punisher Biography (1971-2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Also known as Big Pun
Singer, songwriter. Born Christopher Rios on November 10, 1971, in Bronx, New York. In his all-too-short career, Big Pun became a breakthrough Latino artist in the world of hip-hop music. While he did well in school and participated in athletics in his early years, he left home at the age of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhaskara I Biography (601 - 650)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[flourished  629, possibly Valabhi, India) Indian astronomer and mathematician. His fame rests on three treatises he composed on the works of Aryabhata I (b. 476). Two of these, known today as Mahabhaskariya (“Great Book of Bhaskara”) and Laghubhaskariya (“Small Book of Bhaskara”), are astronomical works in verse, while Aryabhatiyabhashya (629) is a prose commentary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Rudolf Bing Biography (1902 - 1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 9, 1902, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died Sept. 2, 1997, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Austrian-born British opera impresario. After holding positions in German opera houses, he assumed the position of general manager at the Glyndebourne Opera in England (1935–49). In 1946 he helped found the Edinburgh Festival. From 1950 until 1972 he served as general manager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Bierstadt Biography (1830 - 1902)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 7, 1830, near Düsseldorf, Westphalia—died Feb. 19, 1902, New York, N.Y., U.S.) German-born U.S. painter of the Hudson River school. His parents immigrated to the U.S. when he was an infant. As a young man he traveled and sketched throughout Europe before returning to the U.S. to join a westward-bound expedition in 1859. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1275</link>
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		<title>Lewis (Roberts) Binford Biography (1930– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 21, 1930, Norfolk, Va., U.S.) U.S. archaeologist. Binford taught principally at the University of New Mexico. In the mid 1960s he initiated what came to be known as the “New Archaeology,” which champions the use of quantitative methods and the practice of archaeology as a rigorous science. He applied the new methodology in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1273</link>
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		<title>Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce Biography (1842 - 1914)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
born June 24, 1842, Meigs county, Ohio, U.S.—died 1914, Mexico?) American newspaperman, wit, satirist, and author of sardonic short stories based on themes of death and horror. His life ended in an unsolved mystery.
Reared in Kosciusko county, Indiana, Bierce became a printer&#8217;s devil (apprentice) on a Warsaw, Indiana, paper after about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhartrihari Biography (570 - 651)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 570?, Ujjain, Malwa, India—died 651?, Ujjain) Indian Hindu philosopher, poet, and grammarian. He was of noble birth; according to legend, he made seven attempts to renounce the world for monastic life before eventually becoming a yogi and moving into a cave near Ujjain. Vakyapadiya is his major work on the philosophy of language. Also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfred Binet Biography (1857 - 1911)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 8, 1857, Nice, France—died Oct. 18, 1911, Paris) French psychologist. His interest in Jean-Martin Charcot&#8217;s work on hypnosis prompted him to abandon a law career and study medicine at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (1878–91). He served as director of a research laboratory at the Sorbonne (1895–1911). A major figure in the development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1270</link>
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		<title>Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Biography (1680 - 1767)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[baptized Feb. 23, 1680, Montreal, New France—died March 7, 1767, Paris, France) French explorer, colonial governor of Louisiana, and founder of New Orleans. He served with the French navy in King William&#8217;s War. He accompanied his brother Pierre Iberville on expeditions to the mouth of the Mississippi River. They founded a settlement in 1699, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1269</link>
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		<title>Jeff Bezos Biography (1964 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Jeffrey Preston Bezos

(born January 12, 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.) American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of books (and later of a wide variety of products). Under his guidance, Amazon.com became the largest retailer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1268</link>
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		<title>Ramzi Binalshibh Biography (1972–)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terrorist
Terrorist. Born May 1, 1972 in the Yemini province of Hadhramaut. Binalshibh worked as a clerk for the International Bank of Yemen from 1987-1995. He moved to Hamburg, Germany, in 1997 where he met Mohamed Atta and joined the al Qaeda cell. Binalshibh trained in the al Qaeda camps in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1999, where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1267</link>
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		<title>Jessica Biel Biography (1982-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress. Born Jessica Claire Biel on March 3, 1982 in Ely, Minnesota. Raised in Boulder, Colorado, Biel’s first love was musical theater, and she performed in several musicals during her youth. She attended California’s exclusive Le Lycee Francais De Los Angeles and became a successful teen model in 1994. Her print work eventually led [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1266</link>
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		<title>(Jeffrey P.) Jeff Bezos Biography (1964-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1994, Jeff Bezos quit his job, packed up his apartment and told the movers he&#8217;d call them when he knew where he was going. His wife, an aspiring novelist, drove their Chevy Blazer and talked to their golden retriever while Jeff crunched numbers on a laptop and made calls from a cellphone. They stopped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1265</link>
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		<title>Osama bin Laden Biography (1957 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Usmah ibn Ldin
born 1957, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 1993 bombing of New York City&#8217;s World Trade Center, the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden, and the September 11, 2001, attacks on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1264</link>
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		<title>Gabriel Biel Biography (1420 - 1495)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born  1420, Speyer [Germany]—died Dec. 7, 1495, Tübingen, Württemberg) German philosopher, economist, and Scholastic theologian. He became professor at the University of Tübingen (1484). His Collectorium circa IV libros sententiarum presented the teachings of William of Ockham; the work influenced followers known as Gabrielistae. His economic theories favoured fair taxation and price control.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyoncé Biography (1981 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Beyoncé Giselle Knowles
born Sept. 4, 1981, Houston, Tex., U.S.) American singer-songwriter and actress, who achieved fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&#38;B group Destiny&#8217;s Child and then launched a successful solo career.
At age nine Beyoncé formed the singing-rapping girl group Destiny&#8217;s Child (originally called Girl&#8217;s Tyme) in 1990 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy the Kid Biography (1859 - 1860)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of William H. Bonney, Jr., original name Henry McCarty?
born Nov. 23, 1859/60, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died July 14, 1881, Fort Sumner, N.M.) one of the most notorious gunfighters of the American West, reputed to have killed at least 27 men before being gunned down at about age 21.
Born on New York City&#8217;s East Side, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bidwell Biography (1819 - 1900)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 5, 1819, Chautauqua county, N.Y., U.S.—died April 4, 1900, near Sacramento, Calif.) U.S. political leader. He was a member of the first group to travel by wagon train to California from Independence, Mo. Reluctant to join the Bear Flag revolt of Americans in California against Mexico, he nonetheless helped draw up the Bear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Bewick Biography (1753 - 1828)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 12, 1753, Cherryburn, Eng.—died Nov. 8, 1828, Gateshead) British wood engraver. At age 14 he was apprenticed to a metal engraver, with whom he later went into partnership in Newcastle; Bewick remained there most of his life. He rediscovered the technique of wood engraving, which had declined into a reproductive technique, and brought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Ray Cyrus Biography (1961- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer, songwriter, actor. Born on August 25, 1961, in Flatwoods, Kentucky. Once famous for his international hit country song, “Achy Breaky Heart,” his hunky good looks, and mullet hairstyle, Billy Ray Cyrus has built a career as an actor as well as a singer. The son of a politician, he started his singing career performing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Biden Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Joseph Robinette Biden
born Nov. 20, 1942, Scranton, Pa., U.S.) American politician, who served as a U.S. senator (1973– ) and who was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Biden, who was raised in Scranton, Pa., and New Castle county, Del., received a bachelor&#8217;s degree from the University of Delaware in 1965 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernest Bevin Biography (1881 - 1951)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 9, 1881, Winsford, Somerset, Eng.—died April 14, 1951, London) British labour leader and statesman. Active in labour organizations from 1905, he became head of the Dockers&#8217; Union. In 1921 he merged several unions into the Transport and General Workers&#8217; Union, which became the world&#8217;s largest trade union, and served as its general secretary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1256</link>
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		<title>Theodor Billroth Biography (1829 - 1894)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 26, 1829, Bergen auf Rügen, Prussia—died Feb. 6, 1894, Abbazia, Austria-Hungary) Austrian surgeon. He pioneered the study of bacterial causes of wound fever and adopted early the antiseptic techniques that eradicated the threat of fatal surgical infections. The founder of modern surgery of the abdominal cavity, he altered and removed organs previously considered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1255</link>
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		<title>Nicholas Biddle Biography (1786 - 1844)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 8, 1786, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 27, 1844, Philadelphia) U.S. author, financier, and lawyer. He served as secretary to Pres. James Monroe (1806–07), then minister to England, and, afterward, while practicing law in the U.S., he wrote History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark (1814) from the explorers&#8217; notes. In 1823 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Henry Beveridge, Baron Beveridge Biography (1879 - 1963)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 5, 1879, Rangpur, India—died March 16, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng.) British economist. He took a lifelong interest in the problem of unemployment and served as director of labour exchanges (1909–16). He directed the London School of Economics (1919–37), then became master of University College, Oxford (1937–45). Invited by the government to become the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1253</link>
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		<title>Barbara Billingsley Biography (1922-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A native of Los Angeles, California, Billingsley is most famous for her role as June Cleaver on television&#8217;s beloved Leave it to Beaver, which aired from 1957 to 1963. Billingsley played the perfect apron-wearing, cookie-baking, 1950s-style housewife and mother to sons Wally and Theodore &#8220;Beaver&#8221; Cleaver (Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers) and husband Ward Cleaver (Hugh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1252</link>
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		<title>John Biddle Biography (1615 - 1662)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1615, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Sept. 22, 1662, London) Father of English Unitarianism. He studied at the University of Oxford and became master of a free school in Gloucester. In 1644 he wrote Twelve Arguments Drawn Out of Scripture, denying the deity of the Holy Spirit. When the manuscript reached church authorities, he was arrested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert J(eremiah) Beveridge Biography (1862 - 1927)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 6, 1862, Highland county, Ohio, U.S.—died April 27, 1927, Indianapolis, Ind.) U.S. senator and historian. He was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1887 and began the practice of law in Indianapolis. Elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate (1900–12), he supported the progressive legislation proposed by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. In 1912 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1250</link>
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		<title>William Billings Biography (1746 - 1800)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 7, 1746, Boston, Mass.—died Sept. 26, 1800, Boston, Mass., U.S.) American hymn composer, sometimes called the first American composer. A tanner by trade, he was largely self-taught in music. His robust and primitive style, lacking instrumental parts, has seemed to embody the distinctive virtues of early America. His New England Psalm-Singer (1770) was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1249</link>
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		<title>James Biddle Biography (1783 - 1844)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 18, 1783, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 1, 1848, Philadelphia) U.S. naval officer. He entered the navy in 1800. During the War of 1812, he served on the USS Wasp when it captured the British ship Frolic, and he commanded the USS Hornet in its victory over the Penguin. In 1817 he was sent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1248</link>
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		<title>Aneurin Bevan Biography (1897 - 1960)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Nye Bevan
born Nov. 15, 1897, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Eng.—died July 6, 1960, Chesham, Buckinghamshire) British politician. As a young man, he entered Labour Party politics and was elected to the House of Commons in 1929. He overcame a speech impediment to become a brilliant orator. As minister of health in Clement Attlee&#8217;s government (1945–51), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1247</link>
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		<title>John Shaw Billings Biography (1838–1913)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 12, 1838, Switzerland county, Ind., U.S.—died March 11, 1913, New York, N.Y.) U.S. surgeon and librarian. He worked for the U.S. Army 1861–95. He fostered the growth of the surgeon general&#8217;s library in Washington, D.C., developing what would become the National Library of Medicine, the world&#8217;s largest medical reference centre. He founded the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1246</link>
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		<title>Georges Bidault Biography (1899 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 5, 1899, Moulins, France—died Jan. 27, 1983, Cambo-les-Bains, near Bayonne) French statesman and Resistance leader in World War II. After being imprisoned in Germany (1940), he returned to France (1941) and worked with the National Council of Resistance, which he headed in 1943. He helped found the Popular Republican Movement (1944) and supported [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1245</link>
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		<title>Joseph Beuys Biography (1921 - 1986)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 12, 1921, Krefeld, Ger.—died Jan. 23, 1986, Düsseldorf) German avant-garde sculptor and performance artist whose works, characterized by unorthodox materials and ritualistic activity, stirred much controversy.
Beuys was educated in Rindern, Ger., and served in the German air force throughout World War II. In 1943 his plane crashed in the frozen Crimea. Those who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1244</link>
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		<title>Max Bill Biography (1908 - 1994)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 22, 1908, Winterthur, Switz.—died Dec. 9, 1994, Berlin, Ger.) Swiss painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and industrial designer. He studied architecture, metalwork, stage design, and painting at the Bauhaus. In 1930 he opened his own studio in Zürich, where he spent most of his life and earned a living designing advertisements. In the 1940s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1243</link>
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		<title>Mary Ann Bickerdyke Biography (1817 - 1901)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Mary Ann Ball
born July 19, 1817, Knox county, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 8, 1901, Bunker Hill, Kan.) organizer and chief of nursing, hospital, and welfare services for the western armies under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War.
Mary Ann Ball grew up in the houses of various relatives. She attended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1242</link>
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		<title>Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von (Count of) Beust Biography (1809 - 1886)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 13, 1809, Dresden, Saxony—died Oct. 24, 1886, Schloss Altenberg, near Vienna, Austria-Hungary) German statesman. A career diplomat in Saxony from 1830, he served as its foreign minister (1849–53) and its interior minister (1853–66). Often opposed to Otto von Bismarck, Beust was forced to resign in 1866. Saxony&#8217;s ally, the Habsburg emperor Francis Joseph, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernardo Bertolucci Biography (1940 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 16, 1940, Parma, Italy) Italian film director best known for his film Last Tango in Paris (1972), the erotic content of which created an international sensation.
Bertolucci was raised in an atmosphere of comfort and intellectualism. His father—a poet, anthologist, teacher of art history, and film critic—was a strong early influence. Bertolucci&#8217;s early childhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Bertoia Biography (1915 - 1978)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Enrico Bertoia


(born March 10, 1915, San Lorenzo, Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy—died Nov. 6, 1978, Barto, Pa., U.S.) Italian-born American sculptor and designer, best known for his monumental architectural sculptures and the classic Bertoia chair.
Bertoia attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and taught painting and metalworking there from 1937 to 1943. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1238</link>
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		<title>Ugo Betti Biography (1892 - 1953)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 4, 1892, Camerino, Italy—died June 9, 1953, Rome) Italian playwright. He pursued a legal career, serving as a judge and as librarian of the Ministry of Justice in Rome. He wrote three volumes of poetry, three collections of short stories, and 26 plays. His first play, The Landlady (1927), drew mixed reviews, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Betterton Biography (1635 - 1710)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born c. 1635, London, Eng.—died April 28, 1710, London) leading English actor of the Restoration period and author of several popular adaptations.
Betterton made his debut in 1659 and in 1661 was hired by Sir William Davenant for the Duke&#8217;s Company, which played successively at the Lincoln&#8217;s Inn Fields Theatre and at Dorset Garden. After the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Bertinelli Biography (1960- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress Valerie Anne Bertinelli was born April 23, 1960, in Wilmington, Delaware, to Nancy and Andy Bertinelli, a General Motors executive.

Raised in a Catholic household with one older and two younger brothers, the family traveled through so many cities that she called herself a &#8220;GM brat.&#8221; In her early teens, her father was transferred to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruno Bettelheim Biography (1903 - 1990)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 28, 1903, Vienna, Austria—died March 13, 1990, Silver Spring, Md., U.S.) Austrian-U.S. psychologist. Trained in Vienna, he was arrested by the Nazis and interned in concentration camps (1938–39). He immigrated to the U.S., where from 1944 he directed the University of Chicago&#8217;s Orthogenic School, a laboratory school for disturbed children, and became known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir John Betjeman Biography (1906 - 1984)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 28, 1906, London, Eng.—died May 19, 1984, Trebetherick, Cornwall) English poet. His poetry volumes include Mount Zion (1933), High and Low (1966), and A Nip in the Air (1974), and his prose works include guidebooks to English counties and essays on places and buildings. His nostalgia for the near past, his exact sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferdinand Berthoud Biography (1727 - 1807)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 19, 1727, Plancemont, Switz.—died June 20, 1807, Groslay, France) Swiss-French clockmaker and writer on timekeeping. Working in Paris from 1748, his inventiveness and many publications soon made him influential. His interest in the problem of determining longitude at sea ( latitude and longitude) led to his major achievement, an improved, less expensive marine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary McLeod Bethune Biography (1875 - 1955)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Educator and civil and women&#8217;s rights activist. Born July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina. A child of former slaves, she began her life picking cotton, but a scholarship to Scotia Seminary in North Carolina in 1888 launched her long and distinguished career as educator and activist.
Believing that education provided the key to racial advancement, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marcellin Berthelot Biography (1827 - 1907)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 27, 1827, Paris, France—died March 18, 1907, Paris) French chemist. The first professor of organic chemistry at the Collège de France (from 1865), he later also held high government offices, including that of foreign minister (1895–96). He did research in alcohols and carboxylic acids, the synthesis of hydrocarbons, and reaction rates, studied the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louise Blanchard Bethune Biography (1856 - 1913)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Jennie Louise Blanchard

(born July 21, 1856, Waterloo, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 18, 1913, Buffalo, N.Y.) First professional woman architect in the U.S. She opened an independent office in Buffalo in 1881. Her firm designed several hundred buildings throughout New York state, many of them in the Romanesque revival style popular in the late 19th century. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Bert Biography (1833 - 1886)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 17, 1833, Auxerre, Yonne, France—died Nov. 11, 1886, Hanoi) French physiologist, founder of modern aerospace medicine. He taught for many years at the Sorbonne and served as a deputy in the government from 1872–86. His research on the effects of air pressure on the body helped make possible the exploration of space and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1229</link>
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		<title>Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg Biography (1856 - 1921)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 29, 1856, Hohenfinow, Prussia—died Jan. 1, 1921, Hohenfinow, Germany) German politician and chancellor (1909–17). A member of the civil service, he was appointed Prussian minister of the interior in 1905 and became German chancellor in 1909. Before World War I, he allowed the militarist factions to dominate the government; in 1914 he supported [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1228</link>
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		<title>John Berryman Biography (1914 - 1972)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 25, 1914, McAlester, Okla., U.S.—died Jan. 7, 1972, Minneapolis, Minn.) U.S. poet. Berryman attended Columbia University and the University of Cambridge and later taught at various universities. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956), one of his first experimental poems, assured his importance. His technical daring was also evident in 77 Dream Songs (1964, Pulitzer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1227</link>
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		<title>Hans (Albrecht) Bethe Biography (1906–2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Hans Albrecht Bethe
 Physicist, born in Strasbourg, NE France (formerly Germany). He studied at the universities of Frankfurt and Munich (1926), and taught in Germany until 1933. He lost his job, when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and moved to England, teaching first at Manchester and then gaining a fellowship at Bristol University. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wendell Berry Biography (1934 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Wendell Erdman Berry
born Aug. 5, 1934, Port Royal, Ky., U.S.) American author whose nature poetry, novels of America&#8217;s rural past, and essays on ecological responsibility grew from his experiences as a farmer.
Berry was educated at the University of Kentucky, Lexington (B.A., 1956; M.A., 1957). He later taught at Stanford and New York universities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rómulo Betancourt Biography (1908 - 1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 22, 1908, Guatire, Miranda, Venez.—died Sept. 28, 1981, New York City, New York, U.S.) left-wing, anticommunist politician who, as president of Venezuela (1945–48; 1959–64), pursued policies of agrarian reform, industrial development, and popular participation in government.
While a student at the University of Caracas, Betancourt was jailed (1928) for his activities against the dictatorial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>duke de Berry Biography (1778 - 1820)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon

(born Jan. 24, 1778, Versailles, France—died Feb. 14, 1820, Paris) French nobleman. Son of the future Charles X, he left France at the outbreak of the French Revolution and lived abroad until 1815. His assassination by a Bonapartist fanatic marked a turning point in the Bourbon Restoration, hastening the downfall of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1223</link>
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		<title>George Best Biography (1946-2005 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Footballer, born in Belfast, NE Northern Ireland, UK. He was the leading scorer for Manchester United in the Football League First Division (1967–8), and won a European Cup Medal and the title of European Footballer of the Year (1968). Becoming increasingly unable to cope with the pressure of top-class football, his career was virtually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean de France, duke de Berry Biography (1340 - 1416)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 30, 1340, Vincennes, France—died June 15, 1416, Paris) French nobleman and patron of the arts. He was the son of King John II. As duke de Berry and Auvergne, he controlled at least one-third of France during the middle period of the Hundred Years&#8217; War. Berry shared in the administration of France and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles H. Best Biography (1899 - 1978)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Charles Herbert Best
born Feb. 27, 1899, West Pembroke, Maine, U.S.—died  March 31, 1978, Toronto, Ont., Can.) physiologist who, with Sir Frederick Banting, was the first to obtain (1921) a pancreatic extract of insulin in a form that controlled diabetes in dogs. The successful use of insulin in treating human patients followed. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halle Berry Biography (1966-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress and model Halle Berry delivered a baby girl Sunday (March 16, 2008), her first child, and &#8220;is doing great,&#8221; said her publicist Meredith O&#8217;Sullivan.
The father is 32-year-old model Gabriel Aubry.
Halle Maria Berry was born August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio . The youngest daughter born to Jerome and Judith Berry, an interracial couple. Halle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacques Besson Biography (1540 - 1576)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1540, Grenoble, France—died 1576, Orléans) French engineer. His improvements in the lathe were of great importance in the development of the machine-tool industry and of scientific instrumentation. His designs were illustrated in great detail in his Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum (1569). Among many innovations, Besson introduced cams and templates (patterns used to guide the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Edwin Bessey Biography (1845 - 1915)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born May 21, 1845, near Milton, Ohio, U.S.—died Feb. 25, 1915, Lincoln, Neb.) U.S. botanist. He taught at Iowa State Agricultural College (1870–84) before joining the faculty of the University of Nebraska. By then he had so developed the experimental study of plant morphology that the recently founded university immediately became one of the nation&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carolyn (Carolyn Bessette Kennedy) Bessette Biography (1966-1999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. Born in White Plains, New York, and voted &#8220;Ultimate Beautiful Person&#8221; of her high school class of 1983, Bessette grew up in a wealthy corner of Connecticut just outside of New York City with twin sisters, Lisa and Lauren, just one year older. She moved to Connecticut with her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Berry Biography (1926 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Musician. Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry on October 18, 1926 in St Louis, Missouri. As a singer-guitarist who drew from blues, rockabilly, and country-and-western styles, and wrote songs about teenage concerns, he was the biggest influence on pre-Beatles rock. He trained as a hairdresser and played with Johnnie Johnson&#8217;s (1924–2005) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Henry Bessemer Biography (1813 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 19, 1813, Charlton, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died March 15, 1898, London) British inventor and engineer. Son of a metallurgist, he set up his own casting business at 17. At that time the only iron-based construction materials were cast iron and wrought iron. So-called steel was made by adding carbon to pure forms of wrought iron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1214</link>
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		<title>Pedro Berruguete Biography (1426 - 1475)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Pedro Español or Pietro Spagnuolo
born  1450, Paredes de Nava, Castile—died Jan. 6, 1504, Avila, Castile) Spanish painter. After a sojourn in Italy, he returned to Spain, where he painted numerous altarpieces and also worked as a fresco painter in Toledo Cathedral (1483–99). The influence of Flemish and Italian art is evident in his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1213</link>
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		<title>Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Biography (1784 - 1846)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 22, 1784, Minden, Brandenburg—died March 17, 1846, Königsberg, Prussia) German astronomer. He was the first to measure (by means of parallax) the distance to a star other than the Sun. One of his major discoveries was that the bright stars Sirius and Procyon make tiny motions explainable only by the existence of invisible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1212</link>
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		<title>Alonso Berruguete Biography (1488 - 1561)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born  1488, Paredes de Nava, Castile—died 1561, Toledo, Castile) Spanish sculptor and painter. His father, Pedro Berruguete, was a great Renaissance painter. Alonso worked in Florence and Rome  1508–16. In 1516 he returned to Spain, and in 1518 he became court painter to Charles V. He succeeded primarily as a sculptor, however, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1211</link>
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		<title>Michael Beschloss Biography (1955-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historian and political commentator. Born November 30, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois. His college thesis, an analysis of the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph P. Kennedy, became his first book: Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance (1980), published just at the time Beschloss graduated from Harvard Business School. Though he planned to go into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1210</link>
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		<title>Yogi Berra Biography (1925 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Lawrence Peter Berra
born May 12, 1925, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) American professional baseball player, manager, and coach who established records (all since broken) for catchers of his era; he held the records for most home runs hit while playing in the position of catcher (313), most consecutive errorless games (148), and most consecutive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1209</link>
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		<title>Annie Besant Biography (1847 - 1933)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Annie Wood

(born Oct. 1, 1847, London, Eng.—died Sept. 20, 1933, Adyar, Madras) British social reformer. She was a prominent Fabian socialist in the 1880s before becoming an adherent of theosophy in 1889. She served as international president of the Theosophical Society from 1907 until her death, and her writings are still considered some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1208</link>
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		<title>Johann-Heinrich, count von Bernstorff Biography (1862 - 1939)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 14, 1862, London, Eng.—died Oct. 6, 1939, Geneva, Switz.) German diplomat. After entering the diplomatic service (1899), he represented Germany in London and Cairo before serving as ambassador to the U.S. (1908–17). During World War I he worked to facilitate mediation of the conflict with Woodrow Wilson but did not receive the support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1207</link>
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		<title>Jöns Jacob, Baron Berzelius Biography (1779 - 1848)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 20, 1779, near Linköping, Swed.—died Aug. 7, 1848, Stockholm) Swedish chemist. As a professor in Stockholm (1807–32) he achieved an immensely important series of innovations and discoveries. He is especially noted for his introduction of basic laboratory equipment that remains in use today; his determination of atomic weights; his creation of the modern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1206</link>
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		<title>Leonard Bernstein Biography (1918 - 1990)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 25, 1918, Lawrence, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 14, 1990, New York, N.Y.) American conductor, composer, and pianist noted for his accomplishments in both classical and popular music, for his flamboyant conducting style, and for his pedagogic flair, especially in concerts for young people.
Bernstein played piano from age 10. He attended Boston Latin School; Harvard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Bernhardt Biography (1844 - 1923)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Henriette-Rosine Bernard , byname the Divine Sarah , French la Divine Sarah


(born October 22/23, 1844, Paris, France—died March 26, 1923, Paris) the greatest French actress of the later 19th century and one of the best-known figures in the history of the stage.

Early life and training
Bernhardt was the illegitimate daughter of Julie Bernard, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elmer Bernstein Biography (1922-2004 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Composer and conductor, born in New York City, New York, USA. After writing music for UN radio shows and a brief career as a concert pianist, he began to compose film scores. His music for The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) brought widespread acclaim, and he went on to write over 100 major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1203</link>
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		<title>Eduard Bernstein Biography (1850 - 1932)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 6, 1850, Berlin, Prussia—died Dec. 18, 1932, Berlin, Germany) German politician and writer. He joined the German Social Democratic Party in 1872, then spent years in exile as an editor of socialist journals. In London he met Friedrich Engels and was influenced by the Fabian Society. Returning to Germany in 1901, Bernstein became [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1202</link>
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		<title>Gian Lorenzo Bernini Biography (1598 - 1680)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 7, 1598, Naples, Kingdom of Naples—died Nov. 28, 1680, Rome, Papal States) Italian architect and artist credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. He began his career working for his father, a sculptor. Among his early sculptures are Apollo and Daphne (1622–24) and an active David (1623–24). Under the patronage of Urban [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1201</link>
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		<title>Bernice Gera Biography (1931-1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professional umpire. Born on June 15, 1931, in Ernest, Pennsylvania. Creating a sports milestone, Bernice Gera was the first professional woman umpire in the history of baseball. As a child, she began her lifelong love of the sport. Gera didn’t consider a career in baseball until after she had worked as a secretary for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1200</link>
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		<title>Sandra Bernhard Biography (1955-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comedian, actress. Born June 6, 1955, in Flint, Michigan. Raised in Arizona, Bernhard began to receive attention in the late 1970s for her brash, in-your-face stand-up comedy routines. Her ferocious attacks against political and celebrity figures have become something of a calling card, and she has amassed a loyal following thanks to successful shows and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1199</link>
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		<title>Bernhard Leopold Biography (1911-2004 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Prince of The Netherlands, born in Jena, EC Germany, the son of Prince Bernhard Casimir of Lippe. In 1937 he married Juliana, the only daughter of Wilhelmina, Queen of The Netherlands; they have four daughters. During World War 2, he commanded the Netherlands Forces of the Interior (1944-5). In 1976 he was involved in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1198</link>
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		<title>Bernhard Biography (1911 - 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 29, 1911, Jena, Ger.—died Dec. 1, 2004, Utrecht, Neth.) Prince of The Netherlands. The son of Prince Bernhard Casimir of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Bernhard married the Dutch crown princess Juliana in 1937 and took Dutch citizenship. He opposed Germany&#8217;s invasion of The Netherlands and took his family to Britain after the Dutch surrender (1940). In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1197</link>
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		<title>Sir Tim Berners-Lee Biography (1955 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 8, 1955, London, Eng.) British physicist. The son of computer scientists, he graduated from Oxford University and in 1980 accepted a fellowship at CERN in Geneva. In 1989 he suggested a global hypertext project. He and his CERN colleagues created a communications protocol called HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that standardized communication between computer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1196</link>
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		<title>Edward L Bernays Biography (1891 - 1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 22, 1891, Vienna, Austria—died March 9, 1995, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.) U.S. publicist, the “father of public relations.” A nephew of Sigmund Freud, he was born in Austria but was brought up in New York. In organizing endorsements for a play on the taboo subject of venereal disease, he found his calling as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Bernardino of Siena Biography (1380 - 1444)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 8, 1380, Massa Marittima, Siena—died May 20, 1444, L&#8217;Aquila, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; canonized 1450; feast day May 20) Franciscan priest and theologian. Born into a noble family but orphaned early, he entered the Observants (1402), a strict branch of the Franciscan order that he later helped to spread throughout Europe. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claude Bernard Biography (1813 - 1878)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 12, 1813, Saint-Julien, France—died Feb. 10, 1878, Paris) French physiologist. He taught at several major French institutions and was named a senator in 1869. He discovered the role of the pancreas in digestion, the glycogenic function of the liver in carbohydrate metabolism, and blood-supply regulation by the vasomotor nerves. He helped establish the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Bernard of Clairvaux Biography (1090 - 1153)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as the Mellifluous Doctor

(born 1090, probably Fontaine-les-Dijons, near Dijon, Burgundy—died Aug. 20, 1153, Clairvaux, Champagne; canonized 1174; feast day August 20) French Cistercian monk, mystic, and doctor of the church. Born into an aristocratic family near Dijon, he turned away from a literary education for the monastic life, entering the austere religious community at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernard Ebbers Biography (1941 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business executive and convict. Born Bernard John Ebbers on August 27, 1941 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. One of five children born to a traveling salesman, Bernard Ebbers grew up in California, New Mexico, and Edmonton. He attended Mississippi College on a basketball scholarship and later ran a chain of motels in Mississippi.
Ebbers career skyrocketed when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georges Bernanos Biography (1888 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 20, 1888, Paris, France—died July 5, 1948, Neuilly-sur-Seine) French novelist and polemical writer. One of the most original and independent Roman Catholic writers of his time and a man of humour and humanity, he abhorred materialism and compromise with evil. His masterpiece, The Diary of a Country Priest (1936), is the story of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1190</link>
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		<title>Ben Bernanke Biography (1953 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Benjamin Shalom Bernanke
born Dec. 13, 1953, Augusta, Ga., U.S.) American economist, who was chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed; 2006– ).
Bernanke grew up in Dillon, S.C., where his father worked as a pharmacist and his mother as a teacher. He graduated summa cum laude in economics from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1189</link>
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		<title>Folke, Greve (Count) Bernadotte Biography (1895 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Jan. 2, 1895, Stockholm, Swed.—died Sept. 17, 1948, Jerusalem) Swedish soldier, humanitarian, and diplomat. A nephew of King Gustav V, Bernadotte headed the Swedish Red Cross in World War II and was credited with saving some 20,000 concentration-camp inmates. In 1948 he was appointed mediator in Palestine by the UN Security Council and secured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1188</link>
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		<title>St Bernadette of Lourdes Biography (1844 - 1879)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Marie-bernarde Soubirous


(born Jan. 7, 1844, Lourdes, Fr.—died April 16, 1879, Nevers; canonized Dec. 8, 1933; feast day April 16, but sometimes February 18 in France) miller&#8217;s daughter whose visions led to the founding of the shrine of Lourdes.
Frail in health, Bernadette was the eldest of nine children from a poverty-stricken family. She contracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henri Bergson Biography (1859 - 1941)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Henri-Louis Bergson
born Oct. 18, 1859, Paris, France—died Jan. 4, 1941, Paris) French philosopher, the first to elaborate what came to be called a process philosophy, which rejected static values in favour of values of motion, change, and evolution. He was also a master literary stylist, of both academic and popular appeal, and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Ernst) Ingmar Bergman Biography (1918-2007 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Ernst Ingmar Bergman


(born July 14, 1918, Uppsala, Swed.—died July 30, 2007, Fårö, Swed.) Swedish film writer-director, who achieved world fame with such films as Det sjunde inseglet (1956; The Seventh Seal); Smultronstället (1957; Wild Strawberries); the trilogy Såsom i en spegel (1961; Through a Glass Darkly), Nattsvardsgästerna (1961; The Communicants, or Winter Light), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1176</link>
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		<title>Sune K. Bergström Biography (1916 - 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born January 10, 1916, Stockholm, Sweden—died August 15, 2004, Stockholm) Swedish biochemist, corecipient with fellow Swede Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson and Englishman John Robert Vane of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. All three were honoured for their isolation, identification, and analysis of prostaglandins, which are biochemical compounds that influence blood pressure, body temperature, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1185</link>
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		<title>Elisabeth Bergner Biography (1900 - 1986)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 22, 1900, Vienna—died May 12, 1986, London) Austrian actress who was noted for her stage and motion-picture performances as well as for her fragile beauty.
Bergner began her career in Zurich in 1919 but reached international fame in Berlin under Max Reinhardt&#8217;s direction in 1924 of Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw. Although she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ingrid Bergman Biography (1915 - 1982)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 29, 1915, Stockholm, Sweden—died Aug. 29, 1982, London, Eng.) one of the most popular motion-picture actresses in the United States from the 1940s until her death and an international star in Swedish, French, German, Italian, and British films. Her natural charm, freshness, intelligence, and vitality made her the image of sincerity and ideal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1183</link>
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		<title>Bartolomé Bermejo Biography (1474 - 1495)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Bartolomé de Cárdenas
born  1440, Córdoba, Spain—died 1495, Barcelona) Spanish painter. He was active in Valencia (1468), Aragon (1474–85), and Barcelona (from 1486). Bermejo&#8217;s earliest masterpiece is the panel painting Santo Domingo de Silos (1474). His Pietà (1490) in Barcelona Cathedral is considered a masterpiece of early Spanish oil painting; the influence of Rogier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silvio Berlusconi Biography (1936 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Sept. 29, 1936, Milan, Italy) Italian media tycoon and prime minister of Italy (1994; 2001–06). After graduating from the University of Milan, he became a real estate developer, amassing a considerable fortune by the 1970s. By the 1990s he owned more than 150 businesses, including three television networks and Italy&#8217;s largest publishing house. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles (Frambach) Berlitz Biography (1914- 2003)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Educator and publisher, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at Yale (1936), then took over the family business of intensive language teaching founded by his grandfather. During World War 2 he restored the fortunes of Berlitz Schools of Languages and Berlitz Publications by getting commissions with the armed services. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hector Berlioz Biography (1803 - 1869)</title>
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(born Dec. 11, 1803, La Côte-Saint-André, France—died March 8, 1869, Paris) French composer. He studied guitar in his early years and later studied music at the Paris Conservatoire, against his parents&#8217; wishes. His first great score was the stormy Symphonie fantastique (1830), which became a landmark of the Romantic era. Impulsive and passionate, he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enrico Berlinguer Biography (1922 - 1984)</title>
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(born May 25, 1922, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy—died June 11, 1984, Padua) Italian politician. Born into a middle-class Sardinian family, he joined the Communist Party in 1943 and held a series of party posts before becoming secretary-general in 1972, a post he would keep until his death. He became a leading advocate of “national communism,” seeking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Isaiah Berlin Biography (1909 - 1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 9, 1909, Riga, Latvia—died Nov. 5, 1997, Oxford, Eng.) Latvian-born British political philosopher and historian of ideas. His family immigrated to Britain in 1920. Educated at the University of Oxford, Berlin taught there from 1950 to 1967, serving as president of Wolfson College from 1966 to 1975 and thereafter teaching at All Souls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irving Berlin Biography (1888 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Israel Baline
born May 11, 1888, Mogilyov, Russia—died Sept. 22, 1989, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. songwriter. The son of a Russian Jewish cantor, he and his family immigrated to New York City in 1893. He worked as a street singer and singing waiter, then began writing songs. His first published song, “Marie from Sunny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friedrich Bergius Biography (1884 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 11, 1884, Goldschmieden, near Breslau, Ger. [now Wrocaw, Pol.]—died March 30, 1949, Buenos Aires, Arg.) German chemist and corecipient, with Carl Bosch of Germany, of the 1931 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Bergius and Bosch were instrumental in developing the hydrogenation method necessary to convert coal dust and hydrogen directly into gasoline and lubricating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin Painter Biography (460 - 500)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[flourished 500–460 , Athens, Greece) Greek vase painter, the outstanding vase painter of the late Archaic period. He is best known as the decorator of an amphora now in Berlin. Whereas it had been customary to frame the groups of figures on each side of the vase with pattern bands, the Berlin Painter eliminated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Hendricks Bergey Biography (1860 - 1937)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Dec. 27, 1860, Skippack, Pa., U.S.—died Sept. 5, 1937, Philadelphia, Pa.) U.S. bacteriologist. He taught school before attending the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a doctorate in public health. He subsequently became director of biological research for the National Drug Company in Philadelphia. He is best remembered as the primary author of Bergey&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milton Berle Biography (1908 - 2002)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Milton Berlinger
born July 12, 1908, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died March 27, 2002, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. comedian. He appeared in vaudeville from age 10 and later acted in more than 50 silent films. He worked chiefly as a nightclub comedian (1939–49) while vainly seeking a radio audience. His slapstick routines and facial contortions, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victor Louis Berger Biography (1860 - 1929)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 28, 1860, Nieder-Rehbach, Austria-Hungary—died Aug. 7, 1929, Milwaukee, Wis., U.S.) Cofounder of the U.S. Socialist Party. He immigrated to the U.S. from Austria-Hungary in 1878, founded a German-language newspaper in 1892, and edited the Social Democratic Herald (later Milwaukee Leader) from 1898 to 1929. With Eugene V. Debs he founded the Social Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hendrick Petrus Berlage Biography (1856 - 1934)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 21, 1856, Amsterdam, Neth.—died Aug. 12, 1934, The Hague) Dutch architect. After studies in Zürich, he began his practice in Amsterdam (1889). His best-known work is the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (1898–1903), notable for its forthright use of structural steel and traditional Dutch brickwork. While visiting the U.S. (1911), he was exposed to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edgar Bergen Biography (1903 - 1978)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Edgar John Bergren
Ventriloquist. Born in Chicago, Illinois.Long before his daughter Candice gained celebrity with her hittelevision series, Murphy Brown, Edgar was charming audiences with hispuppet sidekick, Charlie McCarthy. Best known for his work on The CharlieMcCarthy Show; Bergen made over twenty other television and film credits,ranging from an appearance on Comedy Shorts; in 1930 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Berkowitz Biography (1953 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Son of Sam , original name David Falco

(born June 1, 1953, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.) American serial killer who murdered six people in New York City in 1976–77. His crimes plunged the city into a panic and unleashed one of the largest manhunts in New York history.
Berkowitz was a difficult and occasionally violent child. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candice (Patricia) Bergen Biography (1946-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born May 9, 1946, in Beverly Hills, California. The daughter of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and model Frances Westerman Bergen, Candice started her career as part of her father’s act alongside his puppets Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. She began modeling as a teenager, and graduated into acting with the 1966 film The Group.
Bergen had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir William Berkeley Biography (1606 - 1677)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1606, Somerset, Eng.—died July 9, 1677, Twickenham, Middlesex) British colonial governor of Virginia. Appointed governor in 1641, he introduced crop diversification, encouraged manufacturing, and promoted peace with the Indians. A strong monarchist, he was forced to retire to his Virginia plantation during the Commonwealth period in England (1652–59). Reappointed in 1660, he faced crop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Berg Biography (1926 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 30, 1926, New York, N.Y., U.S.) American biochemist whose development of recombinant-DNA techniques won him a share (with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger) of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980.
After graduating from Pennsylvania State College (later renamed Pennsylvania State University) in 1948 and taking a doctorate from Western Reserve University in 1952, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Berkeley Biography (1685 - 1753)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Bishop Berkeley

(born March 12, 1685, near Dysert Castle, near Thomastown?, County Kilkenny, Ire.—died Jan. 14, 1753, Oxford, Eng.) Irish bishop, philosopher, and social activist. He worked principally at Trinity College, Dublin (to 1713), and as bishop of Cloyne (1734–52). He is best known for his contention that, for material objects, to be is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alban Berg Biography (1885 - 1935)</title>
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(born Feb. 9, 1885, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died Dec. 24, 1935, Vienna, Austria) Austrian composer. He was largely self-taught musically until he met Arnold Schoenberg at age 19. This would prove to be the decisive event in his life, and Schoenberg would remain his teacher for eight years. Under his influence, Berg&#8217;s early late-Romantic tonal works gave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busby Berkeley Biography (1895 - 1976)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. William Berkeley Enos

(born Nov. 29, 1895, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—died March 14, 1976, Palm Springs, Calif.) U.S. film director and choreographer. The son of itinerant actors, he acted and danced in comedies from age five. After choreographing over 20 Broadway musicals, he was summoned to Hollywood to direct dance numbers for Whoopee (1930). His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernard Berenson Biography (1865 - 1959)</title>
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(born June 26, 1865, Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire—died Oct. 6, 1959, Settignano, Italy) Lithuanian-born U.S. art historian, critic, and connoisseur. He grew up in Boston and attended Harvard University, but for most of his life he lived in Italy, where he built a reputation as an authority on Italian Renaissance painting. He was adviser to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berke Biography (1267 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Barakah

(died 1267) Mongol ruler of the Golden Horde (1257–67), great-grandson of Genghis Khan.
The first Mongol ruler to embrace Islm, Berke succeeded to the khanate soon after the death of his brother Batu. His conversion, as well as the rising power of his cousin Hülegü in Persia, led him to seek alliance with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berenice Biography (246 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[died c. 246 ) daughter of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Arsinoe I of Egypt. She was married to the Seleucid ruler Antiochus II Theos, supplanting his first wife, Laodice, whose children she persuaded him to bar from the succession to the throne in favour of her own. Laodice, however, persuaded Antiochus to come to Ephesus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luciano Berio Biography (1925 - 2003)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 24, 1925, Oneglia, Italy—died May 27, 2003, Rome) Italian composer. He was an important innovator in electronic music, the combining of live and taped music, aleatory music, graphic notation, musical “collage” using borrowed material, and (perhaps most significantly) in musical “performance pieces.” His wife, the singer Cathy Berberian (1925–83), was his principal collaborator. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berenice Biography (28 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born  28) lover of the Roman emperor Titus and a participant in the events leading up to the fall of Jerusalem.
The eldest daughter of the Judaean tetrarch Herod Agrippa I by his wife Cypros, Berenice was married at age 13, but her husband died without consummating the marriage. She then married her uncle, Herod, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vitus Bering Biography (1681 - 1741)</title>
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(born 1681, Horsens, Den.—died Dec. 19, 1741, Bering Island, near the Kamchatka Peninsula) Danish-born Russian navigator. He joined the fleet of the Russian tsar Peter I and in 1724 was appointed leader of an expedition to determine whether Asia and North America were connected by land. In 1728 he set sail from the Kamchatka Peninsula [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berengar of Tours Biography (999 - 1088)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also known as Berengarius of Tours
born  999, Tours, Touraine—died Jan. 10, 1088, priory of Saint-Cosme, near Tours) French theologian. He became canon of Tours Cathedral and archdeacon of Angers ( 1040). He rejected the prevailing eucharistic theology and argued against any material change to the bread and wine. He was opposed by numerous theologians, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lavrenty Beria Biography (1899 - 1953)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 29, 1899, Merkheuli, Russia—died Dec. 23, 1953, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet politician and director of the Soviet secret police. He worked in intelligence and counterintelligence activities from 1921. As Communist Party head of the Transcaucasian republics (1932–38), he personally oversaw the political purges initiated by Joseph Stalin ( purge trials). He was head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leopold, count von Berchtold Biography (1863 - 1942)</title>
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(born April 18, 1863, Vienna, Austria—died Nov. 21, 1942, near Csepreg, Hung.) Austro-Hungarian politician. One of the richest men in Austria-Hungary, he entered the diplomatic service in 1893 and became foreign minister in 1912. After the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914, Berchtold delivered an ultimatum to Serbia that led to the outbreak of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Berain, the Elder Biography (1637 - 1711)</title>
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(born Oct. 28, 1637, Saint-Mihiel, Fr.—died Jan. 24, 1711, Paris) French decorator and designer. Trained under Charles Le Brun, he was appointed chief designer to the court of Louis XIV in 1674. He was skilled in designing tapestries, accessories, furniture, costumes, and elaborate stage settings for operas and extravagant theatrical productions; these were typically filled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Vincent Benét Biography (1898 - 1943)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 22, 1898, Bethlehem, Pa., U.S.—died March 13, 1943, New York, N.Y.) U.S. poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Benét is best known for John Brown&#8217;s Body (1928, Pulitzer Prize), a long narrative poem on the American Civil War. A Book of Americans (1933), poems written with his wife, the former Rosemary Carr, brought many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seymour Benzer Biography (1921 - 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American molecular biologist (born Oct. 15, 1921, New York, N.Y.—died Nov. 30, 2007, Pasadena, Calif.) developed (1955) a method for determining the detailed structure of viral genes and coined the term cistron to denote functional subunits of genes. He also did much to elucidate the nature of genetic anomalies, called nonsense mutations, in terms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl (Friedrich) Benz Biography (1844 - 1929)</title>
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(born Nov. 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, Baden—died April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Ger.) German mechanical engineer who designed and built the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. The original car, his three-wheeled Motorwagen, first ran in 1885. Benz&#8217;s company produced its first four-wheeled car in 1893 and the first of its series of racing cars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Benton Biography (1900 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 1, 1900, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.—died March 18, 1973, New York, N.Y.) U.S. publisher, advertising executive, and government official. A descendant of missionaries and educators, he founded, with Chester Bowles, the successful New York advertising agency of Benton &#38; Bowles. He later became a vice president of the University of Chicago; through his efforts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Bentley Biography (1916 - )</title>
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(born Sept. 14, 1916, Bolton, Lancashire, Eng.) British-born U.S. drama critic and translator. He was a stage director in several European cities (1948–51); in Munich, after working with Bertolt Brecht on a production of the playwright&#8217;s Mother Courage, he translated Brecht&#8217;s plays into English. His reporting on European theatre for several magazines helped introduce many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett Biography (1870 - 1947)</title>
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(born July 3, 1870, Hopewell, N.B., Can.—died June 27, 1947, Mickleham, Surrey, Eng.) Canadian prime minister (1930–35). Bennett was admitted to the bar in 1893 and practiced in New Brunswick. He then moved west and served in the legislatures of the Northwest Territories and Alberta and in the Canadian House of Commons (1911). He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Bennett Biography (1943 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Michael Bennett DiFiglia

(born April 8, 1943, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.—died July 2, 1987, Tucson, Ariz.) American dancer, choreographer, and stage musical director.
Bennett studied many styles of dance and began his career as a dancer in productions of West Side Story and Subways Are for Sleeping. His major contribution to the dance scene was as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Hart Benton Biography (1782 - 1858)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Old Bullion
born March 14, 1782, near Hillsborough, N.C., U.S.—died April 10, 1858, Washington, D.C.) U.S. politician. After moving to St. Louis, Mo. (1815), he became editor of the St. Louis Enquirer. Appealing to agrarian and commercial interests, he won election to the U.S. Senate in 1820. He became a crusader for the distribution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Gordon Bennett Biography (1795 - 1872)</title>
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(born Sept. 1, 1795, Newmill, Banffshire, Scot.—died June 1, 1872, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Scottish-born U.S. editor. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1819 and was employed on various newspapers until 1835, when he started The New York Herald. The paper became very successful and introduced many of the methods of modern news reporting. Among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Hart Benton Biography (1889 - 1975)</title>
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(born April 15, 1889, Neosho, Mo., U.S.—died Jan. 19, 1975, Kansas City, Mo.) U.S. painter and muralist. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he came into contact with Synchromism and Cubism. In 1912 he returned to the U.S. and settled in New York City. Failing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gwendolyn Bennett Biography (1902 - 1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 8, 1902, Giddings, Texas, U.S.—died May 30, 1981, Reading, Pa.) African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist who was a vital figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Bennett, the daughter of teachers, grew up on a Nevada Indian reservation and in Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn, N.Y. She attended Columbia University and Pratt Institute, then studied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Bentley Biography (1662 - 1742)</title>
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(born Jan. 27, 1662, Oulton, Yorkshire, Eng.—died July 14, 1742, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) English clergyman and classical scholar. He was appointed Boyle lecturer at Oxford in 1692, became keeper of the Royal Library in 1694, and was named master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1700. He displayed his skill in textual emendation and his knowledge of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Bennett Biography (1934– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 9, 1934, Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng.) British dramatist, screenwriter, and actor. He first gained success with the brilliant satirical revue Beyond the Fringe (1960), which he cowrote and performed with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, and Jonathan Miller. His first stage play, Forty Years On (1968), was followed by plays such as Getting On (1971) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arnold Bennett Biography (1867 - 1931)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 27, 1867, Hanley, Staffordshire, Eng.—died March 27, 1931, London) English novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist. His major works, inspired by Gustave Flaubert and Honoré de Balzac, form an important link between the English novel and the mainstream of European realism. He is best known for his highly detailed novels of the “Five Towns”—the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gottfried Benn Biography (1886 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 2, 1886, Mansfeld, Ger.—died July 7, 1956, Berlin) German poet and essayist. He received military medical training and was made medical supervisor of jail inmates and prostitutes in occupied Brussels during World War I. His early poems, including those in Fleisch (1917; “Flesh”), contain allusions to degeneracy and medical aspects of decay. Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William, Lord Bentinck Biography (1774 - 1839)</title>
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(born Sept. 14, 1774, Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire, Eng.—died June 17, 1839, Paris, France) British colonial administrator. Born to wealth and rank, he was appointed governor of Madras in 1803. Recalled in 1807 after a mutiny of Indian troops at Vellore, he pressed for the next 20 years for a chance to vindicate his name. In 1828 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walter Benjamin Biography (1892 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 15, 1892, Berlin, Ger.—died Sept. 27?, 1940, near Port-Bou, Spain) man of letters and aesthetician, now considered to have been the most important German literary critic in the first half of the 20th century.
Born into a prosperous Jewish family, Benjamin studied philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, and Bern. He settled in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Samuel Bentham Biography (1757 - 1831)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Jan. 11, 1757, England—died May 31, 1831, London) British engineer, naval architect, and navy official. He was the brother of Jeremy Bentham and father of the botanist George Bentham (1800–84). An early advocate of explosive-shell weapons for warships, Bentham led Russian vessels fitted with shell guns to victory over a larger Turkish force in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judah (Philip) Benjamin Biography (1811 - 1884)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Aug. 6, 1811, St. Croix, Virgin Islands—died May 6, 1884, Paris, France) Prominent lawyer in the U.S. and Britain and member of the Confederate cabinet. He moved with his parents from St. Croix to South Carolina in his early youth. In 1832 he began building a successful law practice in New Orleans. He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Bentham Biography (1748 - 1832)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Feb. 15, 1748, London, Eng.—died June 6, 1832, London) British moral philosopher and legal theorist, the earliest expounder of utilitarianism. A precocious student, he graduated from Oxford at age 15. In his An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, he argued that mankind was governed by two sovereign motives, pain and pleasure. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin Franklin Biography (1706-1790)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KIDS VERSION
Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents. He wrote and published newspapers and books, conducted scientific experiments, came up with new inventions, and helped form the United States of America. To be a person who did so many things so well, Franklin worked hard and with great determination. He once wrote, “Early to bed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annette Bening Biography (1958-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress, born May 5, 1958, in Topeka, Kansas, to A. Grant Bening, aninsurance salesman, and Shirley Bening, a church singer. The youngest offour children, Bening has two brothers and one sister. The family grew upin San Diego, where Bening completed studies at Patrick Henry High Schoolin just three years.Bening was studying drama at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Frank Benson Biography (1858 - 1939)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Sir Frank Robert Benson

(born Nov. 4, 1858, Alresford, Hampshire, Eng.—died Dec. 31, 1939, London) British actor-manager whose touring company and acting school were important influences on contemporary theatre.
While at New College, Oxford, Benson produced Agamemnon, the first play to be done there in the original Greek. In 1882 he made his first professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roberto Benigni Biography (1952– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Film director, actor, writer, and producer, born on October 27, 1952 in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. At the age of 10 Roberto Benigni became a member of a troubadour act in Tuscany, improvising songs and poetry. He then moved to Rome and started working with various experimental theatre groups. His film debut as an actor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexandre Benois Biography (1870 - 1960)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born May 4, 1870, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Feb. 9, 1960, Paris, Fr.) Russian theatre art director, painter, and influential ballet set designer. With Sergey Diaghilev he cofounded the avant-garde art magazine Mir Iskusstva (“World of Art”) in 1899. He began his scenic-design career in 1901 and designed many of the innovative Ballets Russes decors from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edvard Beneš Biography (1884 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 28, 1884, Kozlany, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary—died Sept. 3, 1948, Sezimovo Ústí, Czech.) Czechoslovakian statesman. A disciple of Tomáš Masaryk, Beneš was a founder of modern Czechoslovakia. He served as its first foreign minister (1918–35) and its president (1935–38). Forced to capitulate to Adolf Hitler&#8217;s demands over the Sudetenland, he resigned. He headed the Czech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Benny Biography (1894 - 1974)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Benjamin Kubelsky


(born Feb. 14, 1894, Chicago—died Dec. 27, 1974, Beverly Hills, Calif., U.S.) entertainer whose unusual comedic method and expert timing made him a legendary success in U.S. radio and television for more than 30 years.
Benny Kubelsky was reared in Waukegan, a small city north of Chicago, where his father operated a saloon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luciano Benetton Biography (1935-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Apparel company co-founder and chairman, Italian senator (1992-1994). Born in 1935 in Treviso, Italy, Luciano Benetton is chairman of the Benetton Group, which launched in 1965. The clothing and accessories company is active in 120 countries and includes The United Colors of Benetton, the more fashion-orientated Sisley brand and the sportswear brands Playlife and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Bennett Biography (1926 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Anthony Dominick Benedetto
Singer. Born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, on August 3, 1926, in Queens, New York. Bennett grew up in a poor family, in circumstances made more difficult by the Depression and by the death of his father when he was nine. While he attended the High School for the Industrial Arts in New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giuliana Benetton Biography (1937-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Born in 1937, Giuliana Benetton is currently on the Board of Directors of both Benetton Group and Edizione Holding (the family-owned financial holding company). She is married and has four children.The Benetton Group, which launched in 1965, is a clothing and accessories company that is active in 120 countries. The group includes The United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gilberto Benetton Biography (1941-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Born in 1941, Gilberto Benetton is president of Edizione Holding, the family holding company, president of Autogrill and director of Benetton Group. He is vice president of Olimpia, the main shareholder in Telecom Italia, where he holds the same position. Gilberto is also a Director of Autostrade S.p.A., Mediobanca S.p.A., Pirelli S.p.A. and Abertis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlo Benetton Biography (1943-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Born in 1943, Carlo Benetton is deputy chairman of both Edizione Holding (the family-owned financial holding company) and of Benetton Group. He is the father of four children.The Benetton Group, which launched in 1965, is a clothing and accessories company that is active in 120 countries. The group includes The United Colors of Benetton, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruth Benedict Biography (1887 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Ruth Fulton


(born June 5, 1887, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 17, 1948, New York City) U.S. anthropologist. She received a Ph.D. under Franz Boas at Columbia University and taught at Columbia from 1924 until her death. In Patterns of Culture (1934), her most famous work, she emphasized how small a part of the range [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict XV Biography (1854 - 1922)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Giacomo Della Chiesa


(born Nov. 21, 1854, Pegli, Kingdom of Sardinia—died Jan. 22, 1922, Rome, Italy) Pope (1914–22). Ordained a priest in 1878, he entered the papal diplomatic service. He was made archbishop of Bologna in 1907 and cardinal in 1914. Elected pope a month after the outbreak of World War I, he tried to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bell Biography (1797 - 1869)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 15, 1797, near Nashville, Tenn., U.S.—died Sept. 10, 1869, Dover, Tenn.) American politician and nominee for president on the eve of the American Civil War.
Bell entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1827 and served there as a Democrat until 1841. He broke with Pres. Andrew Jackson in 1834 and supported Hugh Lawson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict XIV Biography (1675 - 1758)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Prospero Lambertini

(born March 31, 1675, Bologna, Papal States—died May 3, 1758, Rome) Pope in 1740–58. Nobly born, he received a doctorate in theology and law. Typical of his pontificate were his promotion of scientific learning and his admonition to those drawing up the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Forbidden Books) to act with restraint. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glen Bell Biography (1923-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Fast food entrepreneur. Born in 1923, Bell returned home to San Bernardino, California, after serving in the Marine Corps during World War II. He opened and sold his first take-out hot dog stand, Bell&#8217;s Drive-In, by 1952. Always on the lookout for alternative menu items, Bell began selling 19-cent tacos from a side window [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict XIII Biography (1328 - 1423)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Pedro de Luna

(born  1328, Illueca, Kingdom of Aragon—died 1423, Peñíscola, in Valencia) antipope from 1394 to 1417. He reigned in Avignon, Provence, in opposition to the reigning popes in Rome, during the Western Schism (1378–1417), when the Roman Catholic Church was split by national rivalries claiming the papal throne.
Of noble birth, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict XII Biography (1342 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Jacques Fournier


(born , Saverdun, near Toulouse, France—died April 25, 1342, Avignon, Provence) Pope (1334–42). A French cardinal and theologian, he became the third pontiff to reign at Avignon ( Avignon papacy), succeeding John XXII. The bishop of Pamiers and Mirepoix and a zealous inquisitor before his elevation to the papacy, Benedict devoted himself to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Benedict of Nursia Biography (480 - 547)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born  480, Nursia, Kingdom of the Lombards—died  547) Founder of the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy, and father of Western monasticism. Born into a prominent family at Nursia in central Italy, he rejected the immoral and profligate life of the rich and became a hermit outside Rome, where he attracted disciples. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict Arnold Biography (1741-1801)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KIDS VERSION
If you’re called a “Benedict Arnold,” someone is saying that you’re a traitor. But the real Benedict Arnold didn’t start out that way. He started out on the side of the colonists during the Revolutionary War. It was only later that he decided to switch sides and let down his country.
Arnold was born in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belshazzar Biography (539 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gr Balt(h)asar

(died  539 ) Coregent of Babylon. Though he is referred to in the book of Daniel as the son of Nebuchadrezzar, Babylonian inscriptions suggest that he was the eldest son of King Nabonidus. When the king went into exile in 550 , the kingdom and most of its army were entrusted to Belshazzar. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict (XIV) Biography (1433 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Bernard Garnier

(died  1433) counter-antipope from 1425 to  1430.
In 1417 the Council of Constance deposed the antipope Pope Benedict (XIII) and elected Martin V, thus officially terminating the Western Schism between Avignon and Rome. However, Benedict, protected in his castle of Peñíscola in Valencia, resisted until his death in 1423 and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carlos (Felipe Ximenes) Belo Biography (1948 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born February 3, 1948, Wailacama, East Timor) Roman Catholic bishop of Dili who, with José Ramos-Horta, received the 1996 Nobel Prize for Peace for their efforts to bring peace to East Timor (Timor Timur) during the period that it was under Indonesian control (1975–99).
Belo was ordained a bishop in 1983. As spiritual leader of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict (X) Biography (1050 - 1080)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Giovanni Mincio , Latin Johannes Mincius

(died after 1073, Sant&#8217;Agnese, Italy) antipope from April 1058 to January 1059. His expulsion from the papal throne, on which he had been placed through the efforts of the powerful Tusculani family of Rome, was followed by a reform in the law governing papal elections. The new law, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alva (Erskine Smith Vanderbilt) Belmont Biography (1853–1933)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néeSmith
Socialite, suffragist, and reformer. Born on January 17, 1853, in Mobile, Alabama. Alva Vanderbilt Belmont used her wealth and social standing to help advance the women’s rights movement of the early 1900s. Born into a moderately wealthy Southern family, she was educated in France, where her family moved after the Civil War. Returning to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedetto da Maiano Biography (1442 - 1497)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1442, Majano, Republic of Venice—died May 24, 1497, Florence) Italian sculptor active in Florence. He was influenced by Bernardo Rossellino; his marble tomb designs are variants on Rossellino&#8217;s patterns. His masterpiece is a pulpit in Santa Croce in Florence (completed 1485) consisting of five narrative reliefs. He often worked with his brothers, Giovanni and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean-Paul Belmondo Biography (1933 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 9, 1933, Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France) French film actor. After studying in Paris and performing with provincial stage companies, he appeared in minor film roles before achieving international fame in Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s Breathless (1960). Though not conventionally handsome, he became the leading antihero of New Wave cinema, acting in 25 films by 1963, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bendigo Biography (1811 - 1880)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of William Thompson

(born October 11, 1811, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England—died August 23, 1880, Beeston, Nottinghamshire) English bare-knuckle boxer who became a Methodist evangelist and who is one of the few athletes whose name is borne by a city—Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. His nickname apparently is a corruption of the Old Testament name Abednego. Thompson was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George (Wesley) Bellows Biography (1882 - 1925)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 12, 1882, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.—died Jan. 8, 1925, New York, N.Y.) U.S. painter and lithographer. He studied with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art and became associated with the artists of the Ash Can school. Best known for his boxing scenes, he achieved notoriety with his painting Stag at Sharkey&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1097</link>
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		<title>Robert (Charles) Benchley Biography (1889 - 1945)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 15, 1889, Worcester, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 21, 1945, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. drama critic, actor, and humorist. Benchley graduated from Harvard University and joined the staff of Life magazine in 1920. A regular member of the Algonquin Round Table, he was drama critic for The New Yorker 1929–40, for which he also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saul Bellow Biography (1915–2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Solomon Bellows
 Writer, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. The son of immigrant Russian Jews, in 1924 he moved with his family to Chicago, the city with which he became most closely identified. He studied anthropology and sociology at Northwestern University and for most of his life taught intellectual history in universities, including Minnesota (1946–9) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny (Lee) Bench Biography (1947 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born December 7, 1947, Oklahoma City, Okla., U.S.) U.S. baseball player. Bench joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1967. During his 17 seasons catching for them (1967–83), he helped lead the team (with Pete Rose and Joe Morgan) to four National League pennants (1970, 1972, 1975, 1976) and two World Series victories (1975, 1976). Batting right-handed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernardo Bellotto Biography (1720 - 1780)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Canaletto

(born Jan. 30, 1720, Venice—died Oct. 17, 1780, Warsaw, Pol.) Italian painter of topographical views, known as vedute (“view paintings”). He was the nephew of Canaletto and was himself known by that name when painting outside Italy. In 1747 he left Italy to spend the rest of his life working at various European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacinto Benavente y Martínez Biography (1866 - 1954)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 12, 1866, Madrid, Spain—died July 14, 1954, Madrid) one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. He returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1092</link>
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		<title>Hilaire Belloc Biography (1870 - 1953)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc

(born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.) French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and easy grace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baruj Benacerraf Biography (1920 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 29, 1920, Caracas, Venezuela) Venezuelan-born American pathologist and immunologist who shared (with George Snell and Jean Dausset) the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some of these genes play in autoimmune diseases.
From the age of five until the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vincenzo Bellini Biography (1801 - 1835)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 3, 1801, Catania, Sicily—died Sept. 23, 1835, Puteaux, France) Italian composer. Born into a musical family, he was educated at the Naples Conservatory. He wrote his first opera at age 24 and went on to complete nine more before his death at age 33. The most famous are The Pirate (1827), The Capulets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belle Gunness Biography (1859 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Serial killer. Born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth on November 22, 1859 in Selbu, Norway. The daughter of a stonemason, Belle Gunness immigrated to America in 1881 in search of wealth. What followed were a series of insurance frauds and crimes, escalating in size and danger.
Not long after Gunness married Mads Albert Sorenson in 1884, their store [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Robert Bellarmine Biography (1542 - 1621)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Italian Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino

(born Oct. 4, 1542, Monrepulciano, Tuscany—died Sept. 17, 1621, Rome; canonized 1930; feast day September 17) Italian cardinal and theologian. He joined the Jesuits in 1560, and after ordination in the Spanish Netherlands (1570) he began to teach theology. He was made a cardinal in 1599 and an archbishop in 1602. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Ben-Gurion Biography (1886 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. David Gruen
born Oct. 16, 1886, Posk, Pol., Russian Empire—died Dec. 1, 1973, Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel) First prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63). Introduced to Zionism by his father, Ben-Gurion immigrated to Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1906, hoping to fulfill the Zionist aspiration of building a Jewish state in historic Israel. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Anne Bellamy Biography (1727 - 1788)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born c. 1727, , Fingal, Ire.—died Feb. 16, 1788, London, Eng.) English actress whose stage career and personal life were, in their irregularity, not entirely atypical of her era. Her best performances were in such tragic roles as Desdemona in Othello and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
Bellamy was the “accidental” daughter of a Quaker lady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmed Ben Bella Biography (1918 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 25, 1918?, Maghnia, Alg.) First elected president of Algeria. After a French education, he entered the French army and was decorated during World War II (1939–45). After the war he took up arms to fight French rule. In 1954 he helped found the National Liberation Front (FLN) and became its political leader. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Bellamy Biography (1850 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 26, 1850, Chicopee Falls, Mass., U.S.—died May 22, 1898, Chicopee Falls) U.S. writer. Bellamy first became aware of the plight of the urban poor at age 18 while studying in Germany. He engaged throughout his life in progressive causes and wrote several books reflecting his concerns, but he is known chiefly for his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1082</link>
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		<title>Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Biography (1936 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 3, 1938, near Sousse, Tun.) President of Tunisia (from 1987). Trained as a soldier, he headed the defense ministry&#8217;s military intelligence section for 10 years (1964–74) before entering the foreign service. He served as ambassador to Poland before returning home to hold several domestic government posts, which culminated in a dual appointment as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bell Biography (1691 - 1780)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born , 1691, Antermony, Stirlingshire, Scot.—died July 1, 1780, Antermony) Scottish physician and traveler whose vivid account of his journeys did much to awaken Westerners to the way of life of the peoples of Russia and the East, particularly China.
In 1714 Bell set out for St. Petersburg, where he joined a Russian diplomatic mission departing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pietro Bembo Biography (1470 - 1547)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 20, 1470, Venice—died Jan. 18, 1547, Rome) Italian prelate and linguist. Born into an aristocratic family, he became librarian of St. Mark&#8217;s Cathedral and was created a cardinal in 1539. After writing lyric poetry in Latin, he turned to the vernacular, producing Italian poems in imitation of Petrarch and an Italian history of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Belushi Biography (1949–82)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit our special JOHN BELUSHI Tribute Site for photo gallery, timeline, and more.
Actor, comedian, singer. Born on January 24, 1949, in Wheaton, Illinois. Known for his legendary characters and skits on Saturday Night Live, John Belushi imbued his brilliant performances with a manic, boisterous energy that has never seen before or since. One of four children [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1076</link>
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		<title>Pedro Gerado Beltrán Biography (1897 - 1979)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 17, 1897, Lima, Peru—died Feb. 16, 1979, Lima) Peruvian economist, diplomat, and publisher whose brief term as prime minister and minister of finance (1959–61) stabilized the Peruvian economy.
A graduate of the London School of Economics (1918), Beltrán was the longtime owner (1934–74) and publisher of the influential Lima newspaper La Prensa (“The Press”). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Henry Belter Biography (1804 - 1863)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Johann Heinrich Belter
(born 1804, Hilter, near Osnabrück [Germany]—died Oct. 15, 1863, New York, N.Y., U.S.) German-born U.S. cabinetmaker and designer. Trained in Germany, he settled in New York City in 1833. There he opened a fashionable shop specializing in rosewood, walnut, and mahogany furniture. In 1856 he patented his invention of processing rosewood in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ludwig van Beethoven Biography (1770 - 1827)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(baptized Dec. 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne [Germany]—died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria) German composer, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras.
Widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven dominates a period of musical history as no one else before or since. Rooted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S. N. Behrman Biography (1893 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 9, 1893, Worcester, Mass., U.S.—died Sept. 9, 1973, New York, N.Y.) U.S. playwright. He contributed to New York newspapers and magazines and studied drama at Harvard University. His successful first play, the light comedy The Second Man (1927), was followed by the popular Meteor (1929), Brief Moment (1931), and Biography (1932). His more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawrence Beesley Biography (1877-1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teacher, journalist, Titanic survivor. Born December 31, 1877 in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. The son of a bank manager, Beesley was educated at Derby School and Caius College, Cambridge. He taught grammar school before becoming a science professor at Dulwich College.
In 1912, Beesley, a widower, left his young son to sail to America on holiday aboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emil (Adolf) von Behring Biography (1854 - 1917)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Emil Adolf von Behring


(born March 15, 1854, Hansdorf, West Prussia [now Jankowa agaska, Pol.]—died March 31, 1917, Marburg, Ger.) German bacteriologist who was one of the founders of immunology. In 1901 he received the first Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy, particularly for its use in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Graham Bell Biography (1847 - 1922)</title>
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(born , March 3, 1847, Edinburgh—died Aug. 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Can.) Scottish-born American audiologist best known as the inventor of the telephone (1876). For two generations his family had been recognized as leading authorities in elocution and speech correction, with Alexander Melville Bell&#8217;s Standard Elocutionist passing through nearly 200 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Behrens Biography (1868 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born April 14, 1868, Hamburg—died Feb. 27, 1940, Berlin, Ger.) German architect and designer. He became director of Düsseldorf&#8217;s arts and crafts school in 1903. The large electrical company AEG hired him in 1907 as its artistic adviser, a comprehensive job that led him to design the hexagonal trademark of the AEG, its catalogs, its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gertrude Bell Biography (1868 - 1926)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell

(born July 14, 1868, Washington Hall, Durham, Eng.—died July 12, 1926, Baghdad, Iraq) English traveler, administrator in Arabia, and writer who played a principal part in the establishment in Baghdad of the Hshimite dynasty.
Gertrude Bell&#8217;s brilliant career at Oxford, where she took a first in history in 1887, was followed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aphra Behn Biography (1640 - 1689)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néeAmis

(born July 1640, Harbledown?, Kent, Eng.—died April 16, 1689, London) English dramatist, novelist, and poet, the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing. Her early life is obscure (as is her original surname), but she spent most of it in South America. She married a merchant named Behn in 1658; he died in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Bell Biography (1919 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 10, 1919, New York, New York, U.S.) American sociologist and journalist who used sociological theory to reconcile what he believed were the inherent contradictions of capitalist societies.
Bell was educated at City College of New York, where he received his B.S. (1939), and was employed as a journalist for more than 20 years. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joy Behar Biography (1942-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Comedian, cohost of The View. Born in 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Queens College and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook with a master’s degree in English education, Behar began working as a junior high school English teacher in 1968. After nearly dying from an ectopic pregnancy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Papa Bell Biography (1903 - 1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of James Thomas Bell

(born May 17, 1903, Starkville, Miss., U.S.—died March 7, 1991, St. Louis, Mo.) American professional baseball player, reputedly the fastest baserunner of all time.
Bell began as a pitcher for the St. Louis Stars in the Negro National League at the age of 19 and earned the nickname Cool when he struck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brendan (Francis) Behan Biography (1923 - 1964)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 9, 1923, Dublin, Ire.—died March 20, 1964, Dublin) Irish author. An alcoholic from age eight and an anti-English rebel, he was repeatedly arrested. Borstal Boy (1958) is an account of his detention in an English reform school, which combines earthy satire and powerful political commentary. His first play, The Quare Fellow (1954), is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clive Bell Biography (1881 - 1964)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 16, 1881, East Shefford, Berkshire, Eng.—died Sept. 17, 1964, London) British art critic. He studied at Cambridge University and in Paris. In 1907 he married Vanessa Stephen, sister of Virginia Woolf; with Virginia&#8217;s husband, Leonard Woolf, and Roger Fry, they formed the core of the Bloomsbury group. Bell&#8217;s most important aesthetic ideas were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Begley, Jr. Biography (1949–)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born on September 16, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, Edward James Begley, Jr. joined an acting family. His father, Ed Begley, was an Academy Award-winning character actor. Upon his decision to follow his father into the business, Begley, Jr. first came to national prominence in the television series “St. Elsewhere.” For his role as Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Susan) Jocelyn Bell Burnell Biography (1943– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Susan Jocelyn Bell

(born July 15, 1943, Belfast, N.Ire.) British astronomer. As a research assistant at the University of Cambridge, she assisted in constructing a large radio telescope and discovered pulsars, cosmic sources of peculiar radio pulses, providing the first direct evidence for the existence of rapidly spinning neutron stars. The 1974 Nobel Prize for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Menachem Begin Biography (1913 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Menachem Wolfovitch Begin


(born August 16, 1913, Brest-Litovsk, Russia [now in Belarus]—died March 9, 1992, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel) Zionist leader who was prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. Begin was the co-recipient, with Egyptian president Anwar el-Sdt, of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace for their achievement of a peace treaty between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Beliveau Biography (1931 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 31, 1931, Trois-Riviéres, Que., Can.) Canadian ice-hockey centre. He played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1953 to 1971. His career record of 79 goals and 176 points made during play-off games, including 17 Stanley Cup championships, stood until 1987.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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		<title>Christopher Beeston Biography (1570 - 1638)</title>
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(born  1580—died  Oct. 15, 1638, London, Eng.) English actor and theatrical manager who was one of the most influential figures in the English theatre in the early 17th century.
Nothing is known of Beeston&#8217;s early life. In 1598 he appeared in Ben Jonson&#8217;s Every Man In His Humour with William Shakespeare, Augustine Phillips, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belisarius Biography (505 - 565)</title>
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(born  505, Germania, Illyria?—died March 565) Byzantine general. While serving in the bodyguard of Emperor Justinian I, he was appointed ( 525) to command in the eastern armies, and he defeated the Persians in the Battle of Dara (530). In 532 Belisarius further gained Justinian&#8217;s confidence by commanding the troops that ended the Nika [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vissarion Belinsky Biography (1811 - 1848)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born May 30, 1811, Sveaborg, Fin., Russian Empire—died May 26, 1848, St. Petersburg, Russia) Russian literary critic. Expelled from the University of Moscow in 1832, he worked as a journalist, making his reputation with critical articles that expounded nationalist doctrine. His argument that literature should express political and social ideas had a major impact on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernard Forest de Belidor Biography (1698 - 1761)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1698, Catalonia, Spain—died Sept. 8, 1761, Paris, France) French military and civil engineer. After serving in the French army, he worked on measuring an arc of the Earth. As professor of artillery at a French military school, he wrote notable books on engineering, artillery, ballistics, and fortifications, but his fame rests primarily on his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wallace Beery Biography (1885 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 1, 1885, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.—died April 15, 1949, Los Angeles, Calif.) American actor who played in more than 250 motion pictures between 1913 and 1949.
Beery&#8217;s first job in entertainment was as an elephant trainer for the Ringling Brothers Circus. He later joined his brother, the actor Noah Beery, Sr., in New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manuel Belgrano Biography (1770 - 1820)</title>
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(born , June 3, 1770, Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata [now in Argentina]—died June 20, 1820, Buenos Aires) military leader in the Argentine war for independence.
After studying law in Spain, Belgrano was appointed secretary of the Buenos Aires official merchants&#8217; guild (1794), a position in which he advocated liberal ideas, particularly in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert Biography (1829 - 1912)</title>
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(born July 26, 1829, Ostend, Belg.—died Oct. 6, 1912, Lucerne, Switz.) Belgian-Flemish statesman, and cowinner (with Paul-H.-B. d&#8217;Estournelles de Constant) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1909.
A lawyer by profession, Beernaert was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Deputies in 1873 and later served as minister of public works. He was prime minister and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fernando Belaúnde Terry Biography (1912 - 2002)</title>
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(born October 7, 1912, Lima, Peru—died June 4, 2002, Lima) statesman, architect, and president of Peru (1963–68, 1980–85), known for his efforts at democratic reform and his pro-American stance.
Belaúnde, a member of a distinguished aristocratic Peruvian family, studied architecture in the United States and France in 1924–35 and practiced briefly in Mexico before returning in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Max Beerbohm Biography (1872 - 1956)</title>
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(born Aug. 24, 1872, London, Eng.—died May 20, 1956, Rapallo, Italy) English caricaturist, writer, and dandy. His sophisticated drawings and parodies were unique in capturing, usually without malice, whatever was pretentious, affected, or absurd in his famous and fashionable contemporaries. His first literary collection, The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896), and his first book of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Belasco Biography (1853 - 1931)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Valasco or Velasco

(born July 25, 1853, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.—died May 14, 1931, New York, N.Y.) U.S. theatrical producer and playwright. He acted with traveling companies before becoming a theatre manager, first in San Francisco and later in New York City (from 1880). An independent producer from 1890, he built his own theatre in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geoffrey Beene Biography (1927- 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Fashion designer, born in Haynesville, Louisiana, USA. He studied fashion in New York City and Paris, in 1949 beginning a design career noteworthy for unconventional designs even before he started his own New York company (1962). His high-quality, ready-to-wear clothing for women and men, subtly coloured and distinctively simple, brought him eight Coty Awards.
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		<title>Harry Belafonte Biography (1927-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Harold George Belafonte, Jr.
 Actor, singer, humanitarian. Born Harold George Belafonte, Jr. on March 1, 1927 in Harlem, New York. After spending much of his childhood in his mother’s native Jamaica, Belafonte returned to the U.S. and enlisted in the Navy. He then moved to New York City to become an actor, performing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Ward Beecher Biography (1813 - 1887)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born June 24, 1813, Litchfield, Conn., U.S.—died March 8, 1887, Brooklyn, N.Y.) U.S. Congregational clergyman. The son of a minister, he was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catharine Esther Beecher. After graduating from Amherst College and later studying at Lane Theological Seminary, he served as pastor to congregations in Indiana. In 1847 he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catharine E(sther) Beecher Biography (1800 - 1878)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 6, 1800, East Hampton, N.Y., U.S.—died May 12, 1878, Elmira, N.Y.) U.S. educator who popularized and shaped a conservative movement to both elevate and entrench woman&#8217;s role in the domestic sphere. Daughter of the minister and temperance activist Lyman Beecher and sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, she helped found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vladimir Bekhterev Biography (1857 - 1927)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 1, 1857, Sorali, Vyatka, Russia—died Dec. 24, 1927, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Russian neurophysiologist and psychiatrist. A competitor of Ivan Pavlov, Bekhterev independently developed a theory of conditioned reflexes. His most lasting work was in brain structure research and descriptions of nervous symptoms and illnesses. He discovered the superior vestibular nucleus (Bekhterev nucleus) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Thomas Beecham Biography (1879 - 1961)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born April 29, 1879, St. Helens, Lancashire, Eng.—died March 8, 1961, London) British conductor. He was born to an aristocratic family and was self-taught as a conductor. Devoted to broadening British musical tastes, he created the Beecham Symphony Orchestra in 1909. In 1932 he founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1947 the Royal Philharmonic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J. Georg Bednorz Biography (1950 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Johannes Georg Bednorz

(born May 16, 1950, West Germany) German physicist who, along with Karl Alex Müller (q.v.), was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable.
Bednorz graduated from the University of Münster in 1976 and earned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friedrich Konrad Beilstein Biography (1838 - 1906)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 17, 1838, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Oct. 18, 1906, St. Petersburg) Russian chemist. From 1866 to his retirement he taught at St. Petersburg&#8217;s Technical Institute. His Handbuch der organischen Chemie (“Handbook of Organic Chemistry”; 1st ed., 1880–83) fully described 15,000 organic compounds. The fourth edition (27 vol., 1937) is periodically supplemented, and remains indispensable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Bede Biography (672 - 673)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as the Venerable Bede

(born 672/673, traditionally Monkton in Jarrow, Northumbria [Eng.]—died May 25, 735, Jarrow; feast day May 25) Anglo-Saxon theologian, historian, and chronologist. Raised in a monastery, he was ordained a priest at age 30. He is best known for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People (732?), tracing Britain&#8217;s history from 55 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Leon) Bix Beiderbecke Biography (1903 - 1931)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born March 10, 1903, Davenport, Iowa, U.S.—died Aug. 6, 1931, Long Island, N.Y.) U.S. jazz cornetist and composer. Beiderbecke developed a style independent of the influence of Louis Armstrong and became the leading player of the Chicago style of jazz in the 1920s. He was noted for his gentle, clear tone and introspective approach. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francis Beaumont Biography (1584 - 1616)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1585, Grace-Dieu, Leicestershire, Eng.—died  March 6, 1616, London) English Jacobean poet and playwright who collaborated with John Fletcher on comedies and tragedies between about 1606 and 1613.
The son of Francis Beaumont, justice of common pleas of Grace-Dieu priory, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, Beaumont entered Broadgates Hall (later Pembroke College), Oxford, in 1597. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel (Barclay) Beckett Biography (1906 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Samuel Barclay Beckett


(born April 13?, 1906, Foxrock, County Dublin, Ire.—died Dec. 22, 1989, Paris, France) author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot).

Life
Samuel Beckett was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louise Beavers Biography (1902 - 1962)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 8, 1902, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died Oct. 26, 1962, Hollywood, Calif.) African American film and television actress known for her character roles.
Beavers first drew attention as part of an act known as the Lady Minstrels. Despite her theatrical abilities and inclinations, she went to Hollywood not as a performer but as the maid of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henri Becquerel Biography (1852 - 1908)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Antoine-Henri Becquerel

(born December 15, 1852, Paris, France—died August 25, 1908, Le Croisic) French physicist who discovered radioactivity through his investigations of uranium and other substances. In 1903 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie.
He was a member of a scientific family extending through several generations, the most notable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maxwell Aitken, lst Baron Beaverbrook Biography (1879 - 1964)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. William Maxwell Aitken known as Lord Beaverbrook


(born May 25, 1879, Maple, Ont., Can.—died June 9, 1964, near Leatherhead, Surrey, Eng.) Canadian-British politician and newspaper proprietor. After making a fortune in Montreal as a financier, he moved to England and became active in politics as a Conservative. Beginning in 1916, he took over or founded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Beckwourth Biography (1798 - 1867)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. James Pierson Beckwith
(born April 26, 1798, Virginia, U.S.—died 1867?, Denver, Colo.) U.S. mountain man. Born a slave, the son of a white man and a slave woman, he was taken by his father to St. Louis and set free. In 1823–24 he was hired by trading expeditions in the Rocky Mountains. He married a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P. G. T. Beauregard Biography (1818 - 1893)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born May 28, 1818, near New Orleans, La., U.S.—died Feb. 20, 1893, New Orleans) U.S. military leader. He graduated from West Point in 1838 and served in the Mexican War. After Louisiana seceded in 1861, he resigned his commission and became a general in the Confederate army. He commanded the forces that bombarded Fort Sumter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Becknell Biography (1796 - 1865)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1796?, Amherst county, Va., U.S.—died April 30, 1865, Texas) U.S. trader. After settling in Missouri, he became involved in trade with the Southwest. When the Spanish prohibition on trade with New Mexico was lifted in 1821, he followed the customary route through the Colorado Rocky Mountains south to Santa Fe, where he sold his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Beaumont Biography (1785 - 1853)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 21, 1785, Lebanon, Conn., U.S.—died April 25, 1853, St. Louis, Mo.) U.S. surgeon. He served many years as an army surgeon. When treating a trapper whose abdomen had been perforated by a shotgun blast, Beaumont collected gastric juice for analysis and showed that it contained hydrochloric acid, which supported his belief that digestion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Biography (1732 - 1799)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Pierre Augustin Caron


(born Jan. 24, 1732, Paris, France—died May 18, 1799, Paris) French playwright. Son of a watchmaker, he invented a clockwork mechanism and became embroiled in lawsuits over its patent; a series of witty pamphlets he wrote in his defense established his reputation as a writer. His comedy The Barber of Seville (1772) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Max Beckmann Biography (1884 - 1950)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Feb. 12, 1884, Leipzig, Ger.—died Dec. 27, 1950, New York, N.Y., U.S.) German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. After training at the conservative Weimar Academy, in 1903 he moved to Berlin and joined the Berlin Sezession. His experience as a medical orderly in World War I changed his outlook, and his work became full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx Biography (1501 - 1550)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Baltazarini di Belgioioso

(born 16th century, Piedmont region—died 1587, Paris, Fr.) Italian-born French composer and choreographer. In 1555 he left Italy for Paris and joined the court of Catherine de Médicis as a violinist. There he organized unofficial court fetes and became valet de chambre to the royal family. In 1581 he staged the lavish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arnold (Orville) Beckman Biography (1900- 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Electrical engineer and inventor, born in Cullom, Illinois, USA. He worked as a Bell Telephone research engineer and taught at the California Institute of Technology before establishing his own firm, Beckman Instruments, to produce scientific instruments of his own invention. His quartz spectrophotometer made automatic chemical analysis possible. His company developed a long line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eugène de Beauharnais Biography (1781 - 1824)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 3, 1781, Paris, France—died Feb. 21, 1824, Munich, Bavaria) French administrator and general. Son of Joséphine and Alexandre, viscount de Beauharnais, he became a useful military aide to his stepfather, Napoleon. In 1804 he received the title of prince and was appointed archchancellor of state. He was named Napoleon&#8217;s viceroy in Italy (1805), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David (Robert Joseph) Beckham Biography (1975- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full David Robert Joseph Beckham
Footballer, born in Leytonstone, Greater London, UK. A midfield player, he joined Manchester United in 1993, and the England team in 1996. He was a member of the 1998 World Cup team and the Euro 2000 squad, and was made captain in the lead-up to the 2002 World Cup. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexandre, viscount de Beauharnais Biography (1760 - 1794)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 28, 1760, Martinique—died June 23, 1794, Paris, France) French politician and general, first husband of Joséphine. A liberal noble, he became a prominent figure during the French Revolution. He presided over the Constituent Assembly in 1791, served with gallantry in the army, and was named general in chief of the Army of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Thomas Beckford Biography (1760 - 1844)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 29, 1760, London, Eng.—died May 2, 1844, Bath, Somerset) English dilettante, novelist, and eccentric. He is remembered for his gothic novel Vathek (1786), about an impious voluptuary who builds a tower so high that he challenges Muhammad in heaven and so brings about his own fall to the kingdom of the prince of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hortense de Beauharnais Biography (1783 - 1837)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 10, 1783, Paris, France—died Oct. 5, 1837, Arenenberg, Switz.) French-born queen of Holland (1806–10). Daughter of Joséphine and Alexandre, viscount de Beauharnais, and stepdaughter of Napoleon, Hortense married Napoleon&#8217;s brother, Louis Bonaparte. When he became king of Holland, she was named queen. The marriage was unhappy but produced three children, including the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Thomas Becket Biography (1118 - 1170)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Thomas à Becket


(born  1118, Cheapside, London, Eng.—died Dec. 29, 1170, Canterbury, Kent; canonized 1173; feast day December 29) Archbishop of Canterbury (1162–70). The son of a Norman merchant, he served as chancellor of England (1155–62) under Henry II, whose entire trust he won. A brilliant administrator, diplomat, and military strategist, he aided the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warren Beatty Biography (1937 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Henry Warren Beaty

(born March 30, 1937, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.) talented and handsome American leading man who has also produced, directed, and written screenplays. He is best known for his politically charged portrayals of somewhat outcast but charming heroes.
The younger brother of actress Shirley MacLaine, Beatty attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, for one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary (Stanley) Becker Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Gary Stanley Becker

(born December 2, 1930, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.) American economist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1992. He applied the methods of economics to aspects of human behaviour previously considered more or less the exclusive domain of sociology, criminology, anthropology, and demography.
Becker was educated at Princeton University and the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beatrix Biography (1938 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard


(born January 31, 1938, Soestdijk, Netherlands) queen of The Netherlands from 1980.
The eldest of four daughters born to Princess (later Queen) Juliana and Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Beatrix went into exile with her family when the Germans overran The Netherlands in World War II, and she spent the war years in Britain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boris Becker Biography (1967 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 22, 1967, Leimen, W.Ger.) German tennis player. He left school in the 10th grade to concentrate on tennis. In 1985 he became the youngest winner (at 17) of the Wimbledon&#8217;s men&#8217;s singles title and the youngest ever to win a men&#8217;s grand-slam tournament, as well as the only unseeded player and the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Cecil Beaton Biography (1904 - 1980)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

(born January 14, 1904, London, England—died January 18, 1980, Broadchalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire) photographer known primarily for his portraits of celebrated persons, who also worked as an illustrator, a diarist, and an Academy Award-winning costume and set designer.
Beaton&#8217;s interest in photography began when, as a young boy, he admired portraits of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franz Beckenbauer Biography (1945 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[nickname the Kaiser
born Sept. 11, 1945, Munich, Ger.) German football (soccer) player. He is credited with inventing the modern attacking sweeper position. Nicknamed “Der Kaiser,” Beckenbauer is the only man to both captain and manage World Cup-winning teams (1974 and 1990, respectively). He spent most of his career with Bayern Munich (1958–77), leading the team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beatles Biography (1960–70)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British pop group, formed in Liverpool, NW England, UK in 1960, consisting at that time of John Lennon (1940–80, rhythm guitar, keyboards, vocals), Paul McCartney (1942– , bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (1943–2001, lead guitar, sitar, vocals), and Pete Best (1941– , drums). In 1962 Best was replaced by Ringo Starr (1940– , real name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ludwig Beck Biography (1880 - 1944)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 29, 1880, Biebrich, Germany—died July 20, 1944, Berlin) German general who, as chief of the army general staff (1935–38), opposed Adolf Hitler&#8217;s expansionist policies and who was a central figure in the unsuccessful July Plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944.
Beck was trained as an artillery officer and distinguished himself as a staff officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley Biography (1872 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Aubrey Vincent Beardsley


(born August 21, 1872, Brighton, Sussex, England—died March 16, 1898, Menton, France) the leading English illustrator of the 1890s and, after Oscar Wilde, the outstanding figure in the Aestheticism movement.
Drawing was a strong interest from early childhood, and Beardsley practiced it while earning his living as a clerk. Beardsley&#8217;s meeting with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Davison Bechtel Biography (1900 - 1989)</title>
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(born Sept. 24, 1900, Aurora, Ind., U.S.—died March 14, 1989, San Francisco, Calif.) U.S. construction engineer and president (1936–60) of W.A. Bechtel Co. and its successor, Bechtel Corp. He became a vice president in the San Francisco-based family firm of W.A. Bechtel Co. in 1925. In 1937 he and John McCone formed Bechtel-McCone Corp., a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romare Bearden Biography (1914 - 1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
in full Romare Howard Bearden
(born Sept. 2, 1911, Charlotte, N.C., U.S.—died March 12, 1988, New York City, N.Y.) American painter, whose collages of photographs and painted paper on canvas depict aspects of American black culture in a style derived from Cubism. He is considered one of the most important African American artists of the 20th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidney Bechet Biography (1897 - 1959)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 14, 1897, New Orleans—died  May 14, 1959, Paris) jazz musician known as a master of the soprano saxophone.
Bechet began as a clarinetist at the age of six and by 1914 was a veteran who had worked in several semilegendary local bands, including those of Jack Carey and Buddy Petit. After working in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cesare Beccaria Biography (1738 - 1794)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Cesare, Marchese (marquess) Di Beccaria Bonesana

(born March 15, 1738, Milan—died November 28, 1794, Milan) Italian criminologist and economist whose Dei delitti e delle pene (Eng. trans. J.A. Farrer, Crimes and Punishment, 1880) was a celebrated volume on the reform of criminal justice.

Early life
Beccaria was the son of a Milanese aristocrat of modest means. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Beard Biography (1903–85)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 27, 1874, near Knightstown, Ind., U.S.—died Sept. 1, 1948, New Haven, Conn.) U.S. historian. Beard taught at Columbia University (1904–17) and cofounded New York&#8217;s New School for Social Research (1919). He is best known for iconoclastic studies of the development of U.S. political institutions, emphasizing the dynamics of socioeconomic conflict and change and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles A(ustin) Beard Biography (1874 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 27, 1874, near Knightstown, Ind., U.S.—died Sept. 1, 1948, New Haven, Conn.) U.S. historian. Beard taught at Columbia University (1904–17) and cofounded New York&#8217;s New School for Social Research (1919). He is best known for iconoclastic studies of the development of U.S. political institutions, emphasizing the dynamics of socioeconomic conflict and change and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domenico Beccafumi Biography (1486 - 1551)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Domenico di Giacomo di Pace known as Mecherino


(born  1484, Cortina, Republic of Venice—died May 1551, Siena, Republic of Siena) Italian painter and sculptor active in Siena. He adopted the name of his patron, Lorenzo Beccafumi. In 1510 he went to Rome to study the work of Raphael and Michelangelo. In 1512 he returned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francis Bebey Biography (1929 - 2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born July 15, 1929, Douala, Camer.—died May 28, 2001, Paris, France) Cameroonian-born French writer and singer-songwriter. After studying in Paris and New York City, he settled in Paris in 1960. He worked for radio stations and then for UNESCO, researching and documenting traditional African music. Meanwhile, he also composed and recorded his own highly experimental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August Bebel Biography (1840 - 1913)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 22, 1840, Deutz, near Cologne, Ger.—died Aug. 13, 1913, Passugg, Switz.) German socialist and writer. A turner by trade, Bebel joined the Leipzig Workers&#8217; Educational Association (1861) and became its chairman (1865). Influenced by the ideas of Wilhelm Liebknecht, in 1869 he helped found the Social Democratic Labour Party (later the Social Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Bean Biography (1959-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor. Born Shaun Mark Bean on April 17, 1959 in Sheffield, England. Though he had planned a career at his father’s welding firm, Bean’s talents took him in an entirely different direction when he discovered acting while studying art at Rotherham College. A handful of notable performances earned him a scholarship to the prestigious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Azhari Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born on June 16th, 1978 in Jakarta Indonesia, Sarah is a model and actress. She was named the most beautiful Indonesian woman in 2005, which may make her older sister, Rahma Azhari (also known as Ayu Azhari), jealous.
Her filmography includes starring acting roles in “Daun di Atas Bantal” and “Lupus Millenia” in the late 1990’s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dewi Persik Biography  ( 1985-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dewi Persik was born in Jember on December 18, 1985, which makes her age 22. She has a signature move called “Goyang Gergaji” aka “Saw Move.” You can see it here. The girl can really dance.
Her dancing looks like a free-spirited belly dance and Dewi really gets the crowd involved.  The style, dangdut, originated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sandra Dewi Is Indonesian Sexy Biography ( 1983 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

As a biography, Sandra Dewi is an Indonesian actress. She only recently began acting, having starred in three movies so far: “A Very Slow Breakfast” (2003), “Quickie Express” (2007), and “Extra Large” (2008). She upped her popularity by posing for FHM.
It is rumored that Sandra has a special recipe drink that she uses to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roy Bean Biography (1825 - 1903)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Judge Bean

(born 1825?, Mason county, Ky., U.S.—died March 16, 1903, Langtry, Texas) U.S. justice of the peace and saloonkeeper. He left Kentucky in 1847 and moved from town to town, killing at least two men in duels, before settling in Texas. During the American Civil War he first served with Confederate regulars and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Beamon Biography (1946 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[popular name of Robert Beamon


(born August 29, 1946, Bronx, New York, U.S.) American long jumper, who set a world record of 8.90 metres (29.2 feet) at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. The new record surpassed the existing mark by an astounding 55 cm (21.65 inches) and stood for 23 years, until Mike Powell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Arnold Bax Biography (1883 - 1953)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 8, 1883, London, Eng.—died Oct. 3, 1953, Cork, County Cork, Ire.) British composer. Born into a wealthy family, he was free to compose throughout his life and consequently wrote prolifically. His early works, influenced by the poetry of William Butler Yeats, frequently evoke Celtic legend. His compositions include seven symphonies, the orchestral works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George W(ells) Beadle Biography (1903 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Oct. 22, 1903, Wahoo, Neb., U.S.—died June 9, 1989, Pomona, Calif.) American geneticist who helped found biochemical genetics when he showed that genes affect heredity by determining enzyme structure. He shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum and Joshua Lederberg.
After earning his doctorate in genetics from Cornell University (1931), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicki Baum Biography (1888 - 1960)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Hedwig Baum

(born Jan. 24, 1888, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]—died Aug. 29, 1960, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) Austrian-born American novelist whose Menschen im Hotel (1929; “People at the Hotel”; Eng. trans. Grand Hotel) became a best-seller and was adapted as a successful play (1930), an Academy Award-winning film (1932), a film musical (1945; renamed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Marcy Beach Biography (1867 - 1944)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Amy Marcy Cheney known as Mrs. H.H.A. Beach
born Sept. 5, 1867, Henniker, N.H., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1944, New York, N.Y.) U.S. composer and pianist. A precociously brilliant musician, she performed as soloist with major orchestras in the U.S. and Europe. As a composer she was devoted to German Romanticism rather than American themes or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Lyman) Frank Baum Biography (1856 - 1919)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 15, 1856, Chittenango, N.Y., U.S.—died May 6, 1919, Hollywood, Calif.) U.S. writer of children&#8217;s books. Baum achieved commercial success with his first book, Father Goose (1899), and followed it the next year with the even more popular Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote 13 more Oz books, which acquired a huge readership. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beach Boys Biography ()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
American rock group whose dulcet melodies and distinctive vocal mesh defined the 1960s youthful idyll of sun-drenched southern California. The original members were Brian Wilson (b. June 20, 1942, Inglewood, Calif., U.S.), Dennis Wilson (b. Dec. 4, 1944, Inglewood—d. Dec. 28, 1983, Marina del Rey, Calif.), Carl Wilson (b. Dec. 21, 1946, Los Angeles, Calif.—d. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sammy Baugh Biography (1914 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Samuel Adrian Baugh

(born March 17, 1914, Temple, Texas, U.S.) First outstanding quarterback of U.S. professional football. He led the NFL in forward passing in 6 of 16 seasons (1937–52) with the Washington Redskins. He also excelled as a punter and as a defensive halfback.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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		<title>Bea Arthur Biography (1923- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress, comedienne. Born Bernice Frankel on May 16, 1923, in New York City. Known for her sharp wit, Arthur first attracted notice for her performance in the off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera in 1954. She continued to find success performing on stage. She originated the role of Yente the matchmaker in Fiddler on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Baudrillard Biography (1929 - 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 29, 1929, Reims, France—died March 6, 2007, Paris) French sociologist and cultural theorist whose theoretical ideas of “hyperreality” and “simulacrum” influenced literary theory and philosophy, especially in the United States, and spread into popular culture.
After studying German at the Sorbonne, Baudrillard taught German literature in secondary schools (1956–66), translated German literary and philosophical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bbur Biography (1483 - 1530)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. ahr al-Dn Muammad

(born Feb. 15, 1483, principality of Fergana—died Dec. 26, 1530, Agra, India) Emperor (1526–30) and founder of the Mughal dynasty of India. A descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, he came from a tribe of Mongol origin but was Turkish in language and upbringing. In his youth he tried for 10 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baudouin I Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 7, 1930, Stuyvenberg Castle, near Brussels, Belg.—died July 31, 1993, Motril, Spain) King of the Belgians (1951–93). The son of King Leopold III, Baudouin lived with his family under house arrest in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. After postwar exile in Switzerland, Baudouin became king on his father&#8217;s abdication (1951). He helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Bb Biography (1819 - 1820)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Mrz &#8216;Al Muammad of Shrz

(born Oct. 20, 1819, or Oct. 8, 1820, Shrz, Iran—died July 9, 1850, Tabriz) Iranian religious leader who founded the Bb religion and was one of the central figures of Bah&#8216;. The son of a merchant, he was influenced by the Shaykh school of Sh&#8216;ite Islam. In 1844 he wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Émile Baudot Biography (1845 - 1903)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1845, Magneux, France—died March 28, 1903, Sceaux) French engineer. In 1874 he patented a telegraph code that by the mid 20th century had supplanted Morse code as the standard telegraphic alphabet. In Baudot&#8217;s code, each letter is represented by a five-unit combination of current-on or current-off signals of equal duration, providing 32 permutations (sufficient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henri-Émile Bazin Biography (1829 - 1917)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 10, 1829, Nancy, France—died Feb. 7, 1917, Dijon) French engineer. As an assistant to H.-P.-G. Darcy (1803–1858), he completed his program of tests on resistance to water flow in channels after Darcy&#8217;s death, producing the classic study of the subject. He later studied the problem of wave propagation ( wave) and the contraction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Baudelaire Biography (1821 - 1867)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born April 9, 1821, Paris, France—died Aug. 31, 1867, Paris) French poet. While a law student he became addicted to opium and hashish and contracted syphilis. His early reckless spending on fine clothes and furnishings led to a life dogged by debt. In 1844 he formed an association with Jeanne Duval, a woman of mixed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elgin (Gay) Baylor Biography (1934 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 16, 1934, Washington, D.C., U.S.) U.S. professional basketball player (6 ft 5 in) who is regarded as one of the game&#8217;s greatest forwards. His graceful style enabled him to score and rebound with seeming ease.
Baylor was an All-American (1958) at Seattle University, where he played from 1955 to 1958, guiding the team to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batu Biography (1255 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(died  1255, Russia) Grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Golden Horde. In 1235 Batu was elected commander in chief of the western part of the Mongol empire and given responsibility for the invasion of Europe. His troops burned and sacked Kiev in 1240, and by the end of 1241 he had conquered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir William Maddock Bayliss Biography (1860 - 1924)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 2, 1860, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Eng.—died Aug. 27, 1924, London) British physiologist. He and Ernest H. Starling studied nerve-controlled blood-vessel contraction and dilation and discovered the peristaltic wave. In 1902 they showed that dilute hydrochloric acid mixed with partly digested food activates a chemical in the duodenum that they called secretin, because it stimulates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kathleen Battle Biography (1948 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Kathleen Deanne Battle

(born Aug. 13, 1948, Portsmouth, Ohio, U.S.)  American opera singer, among the finest coloratura sopranos of her time.
As a child and young adult Battle was both a good student and a good singer. She was awarded a scholarship to the University of Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music in Ohio, where she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lilian Mary Baylis Biography (1874 - 1937)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 9, 1874, London, Eng.—died Nov. 25, 1937, London) English theatrical manager and founder of the Old Vic as a centre of Shakespearean productions.
As a child, Baylis studied the violin, and she performed in concert with her parents, who were singers. In 1890 the family moved to South Africa, where Baylis later became a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>José Batlle y Ordóñez Biography (1856 - 1929)</title>
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(born May 21, 1856, Montevideo, Uruguay—died October 20, 1929, Montevideo) statesman who, as president of Uruguay (1903–07 and 1911–15), is generally credited with transforming his country into a stable democratic welfare state.
Batlle y Ordóñez was the son of a president of Uruguay (1868–72), General Lorenzo Batlle, and a grandson of José Batlle y Carréo, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pierre Bayle Biography (1647 - 1706)</title>
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(born Nov. 18, 1647, Carla-le-Comte, France—died Dec. 28, 1706, Rotterdam, Neth.) French philosopher. Educated at a Jesuit school, he converted to Roman Catholicism but later reverted to his original Calvinist faith. His religious views led to his losing professorships first at Sedan and later at Rotterdam. He was convinced that philosophical reasoning led to universal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fulgencio Batista (y Zaldívar) Biography (1901 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar

(born January 16, 1901, Banes, Cuba—died August 6, 1973, Marbella, Spain) soldier and dictator who twice ruled Cuba—first in 1933–44, when he gave the nation a strong, efficient government, and again in 1952–59 as a dictator, jailing his opponents, using terrorist methods, and making fortunes for himself and his associates.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bayezit I Biography (1360 - 1403)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Bajazet or Bayazid, nickname Yildrim (‘Thunderbolt’)
(born  1360—died March 1403?, Akehir, Anatolia) Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1389–1402). After succeeding his father, Murad II (d. 1389), Bayezid expanded Ottoman control of the shrinking Byzantine Empire by conquering vast tracts of territory in the Balkans, thus securing his rule south of the Danube. From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Bateson Biography (1861 - 1926)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 8, 1861, Whitby, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Feb. 8, 1926, London) British biologist. In 1900, while studying inheritance of traits, he was drawn to the research of Gregor Mendel, which explained perfectly the results of his own plant experiments. He was the first to translate Mendel&#8217;s major work into English. With Reginald Crundall Punnett, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bayezid II Biography (1447 - 1448)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born December 1447/January 1448?, Demotika, Thrace, Ottoman Empire—died May 26, 1512, Demotika) Sultan who consolidated control of the Ottoman Empire begun by his father, Mehmed II. After taking the throne in 1481, he reversed his father&#8217;s policies of expropriating Muslim religious properties and rejected his pro-European orientation but continued the policy of territorial conquest. Under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gregory Bateson Biography (1904–80)</title>
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(born May 9, 1904, Grantchester, Eng.—died July 4, 1980, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.) British-born U.S. anthropologist. Son of British biologist William Bateson, he studied anthropology at Cambridge University but soon thereafter moved to the U.S. His most important book, Naven (1936), was a groundbreaking study of cultural symbolism and ritual based on fieldwork in New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baybars I Biography (1223 - 1277)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Baibars

(born  1223, north of the Black Sea—died July 1, 1277, Damascus, Syria) Most eminent sultan of the Mamlk dynasty. A Kipchak Turk, he was sold as a slave (mamlk) after a Mongol invasion in the 1240s. He ended up in the service of the sultan of Egypt&#8217;s Ayybid dynasty, who gave him military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kathy Bates Biography (1948-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born Kathleen Doyle on June 28, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee. Bates graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in theater, and after stints as a cashier at New York&#8217;s Museum of Modern Art and a singing waitress in a Catskill resort, she distinguished herself in 1983&#8217;s &#8216;Night Mother, for which she earned a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Francis Bayard Biography (1828 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 29, 1828, Wilmington, Del., U.S.—died Sept. 28, 1898, Dedham, Mass.) U.S. statesman, diplomat, and lawyer. Born into a prominent political family, he succeeded his father as U.S. senator from Delaware (1869–85). He served as secretary of state (1885–89) and as ambassador to Britain (1893–97), the first U.S. representative to Great Britain to hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daisy Gatson Bates Biography (1914 - 1999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Daisy Lee Gatson

(born 1914?, Huttig, Ark., U.S.—died Nov. 4, 1999, Little Rock, Ark.) American journalist and civil rights activist who withstood economic, legal, and physical intimidation to champion racial equality, most notably in the integration of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Daisy Gatson was adopted as a baby after her mother&#8217;s murder and her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meredith Baxter Biography (1947-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born June 21, 1947, in Los Angeles, California. Meredith was the only daughter born to aspiring actress Whitney Blake and radio announcer Tom Baxter. After her parents divorced, when she was five, her mother wed Hollywood producer Jack Fields. The effect of her parents’ breakup, coupled with her mother’s hasty remarriage, took quite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hester Bateman Biography (1709 - 1794)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Hester Needham


(born 1709, London, Eng.—died 1794, London) British silversmith. In 1760, after the death of her husband, John Bateman, she took over the family business. Until 1774 she generally executed designs commissioned by other silversmiths. After that time her shop became well known for its tableware, such as spoons, sugar bowls, saltcellars, and teapots. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mario Batali Biography (1960-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chef, restaurateur, television personality. Born in Seattle to French and Italian parents, Batali attended high school in Spain and college at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he was a student of Spanish theater. Always passionate about food, Batali enlisted at Le Cordon Bleu in London only to drop out soon after for an apprenticeship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georges Bataille Biography (1897 - 1962)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 10, 1897, Billom, France—died July 9, 1962, Paris) French librarian and writer. He trained as an archivist and worked at the Bibliothèque Nationale and at the Orléans library. He wrote a number of novels under pseudonyms before publishing Le Coupable (1944; Guilty) under his own name. His novels, essays, and poetry show a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augustos Roa Bastos Biography (1917–2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Augusto Antonio Roa Bastos
 Novelist, born in Asunción, Paraguay. He left his native Paraguay in 1947 after speaking out against military dictatorships. He lived in Argentina, France, and Spain during his exile, returning to Paraguay in 1989. The author of several works of fiction, he was also a journalist, screenwriter, and teacher, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agostino Maria Bassi Biography (1773 - 1856)</title>
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(born Sept. 25, 1773, near Lodi, Lombardy, Habsburg crown land—died Feb. 8, 1856, Lodi) Italian bacteriologist. He attended Pavia University. In 1807 he began an investigation of the silkworm disease muscardine, which was causing serious economic losses in Italy and France. After 25 years of research, he demonstrated that the disease was contagious and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dame Shirley (Veronica) Bassey Biography (1937 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Shirley Veronica Bassey

(born January 8, 1937, Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales) glamorous Welsh singer. Renowned for her strident, sultry voice, sequined gowns, and lavish jewelry, she was a forerunner of the score of pop music divas who emerged in the last decades of the 20th century. She was also one of the first black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count Basie Biography (1904 - 1984)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of William Basie


(born August 21, 1904, Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.—died April 26, 1984, Hollywood, Florida) American jazz musician noted for his spare, economical piano style and for his leadership of influential and widely heralded big bands.
Basie studied music with his mother and was later influenced by the Harlem pianists James P. Johnson and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angela Bassett Biography (1958-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born August 16, 1958, in New York City. Bassett was raised with her sister, D&#8217;nette, in St. Petersburg, Florida by her single mother, Betty, a social worker. On a high school trip, she became inspired to act after seeing a Kennedy Center production of Of Mice and Men, starring James Earl Jones. Encouraged by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bash Biography (1644 - 1694)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Matsuo Bash orig. Matsuo Munefusa

(born 1644, Ueno, Iga province, Japan—died Nov. 28, 1694, saka) Japanese haiku poet, the greatest practitioner of the form. Following the Zen philosophy he studied, he attempted to compress the meaning of the world into the simple pattern of his poetry, disclosing hidden hopes in small things and showing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacopo Bassano Biography (1517 - 1592)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Jacopo da Ponte

(born  1517, Bassano, republic of Venice—died Feb. 13, 1592, Bassano) Italian painter. He was the most celebrated member of a family of artists from the small town of Bassano, near Venice, where he worked for most of his life. He trained with Bonifacio de&#8217; Pitati in Venice and was influenced by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georg Baselitz Biography (1938 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Hans-Georg Kern

(born Jan. 23, 1938, Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Ger.) German painter, printmaker, and sculptor who is considered to be a pioneering Neo-Expressionist. Baselitz was part of a wave of German painters who in the late 1970s rejected abstraction for highly expressive paintings with recognizable subject matter. His trademark work was painted and displayed upside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giorgio Bassani Biography (1916 - 2000)</title>
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(born March 4, 1916, Bologna, Italy—died April 13, 2000, Rome) Italian author and editor noted for his novels and stories examining individual lives played out against the background of modern history. The author&#8217;s Jewish heritage and the life of the Jewish community in Ferrara, where he lived most of his life, are among his recurrent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mikhail Nikolaievich Baryshnikov Biography (1948 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dancer, born on January 27, 1948 in Riga, Latvia. He trained at the Riga Choreography School, then with the Kirov Ballet in St Petersburg. In 1974 he defected to the West while on tour in Canada, joining the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), and later the New York City Ballet, where he worked with George Balanchine. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Bass Biography (1851 - 1878)</title>
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(born July 21, 1851, near Mitchell, Ind., U.S.—died July 21, 1878, Round Rock, Texas) American Western outlaw who was finally gunned down by the Texas Rangers.
Bass left his Indiana home at age 18 and drifted to Texas, where in 1874 he befriended Joel Collins. In 1876 Bass and Collins went north on a cattle drive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antoine-Louis Barye Biography (1795 - 1875)</title>
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(born Sept. 24, 1796, Paris, Fr.—died June 29, 1875, Paris) French sculptor. The son of a goldsmith, he was apprenticed at 13 to an engraver. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts (1818–23) and began to sculpt animal forms  1819. Influenced by Théodore Géricault, he had a unique talent for rendering dynamic tension and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotta Spears Bass Biography (1880 - 1969)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Charlotta Spears

(born October 1880, Sumter, S.C., U.S.—died April 12, 1969, Los Angeles, Calif.) American editor and civil rights activist whose long career was devoted to aggressively publicizing and combating racial inequality.
Charlotta Spears moved to Providence, Rhode Island, in 1900 and worked at the Providence Watchman, a local newspaper. In 1910 she went to Los [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernard Baruch Biography (1870 - 1965)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Aug. 19, 1870, Camden, S.C., U.S.—died June 20, 1965, New York, N.Y.) U.S. financier and adviser to presidents. After graduating from the College of the City of New York in 1889, he went to work in Wall Street brokerage houses, where he amassed a fortune as a speculator. During World War I he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov Biography (1922 - 2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 14, 1922, Usman, near Voronezh, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died July 1, 2001, Moscow, Russia) Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, and a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1964, with Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov of the Soviet Union and Charles H. Townes of the United States, for research leading to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Béla Bartók Biography (1881 - 1945)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born March 25, 1881, Nagyszentmiklós, Hung., Austria-Hungary—died Sept. 26, 1945, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He was an accomplished pianist at an early age. In 1904 he set about researching Hungarian folk music, having discovered that the folk-music repertory generally accepted as Hungarian was in fact largely urban Roma (Gypsy) music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leonard Baskin Biography (1922 - 2000)</title>
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(born Aug. 15, 1922, New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.—died June 3, 2000, Northampton, Mass.) U.S. sculptor and graphic artist. After studying in Europe and the U.S., in 1939 he had his first one-man exhibition in New York City, and he later taught for many years at Smith College. He is known for his bleak portrayals of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Barty Biography (1924-2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, comedian. Born William John Bertanzetti on October 25, 1924 in Millsboro, Pennsylvania. Born into a performing family, Billy charmed his way into silent pictures at the age of three. As a child actor, he appeared in such films as Alice in Wonderland, A Midsummer&#8217;s Night&#8217;s Dream and The Mickey McGuire Comedies. Though he would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Bartram Biography (1739–1823)</title>
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(born April 9, 1739, Kingsessing, Pa., U.S.—died July 22, 1823, Kingsessing) U.S. naturalist, botanist, and artist. the son of John Bartram, he described the abundant river swamps of the southeastern U.S. in their primeval condition in his Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida (1791). The book was influential among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Baskerville Biography (1706 - 1775)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Jan. 28, 1706, Wolverly, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Jan. 8, 1775, Birmingham, Warwickshire) British typographer. In 1757 he set up a printing house and published his first work, an edition of Virgil. His editions of the Latin classics, John Milton&#8217;s poems (1758), and a folio Bible (1763) are characterized by clear and careful presswork rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bartram Biography (1699 - 1777)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 23, 1699, Marple, Pa., U.S.—died Sept. 22, 1777, Kingsessing, Pa.) naturalist and explorer, considered the “father of American botany.” Largely self-educated, he was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and the botanist for the American colonies to George III. He was the first North American experimenter to hybridize flowering plants, and he established near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Derek H.R. Barton Biography (1918 - 1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton

(born September 8, 1918, Gravesend, Kent, England—died March 16, 1998, College Station, Texas, U.S.) joint recipient, with Odd Hassel of Norway, of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on “conformational analysis,” the study of the three-dimensional geometric structure of complex molecules, now an essential part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Basinger Biography (1953– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Film actress, born on December 8, 1953 in Athens, Georgia, USA. She appeared in television commercials and was a top model before making her feature film debut in Hard Country (1981). Other films include Nine ½ Weeks (1986), The Real McCoy (1993), I Dreamed of Africa (2000), 8 Mile (2002), Cellular (2004), and The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clara Barton Biography (1821 - 1912)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Clarissa Harlowe Barton
Educator, nurse, and founder of the American Red Cross. Born on December 25, 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts. Clara Clarton spent much of her life in the service of others and created an organization that still helps people in need today—the American Red Cross. A shy child, she first found her calling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basilides Biography (101 - 200)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[flourished 2nd century , Alexandria) Founder of the Basilidian school of Gnosticism. According to Clement of Alexandria, Basilides claimed to base his teaching on a secret tradition of Peter the Apostle. He wrote psalms, odes, commentaries on the Gospels, and his own gospel. Fragments of these writings and varying accounts by Clement, St. Irenaeus, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fra Bartolommeo Biography (1472 - 1517)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Baccio della Porta


(born March 28, 1472,  Florence—died Oct. 31, 1517, Florence) Italian painter active in Florence. His early works, such as the Annunciation (1497) in Volterra Cathedral, were influenced by Perugino and Leonardo da Vinci. In 1500 he joined the Dominican order. He painted religious subjects, primarily the Madonna and Child in various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Basil the Great Biography (329 - 379)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Latin Basilius


(born  329, Caesarea Mazaca, Cappadocia—died January 1, 379, Caesarea; Western feast day January 2; Eastern feast day January 1) early Church Father who defended the orthodox faith against the heretical Arians. As bishop of Caesarea he wrote several works on monasticism, theology, and canon law. He was declared a saint soon after his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Frederic (Charles) Bartlett Biography (1886 - 1969)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 20, 1886, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Sept. 30, 1969, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) British psychologist best known for his studies of memory. The first professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge (1931–52), he also directed the university&#8217;s psychological laboratory. His major work, Remembering (1932), described memories not as direct recollections but rather as mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basil II Biography (957 - 958)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Basil Bulgaroctonus (“Slayer of the Bulgars”)
born 957/958—died Dec. 15, 1025) Byzantine emperor (976–1025). Crowned coemperor with his brother in 960, he had to exile the grand chamberlain (985) and defeat rival generals (989) in order to gain the authority to rule. Basil became one of the strongest Byzantine emperors, winning territory in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bartlett Biography (1820 - 1905)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 14, 1820, Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.—died December 3, 1905, Cambridge, Massachusetts) American bookseller and editor best known for his Familiar Quotations.
At the age of 16, Bartlett became an employee of the Harvard University bookstore, where he became so versed in book knowledge that the advice “Ask John Bartlett” became common on the Harvard campus. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basil I Biography (826 - 835)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Basil the Macedonian

(born 826/835, Thrace—died Aug. 29, 886) Byzantine emperor (867–86) and founder of the Macedonian dynasty. Born into a peasant family in Macedonia, he won employment in official circles in Constantinople and was made chamberlain by the reigning emperor, Michael III. He became coemperor with Michael in 866 and murdered him the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Barthou Biography (1862 - 1934)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 25, 1862, Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France—died Oct. 9, 1934, Marseille) French politician. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1889, he served in various conservative governments. He was appointed premier (1913) and secured the passage of a bill requiring three years&#8217; compulsive military service. He represented France at the Conference of Genoa, entered the Senate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basil Biography (1595 - 1661)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Basil the Wolf , Romanian Vasile Lupu
born c. 1595—died 1661, Constantinople) ambitious and enterprising prince of Moldavia (1634–53) who introduced the first written laws and printing press to his principality.
Albanian in origin, Basil acceded to the throne of Moldavia in the spring of 1634. He intrigued throughout his reign to acquire the Walachian throne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Bartholomew Biography (1 - 100)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[flourished  1st century , ; d. traditionally Albanopolis, Armenia; Western feast day August 24; date varies in Eastern churches) one of the Twelve Apostles.
Apart from the mentions of him in four of the Apostle lists (Mark 3:18, Matt. 10:3, Luke 6:14, and Acts 1:13), nothing is known about him from the New Testament. Bartholomew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freddie Bartholomew Biography (1924 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Frederick Llewellyn Bartholomew

(born March 28, 1924, Dublin, Ire.—died Jan. 23, 1992, Sarasota, Fla., U.S.) child actor who epitomized Hollywood&#8217;s vision of a proper little English boy in such Depression-era films as Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and Captains Courageous (1937).
Bartholomew was reared by his aunt, Millicent Bartholomew, who found small stage and screen roles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bartholomaeus Biography (1220 - 1240)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Bartholomew the Englishman

(flourished  1220–40) Franciscan encyclopedist. Though primarily interested in scripture and theology, in his 19-volume encyclopedia On the Properties of Things he covered all customary knowledge of his time and was the first to make readily available the views of Greek, Jewish, and Arabic scholars on medical and scientific subjects. The encyclopedia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi Biography (1834 - 1904)</title>
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(born April 2, 1834, Colmar, Alsace, Fr.—died Oct. 4, 1904, Paris) French sculptor. He studied sculpture and painting in Paris. In 1865 he and several others conceived the idea for a monument to the Franco-American alliance of 1778. Beginning work in 1870, Bartholdi designed the huge statue that would come to be known as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roland Barthes Biography (1915 - 1980)</title>
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(born Nov. 12, 1915, Cherbourg, France—died March 25, 1980, Paris) French social and literary critic. His early books examined the arbitrariness of the constructs of language and applied similar analyses to popular-culture phenomena. He analyzed mass culture in Mythologies (1957). On Racine (1963) set off a literary furor, pitting him against more traditional French literary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donald Barthelme Biography (1931 - 1989)</title>
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(born April 7, 1931, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died July 23, 1989, Houston, Texas) U.S. writer. Barthelme worked as a journalist, journal editor, and museum director before his fiction began to be published. He is known for modernist “collages” marked by technical experimentation and melancholy gaiety. His story collections include Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964), City Life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Barth Biography (1886 - 1968)</title>
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(born May 10, 1886, Basel, Switz.—died Dec. 9/10, 1968, Basel) Swiss theologian. He studied at the Universities of Berlin, Tübingen, and Marburg, and in 1911–21 he was a pastor at Safenwil, Switz. The tragedy of World War I made him question the liberal theology of his teachers, rooted in post-Enlightenment ideas. With The Epistle to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Barth Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. John Simmons Barth, Jr.

(born May 27, 1930, Cambridge, Md., U.S.) U.S. writer. Barth grew up on Maryland&#8217;s eastern shore, the locale of much of his writing, and from 1953 he taught principally at Johns Hopkins University. Apart from the experimental pieces in Lost in the Funhouse (1968), his best-known works are the novels The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maurice Barrès Biography (1862 - 1923)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 19, 1862, Charmes-sur-Moselle, France—died Dec. 5, 1923, Paris) French writer and politician. He served in the Chamber of Deputies (1889–93) and became a strong nationalist. With Charles Maurras, he expounded the doctrines of the French Nationalist Party in two newspapers, and in his novels he expressed an individualism that included a deep-rooted attachment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lionel Barrymore Biography (1878 - 1954)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Lionel Blythe

(born April 28, 1878, Philadelphia—died November 15, 1954, Van Nuys, Calif., U.S.) one of the most important character actors in the early 20th century.
The son of the stage actors Maurice and Georgiana Barrymore, founders of the celebrated family of actors, he originally studied painting in Paris for three years. On his return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Barrymore Biography (1882 - 1942)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name John Blythe


(born Feb. 15, 1882, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died May 29, 1942, Hollywood, Calif.) American actor, called “The Great Profile,” who is remembered both for his roles as a debonair leading man and for his interpretations of Shakespeare&#8217;s Richard III and Hamlet.
The son of the stage actors Maurice and Georgiana Barrymore, he studied painting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethel Barrymore Biography (1879 - 1959)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Ethel Blythe


(born Aug. 15, 1879, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died June 18, 1959, Hollywood, Calif.) American stage and film actress whose distinctive style, voice, and wit made her the “first lady” of the American theatre.
The daughter of the actors Maurice and Georgiana Drew Barrymore, Ethel made her professional debut in New York City in 1894 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drew Barrymore Biography (1975-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click to see a photo gallery of Drew Barrymore.
Actress. Born Drew Blythe Barrymore, on February 22, 1975, in Los Angeles,California. The daughter of actor John Drew Barrymore Jr. and Ildiko Jaid, Barrymore&#8217;sgreat-grandparents were actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew, and hergrandparents were actors John Barrymore and Dolores Costello. The director StevenSpielberg is her godfather.Barrymore, a talented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philip Barry Biography (1896 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 18, 1896, Rochester, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 3, 1949, New York City) American dramatist best known for his comedies of life and manners among the socially privileged.
Barry was educated at Yale and in 1919 entered George Pierce Baker&#8217;s Workshop 47 at Harvard. His A Punch for Judy was produced by the workshop in 1920. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marion S(hepilov), Jr Barry Biography (1936 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.

(born March 6, 1936, Itta Bena, Mississippi, U.S.) American civil rights activist and politician who served four terms as mayor of Washington, D.C. Barry received a bachelor&#8217;s degree from LeMoyne College (1958) and a master&#8217;s degree from Fisk University (1960). He was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Barry Biography (1745 - 1803)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1745, County Wexford, Ire.—died Sept. 13, 1803, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) Irish-born American naval officer. He immigrated to America in 1760 and was a merchant shipmaster out of Philadelphia at age 21. He outfitted the first American fleet in 1776, and as captain of a frigate he captured several British ships. He fought the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeanne Bécu, countess du Barry Biography (1743 - 1793)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Madame du Barry
born Aug. 19, 1743, Vaucouleurs, France—died Dec. 8, 1793, Paris) French mistress of Louis XV. A Paris shop assistant, she became the mistress of Jean du Barry, who introduced her into Parisian high society. Admired for her beauty, she joined Louis XV&#8217;s court in 1769 after a nominal marriage to Jean&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barry Minkow Biography (1967 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Religious leader, businessman, convict. Born March 17, 1967 in Reseda, California. Barry Minkow grew up in a Jewish family in a modest suburb in the San Fernando Valley. At age 15, he started a carpet cleaning business in his parents’ garage called Zzzz Best. In four years, the company grew to 1,400 employees and counted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diego Barros Arana Biography (1830 - 1907)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 16, 1830, Santiago, Chile—died  Nov. 4, 1907, Santiago) Chilean historian, educator, and diplomat best known for his Historia general de Chile, 16 vol. (1884–1902; “General History of Chile”).
Barros Arana originally studied for a legal career but gave up the law to pursue his interests in history and literature. In 1859 the Chilean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Barris Biography (1929-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Television producer. Born June 3, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Drexel Institute of Technology in 1953, Barris held several odd jobs before moving to New York.
After landing a low-level job at NBC, Barris bribed his way onto the sales staff only to get laid off during cutbacks. After a year of unemployment, ABC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justo Rufino Barrios Biography (1835 - 1885)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born 1835, San Lorenzo, Guatemala—died April 2, 1885, Chalchuapa, El Salvador) president of Guatemala (1873–85), who carried out liberal domestic policies by dictatorial means and persistently advocated Central American unity, to be imposed by force if diplomacy proved inadequate.
Trained for the law, Barrios became Guatemalan army commander and the power behind the president, Miguel García [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joel Barlow Biography (1754 - 1812)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 24, 1754, Redding, Connecticut Colony [U.S.]—died Dec. 24, 1812, arnowiec, Pol.) U.S. writer and poet. He was a member of the group of young writers known as the Hartford (or Connecticut) Wits, whose patriotism led them to attempt to create a national literature. He became famous for his Vision of Columbus (1787), a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernst Barlach Biography (1870 - 1938)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 2, 1870, Wedel, Ger.—died Oct. 24, 1938, Güstrow) German sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. After studying in Hamburg, Dresden, and Paris, he became the outstanding sculptor of the Expressionist movement, achieving a rough-hewn quality by preferring wood, the material used in late Gothic sculpture. Even when he worked with other, more contemporary materials, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Glover Barkla Biography (1877 - 1944)</title>
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(born June 7, 1877, Widnes, Lancashire, Eng.—died Oct. 23, 1944, Edinburgh, Scot.) British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917 for his work on X-ray scattering, which occurs when X rays pass through a material and are deflected by the atomic electrons. This technique proved to be particularly useful in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (Jim) Love Barksdale Biography (1943-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Entreprenuer.  Born January 24, 1943 in Jackson, Missippi, James Love Barksdale offers living proof that all Silicon Valley entrepreneurs aren&#8217;t cocky young upstarts faking their way to success. This consummate Southern gentleman, known for his folksy sayings and his Mississippi drawl, spent decades at the helm of established corporationsbefore becoming president and CEO of Netscape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir J(ames) M(atthew) Barrie Biography (1860 - 1937)</title>
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(born May 9, 1860, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scot.—died June 19, 1937, London, Eng.) Scottish playwright and novelist. After moving to London, he wrote Auld Licht Idylls (1888), a book about his native Scotland. His best-selling novel The Little Minister (1891) was made into a play in 1897. His plays Quality Street (1901) and The Admirable Crichton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Barkley Biography (1963-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Basketball player. Born February 20, 1963 in Leeds, Alabama.With an outspoken personality and unstoppable talent, Barkley has made his mark on the NBA, winning its most valuable player award during the 1992-1993 season. An avid basketball player in high school, Barkley got his break when he won the attention of college scouts who had come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Janie Porter Barrett Biography (1865 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née  Janie Porter

(born Aug. 9, 1865, Athens, Ga., U.S.—died Aug. 27, 1948, Hampton, Va.) American welfare worker and educator who developed a school to rehabilitate previously incarcerated African-American girls by improving their self-reliance and discipline.
The daughter of former slaves, Barrett grew up largely in the home of the cultured white family who employed her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alben W(illiam) Barkley Biography (1877 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 24, 1877, Graves County, Ky., U.S.—died April 30, 1956, Lexington, Va.) 35th vice president of the United States (1949–53) in the Democratic administration of President Harry S. Truman. He was one of the chief architects of the New Deal in the 1930s and a major symbol of Democratic Party continuity as a member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barre, Raymond-Octave-Joseph Biography (1924 - 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French economist and politician (born April 12, 1924, Saint-Denis, Réunion—died Aug. 25, 2007, Paris, France) as prime minister (1976–81) and minister of finance and economic affairs (1976–78) of France, instituted austerity measures to reduce government expenditures and to control inflation and oversaw his country&#8217;s entry (1979) into the European Monetary System. Barre completed his early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean-Louis Barrault Biography (1910 - 1994)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 8, 1910, Le Vésinet, France—died Jan. 22, 1994, Paris) French actor and director. He made his acting debut in Paris (1931) and joined the Comédie-Française (1940–46) as an actor and director. He and his wife, Madeleine Renaud, formed their own company (1946–58) at the Théâtre Marigny. There they performed a mixture of French [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, viscount de Barras Biography (1755 - 1829)</title>
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(born June 30, 1755, Fox-Amphoux, France—died Jan. 29, 1829, Chaillot) French revolutionary. A Provençal nobleman, Barras became disenchanted with the royal regime and welcomed the French Revolution. Elected to the National Convention (1792), he played a key role in the overthrow of Maximilien Robespierre and emerged as the commander of the army of the interior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luis Barragán Biography (1902 - 1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 9, 1902, Guadalajara, Mexico—died November 22, 1988, Mexico City) Mexican engineer and architect, whose serene and evocative houses, gardens, plazas, and fountains won him the Pritzker Prize in 1980.
Barragán, who was born into a wealthy family, grew up on a ranch near Guadalajara, Mexico. He attended the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros (Free School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pío Baroja Biography (1872 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 28, 1872, San Sebastián, Spain—died Oct. 30, 1956, Madrid) Basque writer. He wrote 11 trilogies dealing with contemporary social problems, the best known of which is The Struggle for Life (1904). His most ambitious project was a long cycle of works about a 19th-century insurgent and his era. He wrote almost 100 novels, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federico Barocci Biography (1526 - 1612)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1526, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino, Papal States—died 1612, Urbino) Italian painter. Except for two visits to Rome (mid 1550s, 1560–63), where he painted frescoes for Pope Pius IV&#8217;s casino in the Vatican Gardens, he seems to have spent his whole life in and near Urbino. He executed altarpieces and devotional paintings in a style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ma (Kate) Barker Biography (1877-1935)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Alleged criminal. Born Arizona Clark in 1877 in Ash Grove, Missouri. After marrying George E. Barker in 1892, Kate gave birth to four sons, Herman, Lloyd, Arthur and Fred. George left the impoverished family around 1915, during which time the boys began their life in crime. Their mother condoned their crimes, and enjoyed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Barker Biography (1923-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Television personality, game show host, and animal rights activist. Born December 12, 1923, in Darrington, Washington. Barker’s father died when he was very young; until he was in eighth grade, he lived with his mother, Matilda, a teacher, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. When Matilda remarried, the family moved to Springfield, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Barker Biography (1923-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Television personality, game show host, and animal rights activist. Born December 12, 1923, in Darrington, Washington. Barker’s father died when he was very young; until he was in eighth grade, he lived with his mother, Matilda, a teacher, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. When Matilda remarried, the family moved to Springfield, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Emerson Barnard Biography (1857 - 1923)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 16, 1857, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.—died Feb. 6, 1923, Williams Bay, Wis.) astronomer who pioneered in celestial photography and who was the leading observational astronomer of his time.
In 1889 he began to photograph the Milky Way with large-aperture lenses, revealing much new detail. He discovered 16 comets and Jupiter&#8217;s fifth satellite (1892). In 1916 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Barenboim Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 15, 1942, Buenos Aires, Arg.) Argentine-born Israeli pianist and conductor. A prodigy, he made his debut at age eight. His family moved to Israel in 1952, and he first performed in the U.S. at Carnegie Hall in 1957. As a pianist he became known for his colourful interpretations of Classical and Romantic composers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P(hineas) T(aylor) Barnum Biography (1810 - 1891)</title>
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(born July 5, 1810, Bethel, Conn., U.S.—died April 7, 1891, Bridgeport, Conn.) U.S. showman. In 1841 he bought the American Museum, a collection of conventional exhibits in New York City, and transformed it into a carnival of live freaks and dramatic curiosities, which he promoted with sensational publicity. He exhibited the midget Tom Thumb with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brigitte Bardot Biography (1934 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
originally Camille Javal
(born Sept. 28, 1934, Paris, France) French film actress. She was discovered by Roger Vadim when she appeared on a magazine cover at 15 and made her film debut in 1952. Vadim crafted her “sex kitten” image for his films And God Created Woman (1956) and The Night Heaven Fell (1958), which set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bardesanes Biography (154 - 222)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Bardaisan
born July 11, 154, Edessa, Syria—died  222, Edessa) Syrian Gnostic Christian and speculative thinker. He converted to Christianity in 179 and became a missionary. He attacked the fatalism of the Greek philosophers and, showing the influence of Gnosticism, ascribed the creation of the world, the Devil, and evil to a hierarchy of gods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Barney Biography (1967 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 25, 1967, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.) American sculptor and video artist whose five-part Cremaster film cycle was praised for its inventiveness. Some art critics considered him one of the most significant artists of his generation.
Following his graduation from Yale University in New Haven, Conn. (B.A., 1989), which he attended on a football scholarship, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Barnet Biography (1913 - 1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Charles Daly Barnet

(born Oct. 26, 1913, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept., 4, 1991, San Diego, Calif.) U.S. saxophonist and big-band leader of the swing era. Born to a wealthy family, Barnet took up the saxophone as a child and eventually performed on tenor, alto, and soprano. His was among the first of the big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Javier Bardem Biography (1969-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born Javier Encinas Bardem, on March 1, 1969, in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. Born into a popular acting family in Spain (his mother, Pilar Bardem, has appeared in several of her son’s movies), Bardem built a considerable reputation among Spanish movie audiences as the sexy star of such steamy films as Las Edades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter (Henry) Barnes Biography (1931- 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Playwright and writer of screenplays, born in London, UK. His only major commercial success has been The Ruling Class (1968). Later plays, which include The Bewitched (1974), Laughter (1978), Red Noses (1985), and Sunset and Glories (1990), show him to be a master of non-naturalistic techniques drawn from Elizabethan theatre, mediaeval and 19th-c farce, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Bardeen Biography (1908 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born May 23, 1908, Madison, Wis., U.S.—died Jan. 30, 1991, Boston, Mass.) American physicist who was cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in both 1956 and 1972. He shared the 1956 prize with William B. Shockley and Walter H. Brattain for their joint invention of the transistor. With Leon N. Cooper and John R. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mikhail, Prince Barclay de Tolly Biography (1761 - 1818)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 13, 1761, Pamuskis, Poland-Lithuania—died May 14, 1818, Insterburg, East Prussia) Russian field marshal prominent in the Napoleonic Wars. A member of a Scottish family that had settled in Livonia, Barclay entered the Russian army in 1786. In 1812 he took command of one of two Russian armies operating against Napoleon. His strategy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Coombs Barnes Biography (1872 - 1951)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 2, 1872, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died July 24, 1951, Chester county, Pa.) Pharmaceutical manufacturer and art collector. He obtained a medical degree and later studied in Germany. In 1902 he made a fortune with his invention of the antiseptic Argyrol. After building a mansion in Merion, Pa., in 1905, he began to collect art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gertrudis Barcelo Biography (1800 - 1852)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Maria Gertrudis Barcelo

(born 1800, Sonora state, Mexico—died 1852, Santa Fe, N.M., U.S.) Mexican-born businesswoman who built her fortune through casinos and trade ventures in the early American Southwest.
Barcelo&#8217;s wealthy parents saw that she received an education, and in the early 1820s the family moved to a small village just south of Albuquerque, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Barnard Biography (1811 - 1900)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Jan. 24, 1811, Hartford, Conn., U.S.—died July 5, 1900, Hartford) U.S. educator. He studied law and entered the state legislature, where he helped create a state board of education and the first teachers&#8217; institute (1839). With Horace Mann, he undertook to reform the country&#8217;s common schools; he was an innovator in instituting school inspections, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Klaus Barbie Biography (1913 - 1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Butcher of Lyon

(born October 25, 1913, Bad Godesberg, Germany—died September 25, 1991, Lyon, France) Nazi leader, head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, who was held responsible for the death of some 4,000 persons and the deportation of some 7,500 others.
Barbie was a member of the Hitler Youth and in 1935 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Barbera Biography (1911–2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Joseph Roland Barbera was born on March  24, 1911 in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City. He spent his childhood in Flatbush, Brooklyn and when he was old enough, found a job as a tailor’s delivery boy. In 1932, he took a job at the Van Beuren Studio as an animator and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Barber Biography (1910 - 1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 9, 1910, West Chester, Pa., U.S.—died Jan. 23, 1981, New York, N.Y.) U.S. composer. He studied piano, voice, conducting, and composition at the Curtis Institute. After graduation in 1934, he devoted himself to composition. Barber&#8217;s style, frequently lyrical and neo-Romantic, proved highly attractive to the public. His works include the popular Adagio for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Barber Biography (1908 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Walter Lanier Barber

(born Feb. 17, 1908, Columbus, Miss., U.S.—died Oct. 22, 1992, Tallahassee, Fla.) U.S. sports broadcaster. He became the radio and television announcer for the baseball games of the Cincinnati Reds (1934–39), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939–53), and New York Yankees (1954–66). He combined technical expertise with homespun comments; his signature exclamation was “Oh-ho, Doctor!” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chester (Irving) Barnard Biography (1886 - 1961)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 7, 1886, Malden, Mass., U.S.—died June 7, 1961, New York City) American business executive, public administrator, and sociological theorist who studied the nature of corporate organization. Although he was not himself an academic, his first book, Functions of the Executive (1938), became an essential resource in the teaching of organizational sociology and business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbarossa Biography (1546 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Khir later Khayr al-Dn

(died 1546) Greek Turkish pirate and admiral in the service of the Ottoman Empire. He and his brother &#8216;Arj, sons of a Turk from Lesbos, hated the Spanish and Portuguese for their attacks on North Africa and took up piracy on the Barbary Coast in hopes of seizing an African domain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Barnabas Biography (1 - 100)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Joseph the Levite
flourished 1st century; feast day June 11) Apostolic Father and early Christian missionary. Born in Cyprus, he was a Hellenized Jew who joined the church in Jerusalem shortly after its founding. According to the Acts of the Apostles, he helped found the church in Antioch, calling on St. Paul to assist him. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Surendranath Banerjea Biography (1848 - 1925)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 10, 1848, Calcutta, India—died Aug. 6, 1925, Barrackpore, near Calcutta) Indian statesman, one of the founders of modern India. As a young man, he attempted unsuccessfully to serve in the Indian Civil Service, at the time virtually closed to ethnic Indians. He then became a teacher and founded a college in Calcutta (now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin Banneker Biography (1731 - 1806)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Astronomer and mathematician. Born Benjamin Bannakay on November 9, 1731 near Baltimore, Maryland. The grandson of an Englishwoman and a freed black slave, and the son of a slave father and freed black mother, he was allowed to attend a local elementary school, where he showed a talent for mathematics and science.
Although his main occupation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tallulah Bankhead Biography (1902 - 1968)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 31, 1902, Huntsville, Ala., U.S.—died Dec. 12, 1968, New York, N.Y.) U.S. film and stage actress. Born to a prestigious family (her father became a prominent congressman), she made her Broadway debut in 1918 and achieved fame on the London stage in The Dancer (1923). Her vivid presence and throaty voice contributed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=816</link>
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		<title>Barbarito Torres Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Musician
Musician. While well-versed in many different styles, Torres has strong ties to guajiro, a form of Cuban peasant or country music. He even uses a traditional instrument—the laúd, which is a type of lute with 12 strings. Torres joined the group Serenata Yumunina in 1970, but he left a few years later to serve in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baccio Bandinelli Biography (1493 - 1560)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 12, 1493?, Florence—died Feb. 7, 1560, Florence) Italian sculptor and painter active in Florence. Though trained as a goldsmith by his father, he soon became one of the principal sculptors at the Medici court. He often failed to complete his commissions and was accused of jealousy and incompetence by Benvenuto Cellini and Giorgio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Barbara Biography (200 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(died 200; feast day December 4) Early Christian martyr and patroness of artillerymen. She was the daughter of a pagan, Dioscorus, who kept her guarded to protect her beauty and virginity. When she converted to Christianity he became enraged and took her to the Roman prefect, who ordered her to be tortured and beheaded. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baccio Bandinelli Biography (1493 - 1560)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 12, 1493?, Florence—died Feb. 7, 1560, Florence) Italian sculptor and painter active in Florence. Though trained as a goldsmith by his father, he soon became one of the principal sculptors at the Medici court. He often failed to complete his commissions and was accused of jealousy and incompetence by Benvenuto Cellini and Giorgio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hastings Banda Biography (1898 - 1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1898, near Kasungu [Malawi]—died Nov. 25, 1997, Johannesburg, S.Af.) First president of Malawi (1963–94). Educated as a physician in the U.S., Banda moved to Scotland and practiced medicine there. He became involved in politics when white settlers demanded the federation of Nyasaland (later Malawi) and the Rhodesias in 1949. In the 1950s he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Seaman Biography (1935- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Writer and social activist. Born Barbara Rosner on September 11, 1935, in New York, New York. Barbara Seaman became famous for challenging the medical establishment on issues related to women’s health and for establishing the National Women’s Health Network.

A graduate of Oberlin College, Barbara Seaman began making waves in 1960s with her reporting on medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Johns Biography (1935-1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social activist. Born in New York City in 1935. Johns grew up in Prince Edward County, Virginia. At the time, the schools were segregated. White students went to one set of schools while African Americans went to another. The conditions of the African American schools were much worse than the whites-only schools. Johns attended the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antonio Banderas Biography (1960 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full José Antonio Domínguez Banderas
Actor. Born on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Spain. Banderas studied drama, eventually moving to Madrid where he performed in plays including Historia de los Tarantos and La hija del aire. There he met Pedro Almoóvar who gave him a small part in the film Laberinto de pasiones (1982) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=803</link>
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		<title>Imamu Amiri Baraka Biography (1934 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Imamu Amiri Baraka, original name (until 1968) (Everett) LeRoi Jones

(born October 7, 1934, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.) writer who presented the experiences and anger of black Americans with an affirmation of black life.
Jones graduated from Howard University (B.A., 1953) and served in the U.S. Air Force. After military duty, he joined the Beat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matteo Bandello Biography (1485 - 1561)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1485, Castelnuovo Scrivia, duchy of Milan [Italy]—died  1561, Agen, France) Italian writer whose Novelle (stories) started a new trend in 16th-century narrative literature and had a wide influence in England, France, and Spain.
A monk, diplomat, and soldier as well as a writer, Bandello was educated at Milan and the University of Pavia. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barabbas Biography (1 - 50)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in the New Testament, a prisoner or criminal freed to please the mob before the crucifixion of Jesus. Described as a thief or an insurrectionist, Barabbas is mentioned in all four Gospels. Following the custom of setting free one prisoner chosen by popular demand before Passover, Pontius Pilate suggested pardoning Jesus, but the crowd protested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike Biography (1916 - 2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike


(born April 17, 1916, Ratnapura, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]—died October 10, 2000, Colombo, Sri Lanka) stateswoman who, upon her party&#8217;s victory in the 1960 Ceylon general election, became the world&#8217;s first woman prime minister. She left office in 1965 but returned to serve two more terms (1970–77, 1994–2000) as prime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=799</link>
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		<title>Theda Bara Biography (1890 - 1955)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Theodosia Goodman

(born July 20, 1885?, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died April 7, 1955, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. film actress. She had a brief stage career before going to Hollywood. Her first major picture, A Fool There Was (1915), was accompanied by a publicity campaign, billing her as the daughter of a Middle Eastern potentate, that made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Biography (1899 - 1959)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Jan. 9, 1899, Colombo, Ceylon—died Sept. 26, 1959, Colombo) Statesman and prime minister (1956–59) of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Educated at the University of Oxford, he became a prominent member of Ceylon&#8217;s Western-oriented United National Party. In 1952 he founded the nationalist Sri Lanka Freedom Party, becoming the opposition leader in the legislature. He later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bar Kokhba Biography (135 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Simeon bar Kosba

(died  135) Leader of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Roman rule in Palestine. In 131 Hadrian forbade circumcision and built a temple to Jupiter on the ruins of the Temple of Jerusalem. The Jews rebelled in 132, led by Simeon bar Kosba, who, according to one story, was hailed as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baptiste Biography (1761 - 1835)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Nicolas Anselme


(born June 18, 1761, Bordeaux, France—died Nov. 30/Dec. 1, 1835, Les Batignolles) one of the leading actors of sentimental comedy (comédie larmoyante) in France.
After two provincial engagements, Baptiste went to Paris in 1791. In 1793 he joined the Théâtre de la République and in 1799 the Comédie-Française, from which he retired in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Bancroft Biography (1800 - 1891)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Oct. 3, 1800, Worcester, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 17, 1891, Washington, D.C.) U.S. historian. Bancroft was educated at Harvard and several German universities. He was minister to England (1846–49), Prussia (1867–71), and the German empire (1871–74). He was the first scholar to plan a comprehensive study of the U.S. from the colonial days through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bao Dai Biography (1913 - 1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Nguyen Vinh Thuy

(born Oct. 22, 1913, Vietnam—died Aug. 1, 1997, Paris, France) Last reigning emperor of Vietnam (r. 1926–45, 1949–55). He was educated in France and in 1926 succeeded to a throne that was dominated by the French. Retained as a powerless ruler under the Japanese during World War II, he fled the country [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=792</link>
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		<title>Anne Bancroft Biography (1931-2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
Actress. Born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano on September 17, 1931, in New York, New York. An award-winning actress for her work on film, stage, and television, Anne Bancroft is best remembered for her role as the dedicated teacher in The Miracle Worker and as the mature seductress in The Graduate. She grew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Frederick Grant Banting Biography (1891 - 1941)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 14, 1891, Alliston, Ont., Can.—died  Feb. 21, 1941, Newfoundland) Canadian physician who, with Charles H. Best, was the first to extract (1921) the hormone insulin from the pancreas. Injections of insulin proved to be the first effective treatment for diabetes, a disease in which glucose accumulates in abnormally high quantities in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=790</link>
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		<title>Anne Bancroft Biography (1931–2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
Actress, born in the Bronx, New York, USA. The daughter of Italian immigrants, she had various jobs as a teenager while also attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She appeared on local radio and made her television debut in an adaptation of Turgenev&#8217;s Torrents of Spring. For her performance in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Roger (Gilbert) Bannister Biography (1929 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 23, 1929, Harrow, Middlesex, Eng.) British runner. He attended the University of Oxford before earning a medical degree. In 1954 he became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (3 minutes 59.4 seconds). Many authorities had previously regarded the four-minute mile “barrier” as unbreakable. A neurologist, he wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=788</link>
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		<title>Ban Ki-moon Biography (1944 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 13, 1944, msng, Japanese-occupied Korea [now in South Korea]) South Korean diplomat and politician, who became the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) in 2007.
At age 18 Ban won a competition that took him to the White House to meet U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy, a visit that Ban claimed inspired his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban Chao Biography (45 - 115)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wade-Giles romanization Pan Chao

(born  45, Anling, Gufang [now Xianyang, Shaanxi province], China—died  115, China) renowned Chinese scholar and historian of the Dong (Eastern) Han dynasty.
The daughter of a prominent family, Ban Zhao married at age 14, but her husband died while she was still young. She never remarried, devoting herself instead to literature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toni Cade Bambara Biography (1939 - 1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 25, 1939, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 9, 1995, Philadelphia, Pa.) American writer, civil-rights activist, and teacher who wrote about the concerns of the African-American community.
Reared by her mother in Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Queens, N.Y., Bambara (a surname she adopted in 1970) was educated at Queens College (B.A., 1959). In 1961 she went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Calvert, Baron Baltimore Biography (1578 - 1579)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Toni Cade

(born March 25, 1939, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 9, 1995, Philadelphia, Pa.) American writer, civil-rights activist, and teacher who wrote about the concerns of the African-American community.
Reared by her mother in Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Queens, N.Y., Bambara (a surname she adopted in 1970) was educated at Queens College (B.A., 1959). In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honoré de Balzac Biography (1799 - 1850)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Honoré Balssa


(born May 20, 1799, Tours, France—died Aug. 18, 1850, Paris) French writer. Balzac began working as a clerk in Paris at about age 16. An early attempt at a business career left him with huge debts, and for decades he toiled incessantly to improve his worsening financial condition. In 1829 his novels and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hassan al- Banna Biography (1906 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born 1906, Egypt—died February 1949, Cairo) Egyptian political and religious leader. He began teaching Arabic at a primary school in Ismailia in 1927. In 1928 he established the Muslim Brotherhood, which aimed at rejuvenating Islam and Egyptian society and expelling the British from Egypt. By 1940 it was attracting students, civil servants, and urban labourers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=780</link>
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		<title>Tyra Banks Biography (1973-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Model, television personality. Born Tyra Lynne Banks on December 4, 1973, in Inglewood, California. After graduating from Los Angeles’ Immaculate Heart High School, Banks signed with Elite modeling agency. That initial job at age 17 launched an international modeling career that included runway shows, magazines, commercials and billboards.Banks’ career has had as much to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Baltimore Biography (1938 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 7, 1938, New York, New York, U.S.) American virologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 with Howard M. Temin and Renato Dulbecco. Working independently, Baltimore and Temin discovered reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that synthesizes DNA from RNA. Baltimore also conducted research that led to an understanding of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=776</link>
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		<title>Sir Joseph Banks Biography (1743 - 1820)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born , Feb. 13, 1743, London, Eng.—died June 19, 1820, Isleworth, London) British explorer and naturalist. After studying at Oxford, Banks inherited a fortune that allowed him to travel extensively, collecting plant and natural history specimens. He outfitted and accompanied James Cook&#8217;s voyage around the world (1768–71). Particularly interested in economic plants and their introduction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=775</link>
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		<title>Balthus Biography (1908 - 2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 29, 1908, Paris, Fr.—died Feb. 18, 2001, La Rossinière, Switz.) French painter. Born in Paris to Polish parents, he was considered a child prodigy and was encouraged by family friends including Pierre Bonnard, André Derain, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Without formal training, he supported himself through commissions for stage sets and portraits. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russell Banks Biography (1940 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born March 28, 1940, Newton, Mass., U.S.) U.S. novelist. Banks was associated in the 1960s with Lillabulero Press and has taught at various colleges and universities. He attracted wide attention with Continental Drift (1985), inspired by a stint in Jamaica; his later novels, which, like his earlier works, often portray characters trapped by economic and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=773</link>
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		<title>Ernie Banks Biography (1931 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Ernest Banks

(born Jan. 31, 1931, Dallas, Texas, U.S.) American professional baseball player, regarded as one of the finest power hitters in the history of the game. Banks starred for the Chicago Cubs from 1953 to 1971. An 11-time All-Star, Banks was named the National League&#8217;s (NL) Most Valuable Player for two consecutive seasons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=771</link>
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		<title>Pierre Balmain Biography (1914 - 1982)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born May 18, 1914, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Fr.—died June 29, 1982, Paris) French fashion designer. He gave up architectural studies to become a designer in 1934. He worked briefly with Christian Dior, who became his rival after World War II. Balmain&#8217;s designs, particularly for evening wear, were characterized by superb quality and a combination of femininity and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>José Manuel Balmaceda Biography (1840 - 1891)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born July 19, 1840, Santiago, Chile—died Sept. 19, 1891, Santiago) liberal reformer and president of Chile (1886–91) whose conflict with his legislature precipitated a civil war in 1891.
Balmaceda was elected to the Chilean congress from the Liberal Party in 1870. While serving in the cabinet of President Domingo Santa María (1881–86), he pushed anticlerical measures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard A. Ballinger Biography (1858 - 1922)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 9, 1858, Boonesboro, Iowa, U.S.—died June 6, 1922, Seattle, Wash.) U.S. secretary of the interior (1909–11). As the reform mayor of Seattle, Wash. (1904–06), he attracted national attention. In 1907 he was appointed commissioner of the General Land Office, and in 1909 he became secretary of the interior. During his two years in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitney Balliett Biography (1926– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American writer (born April 17, 1926 , New York, N.Y.—died Feb. 1, 2007 , New York City) became the most influential of all jazz critics by describing the music and its musicians with vivid, sensual metaphors. During 1957–2001 The New Yorker published more than 550 articles by him, most notably his concert and record reviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baldwin I Biography (1058 - 1118)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Baldwin of Boulogne
b. 1058?—d. April 2, 1118, Al-Arish, Egypt)  King of Jerusalem (1100–18). The son of a French count, he joined the First Crusade and created the first Crusader state when he gained control of Edessa (now in Turkey) in 1098. In 1100 his brother Godfrey died in Jerusalem, and Baldwin was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Ballard Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Robert Duane Ballard

(born June 30, 1942, Wichita, Kansas, U.S.) American oceanographer and marine geologist whose pioneering use of deep-diving submersibles laid the foundations for deep-sea archaeology. He is best known for discovering the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.
Ballard grew up in San Diego, California, where he developed a fascination with the ocean. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baldwin I Biography (1172 - 1205)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1172, Valenciennes—died 1205) First Latin emperor of Constantinople (1204–05). Count of Flanders and Hainaut, he was a leader of the Fourth Crusade, which was directed against the Byzantine Empire. He helped install a pro-Latin emperor (1203). When the Crusaders in Constantinople seized power, he was elected emperor (1204) and recognized by the pope. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hank Ballard Biography (1936 - 2003)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born November 18, 1936, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died March 2, 2003, Los Angeles, California) American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter best remembered for songs that were frequently as scandalous as they were inventive, most notably the salacious “Work with Me, Annie” (1954). He also wrote “The Twist” (1959), which sparked a dance craze in the United States.
Ballard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin (of Bewdley) Biography (1867 - 1947)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 3, 1867, Bewdley, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Dec. 14, 1947, Astley Hall, near Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire) British politician. After managing his family&#8217;s large industrial holdings, he became a Conservative member of the House of Commons (1908–37). He served as financial secretary of the treasury (1917–21) and president of the Board of Trade (1921–22), then was appointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LaVern Baker Biography (1929 - 1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Delores Williams

(born Nov. 11, 1929, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died March 10, 1997, New York, N.Y.) American rhythm-and-blues singer notable for her vocal power and rhythmic energy.
At age 17 she performed as Little Miss Sharecropper. Her 1955–65 tenure with
Atlantic Records
yielded 15 rhythm-and-blues hits, most notably “Tweedle Dee” (1955), “Jim Dandy” (1957), and “I Cried a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J. G. Ballard Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Nov. 15, 1930, Shanghai, China) British writer. Ballard spent four years of his childhood in a Japanese prison camp, an experience he described in Empire of the Sun (1984; film, 1987). His science fiction is often set in ecologically unbalanced landscapes caused by decadent technological excess. His apocalyptic novels, often shockingly violent, include Crash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hans Baldung Biography (1484 - 1545)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Hans Baldung Grien

(born  1484, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg—died 1545, Imperial Free City of Strasbourg) German painter and graphic artist. He was assistant to Albrecht Dürer in Nürnberg and was active in Strasbourg as official painter to the episcopate. He is best known for the high altar of the cathedral at Freiburg, where he lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josephine Baker Biography (1906 - 1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Freda Josephine McDonald
Dancer and entertainer. Born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri. Josephine Baker was an African American performer who found great success in France beginning in the 1920s. She started out as a dancer, performing with a dance group. Baker moved to New York in the 1920s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houston A. Baker, Jr. Biography (1943 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Houston Alfred Baker, Jr.

(born March 22, 1943, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.) African-American educator and critic who proposed new standards, based on African-American culture and values, for the interpretation and evaluation of literature.
Baker attended Howard University (B.A, 1965), the University of Edinburgh, and the University of California at Los Angeles (M.A., 1966; Ph.D., 1968) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murray Hone Ball Biography (1939– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cartoonist, born in Feilding, New Zealand. He is known for the wry social comment of his widely syndicated comic strips: Bruce the Barbarian, Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero, and Footrot Flats
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		<title>John Baldessari Biography (1931 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 17, 1931, National City, Calif., U.S.) American artist whose work in altered and adjusted photographic imagery and video were central to the development of conceptual art in the United States.
Baldessari received a B.A. at San Diego State College in 1953 and attended the University of California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ella Josephine Baker Biography (1903 - 1986)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Ella Josephine Baker

(born Dec. 13, 1903, Norfolk, Va., U.S.—died Dec. 13, 1986, New York, N.Y.) American community organizer and political activist who brought her skills and principles to bear in the major civil rights organizations of the mid-20th century.
Baker was reared in Littleton, North Carolina. In 1918 she began attending the high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucille (Désirée) Ball Biography (1911 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Lucille Désirée Ball
Television comedienne and film actress. Born on August 6, 1911, in Celaron, New York. Lucille Ball is considered to be one of the best comediennes ever. She left high school to become a stage actress. Her early efforts were unsuccessful and she turned to modeling (as Diane Belmont). After struggling in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily Greene Balch Biography (1867 - 1961)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born January 8, 1867, Jamaica Plain [now part of Boston], Mass., U.S.—died January 9, 1961, Cambridge, Mass.) American sociologist, political scientist, economist, and pacifist, a leader of the women&#8217;s movement for peace during and after World War I. She received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1946 jointly with John Raleigh Mott. She was also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chet Baker Biography (1929 - 1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Chesney Henry Baker

(born Dec. 23, 1929, Yale, Okla., U.S.—died May 13, 1988, Amsterdam, Neth.) U.S. trumpeter and singer. After playing in army bands he attracted attention during engagements with Charlie Parker and Gerry Mulligan in 1952 and 1953. His subdued tone and gentle phrasing made him the epitome of the cool jazz ( bebop) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour Biography (1848 - 1930)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born July 25, 1848, Whittinghame, East Lothian, Scot.—died March 19, 1930, Woking, Surrey, Eng.) British statesman. The nephew of the marquess of Salisbury, Balfour served in Parliament (1874–1911) and in his uncle&#8217;s government as secretary for Ireland (1887–91). From 1891 he was the Conservative Party&#8217;s leader in Parliament and succeeded his uncle as prime minister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rene Balcer Biography (1954-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writer, producer. Born February 9, 1954, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to John and Helen Balcer. While a student at McGill University, Balcer worked as a combat cameraman during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in Israel. He graduated from McGill in 1975, then went on to pursue a graduate education at Loyola College, finishing magna cum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augusta Braxton Baker Biography (1911 - 1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Augusta Braxton

(born April 1, 1911, Baltimore, Md., U.S.—died Feb. 23, 1998, Columbia, S.C.) American librarian and storyteller who worked long and prolifically in the field of children&#8217;s literature. Her many accomplishments included the first extensive bibliography of children&#8217;s books portraying positive African-American role models.
Braxton was the only child of schoolteacher parents who introduced her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cristóbal Balenciaga Biography (1895 - 1972)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 21, 1895, Guetaria, Spain—died March 23, 1972, Valencia) Spanish-French fashion designer. He studied dressmaking as a child and was inspired to become a couturier by a visit to Paris. By age 20 he had his own firm in San Sebastián. Over the next 15 years Balenciaga became the leading couturier of Spain. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vasco Núñez de Balboa Biography (1475 - 1519)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Explorer
Explorer, conquistador. Born around 1475 in Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain. Balboa became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. At a time when many people in Spain were seeking their fortunes in the New World, Balboa joined an expedition to South America. After exploring the coast of present-day Colombia, Balboa stayed on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anita Baker Biography (1958 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 26, 1958, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.) American singer whose three-octave range and powerful, emotional delivery brought her international acclaim in the 1980s and &#8217;90s. She was one of the most popular artists in urban contemporary music, a genre that her sophisticated, tradition-oriented soul and rhythm-and-blues singing helped to define.
Baker&#8217;s talent first became apparent when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger (Nash) Baldwin Biography (1884 - 1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 21, 1884, Wellesley, Mass., U.S.—died Aug. 26, 1981, Ridgewood, N.J.) U.S. civil-rights leader. Born into an aristocratic Massachusetts family, Baldwin attended Harvard University and taught sociology at Washington University (1906–09) in St. Louis, where he also was chief probation officer of the city&#8217;s juvenile court and secretary of its Civic League. When the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italo Balbo Biography (1896 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 6, 1896, near Ferrara, Italy—died June 28, 1940, Tobruk, Libya) Italian aviator and politician. He led the fascist Blackshirts in the March on Rome (1922) and served under Benito Mussolini as general of militia (1923) and air minister (1929–33). Balbo developed Italian military and commercial aviation and became famous for promoting mass international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fredrik Bajer Biography (1837 - 1922)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born April 21, 1837,  Denmark—died  Jan. 22, 1922, Copenhagen, Den.) Danish reformer and politician, cowinner (with Klas Pontus Arnoldson) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1908.
Bajer entered the Danish army but was discharged when it was reduced after the 1864 war with Prussia. He then started working for the emancipation of women, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Baldwin Biography (1804 - 1858)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 12, 1804, York, Upper Canada—died Dec. 9, 1858, Toronto) Canadian politician. Called to the bar in 1825, Baldwin began his political career as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for York (1829–30). In 1842–43 he and Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine formed the first Liberal Party administration; when the Liberals returned to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Balanchine Biography (1904 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze
born Jan. 22, 1904, St. Petersburg, Russia—died April 30, 1983, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Russian-born U.S. choreographer. After studying at the Imperial Ballet School, he left the Soviet Union in 1925 to join the Ballets Russes, where his choreography of Apollo (1928) exemplified the spare neoclassical style that became his trademark. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oksana Baiul Biography (1977-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Figure Skater
Figure skater. Born February 26, 1977 in the Ukraine. The only child of Sergei and Marina Baiul, Oksana was abandoned by her father at age two and began skating when she was four. She was orphaned at age 13 after her grandparents and mother died within three years of one another and subsequently moved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (Arthur) Baldwin Biography (1924 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writer. Born August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York. The son of a preacher, as a teenager he preached in a Harlem pentecostal church. After high school he began publishing polemical essays on the black experience in such journals as The Nation and Commentary.
Supported largely by fellowships, he began writing fiction in Paris (1948–56). His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mily Balakirev Biography (1837 - 1910)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 2, 1837, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died May 29, 1910, St. Petersburg) Russian composer. As a youth he met and was influenced by the nationalist composer Mikhail Glinka. Balakirev himself later became the mentor of César Cui (1835–1918) and Modest Mussorgsky; in 1861–62 their group expanded to become The Five. In 1862 Balakirev cofounded the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Logie Baird Biography (1888 - 1946)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 13, 1888, Helensburgh, Dunbarton, Scot.—died June 14, 1946, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, Eng.) Scottish engineer, the first man to televise pictures of objects in motion.
Educated at Larchfield Academy, the Royal Technical College, and the University of Glasgow, he produced televised objects in outline in 1924, transmitted recognizable human faces in 1925, and demonstrated the televising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alec Baldwin Biography (1958-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor. Born Alexander Rae Baldwin III, on April 3,1958, in Amityville, New York, the second of six children of a football coach and a social studiesteacher. He grew up in Massapequa, Long Island, New York. His brothers,Daniel, William, and Stephen, are also actors.
Baldwin majored in political science at George Washington University,intending to go to law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joaquín Balaguer Biography (1907 - 2002)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Joaquín Vidella Balaguer y Ricardo

(born September 1, 1907, Villa Bisonó, Dominican Republic—died July 14, 2002, Santo Domingo) lawyer, writer, and diplomat who was vice president of the Dominican Republic (1957–60) during the regime of President Hector Trujillo and was president from 1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, and from 1986 to 1996.
Balaguer earned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott Baio Biography (1961–)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Actor Scott James Vincent Baio was born September 22, 1961, in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian immigrants Mario and Rose Baio.  His older brother and sister, Steven Baio (who is also an actor) and Stephanie Baio, are twins. 

Baio turned into a tough street kid and his mother feared he was heading for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baldwin IV Biography (1161 - 1185)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Baldwin the Leper

(born 1161—died March 1185, Jerusalem) King of Jerusalem (1174–85). He was crowned at age 13 on the death of his father, but the kingdom was ruled by a series of regents. Baldwin was afflicted with leprosy throughout his short life, which contributed to power struggles among the nobility. His defeat of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mikhail Bakunin Biography (1814 - 1876)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born May 30, 1814, Premukhino, Russia—died July 1, 1876, Bern, Switz.) Russian anarchist and political writer. He traveled in western Europe and was active in the Revolutions of 1848. After attending the Slav congress in Prague, he wrote the manifesto “An Appeal to Slavs” (1848). Arrested for revolutionary intrigues in Germany (1849), he was sent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=729</link>
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		<title>Jean Sylvain Bailly Biography (1736 - 1793)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 15, 1736, Paris, France—died Nov. 12, 1793, Paris) French astronomer and politician. Noted for his computation of an orbit for Halley&#8217;s Comet in 1759, he turned to politics with the outbreak of the French Revolution. He was chosen president of the Third Estate in May 1789 and was proclaimed the first mayor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baldwin II Porphyrogenitus Biography (1217 - 1273)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1217, Constantinople—died Oct. 1273, Foggia, Kingdom of Sicily) Fifth and last Latin emperor of Constantinople (1228–61). The son of the third Latin emperor (Porphyrogenitus means “born to the purple,” thus “of royal birth”), Baldwin inherited the throne on the death of his brother. Invasions by Greeks and Bulgars reduced the empire to the area [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=727</link>
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		<title>Léon Bakst Biography (1866 - 1924)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Lev Samuilovich Rosenberg

(born Jan. 27, 1866, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Dec. 28, 1924, Paris, France) Russian painter and stage designer. He attended the Imperial Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg and studied in Paris. In 1898 he cofounded the journal Mir Iskusstva (“World of Art”) with Sergey Diaghilev. He began designing scenery for the imperial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=726</link>
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		<title>Baldwin II Biography (1131 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Baldwin of Bourg

(died August 1131, Jerusalem) King of Jerusalem (1118–31). A French nobleman, he joined the First Crusade and was made count of Edessa by his cousin Baldwin I in 1100. Captured by Seljuq Turks in 1104, he was ransomed four years later and reclaimed Edessa from the regent by force. He became [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=724</link>
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		<title>Mikhail Bakhtin Biography (1895 - 1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 17, 1895, Orel, Russia—died March 7, 1975, Moscow, U.S.S.R.) Russian literary theorist and philosopher of language. His works frequently offended the Soviet authorities, and in 1929 he was exiled from Vitsyebsk to Kazakhstan. He is especially known for Problems of Dostoevsky&#8217;s Poetics (1929), which advanced theories that he further developed in The Dialogic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=723</link>
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		<title>David Bailey Biography (1938 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 2, 1938, London, Eng.) British photographer known for his advertising, celebrity, and fashion photographs.
David Bailey, whose career in photography would eventually bring him into contact with the high reaches of British society, came from a working-class East London background. Educated in London, he left school at a young age, worked at a series [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=722</link>
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		<title>Robert Bakewell Biography (1725 - 1795)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born 1725, Dishley, Leicestershire, Eng.—died Oct. 1, 1795, Dishley) English agriculturist. He revolutionized English sheep and cattle breeding by methodical selection, inbreeding, and culling. He was one of the first to breed sheep and cattle for meat and the first to establish on a large scale the practice of letting animals for stud. His farm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sara Josephine Baker Biography (1873 - 1945)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 15, 1873, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 22, 1945, New York, N.Y.) U.S. physician. She became the first American woman to receive a doctorate in public health. As the first director of New York City&#8217;s Division of Child Hygiene (the first public agency devoted to child health), she helped make New York&#8217;s infant-mortality rates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=719</link>
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		<title>Bah&#8217; Ullh Biography (1817 - 1892)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Mrz oseyn &#8216;Ali Nr

(born Nov. 12, 1817, Tehrn, Iran—died May 29, 1872, Acre, Palestine) Iranian religious leader, founder of the Bah&#8216; faith. A Sh&#8216;ite Muslim who allied himself with the Bb, he joined his half brother Mrz Yay (known as ob-e Azal) in leading the Bb movement after the Bb&#8217;s execution. Sunnite Muslims exiled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russell (Wayne) Baker Biography (1925 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 14, 1925, Loudoun county, Va., U.S.) U.S. newspaper columnist. Baker joined the Baltimore Sun in 1947. In 1954 he moved to the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and in the early 1960s he began his syndicated “Observer” column. Initially concentrating on political satire, he later found other subjects to skewer as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newton (Diehl) Baker Biography (1871 - 1937)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 3, 1871, Martinsburg, W.Va., U.S.—died Dec. 25, 1937, Cleveland, Ohio) U.S. secretary of war. He practiced law in Martinsburg from 1897. After moving to Cleveland, he was elected mayor (1912–16). He helped obtain the 1912 Democratic presidential nomination for Woodrow Wilson, who appointed him secretary of war (1916–21). Although he was a pacifist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johann Sebastian Bach Biography (1685 - 1750)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born March 21, 1685, Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies—died July 28, 1750, Leipzig) composer of the Baroque era, the most celebrated member of a large family of northern German musicians. Although he was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist, organist, and expert on organ building, Bach is now generally regarded as one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=715</link>
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		<title>Francis, Viscount St Albans Bacon Biography (1561 - 1626)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called (1603–18) Sir Francis Bacon

(born Jan. 22, 1561, York House, London, Eng.—died April 9, 1626, London) lord chancellor of England (1618–21). A lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue, he is remembered in literary terms for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen essays; by students of constitutional history for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bagyidaw Biography (1846 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(died October 1846) Seventh monarch of the Alaungpaya dynasty (r. 1819–37) of Myanmar. Bagyidaw was an ineffectual king, but his general, Maha Bandula, convinced him to pursue a policy of expansion in northeastern India. His conquest of Assam and Manipur angered the British, who launched the first of the Anglo-Burmese Wars. Bagyidaw spent the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joan Baez Biography (1941 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Joan Chandos Baez
Singer, songwriter, social activist. Born on January 9, 1941, in Staten Island, New York. Joan Baez, a singer in the folk tradition, was a crucial part of the genre’s rebirth in the 1960s. She got her first guitar in 1956. After her family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, two years later, Joan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walter Bagehot Biography (1826 - 1877)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Feb. 3, 1826, Langport, Somerset, Eng.—died March 24, 1877, Langport) English economist, political analyst, and journalist. While working in his uncle&#8217;s bank, Bagehot wrote literary essays and economic articles that led to his involvement with The Economist. As its editor from 1860, he helped make it one of the leading business and political journals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolf von Baeyer Biography (1835 - 1917)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer


(born Oct. 31, 1835, Berlin, Prussia [now in Germany]—died Aug. 20, 1917, Starnberg, near Munich, Ger.) German research chemist who synthesized indigo (1880) and formulated its structure (1883). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1905.
Baeyer studied with Robert Bunsen, but August Kekule exercised a greater [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=710</link>
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		<title>Jim Backus Biography (1913-1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, author. Born James Gilmore Backus on February 25, 1913, in Cleveland, Ohio. For five decades, Jim Backus entertained audiences in a variety of media, starting out in radio and moving on to film and television. Two of his trademark roles were the wealthy and snooty Thurston Howell III on Gilligan’s Island and Mr. Magoo, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=709</link>
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		<title>Karl Ernst von Baer Biography (1792 - 1876)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 29, 1792, Piep, Est., Russian Empire—died Nov. 28, 1876, Dorpat, Est.) Prussian-born Estonian embryologist. Studying chick development with Christian Pander (1794–1865), Baer expanded Pander&#8217;s concept of germ layer formation to all vertebrates, thereby laying the foundation for comparative embryology. He emphasized that embryos of one species could resemble embryos (but not adults) of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle Bachelet Biography (1951 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria

(born September 29, 1951, Santiago, Chile) Chilean politician, president of Chile (2006– ). She was the first woman president of Chile and the first popularly elected South American woman president whose political career was established independent of her husband.
Bachelet&#8217;s father was a general in Chile&#8217;s air force, and her mother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=707</link>
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		<title>Leo Baekeland Biography (1863 - 1944)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Nov. 14, 1863, Ghent, Belg.—died Feb. 23, 1944, Beacon, N.Y., U.S.) Belgian-born U.S. industrial chemist. A teacher of chemistry in Belgium, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1889. He invented Velox, the first commercially successful photographic paper, which could be developed under artificial light, and sold the rights to George Eastman for $1 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=706</link>
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		<title>Amitabh Bachchan Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born October 11, 1942, Allahabad, India) Indian film actor, perhaps the most popular star in the history of that nation&#8217;s cinema, known primarily for his roles in action films.
Bachchan, the son of the renowned Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, attended Sherwood College in Nainital and the University of Delhi. He worked as a business executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Baedeker Biography (1801 - 1859)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Nov. 3, 1801, Essen, Duchy of Oldenburg—died Oct. 4, 1859, Koblenz, Prussia) German publisher. The son of a printer and bookseller, Baedeker started a firm at Koblenz in 1827 that became known for its guidebooks. His aim was to give travelers the practical information necessary to enable them to dispense with paid guides. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=704</link>
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		<title>Burt Bacharach Biography (1929– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 12, 1928, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.) U.S. songwriter and pianist. He studied under Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martin, and Henry Cowell. In the 1950s he wrote arrangements for Steve Lawrence and Vic Damone and later toured with Marlene Dietrich. In the late 1950s he began his long association with lyricist Hal David (b. 1921), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leo Baeck Biography (1873 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 23, 1873, Lissa, Posen, Prussia—died Nov. 2, 1956, London, Eng.) Prussian-Polish rabbi, spiritual leader of German Jewry during the Nazi period. After earning his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Berlin, he served as a rabbi in Silesia, Düsseldorf, and Berlin, becoming the leading liberal Jewish religious thinker of his time. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W(ilhelm) F(riedemann) Bach Biography (1710 - 1784)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as the Halle Bach

(born Nov. 22, 1710, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar—died July 1, 1784, Berlin) German composer and organist. Eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was trained by his father. One of the finest organists of his time, he held important organist posts in Dresden (1723–46) and Halle (1746–64) but thereafter lived an unsettled life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bae Yong Jun Biography (1972 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 29, 1972, Seoul, S.Kor.) South Korean actor, who achieved fame as the romantic lead in a number of globally syndicated televised drama series.
Bae found his calling as an actor as a teenager and entered the film, television, and multimedia program at Seoul&#8217;s Sungkyunkwan University. After his father&#8217;s business failed, Bae was forced to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=701</link>
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		<title>Pietro Badoglio Biography (1871 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 28, 1871, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy—died Nov. 1, 1956, Grazzano Badoglio) Italian general and politician. An army officer, he served as chief of the general staff in 1919–21 and again in 1925–28 and was made a field marshal in 1926. He governed Libya (1928–34) and commanded the Italian forces in Ethiopia (1935–36). In 1940 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=699</link>
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		<title>C(arl) P(hilipp) E(manuel) Bach Biography (1714 - 1788)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as the Berlin Bach or the Hamburg Bach


(born March 8, 1714, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar—died Dec. 14, 1788, Hamburg) German composer. Second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, he received a superb musical education from his father. In 1740 he became harpsichordist at the court of Frederick II the Great, where he remained for 28 years, after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=698</link>
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		<title>Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron Baden-Powell Biography (1857 - 1941)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Feb. 22, 1857, London, Eng.—died Jan. 8, 1941, Nyeri, Kenya) British army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (later Girl Scouts;  scouting). He was noted for his use of observation balloons in warfare in Africa (1884–85). In the South African War, he became a national hero in the Siege [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=697</link>
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		<title>Lauren Bacall Biography (1924 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Betty Joan Perske

(born September 16, 1924, New York, New York, U.S.) American motion-picture and stage actress known for her portrayals of provocative women who hid their soft core underneath a layer of hard-edged pragmatism.

Bacall started modeling in 1941 and supplemented her income with jobs as a theatre usher and as a hostess at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Bacon Biography (1220 - 1292)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Doctor Mirabilis (‘Wonderful Doctor’)

(born  1220, Ilchester, Somerset, or Bisley, Gloucester?, Eng.—died 1292, Oxford) English scientist and philosopher. He was educated at Oxford and the University of Paris and joined the Franciscan order in 1247. He displayed a prodigious energy and zeal in the pursuit of experimental science; his studies eventually won him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antony Babington Biography (1561 - 1586)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born October 1561, Dethick, Derbyshire, Eng.—died Sept. 20, 1586, London) English conspirator. Raised secretly as a Catholic, Babington was joined by the priest John Ballard in the unsuccessful “Babington Plot” to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and install her prisoner, Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne. The conspiracy included many Roman Catholics, and Philip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nathaniel Bacon Biography (1647 - 1676)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Jan. 2, 1647, Suffolk, Eng.—died October 1676, Virginia Colony) British-born American colonial planter, leader of Bacon&#8217;s Rebellion. He emigrated from England in 1673 and acquired land in Virginia, where he was appointed to the council of William Berkeley, the British governor. After a dispute over Indian policy, he defied Berkeley&#8217;s orders and organized an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>François-Noël Babeuf Biography (1760 - 1797)</title>
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(born Nov. 23, 1760, Saint-Quentin, France—died May 27, 1797, Vendôme) French political journalist and agitator. During the era of the French Revolution he advocated an equal distribution of land and income. For his part in a conspiracy to overthrow the Directory and institute a return to the Constitution of 1793, he was guillotined. His tactical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=692</link>
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		<title>Isaak Babel Biography (1894 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born July 13, 1894, Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Jan. 27, 1940, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Russian short-story writer. Born Jewish in Ukraine, Babel grew up in an atmosphere of persecution that is reflected in his stories. Maksim Gorky encouraged him to travel abroad to expand his horizons. Out of his experience as a soldier in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=691</link>
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		<title>Milton Babbitt Biography (1916 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 10, 1916, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) U.S. composer. At Princeton University he studied with composer Roger Sessions and later joined the faculty. He became one of the first U.S. 12-tone composers, and he was (with his Three Compositions for Piano, 1947) perhaps the first composer to write totally serialized music based on ordered structures [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=690</link>
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		<title>Babe Ruth Biography (1895-1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KIDS VERSION
Professional baseball player
He was born with the name George Herman Ruth, Jr. on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore, Maryland. But he is better known as &#8220;Babe.&#8221; He earned this nickname for being so young when he became a professional baseball player. Before getting his big break, Ruth had a rough childhood. He liked to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=688</link>
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		<title>Kevin Bacon Biography (1958– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor and musician, born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Kevin Bacon studied acting at the Circle in the Square Theater in New York, and after some stage work gained his first feature film role in National Lampoon&#8217;s Animal House (1981). Later films include Footloose (1984), JFK (1991), The River Wild (1993, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=687</link>
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		<title>Henry Bacon Biography (1866 - 1924)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Nov. 28, 1866, Watseka, Ill., U.S.—died Feb. 16, 1924, New York City) American architect, best-known as the designer of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Bacon studied briefly at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1884), but left to begin his architectural career as a draftsman, eventually serving in the office of McKim, Mead &#38; White (New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=685</link>
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		<title>Charles Babbage Biography (1792 - 1871)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born December 26, 1791, London, England—died October 18, 1871, London) English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer.
In 1812 Babbage helped found the Analytical Society, whose object was to introduce developments from the European continent into English mathematics. In 1816 he was elected a fellow of the Royal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francis Bacon Biography (1909 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born Oct. 28, 1909, Dublin, Ire.—died April 28, 1992, Madrid, Spain) Irish-British painter. He lived in Berlin and Paris before settling in London (1929) to begin a career as an interior decorator. With no formal art training, he started painting, drawing, and participating in gallery exhibitions, with little success. In 1944 he achieved instant notoriety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ba&#8217;al Shem ov Biography (1700 - 1760)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Israel ben Eliezer

(born  1700, probably Tluste, Podolia, Pol.—died 1760, Medzhibozh) Charismatic founder of Hasidism ( 1750). An orphan, he worked in synagogues and yeshivas, and when he retired to the Carpathian Mountains to engage in mystical speculation he gained a reputation as a ba&#8217;al shem, or healer. From  1736 he lived in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delia Salter Bacon Biography (1811 - 1859)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 2, 1811, Tallmadge, Ohio, U.S.—died Sept. 2, 1859, Hartford, Conn.) American writer who developed the theory, still subscribed to by some, that Francis Bacon and others were the true authors of the works attributed to William Shakespeare.
Bacon grew up in Tallmadge and in Hartford, Connecticut, where she attended Catharine E. Beecher&#8217;s school for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ba Biography (601 - 649)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Babhaa

(flourished  7th century) one of the greatest masters of Sanskrit prose, famed principally for his chronicle, Haracarita (“Deeds of Hara”), depicting the court and times of the Buddhist emperor Hara (reigned c. 606–647) of northern India.
Ba gives some autobiographical account of himself in the early chapters of the Haracarita. He was born [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=680</link>
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		<title>Amy Lee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amy Lynn Lee is an American singer and songwriter. She founded the band Evanescence with Ben Moody when they met at a youth camp. Ben met Amy playing Meat Loaf&#8217;s &#8220;I Would Do Anything for Love&#8221; on the piano, where he eventually convinced Amy Lee to form a band. This marked the beginning of Evanescence.
Amy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mariano Azuela Biography (1873 - 1952)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born January 1, 1873, Lagos de Moreno, Mexico—died March 1, 1952, Mexico City) Mexican writer whose 20 novels chronicle almost every aspect of the Mexican Revolution.
Azuela received an M.D. degree in Guadalajara in 1899 and practiced medicine, first in his native town and after 1916 in Mexico City. His best-known work, Los de abajo (1916; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nnamdi Azikiwe Biography (1904 - 1966)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 16, 1904, Zungeru, Nigeria—died May 11, 1996, Enugu) First president (1963–66) of independent Nigeria. Azikiwe&#8217;s National Council party won the important 1959 federal elections and helped stimulate Nigerian independence. In the conflict over Biafra (1967–70), Azikiwe first backed his fellow Igbo but then threw his support to the federal government. Thereafter he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=677</link>
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		<title>Manuel Azaña Biography (1880 - 1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Jan. 10, 1880, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died Nov. 4, 1940, Montauban, France) Spanish prime minister and president. As prime minister from 1931 to 1933, he attempted to fashion a moderately liberal government. Elected president in May 1936, he was able to accomplish little before the Spanish Civil War broke out in July. He lost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=676</link>
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		<title>Mohammad Ayub Khan Biography (1928 - 1979)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 14, 1907, Hazara, India—died April 19, 1974, near Islamabad, Pak.) President of Pakistan (1958–69). After studies at Aligarh Muslim University and at the British Royal Military College, he became an officer in the Indian army (1928). He fought in Burma (Myanmar) in World War II, and afterward he rose through the ranks in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=675</link>
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		<title>Marcel Aymé Biography (1902 - 1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 29, 1902, Joigny, Fr.—died Oct. 14, 1967, Paris) French novelist, essayist, and playwright. His novels include The Hollow Field (1929), The Fable and the Flesh (1943), and The Transient Hour (1946). He delighted a vast public with witty tales of talking farm animals (reflecting his own farm upbringing), some of which were published [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=674</link>
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		<title>Albert Ayler Biography (1936 - 1970)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 13, 1936, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died November 1970, New York, N.Y.) African-American tenor saxophonist whose innovations in style and technique were a major influence on free jazz.
As a boy, Ayler studied saxophone with his father, with whom he played duets in church. In his mid-teens he played in rhythm-and-blues bands, and as a young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=673</link>
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		<title>Dan Aykroyd Biography (1952– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor, born on July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Canada. Dan Aykroyd studied at Carleton University, Ottawa, joined the Second City Comedy improvisation group in Toronto, made a name for himself as a stand-up comedian, then joined the cast of the anarchic television show Saturday Night Live (1975–9). He wrote the screenplay for and starred [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=672</link>
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		<title>Sir A. J. Ayer Biography (1910 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 29, 1910, London, Eng.—died June 27, 1989, London) British philosopher. He taught at University College London (1946–59) and later at Oxford (1959–78). He gained international notice in 1936 with the publication of his first book, Language, Truth and Logic, a manifesto of logical positivism that drew on the ideas of the Vienna Circle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=671</link>
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		<title>Sir Alan Ayckbourn Biography (1939 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born April 12, 1939, London, Eng.) British playwright. He began acting with the Stephen Joseph Co. in Scarborough, Yorkshire, where he also wrote his earliest plays under the pseudonym Roland Allen (1959–61). Most of his plays premiered at the company&#8217;s theatre, where he was artistic director beginning in 1970. He has written over 50 plays, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aurangzeb Biography (1618 - 1707)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Mu al-Dn Muammad

(born Nov. 3, 1618, Dhod, Malwa, India—died March 3, 1707) Last of the great Mughal emperors of India (r. 1658–1707). He was the third son of the emperor Shah Jahn and Mumtz Maal, for whom the Taj Mahal was built. After distinguishing himself early in life with his military and administrative ability, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=669</link>
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		<title>Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Biography (1945 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 19, 1945, Rangoon, Burma [now Yangôn, Myanmar]) Myanmar opposition leader, daughter of Aung San (a martyred national hero of independent Burma) and Khin Kyi (a prominent Burmese diplomat), and winner in 1991 of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Aung San Suu Kyi was two years old when her father, then the de facto prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aung San Biography (1914 - 1947)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1914?, Natmauk, Burma—died July 19, 1947, Rangoon) Nationalist leader of Burma (Myanmar). He led a student strike in 1936 and became secretary-general of a nationalist group in 1939. He accepted Japanese aid in raising a military force in Burma that helped the Japanese in their 1942 invasion. However, he came to doubt that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=667</link>
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		<title>Robert J Aumann Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 8, 1930, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.) Israeli mathematician, who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics with Thomas C. Schelling. Aumann&#8217;s primary contribution to economics involved the analysis of repeated noncooperative encounters, a subject in the mathematical discipline of game theory. The cowinners were cited “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Austen Biography (1775 - 1817)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Dec. 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, Eng.—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire) English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. Austen created the comedy of manners of middle-class life in the England of her time in her novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=664</link>
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		<title>Caesar Augustus Biography (14 - 63)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Octavian orig. Gaius Octavius later Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus

(born Sept. 23, 63 —died Aug. 19,  14, Nola, near Naples) First Roman emperor. Born to a wealthy family, at age 18 he was named adoptive son and heir of his great-uncle Julius Caesar. After Caesar&#8217;s assassination (44 ) a power struggle ensued, and several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=663</link>
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		<title>Julius Axelrod Biography (1912–2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pharmacologist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at New York University (1941) and George Washington University, Washington DC (1955), and in New York City worked as a chemist at the Laboratory of Industrial Hygiene (1935–45), and as a research associate at Goldwater Memorial Hospital (1946–9). He became a biochemist for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augustus III Biography (1696 - 1763)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Polish August Fryderyk
(born Oct. 17, 1696, Dresden, Saxony—died Oct. 5, 1763, Dresden) King of Poland and elector of Saxony (as Frederick Augustus II), whose reign (1733–63) marked a great period of disorder within Poland. He cared more for pleasure than affairs of state and left the administration of Saxony and Poland to his chief adviser, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=661</link>
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		<title>Richard Axel Biography (1946 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 2, 1946, New York, New York, U.S.) American scientist who, with Linda B. Buck, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2004 for pioneering research on the olfactory system.
Axel received an A.B. (1967) from Columbia University and an M.D. (1970) from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 1978 he became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augustus II Biography (1670 - 1733)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Polish August Fryderyk

(born May 12, 1670, Dresden, Saxony—died Feb. 1, 1733, Warsaw) King of Poland and elector of Saxony (as Frederick Augustus I). He ascended to the Polish throne in 1697, having converted to Catholicism to better his chances. Also called Augustus the Strong, he invaded Livonia in 1700, beginning the Second Northern War. Charles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obafemi Awolowo Biography (1909 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 6, 1909, Ikenne, Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria—died May 9, 1987, Ikenne) Nigerian nationalist politician and leader of the Yoruba ethnic group. While studying law in London, he wrote the influential Path to Nigerian Freedom (1947) and laid the basis for the first Yoruba political party, the Action Group. As premier of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Augustine Biography (354 - 430)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also known as Augustine of Canterbury


(born Nov. 13, 354, Tagaste, Numidia—died Aug. 28, 430, Hippo Regius; feast day August 28) Christian theologian and one of the Latin Fathers of the Church. Born in Roman North Africa, he adopted Manichaeism, taught rhetoric in Carthage, and fathered a son. After moving to Milan he converted to Christianity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avicenna Biography (980 - 1037)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arabic Ibn Sn in full Ab &#8216;Al al-usayn ibn &#8216;Abd Allh ibn Sn

(born 980, Bukhara, Iran—died 1037, Hamadan) Islamic philosopher and scientist. He became physician to several sultans and also twice served as vizier. His Canon of Medicine was long a standard work in the field. He is known for his great encyclopaedia of philosophy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Augustine of Canterbury Biography (604 - 605)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born , Rome?—died May 26, 604/605, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.; feast day May 26 in England and Wales, May 28 elsewhere) First archbishop of Canterbury. A Benedictine prior in Rome, he was chosen by Pope Gregory I to lead 40 monks as missionaries to England. They arrived in 597 and were welcomed by King Ethelbert of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oswald Avery Biography (1877 - 1955)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 21, 1877, Halifax, N.S., Can.—died Feb. 20, 1955, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.) Canadian-born U.S. bacteriologist. He studied at Colgate University before taking a post at New York&#8217;s Rockefeller Institute Hospital. There he discovered transformation, a process by which a change could be introduced into bacteria and passed on to later generations of transformed cells. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augusta Savage Biography (1892-1962)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Artist, activist, educator. Born Augusta Christine Fells on February 29, 1892, in Green Cove Springs, Florida. An important African American artist, Savage began making art as a child, using the natural clay found in her community. She liked to sculpt animals and other small figures. But her father, a Methodist minister, didn’t approve of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Byllye Avery Biography (1937 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Byllye Yvonne Avery

(born 1937, DeLand, Florida, U.S.) American health care activist whose efforts centred on bettering the welfare of low-income African American women through self-help groups and advocacy networks.
Avery studied psychology at Talledega (Alabama) College (B.A., 1959) and received an M.A. in special education from the University of Florida (1969). She devoted herself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Averroës Biography (1126 - 1198)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arabic Ibn Rushd in full Ab al-Wald Muammad ibn Amad ibn Muammad ibn Rushd
(born 1126, Córdoba—died 1198, Marrakech, Almohad empire) Spanish Arabic philosopher. Trained in law, medicine, and philosophy, he rose to be chief judge of Córdoba, an office also once held by his grandfather. His series of commentaries on most of the works of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augusta Biography (1811–90)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
City (pop., 2000: 18,560), capital of Maine, U.S. It was established in 1628 by traders from Plymouth colony as a post at the head of navigation on the Kennebec River. Fort Western was built there in 1754 (restored 1922), attracting settlers. Incorporated in 1797, the town was renamed the next year for the daughter of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Avedon Biography (1923 - 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 15, 1923, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 1, 2004, San Antonio, Texas) U.S. photographer. He began studying photography in the U.S. merchant marine. In 1945 he became a regular contributor to Harper&#8217;s Bazaar; he later was closely associated with Vogue. Avedon&#8217;s fashion photographs are characterized by a strong black-and-white contrast that creates an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augusta Biography (1811 - 1890)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Maria Luise Augusta Katharina

(born September 30, 1811, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar [Germany]—died January 7, 1890, Berlin) queen consort of Prussia from 1861 and German empress from 1871, the wife of William I.
The younger daughter of Charles Frederick, grand duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, she was married to the future king and emperor on June 11, 1829. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frankie Avalon Biography (1940-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born Francis Thomas Avallone on September 18, 1940 in South Philadelphia. He broke into show business as a child prodigy trumpet player, earning an appearance on the Jackie Gleason Show and making records for RCA Victor&#8217;s subsidiary, &#8216;X&#8217; Records. In his teens, Avalon played backup trumpet in a local band called Rocco and the Saints. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John James Audubon Biography (1785 - 1851)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Fougère Rabin or Jean Rabin later Jean-Jacques Fougère Audubon

(born April 26, 1785, Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue, West Indies —died Jan. 27, 1851, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. ornithologist, artist, and naturalist known for his drawings and paintings of North American birds. Born to a French merchant in Haiti, he returned with his father to France, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Autry Biography (1907-1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer, actor. Born Orvon Gene Autry, on September 29, 1907, in Tioga, Texas. Best known as the &#8220;Singing Cowboy,&#8221; Autry got his start in 1926 while singing and playing his guitar to pass the time at his telegraph operator&#8217;s job. One night, a customer overheard him and told Rogers that he had enough talent to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audrey Tautou Biography (1978- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress
 Actress. Born August 9, 1978 in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France. An entertainer from a young age, Tautou made several TV movies before participating in a talent competition sponsored by France&#8217;s Canal Plus in 1999. That year, she won Best Young Comedienne at the 9th Béziers Festival and had her first major screen role in Tonie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=643</link>
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		<title>Steve (&#8221;Stone Cold&#8221;) Austin Biography (1964-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professional wrestler, born Steve Anderson, on December 18, 1964, in Victoria, Texas. Raised by his mother and stepfather, Ken Williams, he never knew his biological father, and soon took Williams&#8217;s name, Steve grew up in Edna, Texas, as part of a big family. In high school, he was inducted into the National Honor Society before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Austin Biography (1793 - 1836)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Stephen Fuller Austin
(born Nov. 3, 1793, Austinville, Va., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1836, Austin, Texas) founder in the 1820s of the principal settlements of English-speaking people in Texas, when that territory was still part of Mexico.
Raised on the Missouri frontier, Austin was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., and served in the Missouri [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audre Lorde Biography (1934–1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Also known as Gamba Adisa
Poet, writer. Born Audre Geraldine Lorde on February 18, 1934, in New York, New York. Raised in New York, Audre Lorde grew up to a leading African American poet and essayist who gave voice to issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Her love of poetry started early, and she began writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Austin Biography (1790 - 1859)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 3, 1790, Creeting Mill, Suffolk, Eng.—died Dec. 1859, Weybridge, Surrey) British jurist. Although initially unsuccessful in his law practice (1818–25), his analytical mind and intellectual honesty impressed colleagues, and he was named the first professor of jurisprudence at University College, London (1826). Distinguished men attended his lectures, but he failed to attract students, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden Biography (1907 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Feb. 21, 1907, York, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Sept. 29, 1973, Vienna, Austria) British-born U.S. poet and man of letters. He attended Oxford University, where he exerted a strong influence on C. Day-Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender. Auden&#8217;s varied works throughout his life dealt with intellectual and moral issues of public concern as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J. L. Austin Biography (1911 - 1960)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 28, 1911, Lancaster, Lancashire, Eng.—died Feb. 8, 1960, Oxford) British philosopher. He taught at Oxford from 1945 until his death. He was a leading member of the “ordinary language,” or “Oxford,” movement of analytic philosophy, which was characterized by its belief that philosophical problems frequently arise through inattention to or misunderstandings of ordinary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=638</link>
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		<title>Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood Biography (1939 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Novelist, short-story writer, poet, and critic. Born on in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Margaret Atwood is one of today’s leading fiction writers. She studied at the University of Toronto and Radcliffe College, becoming a lecturer in English literature. Her first published work was a collection of poems entitled The Circle Game (1966), which won the Governor-General&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=637</link>
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		<title>Marcus Aurelius Biography 121-180</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, originally Marcus Annius Verus
Roman emperor. Born on April 26, 121, in Rome, Italy. Known for his philosophical interests, Marcus Aurelius was one of the most respected emperors in Roman history. He was born into a wealthy and politically prominent family. Growing up, Marcus Aurelius was a dedicated student, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crispus Attucks Biography (1723 - 1770)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1723?—died  March 5, 1770, Boston, Mass. [U.S.]) American hero and martyr of the Boston Massacre.
Attucks&#8217; life prior to the day of his death is still shrouded in mystery. Most historians say that he was black; others argue that his ancestry was both African and Natick Indian. In any event, in the fall of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aurelian Biography (215 - 275)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Latin Lucius Domitius Aurelianus
(born  215—died 275, near Byzantium) Roman emperor  270–75. Probably from the Balkans, he became emperor after Claudius II&#8217;s death and the brief reign of Claudius&#8217;s brother. He reunited the empire and restored Roman power in Europe, turning back invaders and quelling revolts, securing provinces in the east and defeating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee of Walthamstow Biography (1883 - 1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Jan. 3, 1883, Putney, London, Eng.—died Oct. 8, 1967, Westminster, London) British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51). Committed to social reform, he lived for much of the years (1907–22) in a settlement house in London&#8217;s impoverished East End. Elected to Parliament in 1922, he served in several Labour governments and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attila Biography (453 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Flagellum Dei (Latin: Scourge of God)


(died 453) king of the Huns from 434 to 453 (ruling jointly with his elder brother Bleda until 445). He was one of the greatest of the barbarian rulers who assailed the Roman Empire, invading the southern Balkan provinces and Greece and then Gaul and Italy. In legend he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attalus I Soter Biography (197 - 269)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born 269—died 197 ) Ruler of Pergamum (241–197). He crushed an attack by the Galatians ( 230) and won most of Anatolia (228) through victory over the Seleucid king, though by 222 the Seleucids had won most of it back. With Rome Attalus fought the First and Second Macedonian Wars, but he died shortly before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Astor Biography (1906 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Lucille Vasconcellos Langhanke



(born May 3, 1906, Quincy, Ill., U.S.—died September 25, 1987, Woodland Hills, Calif.) American motion-picture and stage actress noted for her delicate, classic beauty and a renowned profile that earned her the nickname “The Cameo Girl.” With the ability to play a variety of characters ranging from villains to heroines to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=629</link>
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		<title>Mohamed Atta Biography (1968-2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terrorist.
Terrorist. Born Muhammad Ata al Sayyid on September 1, 1968 in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt. Raised in a suburb of Cairo, Atta received a degree in architecture from Cairo University and a degree in urban planning from the Technical University of Hamburg in Germany.
During his time in Germany, fellow students recall Atta’s anti-Semitic and anti-American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=628</link>
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		<title>Madeleine Force Astor Biography (1893-1940)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allso known as Madeleine Dick and Madeleine Fiermonte
Second wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, socialite. Born Madeleine Talmadge Force on June 19, 1893, in New York, New York. Only in her late teens at the time, Madeleine Astor made quite a stir as the second wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor. Unfortunately, the union [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=627</link>
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		<title>Atsumi Kiyoshi Biography (1928 - 1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 10, 1928, Tokyo, Japan—died Aug. 4, 1996, Tokyo) Japanese comic actor. Atsumi grew up in an impoverished section of Tokyo and took odd jobs in the theatre before first portraying the role of Tora-san for a television film in 1968. He went on to play the character until 1996 in the 48-film series [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=626</link>
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		<title>John Jacob Astor Biography (1763 - 1848)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Johann Jakob Astor
Fur trader, real estate investor. Born on July 17, 1763, in Waldorf, Germany. The son of a German butcher, Astor grew up to become one of the leading businessmen of his day and the founder of an American dynasty. When he was seventeen, he made his way to London to work for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=625</link>
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		<title>Astor, Brooke Russell Biography (1902 - 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roberta Brooke Russell
American socialite, philanthropist, and writer (born March 30, 1902, Portsmouth, N.H.—died Aug. 13, 2007, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.) employed her position, wealth, and energies in the interest of cultural enrichment and the poor and presided over the distribution of about $195 million as president (1959–97) of the Vincent Astor Foundation. At age 16 she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Atlas Biography (1892 - 1972)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Angelo Siciliano

(born October 30, 1892, Acri, Calabria, Italy—died December 24, 1972, Long Beach, New York, U.S.) Italian-born American bodybuilder and physical culturist who, with Frederick Tilney and Charles P. Roman, created and marketed a highly popular mail-order bodybuilding course.
In 1904 Angelo Siciliano immigrated to the United States with his mother and settled in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(William) Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor Biography (1879–1952)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Politician, publisher. Born in 1879 in New York, New York. Part of one of the wealthiest and prominent families in the United States, Astor moved to England at age of 11 with his family in 1890. He attended Oxford University where he received a degree in history. A staunch supporter of the Conservative Party, Astor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rowan (Sebastian) Atkinson Biography (1955– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comic actor and writer, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE England, UK. He studied electrical engineering at the universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Oxford, first appeared in Oxford University revues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and in 1981 became the youngest performer to have had a one-man show in the West [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Roberta) Brooke Astor Biography (1902–2007 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néeRussell

The 83-year-old son of socialite and heiress Brooke Astor was charged Tuesday (Nov. 27, 2007) with duping his elderly mother out of millions of dollars by taking advantage of her reduced mental state.

Astor was 105 when she died August 13, 2007, at her home in Briarcliff Manor, New York, leaving a $198 million estate.

Her son, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chet Atkins Biography (1924 - 2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Chester Burton Atkins

(born June 20, 1924, Luttrell, Tenn., U.S.—died June 30, 2001, Nashville, Tenn.) U.S. guitarist and record company executive. Atkins began his musical career as a fiddler in the early 1940s, but it was his signature style of playing guitar (bass rhythm played with thumb, melody picked with three fingers) that brought him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=619</link>
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		<title>John Jacob Astor, Baron Astor (of Hever) Biography (1886–1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newspaper owner. Born on 1886 in New York, New York. Astor was born into an American financial dynasty and was the fifth member of the family to bear the illustrious name John Jacob. The son of William Waldorf Astor, he spent much of his life in England and educated at Eton College, a private school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Athanasius Biography (293 - 373)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 293, Alexandria, Egypt—died May 2, 373, Alexandria; feast day May 2) Early Christian theologian and staunch opponent of Arianism. He studied philosophy and theology at Alexandria, Egypt, and in 325 he attended the Council of Nicaea, which condemned the Arian heresy. He welcomed the council&#8217;s teaching that the Son is “consubstantial with the Father” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=617</link>
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		<title>Francis (William) Aston Biography (1877 - 1945)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 1, 1877, Harborne, Birmingham, Eng.—died Nov. 20, 1945, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1922 for his development of the mass spectrograph, a device that separates atoms or molecular fragments of different mass and measures those masses with remarkable accuracy. Aston used the mass spectograph to discover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eugène Atget Biography (1857 - 1927)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Feb. 12, 1857, Libourne, near Bordeaux, France—died Aug. 4, 1927, Paris) French photographer. He began his adult life as an itinerant actor. Around age 30 he settled in Paris and became a photographer. The rest of Atget&#8217;s life was spent recording everything he could that he considered picturesque or artistic in and around Paris. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=615</link>
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		<title>Fred Astaire Biography (1899 - 1987)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 10, 1899, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.—died June 22, 1987, Los Angeles, California) American dancer of stage and motion pictures who is best known for a number of highly successful musical comedy films in which he starred with Ginger Rogers. He is regarded by many as the greatest popular-music dancer of all time.
Born into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobias (Michael Carel) Asser Biography (1838 - 1913)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 28, 1838, Amsterdam, Neth.—died  July 29, 1913, The Hague) Dutch jurist, cowinner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first peace conference (1899) at The Hague.
Asser was professor of commercial and private international law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John (Vincent) Atanasoff Biography (1903–95)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 4, 1903, Hamilton, N.Y., U.S.—died June 15, 1995, Frederick, Md.) U.S. physicist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. With Clifford Berry, he developed the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (1937–42), a machine capable of solving differential equations using binary arithmetic. In 1941 he joined the Naval Ordnance Laboratory; he participated in the atomic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=612</link>
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		<title>assan II Biography (1929 - 1999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Mawly asan Muammad ibn Ysuf

(born July 9, 1929, Rabat, Mor.—died July 23, 1999, Rabat) King of Morocco (1961–99). On his succession to the throne, he introduced a new constitution providing for a popularly elected legislature but exercised authoritarian rule from 1965 to 1970, instituting a new constitution in 1970. He claimed Western Sahara for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atahualpa Biography (1502 - 1533)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1502—died Aug. 29, 1533, Cajamarca, Inca empire) Last free-reigning emperor of the Incas. He became ruler after defeating his half brother in what may have been the greatest military engagement in Inca history. The conquistador Francisco Pizarro met Atahuallpa just before the emperor&#8217;s triumphal entry into Cuzco and invited him to a feast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=610</link>
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		<title>Hafez al- Assad Biography (1928 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 6, 1930, Qarda, Syria—died June 10, 2000, Damascus) President of Syria (1971–2000). He joined the Ba&#8217;th Party in 1946 and in 1955 became an air force pilot. He became air force commander (1963) after helping the Ba&#8217;thists gain power. After participating in a military coup in 1966, he became minister of defense. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asvaghosa Biography (80 - 150)</title>
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(born  80?, Ayodhya, India—died 150?, Peshawar) Indian philosopher and poet considered the father of Sanskrit drama. Born a Brahman, he opposed Buddhism until a debate with a Buddhist scholar led to his conversion. Asvaghosa became known as a brilliant orator, and he spoke on Mahayana at the fourth Buddhist council. He is considered India&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bashar al-Assad Biography (1965 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born September 11, 1965, Damascus, Syria) Syrian president from 2000. He succeeded his father, Hafiz al-Assad, who had ruled Syria since 1971.
Assad studied medicine at the University of Damascus and graduated as a general practitioner in 1988. He then trained to become an ophthalmologist at a Damascus military hospital and in 1992 moved to London [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miguel Angel Asturias Biography (1899 - 1974)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born October 19, 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala—died June 9, 1974, Madrid, Spain) Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 and the Soviet Union&#8217;s Lenin Peace Prize in 1966. His writings, which combine the mysticism of the Maya with an epic impulse toward social protest, are seen as summing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lillian Asplund Biography (1907-2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Titanic survivor. Born Lillian Gertrud Asplund on October 21, 1906 in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1907, the Asplund family traveled to Sweden to settle their grandfather’s estate. Eager to return to the United States, where Lillian’s father worked at Spencer Wire Works, the family boarded the Titanic on April 10, 1912, for the voyage home.
After the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astruc of Lunel Biography (1250 - 1306)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph

(born 1250?, Lunel, near Montpellier, France—died after 1306) French Jewish scholar. He revered Maimonides but argued that Maimonides&#8217; followers undermined faith by reading the Bible allegorically. Through letters he persuaded the powerful rabbi Solomon ben Abraham Adret (1235–1310) of Barcelona, Spain, to forbid the study or teaching of science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gunnar Asplund Biography (1885 - 1940)</title>
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(born Sept. 22, 1885, Stockholm, Swed.—died Oct. 20, 1940, Stockholm) Swedish architect. His work shows the historically important transition from Neoclassical architecture to Modernism. By 1928, influenced by Le Corbusier, he had turned from a retrospective style to a new vision for architecture. He planned the Stockholm Exposition of 1930, a place of futuristic, glassy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor Biography (1848–1919)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newspaper owner, politician.  Born on March 31, 1848, in New York, New York. As the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, the successful fur trader and founder of the Astor family fortune, William Waldorf was born into a life of privilege. He studied abroad in Germany and Italy before returning the United States to earn a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aspasia Biography (401 - 500)</title>
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(flourished 5th century ) Mistress of Pericles and a vivid figure in Athenian society. Originally from Miletus, she lived with Pericles from  445  until his death in 429. Because she was not a citizen, their son was initially denied civic rights. Though an intellectual admired by Socrates, she endured public attacks, especially in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Asner Biography (1929- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, activist. Born on November 15, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri. For more than a decade, Ed Asner delighted television audiences with his portrayal of the tough, grumbling, but ultimately lovable newsman, Lou Grant. This award-winning actor started on his chosen career path in college, appearing in productions at the University of Chicago.
After serving in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy (Langhorne) Astor, Viscountess Astor Biography (1879–1964)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néeLanghorne
British politician. Born Nancy Langhorne on May 19, 1879, in Danville, Virginia. While she married into one of the wealthiest and famous dynasties, Nancy herself was already a notable member of society, having been born into a prominent Virginia family. A young woman, she was known for her good looks. She and her sisters were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>asan Biography (624 - 680)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full asan ibn &#8216;Al ibn Ab lib
(born 624, Arabia—died 680, Medina) Grandson of Muhammad, the elder son of Muhammad&#8217;s daughter Fimah. He is one of the five most revered persons in the Sh&#8216;ite branch of Islam. After the murder of his father, &#8216;Al, in 661, he was seen by many as the Prophet&#8217;s rightful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin Asam Biography (1686 - 1739)</title>
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(born Sept. 29, 1686, Benediktbeuren, Bavaria—died May 10, 1739, Munich) (born Sept. 1, 1692, Tegernsee, Bavaria—died April 29, 1750, Mannheim, Palatinate) Bavarian architects and decorators. After studying in Rome (1711–13), Cosmas Damian became a prolific fresco painter, and his brother, Egid Quirin, became a sculptor and stuccoist. They developed the effects of dramatic lighting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmad al-As&#8217; Biography (1753 - 1826)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Shaykh Amad ibn Zayn al-Dn Ibrahim al-As&#8217;

(born 1753, Al-Hasa, Arabia—died 1826, near Medina) Founder of the heterodox Sh&#8216;ite Muslim Shaykh sect of Iran. He traveled widely in Persia and the Middle East. In 1808 he settled in Yazd, Persia, where he attracted followers with his interpretation of Sh&#8216;ism. He claimed knowledge from visions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isaac Asimov Biography (1920 - 1992)</title>
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(born January 2, 1920, Petrovichi, Russia—died April 6, 1992, New York, New York, U.S.) American author and biochemist, a highly successful and prolific writer of science fiction and of science books for the layperson. He published about 500 volumes.
Asimov was brought to the United States at age three. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juan José Arévalo Biography (1904 - 1990)</title>
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(born Sept. 10, 1904, Taxisco, Guat.—died Oct. 6, 1990, Guatemala City) president of Guatemala (1945–51), who pursued a nationalistic foreign policy while internally encouraging the labour movement and instituting far-reaching social reforms.
Arévalo was educated at the University of Guatemala and the University of La Plata (1928–34) in Argentina, where he received a doctorate. After serving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashurbanipal Biography (601 - 700)</title>
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(flourished 7th century ) Last great Assyrian king (r. 668–627 ). He was appointed crown prince of Assyria in 672 ; his half-brother was appointed crown prince of Babylonia. On his father&#8217;s death, Ashurbanipal assumed full power without incident. He quelled a rebellion in Egypt and successfully besieged Tyre. His half brother, who served him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dorothy Arzner Biography (1897 - 1979)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director, scriptwriter, and inventor. Born on January 3, 1900, in San Francisco, California. Dorothy Arzner was a pioneer in the film industry. She became one of the early female directors. Growing up, Arzner dreamed of becoming a doctor. She even went as far as spending two years as a pre-med student at the University of South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Frederick Ashton Biography (1904 - 1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Sept. 17, 1904, Guayaquil, Ecua.—died Aug. 18, 1988, Sussex, Eng.) Principal choreographer and director of England&#8217;s Royal Ballet. After creating ballets from 1925 for the Ballet Club (later Ballet Rambert), he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (later Royal Ballet) in 1933, becoming principal choreographer, assistant director (1953–63), and director (1963–70). At least 30 of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aryabhata I Biography (476 - 550)</title>
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(born 476, possibly Ashmaka or Kusumapura, India) Astronomer and the earliest Indian mathematician whose work survives. He composed at least two works, Aryabhatiya ( 499) and the now lost Aryabhatasiddhanta, which circulated mainly in the northwest of India and influenced the development of Islamic astronomy. Written in verse couplets, Aryabhatiya deals with mathematics and astronomy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanan Ashrawi Biography (1946 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Mikhail

(born 1946, Rm Allh, Palestine [now in Israeli-occupied territory]) Palestinian educator and spokeswoman for the Palestinian delegation to Middle East peace talks in the early 1990s.
The youngest daughter of a prominent physician, who was a founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), she grew up in an Anglican family. In the late 1960s Ashrawi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>José Gervasio Artigas Biography (1764 - 1850)</title>
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(born June 19, 1764, probably Montevideo [now in Uruguay]—died September 23, 1850, Ibiray, near Asunción, Paraguay) soldier and revolutionary leader who is regarded as the father of Uruguayan independence, although that goal was not attained until several years after he had been forced into exile.
As a youth Artigas was a gaucho, or cowboy, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashoka Biography (238 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Asoka&#8217;

(born  304—died  232 ) Last major emperor ( 269–232 ) of the Mauryan empire in India and a patron of Buddhism. After his bloody conquest of Kalinga in the eighth year of his reign, Ashoka renounced military aggression and resolved to live according to the dharma. He spoke of Buddhism only to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Arthur Biography (1905 - 1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Gladys Georgianna Greene


(born Oct. 17, 1900, Plattsburgh, N.Y., U.S.—died June 19, 1991, Carmel, Calif.) American film actress known for her cracked, throaty voice, which accentuated her charm and intelligence in a series of successful comedies.
After modeling and performing in small parts on the Broadway stage, Arthur made her screen debut in a silent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Henry Ashley Biography (1778 - 1838)</title>
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(born  1778, Powhatan, Va., U.S.—died March 26, 1838, Cooper county, Mo.) U.S. fur trader. Arriving in Missouri about 1802, he prospered in mining and land speculation. In 1820 he became the state&#8217;s first lieutenant governor. With Andrew Henry (1771–1833), he organized the Rocky Mountain Fur Co. in 1822 and established a trading post at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maurice Ashley Biography (1966 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 6, 1966, St. Andrews, Jamaica) first African American to earn an International Grandmaster chess title.
Ashley moved to Brooklyn, New York, with his family when he was 12 years old. He soon took up chess and excelled at the game, becoming a national master in 1986 and an International Master in 1993. From 1991 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellen Arthur Biography (1837 - 1880)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Ellen Lewis Herndon , byname Nell


(born August 30, 1837, Culpeper, Virginia, U.S.—died January 12, 1880, New York, New York) wife of Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of the United States. She never served as first lady because she died of pneumonia before her husband assumed office. The president&#8217;s sister, Mary Arthur McElroy, acted as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evelyn Ashford Biography (1957 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 15, 1957, Shreveport, La., U.S.) renowned American sprinter and five-time Olympian.
At her high school in California, Ashford was invited to join the all-male track-and-field team when she outdistanced a number of its members in a series of races; she cocaptained the team her senior year. She received one of the first athletic scholarships [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chester A(lan) Arthur Biography (1829 - 1886)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Chester Alan Arthur
United States President. Born Chester Alan Arthur on October 5, 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont. The son of an Irish immigrant, Charles Arthur graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1848. After passing the bar in 1854, he practiced law in New York City, where he supported equal rights for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur (Robert) Ashe Biography (1943 - 1993)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tennis player. Born Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. on July 10,1943 in Richmond, Virginia. After studying at the University of California at Los Angeles on a tennis scholarship, Ashe became the first African American ever selected to the US Davis Cup Team in 1963 (winners 1968-70). In 1968, he won the men&#8217;s championships at the inaugural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur Biography (?6th-c)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
legendary British king who appears in a cycle of medieval romances (known as the matter of Britain) as the sovereign of a knightly fellowship of the Round Table. It is not certain how or where (in Wales or in those parts of northern Britain inhabited by Brythonic-speaking Celts) these legends originated or whether the figure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Ashcroft Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full John David Ashcroft


(born May 9, 1942, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) U.S. politician and lawyer, who served as attorney general of the United States (2001–05). He was known for his conservative policies and his support of the USA Patriot Act.
After graduating from Yale University (B.A., 1964) and the University of Chicago (J.D., 1967), Ashcroft taught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artemisia II Biography (350 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(died  350 ) Sister and wife of King Mausolus (r. 377–353 ) of Caria, southwestern Anatolia, and sole ruler for about three years after his death. She built his tomb, the Mausoleum, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
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		<title>Dame Peggy Ashcroft Biography (1991 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft

(born Dec. 22, 1907, Croydon, London, Eng.—died June 14, 1991, London) English stage actress who appeared in both classic and modern plays.
After graduation from London&#8217;s Central School of Dramatic Art, Ashcroft made her debut as Margaret in the Birmingham Repertory&#8217;s production of Dear Brutus (1926). She made her initial London [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artemisia I Biography (401 - 450)</title>
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(flourished 5th century ) Queen of Halicarnassus and of the island of Cos  480 . She ruled under the Persian king Xerxes and helped him invade Greece (480–479). She commanded five ships in the Battle of Salamis; according to Herodotus, she advised Xerxes to retreat from Greece rather than risk another engagement.
Copyright © 1994-2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John (Lawrence) Ashbery Biography (1927 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 28, 1927, Rochester, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. poet. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia universities and subsequently became known as an art critic. His poems, noted for their elegance, originality, and obscurity, are characterized by arresting images, exquisite rhythms, intricate form, and sudden shifts in tone and subject. His collections include The Double [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antonin Artaud Biography (1896 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Sept. 4, 1896, Marseille, France—died March 4, 1948, Ivry-sur-Seine) French poet, actor, and drama theorist. He wrote Surrealist poetry from 1925 and made his acting debut in Surrealist productions in Paris. He described his theory of drama in the Manifesto of the Theatre of Cruelty (1932;  Theatre of Cruelty) and The Theatre and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ab al-asan al-Ash&#8217;ar Biography (873 - 874)</title>
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(born 873/874, Basra, Iraq—died 935/936, Baghdad) Muslim Arab theologian. He probably belonged to the family of Ab Ms al-Ash&#8217;ar, one of the Companions of the Prophet. He joined the Mu&#8217;tazilah school and compiled scholarly opinions in his Maqlt al-Islmyn (“Theological Opinions of the Muslims”). At about age 40 he concluded that his method had led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arsinoe II Biography (270 - 316)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born  316—died July 270 )  Queen of Thrace (300–281) and Egypt (277–270). Daughter of Ptolemy I Soter, she married the king of Thrace (300) and tried to have her son made heir instead of Agathocles, the king&#8217;s son by an earlier marriage. Agathocles sought help from Seleucids, causing a war in which Arsinoe&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asclepigenia Biography (430 - 485)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(flourished  430–485) Greek philosopher of the Neo-Platonist school, teacher, and lecturer.
After the death of her father, Plutarchus, Asclepigenia was active in perpetuating the eastern version of Platonism, in cooperation with her brother, Hiero. Upon the succession of Proclus as head of the school at Athens, Asclepigenia instructed him in the philosophies of Plato and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Todd M. Arsenault Biography (1977-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Artist, musician, composer, filmmaker. Born March 3, 1977 in Milford, Connecticut to parents Patrice and Tim Arsenault.
An all-state soccer player in high school, Arsenault enrolled at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire in 1995 and played on the NCAA Division II championship-contending team. In 1996, Arsenault transferred to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Ascham Biography (1515 - 1568)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1515, Kirby Wiske, near York, Eng.—died Dec. 30, 1568, London) English humanist, scholar, and writer. He entered Cambridge University at age 14 and studied Greek. He became the future Queen Elizabeth I&#8217;s tutor in Greek and Latin (1548–50) and continued to serve her after she took the throne. His best-known book is the posthumous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sholem Asch Biography (1880 - 1957)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 1, 1880, Kutno, Pol., Russian Empire—died July 10, 1957, London, Eng.) Polish-born U.S. novelist and playwright. Much of his writing concerns the experience of Jews in eastern European villages or as immigrants in the U.S. (to which he himself immigrated in 1914). It includes the play The God of Vengeance (1907) and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenneth (Joseph) Arrow Biography (1921 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Kenneth Joseph Arrow

(born August 23, 1921, New York, New York, U.S.) American economist known for his contributions to welfare economics and to general economic equilibrium theory. He was cowinner (with Sir John R. Hicks) of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1972. Perhaps his most startling thesis (built on elementary mathematics) was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>al-asan al-Bar Biography (642 - 728)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 642, Medina, Arabia—died 728, Basra, Iraq) Muslim ascetic and major figure in early Islam. He took part in the conquest of eastern Iran as a young soldier. He then settled at Basra, and from 684 he was a popular preacher. He emphasized the practice of religious self-examination and asserted that true Muslims must live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Svante (August) Arrhenius Biography (1859 - 1927)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Feb. 19, 1859, Vik, Swed.—died Oct. 2, 1927, Stockholm) Swedish physicist and physical chemist known for his theory of electrolytic dissociation and his model of the greenhouse effect. In 1903 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Early life and education
Arrhenius attended the famous Cathedral School in Uppsala and then entered Uppsala University, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristotle Biography (322 - 384) part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

The continuum
Spacial extension, motion, and time are often thought of as continua—as wholes made up of a series of smaller parts. Aristotle develops a subtle analysis of the nature of such continuous quantities. Two entities are continuous, he says, when there is only a single common boundary between them. On the basis of this definition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristotle Biography (322 - 384) part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greek Aristoteles

(born 384 , Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece—died 322, Chalcis, Euboea) ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the greatest intellectual figures of Western history. He was the author of a philosophical and scientific system that became the framework and vehicle for both Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy. Even after the intellectual revolutions of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis (Daniel) Armstrong Biography (1901 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Satchmo (truncation of “Satchel Mouth”)


(born August 4, 1901, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.—died July 6, 1971, New York, New York) the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz history.
Armstrong grew up in dire poverty in New Orleans, Louisiana, when jazz was very young. As a child he worked at odd jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lance Armstrong Biography (1971-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cyclist. Born September 18, 1971, in Plano, Texas. Raised by his mother Linda in the the suburbs of Dallas, Armstrong was athletic from an early age. He began running and swimming at 10 years old and took up competitive cycling and triathlons (which combine a 1,000 meter swim, 15-mile bike ride, and three-mile run) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claudio Arrau Biography (1903 - 1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 6, 1903, Chillán, Chile—died June 9, 1991, Mürzzuschlag, Austria) Chilean-born American pianist, regarded as one of the 20th century&#8217;s most renowned performers.
After studying privately in Santiago for two years, Arrau went to Berlin, where he studied with Martin Krause, a pupil of Franz Liszt, from 1912 to 1918. His serious career began with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Armstrong Biography (1912 - 1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Henry Jackson


(born December 12, 1912, Columbus, Mississippi, U.S.—died October 24, 1988, Los Angeles, California) American boxer, the only professional boxer to hold world championship titles in three weight divisions simultaneously.
Armstrong fought as an amateur from 1929 to 1932. Early in his career he boxed under the name Melody Jackson. He first won the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fernando Arrabal Biography (1932 - )</title>
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(born Aug. 11, 1932, Melilla, Spanish Morocco) Spanish French Absurdist playwright, novelist, and filmmaker. He turned to writing in the 1950s, and in 1955 he began studying drama in Paris, where he remained. His early plays, in particular Picnic on the Battlefield, brought him to the attention of the French avant-garde. After the mid 1960s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edwin H(oward) Armstrong Biography (1890 - 1954)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Dec. 18, 1890, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 31/Feb. 1, 1954, New York City) U.S. inventor. He studied at Columbia University, where he devised a feedback circuit that brought in signals with a thousandfold amplification (1912). At its highest amplification, the circuit shifted from being a receiver to being a primary generator of radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patricia Arquette Biography (1968-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress. Born April 8, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois. The daughter of actor Lewis Arquette, Patricia grew up on a commune near Arlington, Virginia, alongside siblings Rosanna, Richmond, Alexis and David. At age 15, she ran away from home to live with her sister, Rosanna, and pursue a career in acting.Arquette won critical favor if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philip Danforth Armour Biography (1832 - 1901)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 16, 1832, Stockbridge, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 6, 1901, Chicago, Ill.) U.S. entrepreneur and innovator. Armour&#8217;s first entrepreneurial success was in California mining endeavours. He vastly expanded his family&#8217;s Midwestern grain and meatpacking business in 1875, originating the use of byproducts and the sale of canned meat. When railcar refrigeration was introduced in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Arp Biography (1887 - 1966)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Hans Arp

(born Sept. 16, 1887, Strassburg, Ger.—died June 7, 1966, Basel, Switz.) French painter, sculptor, and poet. After studying in Weimar, Ger., and at the Académie Julian in Paris, he became involved in the most important movements of early 20th-century art: Der Blaue Reiter in Munich (1912), Cubism in Paris (1914), Dada in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Armin Biography (1568 - 1615)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born c. 1568—died November 1615, London, Eng.) English actor and playwright best known as a leading comic actor in the plays of William Shakespeare. He performed with the Chamberlain&#8217;s Men from approximately 1598 to 1610 and originated some of the most famous comic roles in Elizabethan theatre.
Armin was an apprentice to a goldsmith in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raymond Aron Biography (1905 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born 1905—died 1983) French sociologist and historian. After receiving his doctorate from the École Normale Supérieure (1930), he taught at the University of Toulouse until 1939. During World War II he joined the Free French and edited their newspaper (1940–44). He later taught at the École Nationale d&#8217;Administration, the Sorbonne, and the Collège de France. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giorgio Armani Biography (1934 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born July 11, 1934, Piacenza, Italy) Italian fashion designer whose signature style of relaxed yet luxurious ready-to-wear and elegant, intricately beaded evening wear helped introduce ease and streamlined modernity to late 20th-century dressing.
The son of a shipping manager, Armani intended to become a doctor but left medical school to pursue a career in fashion. Beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arnulf Biography (899 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(died Dec. 8, 899) King of Germany. Originally duke of Carinthia, he was elected king of the eastern Franks in 887, deposing his uncle, Charles the Fat. The western Franks, Burgundy, and Italy refused to recognize Arnulf, thus dividing the Carolingian empire. He defeated the Vikings (891), ending their raids up the Rhine River, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arnolfo di Cambio Biography (1245 - 1301)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1245, Colle di Val d&#8217;Elsa—died 1301/10, Florence) Italian sculptor and architect active in Florence. He studied under Nicola Pisano and assisted him on the pulpit for Siena Cathedral (1265–68). In 1277 he went to Rome, where he worked for Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily. He also designed and constructed monuments, including the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giorgio Armani Biography (1934 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 11, 1934, Piacenza, Italy) Italian fashion designer whose signature style of relaxed yet luxurious ready-to-wear and elegant, intricately beaded evening wear helped introduce ease and streamlined modernity to late 20th-century dressing.
The son of a shipping manager, Armani intended to become a doctor but left medical school to pursue a career in fashion. Beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Klas Pontus Arnoldson Biography (1844 - 1916)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 27, 1844, Göteborg, Sweden—died Feb. 20, 1916, Stockholm) politician who figured prominently in solving the problems of the Norwegian-Swedish Union. He was the cowinner (with Fredrik Bajer) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1908.
Arnoldson became a railway clerk and rose to stationmaster (1871–81) but then left the railway to devote himself entirely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Arliss Biography (1868 - 1946)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Augustus George Andrews

(born April 10, 1868, London—died Feb. 5, 1946, London) actor noted for his portrayal of historic personages in many motion pictures.
Arliss began his acting career in 1887 but did not have his first substantial success until he appeared with Mrs. Patrick Campbell in London during the 1900–01 season. In 1902 he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Arnold Biography (1795 - 1842)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Doctor Arnold


(born June 13, 1795, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, Eng.—died June 12, 1842, Rugby, Warwickshire) British educator. A classical scholar, he became headmaster in 1828 of Rugby School, which was in a state of decline. He revived Rugby by reforming its curriculum, athletics program, and social structure (in the prefect system he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Arlen Biography (1905 - 1986)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Hyman Arluck

(born Feb. 15, 1905, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.—died April 23, 1986, New York, N.Y.) U.S. songwriter. After working as a performer and arranger, in 1929 he began a collaboration with lyricist Ted Koehler (1894–1973) with the song “Get Happy”; until the mid-1930s they wrote many songs that were featured in shows at Harlem&#8217;s Cotton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Arnold Biography (1822 - 1888)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 24, 1822, Laleham, Middlesex, Eng.—died April 15, 1888, Liverpool) English poet and literary and social critic. Son of the educator Thomas Arnold, he attended Oxford and then worked as an inspector of schools for the rest of his life. His verse includes “Dover Beach,” his most celebrated work; “Sohrab and Rustum,” a romantic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Richard Arkwright Biography (1732 - 1792)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 23, 1732, Preston, Lancashire, Eng.—died Aug. 3, 1792, Cromford, Derbyshire) British textile industrialist and inventor. His first spinning machine was patented in 1769 ( Lewis Paul). His water frame (so-called because it operated by waterpower) produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp ( weaving), stronger than thread made on the spinning jenny, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Harley Arnold Biography (1886 - 1950)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Hap Arnold


(born June 25, 1886, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 15, 1950, Sonoma, California) air strategist, commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.
After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1907, Arnold served in the infantry and then transferred to the aeronautical section of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict Arnold Biography (1741 - 1801)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Jan. 14, 1741, Norwich, Conn.—died June 14, 1801, London, Eng.) American army officer and traitor. He joined the American Revolutionary army in 1775 and contributed to American victories at the Battle of Ticonderoga, at Fort Stanwix, N.Y., and at the Battle of Saratoga, where he was seriously wounded. He was made a major general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arjan Biography (1563 - 1606)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1563, Goindwal, Punjab, India—died May 30, 1606, Lahore, Punjab, Mughal Empire [now in Pakistan]) the Sikh religion&#8217;s fifth Guru and its first martyr.
One of the greatest of the Sikh Gurus, Arjan took over the leadership of the Sikh community from his father, Guru Ram Das, in 1581 and successfully expanded it. He quickly completed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arius Biography (250 - 336)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Gr Areios)

(born  250, Libya—died 336, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire) Christian priest and heretic whose teachings gave rise to the doctrine of Arianism. He was leader of a Christian community near Alexandria, Egypt, where he preached doctrines that combined Neoplatonism with a literal, rationalist interpretation of biblical texts. By asserting the absolute oneness and immutability of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bettina von Arnim Biography (1785 - 1859)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Elisabeth Katharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano


(born April 4, 1785, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died Jan. 20, 1859, Berlin) German writer. Her best-known works are reworked records of her correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Karoline von Günderode, and her brother Clemens Brentano, much of it fictitious but written in a brilliantly vivid, uninhibited style.
Copyright © 1994-2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristophanes Biography (388 - 450)</title>
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(born  450—died  388 ) Greek playwright. An Athenian, he began his career as a comic dramatist in 427. He wrote approximately 40 plays, of which 11 survive, including The Clouds (423), The Wasps (422), The Birds (414), Lysistrata (411), and The Frogs (405). Most of the plays typify the Old Comedy (of which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Arness Biography (1923– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally James Aurness
Actor, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was wounded in the invasion in Anzio, Italy in 1944. After working as a screen actor in the 1940s and 1950s, he took on the role of Marshall Matt Dillon (after John Wayne turned it down), the no-nonsense, good-hearted hero of CBS&#8217;s Gunsmoke, television&#8217;s first and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristides the Just Biography (401 - 500)</title>
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(flourished 5th century ) Athenian statesman and general. He was ostracized in 482 , probably for opposing Themistocles but was recalled in 480 and helped defeat the Persians at the battles of Salamis and Plataea. In 478 he helped Sparta&#8217;s eastern allies form the Delian League; allied with Athens and based on Athenian naval power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas (Augustine) Arne Biography (1710 - 1778)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 12, 1710, London, Eng.—died March 5, 1778, London) British composer. Son of a London upholsterer, he secretly taught himself instrumental skills and composition with the help of an opera musician. Smitten by the opera, he had an early success with his own first opera, Rosamond (1733), and thereafter concentrated almost exclusively on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristides Biography (101 - 200)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(2nd century ) Athenian philosopher, one of the earliest Christian Apologists. His Apology for the Christian Faith discussed the harmony in creation and the nature of the divine being and stated that barbarians, Greeks, and Jews were all inadequate in their conception of the deity and their religious practices. Long considered lost, the Apology was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernst Moritz Arndt Biography (1769 - 1860)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Dec. 26, 1769, Schoritz bei Gartz, Swed.—died Jan. 29, 1860, Bonn, Ger.) Swedish-born German prose writer, poet, and patriot. He rejected the Lutheran ministry at age 28 and eventually became a professor of history at Greifswald and Bonn. Among his important works is the huge Spirit of the Times, 4 vol. (1806–18), a bold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desi Arnaz Biography (1917-1986)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Musician, actor. Born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz III on March 2, 1917 in Santiago, Cuba. Born to a wealthy family, the Arnazes fled Cuba for Miami after a revolution in 1933. After working a number of odd jobs to help support the family, Desi got his first musician&#8217;s gig as a guitarist for the Siboney Septet.
After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Chapman Armstrong Biography (1839 - 1893)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 30, 1839, Maui, Hawaii—died May 11, 1893, Hampton, Va., U.S.) Union military commander of black troops during the American Civil War and founder of Hampton Institute, a vocational educational school for blacks.
The son of American missionaries to Hawaii, Armstrong attended Oahu College for two years before going to the United States in 1860. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neil (Alden) Armstrong Biography (1912 - 1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Henry Jackson


(born December 12, 1912, Columbus, Mississippi, U.S.—died October 24, 1988, Los Angeles, California) American boxer, the only professional boxer to hold world championship titles in three weight divisions simultaneously.
Armstrong fought as an amateur from 1929 to 1932. Early in his career he boxed under the name Melody Jackson. He first won the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Thomas Aquinas Biography (1224 - 1274)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Aquinas, Italian San Tommaso d&#8217;Aquino, byname Doctor Angelicus (Latin: Angelic Doctor)

(born 1224/25, Roccasecca, near Aquino, Terra di Lavoro, Kingdom of Sicily—died March 7, 1274, Fossanova, near Terracina, Latium, Papal States; canonized July 18, 1323; feast day January 28, formerly March 7) Italian Dominican theologian, the foremost medieval Scholasticist. He developed his own conclusions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristides Biography (101 - 200)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Aristides the Just

(2nd century ) Athenian philosopher, one of the earliest Christian Apologists. His Apology for the Christian Faith discussed the harmony in creation and the nature of the divine being and stated that barbarians, Greeks, and Jews were all inadequate in their conception of the deity and their religious practices. Long considered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=518</link>
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		<title>Jean-Bertrand Aristide Biography (1953 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 15, 1953, Port Salut, Haiti) First president of Haiti (1991, 1994–96, 2001–04) to be elected in free democratic elections. A priest in the Roman Catholic Salesian order, he aligned himself with the poor and opposed the harsh regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier, son of François Duvalier, often putting himself at odds with the church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacobo Arbenz Biography (1913 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Sept. 14, 1913, Quetzaltenango, Guat.—died Jan. 27, 1971, Mexico City) soldier, politician, and president of Guatemala (1951–54) whose nationalistic economic and social reforms alienated conservative landowners, conservative elements in the army, and the U.S. government and led to his overthrow.
The son of a Swiss pharmacist who had emigrated to Guatemala, Arbenz was educated at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristarchus of Samos Biography (230 - 310)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Aristarchos

(born  310 —died  230 ) Greek astronomer. His advanced ideas on the movement of the Earth (which he asserted revolved around the Sun) are known from Archimedes and Plutarch. His only surviving work is the short treatise “On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon”; though the values he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aratus of Sicyon Biography (213 - 271)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born 271—died 213 ) Hellenistic Greek statesman, diplomat, and soldier. He democratized Sicyon (251) and, as leader of the Achaean League (in alternate years from 245), set up democracies in league cities and helped free Athens from Macedonia (229). Under him, the league opposed Sparta; with Macedonian help, it defeated Aetolia (217). Aratus nevertheless defied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ludovico Ariosto Biography (1474 - 1533)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Sept. 8, 1474, Reggio Emilia, duchy of Modena [Italy]—died July 6, 1533, Ferrara) Italian poet. His epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516) is regarded as the finest literary expression of the Italian Renaissance. It enjoyed immediate popularity throughout Europe and was highly influential. He also wrote five comedies based on Latin classics but inspired by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arany János Biography (1817 - 1882)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 2, 1817, Nagyszalonta, Hung.—died Oct. 22, 1882, Budapest) Hungarian epic poet. His main work is the trilogy of Toldi (1847), Toldi szerelme (1848–79), and Toldi estéje (1854). Recounting the adventures of a 14th-century youth of great physical strength, it was received with enthusiasm by a public craving a national literature of quality in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Arias Sánchez Biography (1941 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born September 13, 1941, Heredia, Costa Rica) president of Costa Rica (1986–90; 2006– ) and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Born into one of the wealthiest coffee-growing families in Costa Rica, Arias studied economics at the University of Costa Rica and earned a Ph.D. in political science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aleksey, Count Arakcheyev Biography (1769 - 1834)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 4, 1769, Novgorod province, Russia—died May 3, 1834, Gruzino, Novgorod province) Russian soldier and statesman. Appointed inspector general of artillery in 1803, he reorganized that branch of the army, then served as minister of war (1808–10). In the Russo-Swedish War of 1808–09, he personally compelled the reluctant Russian forces to cross the frozen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexis Arguello Biography (1952 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 19, 1952, Managua, Nicaragua) Nicaraguan professional boxer who was world featherweight, junior-lightweight, and lightweight champion between 1974 and 1982.
Arguello, who became a professional fighter in 1968, fought only in his homeland until 1974, when he went to Panama to seek the World Boxing Association&#8217;s featherweight title. Arguello lost this match in a 15-round [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arai Hakuseki Biography (1657 - 1725)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 24, 1657, Edo [Tokyo], Japan—died June 29, 1725, Edo) Japanese scholar of Confucianism and government official of the mid-Tokugawa period. Arai was tutor and later adviser to Tokugawa Ienobu, the sixth Tokugawa shogun. He wrote on such subjects as Japanese geography, philosophy, and legal institutions and is considered one of Japan&#8217;s greatest historians. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arfons, Art(hur) Eugene Biography (1926 - 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American automotive racer (born Feb. 3, 1926, Akron, Ohio—died Dec. 3, 2007, Akron) was a three-time holder of the world&#8217;s land-speed record for wheeled vehicles. While serving (1943–46) in the U.S. Navy, Arfons received training in diesel mechanics. He began his career as a drag racer in the early 1950s with his half brother Walter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Aragon Biography (1897 - 1982)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Louis Andrieux

(born Oct. 3, 1897, Paris, Fr.—died Dec. 24, 1982, Paris) French poet, novelist, and essayist. He was introduced by André Breton into avant-garde circles, and the two cofounded the Surrealist review Littérature in 1919. From 1927 he was increasingly a political activist and spokesman for communism, which resulted in a break with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pietro Aretino Biography (1492 - 1556)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 20, 1492, Arezzo, Republic of Florence [Italy]—died Oct. 21, 1556, Venice) Italian poet, prose writer, and dramatist. He was celebrated throughout Europe in his time for his bold and insolent literary attacks on the powerful. His fiery letters and dialogues are of great biographical and topical interest. His dramas, which are relatively free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yasser Arafat Biography (1929 - 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Muammad &#8216;Abd al-Ra&#8217;f al-Qudwah al-usayn

(born August 24?, 1929, Cairo?, Egypt—died November 11, 2004, Paris, France) president (1996–2004) of the Palestinian Authority, chairman (1969–2004) of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and leader of Fatah, the largest of the constituent PLO groups. In 1993 he led the PLO to a peace agreement with the Israeli [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hannah Arendt Biography (1906 - 1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born October 14, 1906, Hannover, Germany—died December 4, 1975, New York, New York, U.S.) German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism.
Arendt grew up in Hannover, Germany, and in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Beginning in 1924 she studied philosophy at the Universities of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cory Aquino Biography (1933 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Maria Corazon Aquino, née Cojuangco

(born Jan. 25, 1933, Manila, Phil.) political leader (from 1983) and president (1986–92) of the Philippines who restored democratic rule in that country after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
Corazon Cojuangco was born into a wealthy, politically prominent family based in Tarlac province, north of Manila. She graduated from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinaldo Arenas Biography (1943 - 1990)</title>
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(born July 16, 1943, Holguín, Oriente, Cuba—died Dec. 7, 1990, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Cuban-born writer of extraordinary and unconventional novels who fled persecution and immigrated to the United States.
As a teenager Arenas joined the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959. He moved to Havana in 1961 and became a researcher in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aquila Biography (101 - 200)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Akilas

(flourished 2nd century ) scholar who in about  140 completed a literal translation into Greek of the Old Testament; it replaced the Septuagint (q.v.) among Jews and was used by the Church Fathers Origen in the 3rd century and St. Jerome in the 4th and 5th centuries. St. Epiphanius (c. 315—403) preserved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Arden Biography (1930 - )</title>
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(born Oct. 26, 1930, Barnsley, Yorkshire, Eng.) British playwright. He studied architecture at Cambridge and the Edinburgh College of Art. His plays mix poetry and songs with colloquial speech in a boldly theatrical manner and involve strong conflicts purposely left unresolved. Arden&#8217;s works include All Fall Down (1955), Serjeant Musgrave&#8217;s Dance (1959), The Workhouse Donkey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucius Apuleius Biography (124 - 170)</title>
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(born   124, Madauros, Numidia—died after 170?) Roman Platonic philosopher, rhetorician, and author. His The Golden Ass, a prose narrative of the ribald adventures of a young man who is changed into an ass, was long influential. This novel, considered a revelation of ancient manners, is valuable for its description of the ancient religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Arden Biography (1884 - 1966)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Florence Nightingale Graham

(born Dec. 31, 1884, Woodbridge, Ont., Can.—died Oct. 18, 1966, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Canadian-U.S. businesswoman who founded a chain of women&#8217;s salons. Graham moved to New York  1908, where she opened a beauty salon under the name Elizabeth Arden. She was instrumental in making cosmetics acceptable for respectable women. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Apted Biography (1941-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director. Born February 10, 1941 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. After studying law at Cambridge University, Apted promptly turned his attention to film, directing the popular English soap opera Coronation Street by the age of 22.
In 1963, he collaborated with Paul Almond on 7 Up, a documentary film for television that interviewed 14 seven-year-olds, drawn from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giuseppe Arcimboldo Biography (1527 - 1593)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Arcimboldi


(born  1527, Milan—died 1593, Milan) Italian painter. He began his career as a painter and designer of stained-glass windows for Milan Cathedral. In 1562 he moved to Prague and became court painter to the emperors Ferdinand I and Rudolf II. He also painted scenery for the court theatre and became skillful at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Edward (Victor) Appleton Biography (1892 - 1965)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 6, 1892, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng.—died April 21, 1965, Edinburgh, Scot.) British winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1947 for his discovery of the so-called Appleton layer of the ionosphere, which is a dependable reflector of radio waves and as such is useful in communication. Other ionospheric layers reflect radio waves sporadically, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archytas Biography (350 - 400)</title>
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(flourished 400–350 , Tarentum, Magna Graecia) Greek scientist, philosopher, and Pythagorean mathematician. Archytas is sometimes called the founder of mathematical mechanics. Plato, a close friend, made use of his work in mathematics, and there is evidence that Euclid borrowed from Archytas for Book VIII of the Elements. An influential public figure, he served seven years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny Appleseed Biography (1774 - 1845)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. John Chapman
(born Sept. 26, 1774, Leominster, Mass.—died March 18?, 1845, near Ft. Wayne, Ind., U.S.) U.S. pioneer and folk hero. He was trained as a nurseryman and began  1800 collecting apple seeds from cider presses in Pennsylvania. He then traveled west to the Ohio River valley, planting apple seeds along the way. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Archipenko Biography (1887 - 1964)</title>
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(born May 30, 1887, Kiev, Ukr.—died Feb. 25, 1964, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Ukrainian-U.S. sculptor. In 1908 he moved to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts, and he soon became active in radical circles such as the Cubist movement. He began to explore the interplay between interlocking voids and solids and between convex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christina Applegate Biography (1971-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born on November 25, 1971 in Los Angeles, California. Applegate was raised by her actress mother, Nancy Priddy, after Priddy split from Applegate&#8217;s father, record executive Bobby Applegate. When Christina was three months old, she made her acting debut in her mothers arms on the daytime soap Days of our Lives.
After performing in commercials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archimedes Biography (211 - 212)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born  290–280 , Syracuse, Sicily—died 212/211 , Syracuse) Legendary Greek inventor and mathematician. His principal discoveries were the Archimedes screw, an ingenious device for raising water, and the hydrostatic principle, or Archimedes&#8217; principle. His main interests were optics, mechanics, pure mathematics, and astronomy. Archimedes&#8217; mathematical proofs show both boldly original thought and a rigour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kwame Anthony Appiah Biography (1954 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Kwame Anthony Akroma-Ampim Kusi Appiah

(born May 8, 1954, London, England) British-born American philosopher, novelist, and scholar of African and of African American studies, best known for his contributions to political philosophy, moral psychology, and the philosophy of culture.
Appiah was the son of Joseph Appiah, a Ghanaian-born barrister, and Peggy Cripps, daughter of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eddie Arcaro Biography (1916 - 1997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. George Edward Arcaro

(born Feb. 19, 1916, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 14, 1997, Miami, Fla.) U.S. jockey. He became the first jockey to ride five Kentucky Derby winners (1938, 1941, 1945, 1948, 1952) and the first to ride two Triple Crown champions (Whirlaway, 1941; Citation, 1948). In 31 years of riding Thoroughbreds (1931–61), he won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karel Appel Biography (1921 - 2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 25, 1921, Amsterdam, Neth.—died May 3, 2006, Zürich, Switz.) Dutch painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. He attended Amsterdam&#8217;s Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1940–43) and was cofounder (1948) of the COBRA (Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam) group of northern European Expressionists. In 1950 he moved to Paris; by the 1960s he had settled in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Arbuthnot Biography (1667 - 1735)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born April 1667, Inverbervie, Scot.—died Feb. 27, 1735, London, Eng.) Scottish mathematician, physician, and satirist. His satirical writings include a political allegory, The History of John Bull (1712), that established John Bull as a personification of England. He was a founding member of the famous Scriblerus Club, which aimed to ridicule bad literature and false [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apolo Anton Ohno Biography (1982- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Athlete, Olympic speedskater. Born on May 22, 1982, in Seattle, Washington. Already an experienced swimmer and in-line skater, Apolo Anton Ohno was inspired to take up speedskating after watching the 1994 Winter Olympics with his father Yuki. He quickly emerged as a leading short-track skater.
When Ohno was only fourteen, he trained with Pat Wentland, the then U.S. national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diane Arbus Biography (1923 - 1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Diane Nemerov
Photographer. Born Diane Nemerov on March 14, 1923, in New York, New York. Diane Arbus was one of the most distinctive photographers in the twentieth century, known for her eerie portraits and offbeat subjects. Her artistic talents emerged at a young age; she was created interesting drawings and paintings while in high school. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apollonius of Tyana Biography (1 - 100)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(flourished  1st century , , Tyana, Cappadocia) a Neo-Pythagorean who became a mythical hero during the time of the Roman Empire. Empress Julia Domna instructed the writer Philostratus to write a biography of Apollonius, and it is speculated that her motive for doing so stemmed from her desire to counteract the influence of Christianity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Werner Arber Biography (1929 - )</title>
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(born June 3, 1929, Gränichen, Switz.) Swiss microbiologist, corecipient with Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Othanel Smith (qq.v.) of the United States of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1978. All three were cited for their work in molecular genetics, specifically the discovery and application of enzymes that break the giant molecules of deoxyribonucleic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apollonius of Rhodes Biography (295 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born  295 ) Greek poet and grammarian. He served as librarian of the famous Library of Alexandria. His Argonautica, a romantic epic in four books about the Argonauts, is derived from Homer and is noted for its suggestive similes, vivid descriptions of nature, and fresh handling of old episodes.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
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		<title>Marcus Antonius Biography (30 - 80)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born 83—died August, 30 , Alexandria, Egypt) Roman general under Julius Caesar and later triumvir (43–30 ), who, with Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, was defeated by Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) in the last of the civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic.

Early life and career
Mark Antony was the son and grandson of men of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michelangelo Antonioni Biography (1912 - 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 29, 1912, Ferrara, Italy—died July 30, 2007, Rome) Italian film director, cinematographer, and producer, noted for his avoidance of “realistic” narrative in favour of character study and a vaguely metaphorical series of incidents. Among his major films are Le amiche (1955; The Girlfriends), L&#8217;avventura (1960; The Adventure), L&#8217;eclisse (1962; The Eclipse), and Blow-up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apollonius of Perga Biography (190 - 260)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as the Great Geometer

(born  240 , Perga, Anatolia—died  190 , Alexandria, Egypt) Mathematician known as “The Great Geometer.” His Conics was one of the greatest scientific treatises of the ancient world. In it he introduced the terms parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. Because Conics was fundamental to later advances in optics and astronomy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apollonius Dyscolos Biography (101 - 200)</title>
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(flourished 2nd century ) Greek grammarian. Apollonius is considered the founder of the systematic study of grammar. Priscian based his work on the writings of Apollonius. Four of Apollonius&#8217;s works survive: On Syntax and the shorter treatises On Pronouns, On Conjunctions, and On Adverbs.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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		<title>Guillaume Apollinaire Biography (1880 - 1918)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Guillelmus (or Wilhelm) Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky
born Aug. 26, 1880, Rome?, Italy—died Nov. 9, 1918, Paris, Fr.) French poet of Polish-Italian birth. Arriving in Paris at age 20, Apollinaire always kept his early years obscure. In his short life he took part in all the avant-garde movements that flourished at the beginning of the 20th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Apgar Biography (1909 - 1974)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 7, 1909, Westfield, N.J., U.S.—died Aug. 7, 1974, New York, N.Y.) American physician, anesthesiologist, and medical researcher who developed the Apgar Score System, a method of evaluating an infant shortly after birth to assess its well-being and to determine if any immediate medical intervention is required.
Apgar graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luis Aparicio Biography (1934 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Little Looie

(born April 29, 1934, Maracaibo, Venezuela) professional baseball player who was known for his outstanding fielding, speed on the base paths, and durability. Aparicio appeared in 2,581 games at shortstop, more than any other player in the history of American professional baseball.
The son of a baseball player in Latin America, Aparicio began his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apelles Biography (301 - 400)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(flourished late 4th century–early 3rd century )  Greek painter. He studied under Pamphilus and was court painter to Philip II of Macedonia and his son, Alexander the Great. Notable works included a portrait of Alexander, an allegorical picture of Calumny, and a painting of Aphrodite rising from the sea. A master of composition and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chao Anu Biography (1767 - 1829)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born 1767—died 1835, Bangkok, Siam) Ruler of the central Lao kingdom of Vientiane (r. 1804–29). In his youth Anu fought with the Siamese against the Burmans (Burmese) and won Siamese respect for his military prowess. Chosen by them to be king of Vientiane, he undertook major public works and cultivated good relations with Vietnam. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antoninus Pius Biography (86 - 161)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Sept. 19, 86, Lanuvium, Latium—died March 7, 161, Lorium, Etruria) Roman emperor ( 138–161). Of Gallic origins, he served as consul (120) before being assigned judicial administrative duties in Italy. He later governed the province of Asia ( 134). He became an adviser to Hadrian and in 138 was made Hadrian&#8217;s heir. On accession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ion Antonescu Biography (1882 - 1946)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 15, 1882, Piteti, Rom.—died June 1, 1946, near Jilava) Romanian marshal. He served in World War I and later became chief of staff (1934) and minister of defense (1937). Appointed prime minister in 1940, he established a fascist dictatorship and openly supported the Axis Powers. Initially he won broad support for his domestic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antiphon Biography (411 - 480)</title>
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(flourished  480–411 ) Orator and statesman. The first Athenian known to practice rhetoric professionally, he wrote speeches for others to give in court but was reluctant to appear in public debate. He may have instigated the revolution of the oligarchic Council of the Four Hundred, an attempt to seize the Athenian government in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antonello da Messina Biography (1430 - 1479)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born  1430, Messina, Sicily—died  Feb. 19, 1479, Messina) Italian painter. Trained in Naples, then a cosmopolitan art centre, he studied the Flemish artists, notably Jan van Eyck. Based on these experiences, when he returned to Venice he introduced oil painting and Flemish pictorial techniques into mid-15th-century Venetian art. His major works were altarpieces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antipater Biography (43 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(died 43 ) Founder of the Herodian dynasty in Palestine. Born in Idumaea, a region of southern Judaea, he gained power by helping the Romans, and in return, Julius Caesar appointed him procurator of Judaea in 47 . He was assassinated by a rival four years later, but his son, Herod the Great, was made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antiochus IV Epiphanes Biography (164 - 215)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  215—died 164 , Tabae, Iran) Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian kingdom (175–164 ). Son of Antiochus III, he was taken hostage in Rome (189–175), where he learned about Roman institutions. On his release, he ousted a usurper to take over Syria. He conquered Egypt except Alexandria (169) and ruled Egypt as regent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antiochus III Biography (187 - 242)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Antiochus the Great


(born 242—died 187 , near Susa, Iran) Seleucid king of the Syrian empire (223–187 ). After quelling a rebellion by Achaeus, his governor in Asia Minor (213), Antiochus marched east to India (212–205). He forged a peaceful alliance with Armenia and forcible ones with Parthia and Bactria, stilling resistance to his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antiochus I Soter Biography (261 - 262)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  324—died 261 ) King of Seleucid Syria in the east (292?–281 ) and later overall (281–261). Son of Seleucus I, he consolidated the Seleucid kingdom, founded numerous cities, and expanded trade routes. In 281 he contended with revolts in Syria and northern Anatolia and fought a war with Antigonus II Gonatas. With the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antinoüs Biography (110 - 130)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born c. 110, Bithynium, Bithynia—died 130, near Besa, Egypt) homosexual lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian, deified by the emperor after his death in Egypt, where he drowned. Hadrian erected temples to him throughout the empire and founded a city, named Antinoöpolis, in his honour, near the place where he died. An obelisk, now in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antigonus II Gonatas Biography (239 - 319)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born  320—died 239 ) King of Macedonia (276–239 ). The son of Demetrius I Poliorcetes, he defeated the Gauls in Greece (279) and in Asia Minor (277), occupied key cities, and made alliances. He defeated Pyrrhus of Epirus in Greece (272) to solidify his control in Macedonia. In the Chremonidean War (267–261), he achieved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antigonus I Monophthalmus Biography (301 - 382)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Antigonus I Cyclops

(born 382—died 301 , Phrygia, Asia Minor) Founder of the Macedonian dynasty of the Antigonids. He served as a general under Alexander the Great. From the plots, alliances, and wars among Alexander&#8217;s successors, he emerged in control of Asia Minor and Syria, though he soon relinquished the lands east of the Euphrates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc Anthony Biography (1968–)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wife of Salsa singing sensation Marc Anthony, actress and pop singer Jennifer Lopez, gave birth to twins early Friday (Feb. 22, 2008), a boy and a girl. The twins are the first children for Lopez and the fourth and fifth for Anthony.
&#8220;Jennifer and Marc are delighted, thrilled and over the moon,&#8221; Lopez&#8217;s manager told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Susan B(rownell) Anthony Biography (1820 - 1906)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women&#8217;s rights activist, social reformer, editor, and writer. Born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. For most of her life, Susan B. Anthony fought for women’s rights, especially the right to vote. Her family followed the Quaker religion and held many strong social and political beliefs. They were supporters of the abolitionist and temperance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Anthony of Padua Biography (1195 - 1231)</title>
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(born 1195, Lisbon, Port.—died June 13, 1231, Arcella, Verona; canonized 1232; feast day June 13) Franciscan friar, Doctor of the Church, and patron saint of Portugal. He joined the Augustinian order in 1210 and was probably ordained a priest. He joined the Franciscans in 1220 with the goal of seeking martyrdom among the Muslims but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Anthony of Egypt Biography (251 - 356)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 251, Koma, near al-Miny, Heptanomis, Egypt—died Jan. 17?, 356, Dayr Mr Antonios hermitage, near the Red Sea; feast day January 17) Egyptian hermit considered the founder of organized Christian monasticism. He began his practice of asceticism at age 20 and lived in solitude on Mount Pispir from 286 to 305. He emerged from his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedetto Antelami Biography (1150 - 1230)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born  1150, probably Lombardy—died  1230, Parma) Italian sculptor and architect. He probably belonged to the Magistri Antelami, a civic builders&#8217; guild in the Lake Como region. An early signed marble relief by him, The Descent from the Cross (1178), is in Parma Cathedral; his extensive cycle of sculpture on the baptistery at Parma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Clark Biography (1964 -)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, comedian. Born Anthony Higgins Clark on April 4, 1964 in Lynchburg, Virginia. A graduate of Boston’s Emerson College, Anthony Clark began his career in entertainment as a stand-up comic. His gullible, self-deprecating charm and ability to tap into everyman humor quickly endeared him to audiences. In 1986, he won the Top College Comedian Award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antenor Biography (500 - 540)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(flourished  530–510 ) Greek sculptor active in Athens. In antiquity he was famous for his bronze group of the Tyrannicides ( 510 ) made for the Athenian agora; the statues no longer exist. There were elements of motion and accurate anatomical detail in the work that mark the transition between the Archaic and Classical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Ansgar Biography (801 - 865)</title>
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(born probably 801, near Corbie, Austrasia—died Feb. 3, 865, Bremen, Saxony; feast day February 3) Missionary, first archbishop of Hamburg, and patron saint of Scandinavia. He was sent by Louis I (the Pious) to help King Harald Christianize Denmark and King Bjorn Christianize Sweden. He initiated a mission to all Scandinavians and Slavs and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Anselm of Canterbury Biography (1033 - 1034)</title>
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(born 1033/34, Aosta, Lombardy—died April 21, 1109, possibly at Canterbury, Kent, Eng.; feast day April 21) Founder of Scholasticism. Anselm entered the Benedictine monastery at Bec (in Normandy) in 1057 and became abbot in 1078. In 1077 he wrote the Monologium to demonstrate God&#8217;s existence and attributes by reason alone. He then wrote Proslogium, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anouk Aimée Biography (1932 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Françoise Dreyfus

(born April 27, 1932, Paris, France) French motion-picture actress who made films in various languages.
The daughter of an actor and actress, Anouk Aimée made her first film appearance at the age of 14 in La Maison sous la mer (1946; “The House on the Sea”). After making an impression as a Juliet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Anouilh Biography (1910 - 1987)</title>
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(born June 23, 1910, Bordeaux, Fr.—died Oct. 3, 1987, Lausanne, Switz.) playwright who became one of the strongest personalities of the French theatre and achieved an international reputation. His plays are intensely personal messages; often they express his love of the theatre as well as his grudges against actors, wives, mistresses, critics, academicians, bureaucrats, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annie Smith Peck Biography (1850-1935)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mountain climber, author. Born on October 19, 1850, in Providence, Rhode Island. Annie Peck Smith set many records during her career as a mountain climber, including the highest climb in the Americas in 1908. Some sources also credit her as the first woman to climb the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps.
After earning a bachelor’s and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne of Cleves Biography (1515 - 1557)</title>
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(born Sept. 22, 1515—died July 16, 1557, London, Eng.) Fourth wife of Henry VIII of England. Henry married Anne, whom he found homely, to form an alliance with her brother William, duke of Cleves, a leader of the Protestants of western Germany. The alliance, arranged by Thomas Cromwell, seemed necessary because it appeared that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne of Brittany Biography (1477 - 1514)</title>
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(born Jan. 25, 1477, Nantes, France—died Jan. 9, 1514, Blois) Duchess of Brittany and twice queen consort of France. After succeeding to her father&#8217;s duchy in 1488, Anne allied herself with Maximilian I of Austria. She was then forced to break with him and in 1491 marry Charles VIII of France, thus beginning the process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne of Austria Biography (1601 - 1666)</title>
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(born Sept. 22, 1601, Valladolid, Spain—died Jan. 20, 1666, Paris, France) Queen consort (1615–43) of Louis XIII of France and regent (1643–51) for her son Louis XIV. Daughter of Philip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria, Anne married the 14-year-old Louis XIII in 1615. He treated her coolly, and the powerful cardinal de Richelieu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Frank Biography (1929-1945)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KIDS VERSION
Born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl caught in the middle of a terrible situation. In 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany. He and his government—known as the Nazis—were prejudiced against people who were Jewish. They told people to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Princess Anne (Elizabeth Alice Louise) Biography (1950– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British Princess Royal, the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, born in London, UK. In 1973 she married Lieutenant (now Captain) Mark Phillips of the Queen&#8217;s Dragoon Guards, but they were divorced in 1992; their children are: Peter Mark Andrew (1977– ) and Zara Anne Elizabeth (1981– ). She married Timothy Laurence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Biography (1665 - 1714)</title>
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(born February 6, 1665, London, Eng.—died August 1, 1714, London) queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714. The last Stuart monarch, she wished to rule independently, but her intellectual limitations and chronic ill health caused her to rely heavily on her ministers, who directed England&#8217;s efforts against France and Spain in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kofi (Atta) Annan Biography (1938 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Kofi Atta Annan

(born April 8, 1938, Kumasi, Gold Coast [now Ghana]) Ghanaian international civil servant, who was the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) from 1997 to 2006. He was the corecipient, with the United Nations, of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2001.
Annan, whose father was governor of Asante province and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Norman Angell Biography (1873 - 1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Ralph Norman Angell-Lane

(born December 26, 1873, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England—died October 7, 1967, Croydon, Surrey) English economist and worker for international peace, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1933.
After an education in France, London, and Geneva, Angell spent several years (1890–98) in the United States, working as a cowboy, a prospector, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Wintour Biography (1949– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Magazine editor. Born on November 3, 1949, in London, England. The daughter of a newspaper editor, Anna Wintour has become an international fashion icon in her role as editor in chief of the highly influential Vogue magazine. She is known for her oversized dark glasses, high heels, sharp bob hairstyle, and icy demeanor.
Long before Vogue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fra Angelico Biography (1400 - 1455)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Guido di Pietro also known as Beato (“Blessed”) Angelico


(born  1400, Vicchio, Florence [Italy]—died Feb. 18, 1455, Rome) Italian painter and Dominican friar active in Florence. He entered the monastery of San Domenico at Fiesole sometime between 1420 and 1422 and began his artistic career by painting illuminated manuscripts and altarpieces. He was influenced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Nicole Smith Biography (1967- 2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit our special ANNA NICOLE SMITH Tribute Site for photo gallery, timeline, and more.
California authorities served eight search warrants Friday (Oct. 12, 2007) in connection with the investigation into the death of Anna Nicole Smith and the prescription drugs she took.

Officials identified the two doctors as Sandeep Kapoor, who prescribed methadone to Smith shortly before she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria de los Angeles Biography (1923– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Lyric soprano, born in Barcelona, NE Spain. Her operatic debut was at Barcelona in 1944. She then performed at the Paris Opera and La Scala, Milan (1949), Covent Garden (1950), the New York Metropolitan (1951), and subsequently at all the great houses and festivals throughout the world. She is noted particularly for her 19th-c [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Criss Angel Biography (1967–)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Illusionist.
Illusianist. Born Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos on December 19, 1967 in East Meadow, New York.
Beginning when he was six years old, Criss Angel immersed himself in a multitude of art forms, exploring different types of creative endeavors from performance artist and musician to mystifier and provocateur. One of his greatest influences in the realm of magic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian (Boehmer) Anfinsen Biography (1916 - 1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Christian Boehmer Anfinsen

(born March 26, 1916, Monessen, Pa., U.S.—died May 14, 1995, Randallstown, Md.) American biochemist who, with Stanford Moore and William H. Stein, received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research clarifying the relationship between the molecular structure of proteins and their biological functions.
Anfinsen received a doctorate in biochemistry from Harvard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Edson Taylor Biography (1839-1921)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adventurer, daredevil. Born on October 24, 1839, in Auburn, New York. Growing up, she liked to read books and enjoyed playing outdoors. She studied to become a teacher and got married to David Taylor at the age of 17. Only seven years later, she became a widow. Her husband died while fighting in the Civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andy Williams Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer
 Singer. Born Howard Andrew Williams on December 3, 1927 in Wall Lake, Iowa. As a youngster, Williams performed in a church choir with his brothers Bob, Dick and Don before they formed the Williams Brothers quartet in the late 1930s. The group had great success on Midwestern radio stations, eventually landing a nightclub gig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Comnena Biography (1083 - 1148)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comnena also spelled Komnene

(born December 2, 1083—died c. 1153) Byzantine historian and daughter of the emperor Alexius I Comnenus. She is remembered for her Alexiad, a history of the life and reign of her father, which became a valuable source as a pro-Byzantine account of the early Crusades.
Anna received a good education, studying, among other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Biography (1693 - 1740)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Anna Ivanovna


(born Jan. 28 [Feb. 7, New Style], 1693, Moscow, Russia—died Oct. 17 [Oct. 28], 1740, St. Petersburg) empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.
Daughter of Ivan V (reigned 1682–96) and niece of Peter I the Great (reigned 1682–1725), Anna was married to Frederick William, ruler of the Baltic seacoast duchy of Courland, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count Andrássy Gyula Biography (1823 - 1890)</title>
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(born March 3, 1823, Kassa, Hung., Austrian Empire—died Feb. 18, 1890, Volosco, Istria, Austria-Hungary) Hungarian politician. A follower of Kossuth Lajos, Andrássy helped lead the unsuccessful revolt of 1848–49, then fled into exile until 1857. He supported the creation of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and played a major role in negotiating the Compromise of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Biography (1718 - 1746)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Anna Leopoldovna


(born Dec. 7 [Dec. 18, New Style], 1718, Rostock, Mecklenburg [Germany]—died March 7 [March 18], 1746, Kholmogory, Russia) regent of Russia (November 1740–November 1741) for her son, the emperor Ivan VI.
A niece of Empress Anna (reigned 1730–40), Anna Leopoldovna married a nephew of the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI in 1739 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Edmund Andros Biography (1637 - 1714)</title>
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(born Dec. 6, 1637, London, Eng.—died Feb. 24, 1714, London) English colonial administrator in North America. Appointed governor of New York and New Jersey in 1674, he was recalled in 1681 following complaints from colonists. He returned in 1686 as governor of the Dominion of New England, a kind of supercolony imposed by Britain. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yury Andropov Biography (1914 - 1984)</title>
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(born June 15, 1914, Nagutskoye, Russia—died Feb 9, 1984, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet leader. He joined the Communist Party in 1939 and rose rapidly in the party hierarchy. His tenure as head of the KGB (1967–82) was noted for its suppression of political dissidents. In 1982 he succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as general secretary of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann-Margret Biography (1941-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress, singer, dancer. Born Ann-Margret Olsson, on April 28, 1941, in Valsjobyn, Sweden. Ann-Margret was born into a tightly knit family in a small fishing village near the Arctic Circle. Her parents, Gustav and Anna, migrated to America after World War II, and settled in the Chicago suburb of Fox Lake. The Olsson’s eventually relocated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andronicus III Palaeologus Biography (1296 - 1341)</title>
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(born March 25, 1297, Constantinople—died June 15, 1341, Constantinople) Byzantine emperor (1328–41). He forced his grandfather Andronicus II Palaeologus to make him coemperor (1325) and then to abdicate (1328). He relied on John VI Cantacuzenus to reform the courts and rebuild the imperial navy. He ceded control of Macedonia to Serbia (1334) and lost land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Woodward Biography (1915-1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Socialite, murder suspect. Born Evangeline Crowell in 1915 in Pittsburgh, Kansas. Following her parents’ divorce and remarriages, the ambitious young beauty Evangeline Crowell moved to Kansas City and reinvented herself as Ann Eden. Her mother died in 1941 and Ann moved to New York City to pursue a career as a model and actress. Through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andronicus II Palaeologus Biography (1260 - 1332)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born  1260, Constantinople—died Feb. 13, 1332, Constantinople)  Byzantine emperor (1282–1328). The son of Michael VIII Palaeologus, he was an intellectual and theologian rather than a soldier and statesman, and during his reign the Byzantine Empire declined to the status of a minor state. Ottoman Turks controlled Anatolia by 1300, and Serbs dominated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Curry Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Television journalist. Born November 19, 1956 in the U.S. Territory of Guam. Ann Curry’s father was an American of predominantly French and Scots-Irish descent who met her Japanese mother during the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II. Her childhood followed her father’s military career, and she was raised in San Diego and Alameda, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andronicus I Comnenus Biography (1118 - 1185)</title>
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(born 1118, Constantinople—died Sept. 1185, Constantinople) Byzantine emperor (1183–85), the last of the Comnenus dynasty. A cousin of Manuel I Comnenus, he raised an army and seized power in 1182, causing a massacre of Westerners in Constantinople. He was crowned coemperor with Alexius II in 1183; two months later he had Alexius strangled and married [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer (Joanne) Aniston Biography (1969– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California. The daughter of soap opera star John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow, Jennifer began appearing in stage productions in the late 1980s. She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, where she was active in drama. After several minor film and television roles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ivo Andri Biography (1892 - 1975)</title>
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(born Oct. 10, 1892, Dolac, near Travnik, Bosnia—died March 13, 1975, Belgrade, Yugos. [now Serbia]) writer of novels and short stories in the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961.
Andri studied in Poland and Austria. His potential as a writer of both prose and verse was recognized early, and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mordecai Anielewicz Biography (1919 - 1943)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Mordechai Anilowitz

(born 1919, Wyszków, Poland—died May 8, 1943, Warsaw) hero and principal leader of armed Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.
Anielewicz was born into a working-class family and attended a Hebrew academic secondary school. As a boy he joined Betar, a Zionist youth organization that among other things advocated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Andrews Biography (1873-1912)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shipbuilder
Shipbuilder, Titanic victim. Born Thomas Andrews Jr. on February 7, 1873 in Comber, Northern Ireland. The nephew of Lord Pirrie, owner of the shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff, Andrews left school at age 16 to become an apprentice at his uncle’s company. In time, Andrews rose through the ranks to become the managing director at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry Young Men Biography ()</title>
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Group of mid-20th-century young British writers. Their works express the bitterness of the lower classes toward the established sociopolitical system and the mediocrity and hypocrisy of the middle and upper classes. The label came from a press agent&#8217;s description of John Osborne, whose play Look Back in Anger (1956) is the movement&#8217;s representative work. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Andrews Biography (1813 - 1885)</title>
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(born Dec. 19, 1813, Belfast, Ire.—died Nov. 26, 1885, Belfast) chemist and physicist who established the concepts of critical temperature and pressure and showed that a gas will pass into the liquid state, and vice versa, without any discontinuity, or abrupt change in physical properties. He also proved that ozone is a form of oxygen.
Following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gasparo Angiolini Biography (1731 - 1803)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Angelo Gasparini

(born Feb. 9, 1731, Florence—died Feb. 6, 1803, Milan) Italian choreographer. In 1757 he became ballet master of the Vienna court opera house; in 1761 he collaborated with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck to produce Don Juan, and he later choreographed other ballets to Gluck&#8217;s music. In 1765 Angiolini became ballet master of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roy Chapman Andrews Biography (1884 - 1960)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 26, 1884, Beloit, Wis., U.S.—died March 11, 1960, Carmel, Calif.) U.S. naturalist, explorer, and author. In 1906 he joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, where he would spend much of his working life. There he assembled one of the best collections of cetaceans in the world before turning his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Angilbert Biography (740 - 814)</title>
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(born  740, Aachen, kingdom of the Franks—died Feb. 18, 814, Centula, Picardy) Frankish poet and prelate at the court of Charlemagne. Of a noble family, he was educated at the palace school at Aachen and was a student of Alcuin. In 800 he accompanied Charlemagne to Rome. He was made lay abbot of Centula [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dame Julie Andrews Biography (1935 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Julia Elizabeth Wells
Singer and actress. Born Julia Elizabeth Wells on October 1, 1935, in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. Julie Andrews has been a popular stage and film actress and singer for many decades. She came from a musical family—her mother was a pianist and her stepfather was a singer. She first found success on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maya Angelou Biography (1928 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Marguerite Johnson
WATCH 25 VIDEO INTERVIEWS OF MAYA ANGELOU speaking on such topics as her Childhood, The Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Jr., The JFK Assassination, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, The Space Race, and more.
Writer, dancer, African-American activist. Born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou spent her difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Andrews Sisters Biography (1935 - 1948)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Popular musical group, consisting of LaVerne Andrews (1911–67), Maxine (or Maxene) Andrews (1916–95), and Patti (Patricia) Andrews (1918– ), all born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Of Norwegian-Greek parentage, they formed a harmony trio in 1932, won some local amateur contests, and gained national attention with their recording of ‘Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen’ (1937). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Andrew Biography (60 - 70)</title>
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(died  60/70, , Patras, Achaia [Greece]; feast day November 30) one of the Twelve Apostles and brother of St. Peter. He is the patron saint of Scotland and of Russia.
In the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), Peter and Andrew—whose Greek name means “Manly”—were called from their fishing by Jesus to follow him, promising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lindsay Anderson Biography (1923 - 1994)</title>
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(born April 17, 1923, Bangalore, India—died Aug. 30, 1994, near Angoulême, Fr.) English critic and director. He was a founding editor of the film magazine Sequence, and from 1948 he directed a series of documentaries, including Thursday&#8217;s Children (1955, Academy Award). He coined the term “Free Cinema” for the British cinematic movement inspired by John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Kehoe Biography (1872-1927)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mass murderer. Born on February 1, 1872, in Tecumseh, Michigan. Andrew Kehoe was responsible for one of the largest school-related mass murders in the United States. Kehoe lived in the small community of Bath, Michigan, with his wife on his farm. He was elected to the school board in 1924 and later won another community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew II Biography (1175 - 1235)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hungarian Endre

(born 1175—died Oct. 26, 1235) King of Hungary (1205–35). His reign was marked by controversy with the landed nobility, who drained royal funds and reduced Hungary to a state of near anarchy. Rebellious nobles murdered his first wife, Gertrude of Meran, in 1213. Andrew led a Crusade to the Holy Land in 1217. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Fastow Biography (1961 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business executive and convict. Born Andrew Stuart Fastow on December 22, 1961 in Washington, DC. Andrew Fastow was one of three sons raised in a middle-class Jewish family in New Providence, New Jersey.  He graduated from Tufts University in 1983. After earning his MBA from Northwestern University, he worked for Continental Illinois National Bank and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leroy Anderson Biography (1908 - 1975)</title>
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(born June 29, 1908, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.—died May 18, 1975, Woodbury, Conn.) U.S. composer of light orchestral music. He studied composition and German and Scandinavian languages at Harvard; fluent in nine languages, he was an army interpreter in two wars. In 1936 he began a long association with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurie Anderson Biography (1947 - )</title>
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(born June 5, 1947, Wayne, Illinois, U.S.) American performance artist, composer, and writer whose work explores a remarkable range of media and subject matter.
Anderson began studying classical violin at five years of age and later performed with the Chicago Youth Symphony. In 1966 she moved to New York City, where she attended Barnard College (B.A., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mario (Gabriele) Andretti Biography (1940 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Motor-racing driver, born on February 28, 1940 in Montona, NE Italy (now part of Slovenia). After spending over three years in a displaced persons camp after World War 2, Mario Andretti went to the USA with his family at age 15, and became a US citizen in 1959. He started out in midget car racing, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andreini family Biography (1548 - 1624)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[italian actors. After their marriage, Francesco Andreini (1548–1624) and Isabella Canali Andreini (1562–1604) founded the Compagnia dei Gelosi, one of the earliest and most famous of the commedia dell&#8217;arte troupes. Their son Giovambattista Andreini (1579?–1654) acted in his parents&#8217; company until  1601, when he formed his own troupe, the Compagnia dei Fedeli. This troupe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gillian Anderson Biography (1968– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress, born on August 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Brought up in London, her family returned to the USA, where she became involved in community theatre, and studied at DePaul University. Gillian Anderson then found theatre parts in New York City, eventually moving to Los Angeles, where she was offered the part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc Andreessen Biography (1971-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inventor, Businessman. Born July 9, 1971 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape and inventor of the graphical Web browser, got bored with computersbefore he even made it through high school. Although the tall, blond boy, who grew up in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, taught himself BASIC programming from a library book at age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Biography (1836 - 1917)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[néeGarrett

(born June 9, 1836, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Eng.—died Dec. 17, 1917, Aldeburgh) British physician. Denied admission to medical schools, she studied privately with physicians and in London hospitals and was the first woman licensed as a physician in Britain (1865). Appointed general medical attendant to St. Mary&#8217;s Dispensary (1866), later the New Hospital for Women, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrea del Sarto Biography (1486 - 1530)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Andrea d&#8217;Agnolo
(born July 16, 1486, Florence [Italy]—died Sept. 28, 1530, Florence) Italian painter active in Florence. After an apprenticeship with Piero di Cosimo, he became established as one of the outstanding painters of Florence, most notably as a fresco decorator and painter of altarpieces in the style of the High Renaissance. His feeling for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dame Judith Anderson Biography (1898 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Frances Margaret Anderson
(born Feb. 10, 1898, Adelaide, S.Aus., Australia—died Jan. 3, 1992, Santa Barbara, Calif., U.S.) Australian-born U.S. actress. She made her stage debut in Sydney in 1915 and first appeared in New York City in 1918. She was noted for roles such as Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Electra (1932), Gertrude in Hamlet (1936), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Andre Biography (1935 - )</title>
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(born Sept. 16, 1935, Quincy, Mass., U.S.) American sculptor associated with minimalism. Andre is known for abstract work made of repetitive blocks, bricks, and metal plates arranged directly on the floor. Like other minimalists of his generation, Andre constructed his works out of industrial materials that called attention to the inherent physical structure of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl D(avid) Anderson Biography (1905 - 1991)</title>
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(born Sept. 3, 1905, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died  Jan. 11, 1991, San Marino, Calif.) American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle of antimatter.
Anderson received his Ph.D. in 1930 from the California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(James) Maxwell Anderson Biography (1888 - 1959)</title>
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(born Dec. 15, 1888, Atlantic, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 28, 1959, Stamford, Conn.) U.S. playwright. He worked as a journalist before cowriting his first successful play, What Price Glory? (1924), which was followed by Saturday&#8217;s Children (1927). His verse dramas Elizabeth the Queen (1930) and Mary of Scotland (1933) were later adapted for film. He returned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva Biography (1763 - 1838)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as José Bonifácio

(born  1763, Santos, Braz.—died April 6, 1838, Niterói) Chief architect of Brazil&#8217;s independence from Portugal. Andrada was born in Brazil but educated in Portugal, where he became a distinguished scholar. On returning to Brazil in 1819, he functioned as chief minister of the Portuguese prince regent (later the emperor Pedro I), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hans Christian Andersen Biography (1805 - 1875)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born April 2, 1805, Odense, near Copenhagen, Denmark—died August 4, 1875, Copenhagen) unique master of the fairy tale whose stories are famous throughout the world; he is also the author of plays, novels, poems, travel books, and several autobiographies. While many of these works are almost unknown outside Denmark, his fairy tales are among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andocides Biography (391 - 440)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born  440—died c. 390 ) Athenian orator and politician. He went into exile (415–403 ) after being implicated in and having informed on those responsible for the mutilation of the sacred busts of Hermes just before the Athenian expedition to Sicily. He returned after the restoration of Athenian democracy. He helped arrange a treaty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rudolfo A. Anaya Biography (1937 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya

(born October 30, 1937, Pastura, New Mexico, U.S.) American novelist and educator whose fiction expresses his Mexican American heritage, the tradition of folklore and oral storytelling in Spanish, and the Jungian mythic perspective.
Anaya learned to speak English only when he started school. As a teen, he broke his back, and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viv Anderson Biography (1956 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Vivian Anderson

(born July 29, 1956, Nottingham, England) professional football (soccer) player and the first person of African descent (his parents were from the West Indies) to play for England&#8217;s national football team (1978). Anderson, 1.85 metres (6 feet 1 inch) tall, was known as “Spider” for his long legs and his ability as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anaximenes Biography (545 - )</title>
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(flourished  545 ) Greek philosopher of nature. With Thales and Anaximander, he is one of three Milesian thinkers ( Miletus) traditionally considered the first philosophers of the Western world. He defined the essence of matter as aer (“air”) and explained the densities of various types of matter in terms of varying degrees of condensation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherwood (Berton) Anderson Biography (1876 - 1941)</title>
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(born Sept. 13, 1876, Camden, Ohio, U.S.—died March 8, 1941, Colon, Pan.) U.S. author. Anderson was irregularly schooled. Having married, he abruptly left his family and business career to become a writer in Chicago. Winesburg, Ohio (1919), a collection of interrelated sketches and tales about the obscure lives of the citizens of a small town, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anaximander Biography (545 - 546)</title>
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(born 610 , Miletus—died 546/545 ) Greek philosopher, often called the founder of astronomy. He apparently wrote treatises on geography, astronomy, and cosmology that survived for several centuries and made a map of the known world. He was the first thinker to develop a cosmology. A rationalist, he prized symmetry and used geometry and mathematical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert O(rville) Anderson Biography (1917– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American oil tycoon (born April 13, 1917, Chicago, Ill.—died Dec. 2, 2007, Roswell, N.M.) was a savvy wildcatter who parlayed a small oil refinery that he purchased (1941) in Artesia, N.M., into the Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (ARCO), which by 1986 had become the sixth largest oil company in the U.S. In 1967, when others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anaxagoras Biography (428 - 500)</title>
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(born  500, Clazomenae, Anatolia—died  428 , Lampsacus) Greek philosopher. Though only a few fragments of his writings have survived, he is remembered for his cosmology and for his discovery of the true cause of eclipses. His cosmology grew out of the efforts of earlier pre-Socratics to explain the physical universe in terms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regina M. Anderson Biography (1901 - 1993)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[married name Regina M. Andrews , pseudonym Ursala (Ursula) Trelling
(born May 21, 1901, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died February 5, 1993, Ossining, New York) American librarian, playwright, and patron of the arts whose New York City home was a salon for Harlem Renaissance writers and artists.
Anderson attended several colleges, including Wilberforce University in Ohio and the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anastasius I Biography (430 - 518)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born 430?, Dyrrhachium, Epirus Vetus—died July 9, 518, Constantinople)  Byzantine emperor (491–518). Originally a bodyguard to Zeno, he succeeded Zeno as emperor and married his widow. Anastasius reformed the monetary and taxation systems and expelled rebel tribes from Constantinople, building a wall to protect the capital against raiders. He recognized Theodoric&#8217;s rule in Italy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philip W(arren) Anderson Biography (1923 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Philip Warren Anderson

(born Dec. 13, 1923, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.) American physicist and corecipient, with John H. Van Vleck and Sir Nevill F. Mott, of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on semiconductors, superconductivity, and magnetism.
Educated at Harvard University, Anderson received his doctorate in 1949. From 1949 to 1984 he worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ananda Biography (5th–6th-c BC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(flourished 6th century , India) First cousin and disciple of the Buddha. A monk who served as the Buddha&#8217;s personal attendant, he became known as the “beloved disciple.” It was Ananda who persuaded the Buddha to allow women to become nuns. By tradition, he was the only intimate disciple of the Buddha who had not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Thomas Anderson Biography (1970- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director, Screenwriter
Director, screenwriter. Born June 26, 1970 in Studio City, California. The son of a successful voiceover artist, Paul Thomas Anderson attended the elite Buckley School before being kicked out for poor grades; he later dropped out of both Emerson College and New York University. He returned home to direct the well-received short film,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mulk Raj Anand Biography (1905-2004 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Novelist, critic, and man of letters, born in Peshawar, modern Pakistan. He left India for Britain, where he eventually published his first novel, Untouchable (1935), with a preface by E M Forster. His novels, such as The Coolie (1936) and The Village (1939, the first of a trilogy) promote the underdog in society, depicting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anacreon Biography (485 - 582)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Anakreon

(born  582 , Teos, Ionia—died  485) Last great lyric poet of Asian Greece. Only fragments of his poetry have survived. Though he may have written serious poems, the poems quoted by later writers are chiefly in praise of love, wine, and revelry. His sentiments and style were widely imitated, and the anacreontic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pamela Anderson Biography (1967-)</title>
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Click to see a photo gallery of Pamela Anderson.

Pamela Anderson&#8217;s nine-week marriage was officially annulled Monday (March 24, 2008), according to documents filed in Superior Court.

The former &#8220;Baywatch&#8221; star filed for divorce from Rick Salomon in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Dec. 14, citing irreconcilable differences.

Several celebrity Web sites then reported that Pam and Rick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anacletus II Biography (1138 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Pietro Pierleoni
(born , Rome—died Jan. 25, 1138, Rome) Antipope (1130–38). Named a cardinal at Rome in 1116, he was elected pope by a majority of cardinals in 1130, while a minority created a schism by choosing Innocent II. Anacletus forced the rival pope to flee to France, where Innocent was supported by a church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marian Anderson Biography (1902 - 1993)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born February 27, 1897, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died April 8, 1993, Portland, Ore.) American singer, one of the finest contraltos of her time.
Anderson displayed vocal talent as a child, but her family could not afford to pay for formal training. From the age of six, she was tutored in the choir of the Union Baptist Church, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Lushan Rebellion Biography (703 - 757)</title>
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Rebellion beginning in 755 in China led by An Lushan (703–757), a general of non-Chinese origin. An Lushan rose through the ranks of the Tang-dynasty army in the 740s, becoming a military governor and a favourite of the emperor, Xuanzong. In 755 he turned his troops on the eastern capital city, Luoyang, and after taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Winehouse Biography (1983–)</title>
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British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was arrested Tuesday (Dec. 18, 2007) on suspicion of attempting to interfere with her husband&#8217;s court case.

Winehouse had voluntarily reported to a police station and was arrested before questioning, but that&#8217;s common for someone being interviewed by police in the United Kingdom, her publicist said in a statement. 

Winehouse, who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Grant Biography (1960- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer, songwriter. Born on November 25, 1960, in Augusta, Georgia. Grant helped revolutionize contemporary Christian music. She grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, in a close-knit, religious family. It was in church that Grant was exposed to the hymns and Christian stories that would influence her work.
As a teenager, Grant taught herself how to play guitar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Brenneman Biography (1964- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born on June 22, 1964, in New London, Connecticut. A versatile performer, Amy Brenneman is perhaps best known for her portrayal of a juvenile court judge and divorced mother on the hit drama Judging Amy. The show was based in part of her own mother’s experiences as a State of Connecticut Superior Court judge. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roald Amundsen Biography (1872 - 1928)</title>
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(born July 16, 1872, Borge, near Oslo, Nor.—disappeared June 18, 1928?, Arctic Ocean) Norwegian explorer, leader of the first group to reach the South Pole. In 1897 he took part in a Belgian expedition that was the first to winter in the Antarctic. In 1903–05 he was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fisher Ames Biography (1758 - 1808)</title>
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(born April 9, 1758, Dedham, Mass.—died July 4, 1808, Dedham, Mass., U.S.) U.S. essayist and Federalist politician. He graduated from Harvard College in 1774 and taught school for five years before turning to the law; he was admitted to the bar in 1781. Supporting the creation of a strong central government, Ames argued for ratification [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amr ibn al-As Biography (663 - )</title>
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(died 663, Al-Fus, Egypt) Arab conqueror of Egypt. After accepting Islam ( 630), he led a force to Oman, where he converted the region&#8217;s rulers. He was a leader in the Muslim force that conquered southwestern Palestine in the 630s but gained fame when, on his own initiative, he set out to conquer Egypt, succeeding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America Ferrera Biography (1984- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born America Georgine Ferrera on April 18, 1984 in Los Angeles, California. Of Honduran descent, Ferrera and her five siblings were raised by her mother in the San Fernando Valley. She began acting in local productions at age seven and signed with a small talent agency at 16. Between auditions, Ferrera attended the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>André Marie Ampère Biography (1775 - 1836)</title>
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(born Jan. 22, 1775, Lyon, France—died June 10, 1836, Marseille) French physicist, founder of the science of electromagnetism. A prodigy who mastered the entire known field of mathematics by age 12, he became a professor of physics, chemistry, and mathematics. He formulated a law of electromagnetism, called Ampère&#8217;s law, that describes the magnetic force between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amenhotep III Biography (c.1411–1379 BC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(flourished 14th century ) Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1390–53 ) during a time of prosperity. Early in his reign he led a military campaign south of Egypt, but otherwise his rule was peaceful. His reign is noted for the expansion of diplomacy with Syria, Cyprus, Babylon, and Assyria, and the construction of public buildings in Memphis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amenhotep II Biography (15th-c BC)</title>
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(flourished 15th century ) Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1514–1493 ), son and successor of Ahmose I. Amenhotep extended Egyptian rule southward to the Third Cataract of the Nile while also maintaining rule in the northeast. He pioneered the transition away from pyramidal tombs to rock-cut tombs in the Valley of the Kings in western Thebes. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amelia Earhart Biography (1897-1937)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KIDS VERSION
Amelia Earhart wasn&#8217;t the first female pilot, but she became one of the famous women to take to the air. She had no idea when she was growing up in a small town in Kansas that people around the world would be fascinated by her adventures. Born on July 24, 1897, Earhart saw her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wally Amos Biography (1936-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneur and founder of Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies. Born Wallace Amos Jr., on July 1, 1936, in Tallahassee, Florida. Following his parents&#8217; separation in 1948, Amos was sent to New York City to live with his Aunt Della, who often baked homemade chocolate chip and pecan cookies. Amos&#8217; penchant for cooking led him to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Ambrose Biography (339 - 397)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born 339, Augusta Treverorum, Belgica, Gaul—died 397, Milan; feast day December 7) Bishop of Milan. Raised in Rome, he became a Roman provincial governor. As a compromise candidate, he was unexpectedly elevated from unbaptized layman to bishop of Milan in 374. He established the medieval concept of the Christian emperor as subject to episcopal advice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos of Brondesbury Biography (1954 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 13, 1954, British Guiana [now Guyana]) British politician, the first woman of African descent to serve in a British cabinet and as leader of the House of Lords (2003–07). She was educated at Townley Grammar School for Girls and received a bachelor&#8217;s degree in sociology from the University of Warwick (1976) and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Ambler Biography (1909 - 1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 28, 1909, London, Eng.—died Oct. 22, 1998, London) British author of espionage and crime novels. Among his works are The Dark Frontier (1936), Epitaph for a Spy (1938), A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939), Journey into Fear (1940; film, 1942), and The Light of Day (1962). In contrast to earlier British spy stories, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amos Biography (701 - 800)</title>
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(flourished  8th century ) the first Hebrew prophet to have a biblical book named for him. He accurately foretold the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel (although he did not specify Assyria as the cause) and, as a prophet of doom, anticipated later Old Testament prophets.
The little that is known about Amos&#8217; life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amar Das Biography (1479 - 1574)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1479, Khadur?, India—died 1574, Goindwal) Third Sikh Guru. Much revered for his wisdom and piety, he became Guru at age 73. He was noted for his missionary efforts to spread Sikhism and for the division of the Punjab into 22 dioceses. To strengthen the faith, he ordered three great Sikh festivals each year, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>al-Amn Biography (787 - 813)</title>
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(born April 787—died  Sept. 24/25, 813, Iraq) sixth caliph of the &#8216;Abbsid dynasty.
As the son of Hrn ar-Rashd, the fifth caliph, and Zubayda, a niece of al-Manr, the second caliph, al-Amn took precedence in the succession over his elder half brother, al-Ma&#8217;mn, whose mother was a Persian slave. In 809, al-Amn succeeded to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amalric II Biography (1155 - 1205)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1155—died April 1, 1205) King of Cyprus (1194–1205) and of Jerusalem (1197–1205). Amalric inherited the kingdom of Cyprus on the death of his brother, Guy of Lusignan, and formed a close alliance with the ruler of Palestine. He also became the vassal of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI. When the ruler of Palestine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lake ammr Biography (694 - 772)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arabic Hawr al-ammr

Large swampy lake, southeastern Iraq. Lying south of the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and fed by distributaries of the Euphrates, the lake is some 750 sq mi (2,000 sq km) in area; it drains through a short channel into the Shatt al-Arab near Al-Barah. It was once a reed-filled marshland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Ammons Biography (1925 - 1974)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Jug, original name Eugene Ammons

(born April 14, 1925, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Aug. 6, 1974, Chicago) African-American jazz tenor saxophonist, noted for his big sound and blues-inflected, “soulful” improvising.
The son of outstanding boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Gene Ammons grew up in Chicago and first became nationally known as a member of Billy Eckstine&#8217;s innovative bebop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amalric I Biography (1174 - )</title>
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(born 1136—died July 11, 1174) King of Jerusalem (1163–74). Amalric was a strong ruler who helped break the unity of Muslims surrounding the Holy Land. He passed a law giving vassals the right to appeal to the High Court against unjust treatment by their lords. His invasion of Egypt (1163) led to a war with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bartolommeo Ammanati Biography (1511 - 1592)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Bartolommeo Ammanati

(born June 18, 1511, Settignano, near Florence—died April 22, 1592, Florence ) Italian sculptor and architect active chiefly in Florence. He trained under Baccio Bandinelli in Florence and Jacopo Sansovino in Venice. In 1550 he went to Rome, where he collaborated with Giorgio Vasari and Giacomo da Vignola on the Villa Giulia. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jorge Amado Biography (1912 - 2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 10, 1912, Ferradas, near Ilhéus, Braz.—died Aug. 6, 2001, Salvador, Bahia) Brazilian novelist. Amado was born and reared on a cacao plantation. He published his first novel at age 20. His early works, including The Violent Land (1942), explore the exploitation and suffering of plantation workers. Despite imprisonment and exile for leftist activities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Kingsley Amis Biography (1922 - 1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 16, 1922, London, Eng.—died Oct. 22, 1995, London) British novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. His first novel, Lucky Jim (1954; film, 1957), was a hugely successful comic masterpiece. He was often characterized as an Angry Young Man, a label he rejected. Notable among his more than 40 books (including four volumes of poetry) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amadeus VI Biography (1334 - 1383)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Amadeus the Green Count

(born 1334, Chambéry, Savoy [France]—died March 1, 1383, Castropignano [Italy])  Count of Savoy (1343–83). Ruler of Savoy from age 9, he significantly extended his kingdom&#8217;s territory and power. By the 1350s, after adding lands on the Italian side, he held nearly the entire western Alps. He joined a Crusade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Amis Biography (1949 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 25, 1949, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng.) British writer and critic. The son of writer Kingsley Amis, he graduated from Oxford University in 1971. He worked for the Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman before becoming a full-time writer. His works—including the novels Money (1984), London Fields (1989), Time&#8217;s Arrow (1991), and Night Train [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amadeus Biography (1845 - 1890)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 30, 1845, Turin, Piedmont [now in Italy]—died Jan. 18, 1890, Turin) king of Spain from Nov. 16, 1870, until his abdication on Feb. 11, 1873, after which the first Spanish republic was proclaimed.
The second son of the future King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia-Piedmont (later, of Italy), he was originally called Amadeus I, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amad Sirhind Biography (1564 - 1624)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1564?, Sirhind, Patiala, India—died 1624, Sirhind) Indian mystic and theologian who is responsible for the revival of Sunnite Islam in India. He traced his descent from &#8216;Umar ibn al-Khab. After a traditional Muslim education, he joined an important Sufi order and devoted himself to preaching against the tendencies of Akbar and his successor, Jahngr, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idi Amin (Dada) Biography (1924 - 1925)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Idi Amin Dada Oumee


(born 1924/25, Koboko, Uganda—died August 16, 2003, Jiddah, Saudi Arabia) military officer and president (1971–79) of Uganda whose regime was noted for its brutality.
A member of the small Kakwa ethnic group of northwestern Uganda, Amin had little formal education and joined the King&#8217;s African Rifles of the British colonial army [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amad ibn anbal Biography (780 - 855)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 780, Baghdad, Iraq—died 855, Baghdad) Muslim theologian and jurist. He began to study the adth (Traditions) at age 15. He traveled widely to study with the great masters and made five pilgrimages to Mecca. In 833–835 he bravely endured floggings and imprisonment rather than subscribe to the Mu&#8217;tazil doctrine of a created (rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst Biography (1717 - 1797)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 29, 1717, Sevenoaks, Kent, Eng.—died Aug. 3, 1797, Sevenoaks) British army commander. In the French and Indian War, he took the French fort at Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, in 1758 and was promoted to chief of command in America. In 1760 he directed the campaign that captured Quebec and Montreal, and in 1761 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amad Biography (1806 - 1855)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Amad Ibn Muafa

(born 1806, Tunis—died  1855, alq al-Wd, Tunisia) 10th ruler of the usaynid dynasty of Tunisia.
Succeeding his brother as the ruler of Tunis in 1837, Amad began at once to modernize his armed forces: Tunisian cadets were sent to France, a military and technical academy was established, and European instructors invited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winthrop Ames Biography (1870 - 1937)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 25, 1870, North Easton, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 3, 1937, Boston, Mass.) U.S. theatrical producer and manager. Born into a wealthy New England family, he traveled to Europe in 1904 to study the management of 60 opera and theatre companies. After comanaging a Boston theatre, he became managing director of New York City&#8217;s New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=318</link>
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		<title>Luis W. Alvarez Biography (1911 - 1988)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Luis Walter Alvarez


(born June 13, 1911, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.—died Sept. 1, 1988, Berkeley, Calif.) American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for work that included the discovery of many resonance particles (subatomic particles having extremely short lifetimes and occurring only in high-energy nuclear collisions).
Alvarez studied physics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedro de Alvarado Biography (1485 - 1541)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1485, Badajoz, Castile [Spain]—died 1541, in or near Guadalajara, New Spain [now in Mexico]) a conqueror of Mexico and Central America for Spain.
Alvarado went to Santo Domingo in 1510 and in 1518 commanded one of Juan de Grijalba&#8217;s ships sent from Cuba to explore the Yucatán Peninsula. In February 1519 he accompanied the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidney Altman Biography (1939 - )</title>
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(born May 7, 1939, Montreal, Que., Can.) Canadian-American molecular biologist who, with Thomas R. Cech, received the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discoveries concerning RNA, or ribonucleic acid.
Altman attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1960, in physics) and the University of Colorado (Ph.D., 1967, in biophysics). He was a molecular biology fellow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kirstie Alley Biography (1955-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born January 12, 1955 in Wichita, Kansas. Though she studied drama at Kansas State University, Alley became an interior decorator after college. Lured by the party lifestyle, she entered a wild period in which she abused drugs and hung out with an alternative crowd. In 1981, tragedy struck when her parents&#8217; car was hit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=313</link>
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		<title>Robert Altman Biography (1925-2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Film director, born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. After serving in World War 2 as a pilot, he took up writing for radio and magazines, then produced industrial films. His first feature film was The Delinquents (1957). He gained instant recognition for M*A*S*H (1970), and went on to direct and/or produce a series of highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alley Mills Biography (1951- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born on May 9, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois. While she has worked in television for close to four decades, Alley Mills is best remembered as Norma Arnold, the nurturing mother, on the dramatic comedy The Wonder Years. A graduate of Yale University in 1973, she went on to study acting at the London Academy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=311</link>
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		<title>John Peter Altgeld Biography (1847 - 1902)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 30, 1847, Niederselters, Prussia—died March 12, 1902, Joliet, Ill., U.S.) German-born U.S. politician, governor of Illinois (1893–97). He emigrated from Germany as a child. In the 1870s he moved to Chicago, where he accumulated a small fortune in real estate and became active in Democratic Party politics. In 1892 he won the governorship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=310</link>
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		<title>Salvador Allende Biography (1908 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Salvador Allende Gossens

(born July 26, 1908, Valparaíso, Chile—died Sept. 11, 1973, Santiago) Chile&#8217;s first socialist president.
Allende, born into an upper-middle-class family, received his medical degree in 1932 from the University of Chile, where he was a Marxist activist. He participated in the founding (1933) of Chile&#8217;s Socialist Party. After election to the Chamber [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Altan Biography (1583 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Anda

(died 1583, Mongolia) Mongol khan who terrorized China in the 16th century. He established a Chinese-style government in his homeland and concluded a peace treaty with Ming-dynasty China in 1571. He converted the Mongols to the reformed, or Dge-lugs-pa, sect of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1578 Altan granted the head of the sect the title [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isabel Allende Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writer and novelist. Born in Lima, Peru, on August 2, 1942. The niece and goddaughter of Salvador Allende, the former president of Chile, she started her writing career as a journalist. Several months after her uncle’s assassination and the overthrow of Chile&#8217;s coalition government in 1973, Allende left Chile and found refuge in Venezuela. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albrecht Altdorfer Biography (1480 - 1538)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
or Anda


(died 1583, Mongolia) Mongol khan who terrorized China in the 16th century. He established a Chinese-style government in his homeland and concluded a peace treaty with Ming-dynasty China in 1571. He converted the Mongols to the reformed, or Dge-lugs-pa, sect of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1578 Altan granted the head of the sect the title [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby Biography (1861 - 1936)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 23, 1861, Brackenhurst, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died May 14, 1936, London) British field marshal. He fought in the South African War and served as inspector general of cavalry (1910–14). In World War I, he commanded with distinction in the Middle East. His victory over the Turks at Gaza (1917) led to the capture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=305</link>
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		<title>Woody Allen Biography (1935 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name Allen Stewart Konigsberg , legal name Heywood Allen

(born Dec. 1, 1935, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.) American motion-picture director, screenwriter, actor, and author, best known for his bittersweet comic films containing elements of parody, slapstick, and the absurd. He was also known as a sympathetic director for women, writing strong and well-defined characters for them. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=302</link>
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		<title>Ralph (Asher) Alpher Biography (1921– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American physicist (born Feb. 3, 1921, Washington, D.C.—died Aug. 12, 2007, Austin, Texas) laid the foundations for the big-bang model, a widely held theory of the evolution of the universe, while a graduate student at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Though Alpher had set forth calculations and theoretical predictions about the origins of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=303</link>
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		<title>Alp-Arslan Biography (1030 - 1072)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Turkish ‘hero-lion’)

(born  1030—died November? 1072/January 1073) Second sultan of the Seljq dynasty, who added Georgia, Armenia, and much of Anatolia to his domains of Khorsn and western Iran. He preferred conquest to governing and left the administration of his empire to his famous vizier, Nim al-Mulk. In 1071 his victory over the Byzantine Empire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Allen Biography (1953-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor, comedian. Born Tim Allen Dick, on June 13, 1953, in Denver, Colorado.After losing his father to an auto accident, Allen moved to Detroit,Michigan where he was raised by his mother and step-father. Aftergraduating from Western Michigan University with a degree in televisionproduction, he got his first taste of comedy when a friend dared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alicia Alonso Biography (1921 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[original name in full Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez y del Hoyo
(born December 21, 1921, Havana, Cuba)
Cuban ballerina highly regarded for her convincing portrayals of leading roles in the great works of classical and Romantic ballet. She was best known for her lively, precise Giselle and for her sensual, tragic Carmen.
Alonso&#8217;s dance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nestor Almendros Biography (1930 - 1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 30, 1930, Barcelona, Spain—died March 4, 1992, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Spanish cinematographer. In 1948 he emigrated from Spain to Cuba, where he worked with documentary filmmakers. After moving to France in 1961, he collaborated with Eric Rohmer on My Night at Maud&#8217;s (1969) and Claire&#8217;s Knee (1970), and with Franois Truffaut on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=298</link>
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		<title>Diego de Almagro Biography (1475 - 1538)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1475, Almagro, Castile—died 1538, Cuzco, Peru) Spanish soldier who played a leading role in the Spanish conquest of Peru. Following service in the Spanish navy, he arrived in South America in 1524 and, with Francisco Pizarro, led the expedition that conquered the Inca empire in what is now Peru. Bitter enmity arose between the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=296</link>
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		<title>Steve Allen Biography (1921 - 2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen
(born Dec. 26, 1921, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 30, 2000, Encino, Calif.) U.S. entertainer and songwriter. He appeared as a comedian on radio in the 1940s before moving to late-night television, where he created and hosted The Tonight Show (1954–57) and The Steve Allen Show (1956–60). He hosted several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=295</link>
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		<title>Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Biography (1836 - 1912)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Jan. 8, 1836, Dronrijp, Neth.—died June 25, 1912, Wiesbaden, Ger.) Dutch-British painter. After studies at the Antwerp Academy, he visited Italy (1863) and became enamoured of Greco-Roman antiquity and Egyptian archaeology; the ancient world was to provide his primary themes. After settling in London in 1870, he excelled at the accurate re-creation of ancient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Allen Biography (1760 - 1831)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born February 14, 1760, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [U.S.]—died March 26, 1831, Philadelphia) founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a major American denomination.
Soon after Allen was born, to slave parents, the family was sold to a Delaware farmer. At age 17 he became a Methodist convert and at 22 was permitted to preach. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Allston Biography (1779 - 1843)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 5, 1779, Allston plantation, Brook Green Domain on Waccamaw River, S.C., U.S.—died July 9, 1843, Cambridgeport, Mass.) U.S. painter and writer. He studied at Harvard University and at London&#8217;s Royal Academy (with Benjamin West). He settled in Massachusetts in 1830 and became the most important first-generation U.S. Romantic painter. His large landscapes depict [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=292</link>
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		<title>Paul Allen Biography (1954-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneur and investor. Born in 1954, in Seattle, Washington. While attending the Lakeside School outside Seattle, 14-year-old Paul Allen met 12-year-old Bill Gates, a fellow student and computer enthusiast. Less than a decade later, in June 1975, Allen and Gates, both college dropouts; Allen from Washington State University founded Microsoft with the intention of designing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=290</link>
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		<title>Gordon (Willard) Allport Biography (1897 - 1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 11, 1897, Montezuma, Ind., U.S.—died Oct. 9, 1967, Cambridge, Mass.) U.S. psychologist. He taught at Harvard University (1930–67), becoming noted for his theory of personality, which focused on the adult self rather than on childhood or infantile emotions and experiences, set forth in books such as Personality (1937). In The Nature of Prejudice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duane Allman Biography (1946–1971)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Howard Duane Allman was born in Nashville, Tennessee on November 20, 1946.  Duane, as he was known, and his brother, Gregg, were raised by their mother Geraldine Allman after their father, Willis, was murdered when Duane was just 3-years-old. Geraldine, “Mama A” moved with her boys to Daytona Beach, Florida in 1957. Once Gregg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=289</link>
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		<title>Mel Allen Biography (1913–96)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Melvin Allen Israel

(born Feb. 14, 1913, Birmingham, Ala., U.S.—died June 16, 1996, Greenwich, Conn.) U.S. sports broadcaster. As lead announcer for the New York Yankees baseball team (1940–64), he was known for his congeniality and his catchphrase “How about that!” He hosted the television program This Week in Baseball (1977–95). In 1978 Allen and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=288</link>
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		<title>al-allj Biography (858 - 922)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  858, r, Iran—died March 26, 922, Baghdad, Iraq) Muslim teacher of Sufism. Brought up in the Iraqi city of Wsi, he was drawn to asceticism at an early age and studied with a series of Sufi teachers. From  895 he traveled extensively as a teacher and preacher, making three pilgrimages to Mecca [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=287</link>
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		<title>Joan Allen Biography (1956-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress, born August 20, 1956, in Rochelle, Illinois. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, where she studied drama,failed cheerleading, and was voted most likely to succeed. Along with GarySinise, Laurie Metcalf and John Malkovich, Allen is one of the foundingmembers of Chicago&#8217;s famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she began herprofessional career. She studied theater at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=286</link>
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		<title>Margery (Louise) Allingham Biography (1904 - 1966)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 20, 1904, London, Eng.—died June 30, 1966, Colchester, Essex) British detective-story writer. She published her first story at age 8, her first novel at 19, and her first detective story in her early 20s. Her stories about the fictional detective Albert Campion became very popular, and such novels as Tiger in the Smoke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=285</link>
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		<title>Henry Allen Biography (1908 - 1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Henry James Allen, Jr., byname Red

(born Jan. 7, 1908, New Orleans, La., U.S.—died April 17, 1967, New York, N.Y.) African-American jazz musician, one of the major trumpeters of the swing era, he also sang and led small bands.
The son of a longtime New Orleans brass-band leader, Allen played in his father&#8217;s band before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sara Allgood Biography (1883 - 1950)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 31, 1883, Dublin—died Sept. 13, 1950, Woodland Hills, Calif., U.S.) Irish character actress who performed in the original Sean O&#8217;Casey plays produced at Dublin&#8217;s Abbey Theatre and in many American motion pictures of the 1940s. Her early instructors included Frank and W.G. Fay, W.B. Yeats, and John Millington Synge.
In 1903 Allgood joined the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gracie Allen Biography (1905-1964)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actress, singer, comedienne. Born Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen, on July 26, 1905, in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Edward Allen, an entertainer, and Margaret Darragh. When only three years old, Gracie made her stage debut with her father, a local entertainer. She was educated at the Star of the Sea Convent, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Alleyn Biography (1566 - 1626)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 1, 1566, London, Eng.—died Nov. 25, 1626, London) one of the greatest actors of the Elizabethan stage and founder of Dulwich College, London. Rivaled only by Richard Burbage, Alleyn won the outspoken admiration of such authors as Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe for his interpretations of Christopher Marlowe&#8217;s Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, and The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Allen Biography (1922 - 1990)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full George Herbert Allen

(born April 29, 1922, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died Dec. 31, 1990, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) American professional football coach.
Allen attended Alma College (Michigan) and Marquette University (Wisconsin) and received an M.S. from the University of Michigan (1947). After coaching teams at Morningside College (Iowa) and Whittier College (California), he entered the National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethan Allen Biography (1738 - 1789)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 21, 1738, Litchfield, Conn.—died Feb. 12, 1789, Burlington, Vt., U.S.) American soldier and frontiersman. After fighting in the French and Indian War (1754–63), he settled in what is now Vermont. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, his force of Green Mountain Boys (organized in 1770) helped defeat the British in the Battle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave Allen Biography (1936–2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally David Tynan O&#8217;Mahony
 Comedian and actor, born in Firhouse, Co Dublin, Ireland. The son of a prominent Irish journalist, he decided to become a professional entertainer at the age of 19, and went to England where he made his television debut in the BBC talent show New Faces (1959). In Australia he hosted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Thomas (Clifford) Allbutt Biography (1836 - 1925)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 20, 1836, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Feb. 22, 1925, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) English physician. He introduced the modern clinical thermometer (the thermometer had previously been a foot-long instrument that required 20 minutes to register temperature) and outlined the use of the ophthalmoscope to inspect the interior of the eye. He demonstrated the aortic origin of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judah ben Solomon Hai Alkalai Biography (1798 - 1878)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1798, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Ottoman Empire—died 1878, Jerusalem) Sephardic rabbi. Raised in Jerusalem, he became rabbi at Semlin, Croatia. He argued that a physical return to Israel (Palestine), rather than a symbolic return through repentance and practice, was necessary for the salvation of the Jewish people, a view that put him at odds with Jewish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maurice Allais Biography (1911 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 31, 1911, Paris, France) French economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1988 for his development of principles to guide efficient pricing and resource allocation in large monopolistic enterprises.
Allais studied economics at the École Polytechnique (Polytechnic School) and then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (National School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexius I (Comnenus) Biography (1048 - 1118)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born 1048, Constantinople—died Aug. 15, 1118) Byzantine emperor (1081–1118). An experienced military leader, he seized the Byzantine throne in 1081, driving back the invading Normans and Turks and founding the Comnenian dynasty. Alexius increased Byzantine strength in Anatolia and in the eastern Mediterranean but failed to curb the power of the landed magnates who had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi Biography (1013 - 1103)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1013, near Fès, Mor.—died 1103, Lucena, Spain) Moroccan Jewish scholar. He spent most of his life in Fès, but in 1088 he was denounced to the government and was obliged to flee to Spain. He became head of the Jewish community in Lucena and established a noted Talmudic academy, provoking a rebirth of Talmudic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alison Krauss Biography (1971- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bluegrass singer
Bluegrass singer and fiddle player. Born July 23, 1971 in Champaign, Illinois. Krauss received acclaim for her musical talents from a young age, and by the time she was 14, she had signed with Rounder Records. She released her first solo album, Too Late to Cry, at age 16, after which she joined the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Faye Biography (1915-1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress
Actress, singer. Born Alice Jeane Leppert on May 5, 1915 in New York City. The daughter of a police officer, Faye got her first taste of the stage as a chorus girl, eventually moving to Broadway, film and radio. In 1934, she received her first major film break starring in &#60;em&#62;Scandals&#60;/em&#62;. Soon after, she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi Biography (1013 - 1103)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1013, near Fès, Mor.—died 1103, Lucena, Spain) Moroccan Jewish scholar. He spent most of his life in Fès, but in 1088 he was denounced to the government and was obliged to flee to Spain. He became head of the Jewish community in Lucena and established a noted Talmudic academy, provoking a rebirth of Talmudic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=268</link>
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		<title>Alison Steele Biography (1937–1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Radio disc jockey and personality. Born on January 26, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York. Calling herself the “Nightbird,” Alison Steele was one of the first female disc jockeys on the radio. As a child, she hungered to get into show business and worked at a television station as an errand girl in her teens. Steele [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=266</link>
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		<title>Alexis Biography (1629 - 1676)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian in full Aleksey Mikhaylovich


(born March 9 [March 19, New Style], 1629, Moscow, Russia—died Jan. 29 [Feb. 8], 1676, Moscow) tsar of Russia from 1645 to 1676.
The son of Michael, the first Romanov monarch of Russia (reigned 1613–45), Alexis received a superficial education from his tutor Boris Ivanovich Morozov before acceding to the throne at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muhammad Ali Biography (1942 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Cassius (Marcellus) Clay, Jr
Boxer, born Cassius Marcellus Clay on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. As an amateur boxer (1954–60), winning 100 of 108 matches, he became the 1960 Olympic light-heavyweight champion. Financed by a group of Louisville businessmen, he turned professional, and by 1963 had won his first 19 fights. He won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexis Biography (1690 - 1718)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian in full Aleksey Petrovich


(born Feb. 18 [Feb. 28, New Style], 1690, Moscow, Russia—died June 26 [July 7], 1718, St. Petersburg) heir to the throne of Russia, who was accused of trying to overthrow his father, Peter I the Great.
After his mother, Eudoxia, was forced to enter a convent (1698), Alexis was brought up by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nelson Algren Biography (1909 - 1981)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Nelson Ahlgren Abraham
(born March 28, 1909, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died May 9, 1981, Sag Harbor, N.Y.) U.S. writer. The son of a machinist, Algren grew up in Chicago and worked his way through the University of Illinois during the Great Depression. His novels of the poor skillfully capture the mood of the city&#8217;s underside and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=258</link>
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		<title>Horatio Alger Biography (1832 - 1899)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 13, 1832, Chelsea, Mass., U.S.—died July 18, 1899, Natick, Mass.) U.S. writer. The son of a Unitarian minister, Alger graduated from Harvard with honours and then earned a degree from its divinity school. Forced to leave his pulpit after two years because of allegations of improper activities with youths, he took up writing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexandra Biography (1872 - 1918)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian Aleksandra Fyodorovna orig. Alix, Princess von Hesse-Darmstadt

(born June 6, 1872, Darmstadt, German Empire—died July 16/17, 1918, Yekaterinburg, Russia) Consort of Russia&#8217;s Tsar Nicholas II. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she married Nicholas in 1894 and sought to restore absolute power in the monarchy. Desperate to help her hemophiliac son, Alexis, she turned to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernst F. W. Alexanderson Biography (1878 - 1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 25, 1878, Uppsala, Swed.—died May 14, 1975, Schenectady, N.Y., U.S.) Swedish-born U.S. electrical engineer and television pioneer. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1901 and spent most of the next five decades at General Electric; from 1952 he worked for RCA. He developed a high-frequency alternator that was capable of producing continuous radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hannes Alfvén Biography (1908 - 1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén

(born May 30, 1908, Norrköping, Sweden—died April 2, 1995, Djursholm) astrophysicist and winner, with Louis Néel of France, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his essential contributions in founding plasma physics—the study of plasmas (ionized gases).
Alfvén was educated at Uppsala University and in 1940 joined the staff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Alexander Biography (1939 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Jane Quigley

(born Oct. 28, 1939, Boston, Mass., U.S.) American actress who, in addition to achieving a successful performance career, became the first actor to chair the National Endowment for the Arts.
Alexander grew up in Brookline, a suburb of Boston. In 1957 she enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College, and two years later she transferred to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raúl Alfonsín Biography (1926 - 1927)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín Foulkes

(born March 13, 1926/27, Chascomús, Buenos Aires provincia, Arg.) civilian president of Argentina (1983–89), elected after eight years of military rule, and leader of the moderate Radical Civic Union (Spanish: Unión Cívica Radical, or UCR).
Alfonsín attended the Liceo Militar (military academy) General San Martin, obtained a law degree from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jason Alexander Biography (1959-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, born Jason (&#8221;Jay&#8221;) Scott Greenspan to Ruth and Alex on September 23,1959 in Newark, New Jersey; raised in Livingston, New Jersey.
Although best known as the neurotic George Costanza in the hit TV sitcom,Seinfeld (1990-1998), Alexander has enjoyed an extensive and variedcareer on the Broadway stage and in films.
As a youth with an eye always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfonso XIII Biography (1886 - 1941)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 17, 1886, Madrid, Spain—died Feb. 28, 1941, Rome, Italy) Spanish king (1886–1931). The posthumous son of Alfonso XII, he was immediately proclaimed king under his mother&#8217;s regency and assumed full authority at 16. He relished power, and after World War I he moved toward a system of more personal rule, even seeking to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander Biography (1891 - 1969)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Dec. 10, 1891, London, Eng.—died June 16, 1969, Slough, Buckinghamshire) British field marshal in World War II. In 1940 he helped direct the Dunkirk evacuation and was the last man to leave the beaches. Appointed British commander in chief in the Mediterranean theatre in 1942, he helped lead the North Africa Campaign against the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfonso XII Biography (1857 - 1885)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 28, 1857, Madrid, Spain—died Nov. 25, 1885, Madrid) Spanish king whose reign (1874–85) inspired hopes for a stable constitutional monarchy. Alfonso followed his mother, Isabella II, into exile following her deposition by the revolution of 1868. He was proclaimed king in 1874 and returned to Spain the next year. His reign was marked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfonso X Biography (1221 - 1284)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Alfonso the Wise

(born Nov. 23, 1221, Burgos, Castile—died April, 2, 1284, Sevilla) King of Castile and León (1252–84). He crushed revolts by Muslims (1252) and nobles (1254), and he annexed Murcia after repelling an invasion by Morocco, Granada, and Murcia (1264). He claimed the title of Holy Roman emperor (1256), but Gregory X [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archibald Alexander Biography (1772–1851)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Protestant clergyman and educator, born near Lexington, Virginia, USA. The son of a merchant farmer, he underwent a religious conversion in 1789, began to evangelize, and proved to be a fluent and persuasive preacher. Ordained in the Presbyterian ministry (1794), he served two terms as president of Hampden-Sidney College (1796–1801, 1802–7). He became a professor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfonso VI Biography (1040 - 1109)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Alfonso the Brave

(born before June 1040—died 1109, Toledo, Castile) King of León (1065–70) and of Castile and León (1072–1109). He inherited León from his father, Ferdinand I, and warred with his envious brother Sancho II. On Sancho&#8217;s death he inherited Castile (1072); he also occupied Galicia and imprisoned his brother García, its rightful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfonso V Biography (1396 - 1458)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Alfonso the Magnanimous

(born 1396—died June 27, 1458, Naples) King of Aragon (1416–58) and of Naples (as Alfonso I, 1442–58). He followed a policy of Mediterranean expansion, pacifying Sardinia and Sicily and attacking Corsica (1420). Taken prisoner by the Genoese (1435) while preparing to attack Naples, he persuaded his captors into an alliance and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vittorio, conte di (Count) Alfieri Biography (1749 - 1803)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 16, 1749, Asti, Piedmont—died Oct. 8, 1803, Florence) Italian tragic poet and playwright. Through his lyrics and dramas he helped revive the national spirit of Italy. After a period of travel in which he experienced English political liberty and read the works of Montesquieu and other French writers, he left the military and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander VI Biography (1431 - 1503)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Rodrigo de Borja y Doms


(born 1431, Játiva, Aragon—died Aug. 18, 1503, Rome) Pope (1492–1503). Born into the Spanish branch of the Borgia family, he amassed great wealth and lived scandalously, fathering four illegitimate children (before his election as pope), who played an important role in his complicated dynastic plans. He warred against the Ottoman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zhores Alferov Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Zhores Ivanovich Alfyorov

(born March 15, 1930, Vitebsk, Belorussia, U.S.S.R. [now in Belarus]) Soviet physicist who, with Herbert Kroemer and Jack S. Kilby, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2000 for their work that laid the foundation for the modern era of computers and information technology.
Alferov received a doctorate in physics and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St, Alexander Nevski Biography (1220 - 1263)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Nevsky

(born  1220, Vladimir, Grand Principality of Vladimir—died Nov. 14, 1263, Gorodets) Prince of Novgorod (1236–52) and Kiev (1246–52) and grand prince of Vladimir (1252–63). He fought off invading Swedes in 1240 at the Neva River (resulting in the epithet Nevsky). He was called back to service to defeat the Teutonic Knights in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Lucius Twilight Biography (1795-1857)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Educator, politician. Born on September 26, 1795, in Corinth, Vermont. Twilight is believed to be the first African American to graduate from an American university; he received his bachelor&#8217;s degree from Middlebury College in 1823. He married Mercy Ladd Merrill three years after finishing college.
Twilight went on to become a minister and educator. He tended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander III Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 2, 1241—died March 18/19, 1286, near Kinghorn, Fife, Scot.)  King of Scotland (1249–86). Son of Alexander II, he came to the throne at age 7. In 1251 he was married to Margaret, daughter of England&#8217;s King Henry III, who sought to gain control over Scotland. In 1255 Alexander was seized by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander III Biography (1105 - 1181)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Rolando Bandinelli

(born  1105, Siena, Tuscany—died Aug. 30, 1181, Rome) Pope (1159–81). A member of the group of cardinals who feared the growing strength of the Holy Roman Empire, he helped draw up an alliance with the Normans (1156). As the representative of Pope Adrian IV, he angered Frederick I (Frederick Barbarossa) by referring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander II Biography (1818 - 1881)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian Aleksandr Nikolayevich

(born April 29, 1818, Moscow, Russia—died March 13, 1881, St. Petersburg) Tsar of Russia (1855–81). He succeeded to the throne at the height of the Crimean War, which revealed Russia&#8217;s backwardness on the world stage. In response, he undertook drastic reform, improving communications, government, and education, and most importantly, emancipating the serfs (1861). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander II Biography (1198 - 1249)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Anselmo da Baggio

(born Aug. 24, 1198, Haddington, Lothian—died July 8, 1249, Kerrera Island) King of Scotland (1214–49). He came to the throne on the death of his father, William I (the Lion). In 1215 he supported the rebellious English barons against King John, hoping to regain land in northern England. After the rebellion collapsed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander II Biography (1198 - 1249)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 24, 1198, Haddington, Lothian—died July 8, 1249, Kerrera Island) King of Scotland (1214–49). He came to the throne on the death of his father, William I (the Lion). In 1215 he supported the rebellious English barons against King John, hoping to regain land in northern England. After the rebellion collapsed (1217), he did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander I Biography (1888 - 1934)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 4, 1888, Cetinje, Montenegro —died Oct. 9, 1934, Marseille, France) King of Yugoslavia (1921–34). After commanding Serbian forces in World War I, Alexander succeeded his father, Peter I, as king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1921. In 1929 he abolished the constitution and established a royal dictatorship. As part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander I Biography (1777 - 1825)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian Aleksandr Pavlovich

(born Dec. 23, 1777, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Dec. 1, 1825, Taganrog) Tsar of Russia (1801–25). He became tsar in 1801 after the assassination of his father, Paul I. He and his advisers corrected many of the injustices of the preceding reign but failed to carry out the abolition of serfdom. During the Napoleonic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Graham Bell Biography (1847-1922)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KIDS VERSION
Inventor
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magine if you could only talk to far away friends using letters and telegrams. That&#8217;s what life was like before Alexander Graham Bell changed the world with his invention, the telephone. Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. Like his father, Bell even became a teacher, helping deaf people learn to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=224</link>
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		<title>Alexander (V) Biography (1339 - 1410)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname Peter Of Candia, Italian Pietro Di Candia, original Greek name Petros Philargos

(born c. 1339, Candia, Crete—died  May 3, 1410, Bologna, Papal States) antipope from 1409 to 1410.
Alexander became a Franciscan theologian and then archbishop of Milan (1402). Pope Innocent VII appointed him cardinal (1405) and papal legate to Lombardy. Unanimously elected by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Biography (1893 - 1920)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 20, 1893, Athens—died  Oct. 25, 1920, Tatoi Palace, near Athens) king of Greece from 1917 to 1920.
The second son of King Constantine (ruled 1913–17 and 1920–22) and Queen Sophia, Alexander became king (June 12, 1917) when his father was forced by the Allies of World War I to abdicate and thereby allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Biography (1876 - 1903)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Serbo-Croatian in full Aleksandar Obrenovi

(born Aug. 14 [Aug. 2, Old Style], 1876, Belgrade, Serbia—died June 11 [May 29], 1903, Belgrade) king of Serbia (1889–1903), whose unpopular authoritarian reign resulted not only in his assassination but also in the end of the Obrenovi dynasty.
The only child of Prince (later King) Milan (reigned 1868–89) and his consort, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Biography (1806 - 1885)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Serbo-Croatian in full Aleksandar Karaðorðevii, Karaðorðevii also spelled Karageorgevi, or Karadjordjevi

(born September 29 [October 11, New Style], 1806, Topola, Serbia—died April 22 [May 4], 1885, Temesvár, Banat, Austria-Hungary) prince of Serbia from 1842 to 1858.
The third son of Karadjordje (Karageorge, or Karaðorðe), who had led the movement to win Serb autonomy from the Ottoman Turks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Biography (1461 - 1506)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Polish in full Aleksander Jagielloczyk

(born Aug. 5, 1461, Kraków, Pol.—died Aug. 19, 1506, Vilnius, Lithuania) king of Poland (1501–06) of the Jagiellonian dynasty, successor to his brother John Albert.
Alexander carried on the hopeless struggle of the crown against the growing power of the Polish senate and nobles, who deprived him of financial control and curtailed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Biography (870 - 913)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  870—died June 6, 913, Constantinople) sole Byzantine emperor from May 11, 912, and third son of the emperor Basil I. He founded the Macedonian dynasty and caused the renewal of warfare between Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire.
Alexander was crowned co-emperor with his brother Leo VI in 879 after the death of their elder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alessandro Biography (1510 - 1511)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Alessandro de&#8217; Medici

(born 1510/11, Florence [Italy]—died Jan. 5–6, 1537, Florence) the first duke of Florence (1532–37).
Alessandro was an illegitimate child, whose paternity is ascribed either to Lorenzo de&#8217; Medici (1492–1519), Duke di Urbino, or, with more likelihood, to Cardinal Giulio, nephew of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Cardinal Giulio received the lordship of Florence in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arturo Alessandri Palma Biography (1868 - 1950)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Dec. 20, 1868, Longavi, Chile—died Aug. 24, 1950, Santiago) Chilean president (1920–25, 1932–38) who early defended workers&#8217; groups, especially the nitrate miners of the north, but later, as a member of the Liberal Party, became more conservative.
The son of an Italian immigrant, Alessandri was graduated in law from the University of Chile in 1893 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miguel Alemán Biography (1902 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Miguel Alemán Valdés


(born Sept. 29, 1902, Sayula, Mex.—died  May 14, 1983, Mexico City) president of Mexico from 1946 to 1952.
The son of a village shopkeeper, Alemán studied law and set up practice in Mexico City, specializing in labour cases. Appointed senator from Veracruz, he became governor of the state in 1936. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mateo Alemán Biography (1547 - 1614)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(baptized Sept. 28, 1547, Sevilla, Spain—died  1614, Mexico) Spanish novelist. Descended from Jews who had been forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism, he expressed many aspects of the experiences and feelings of the New Christians in 16th-century Spain. His most important literary work is Guzmán de Alfarache (1599, 1604), one of the earliest picaresque novels, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean le Rond d&#8217; Alembert Biography (1717 - 1783)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born , Nov. 17, 1717, Paris, France—died Oct. 29, 1783, Paris) French mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and writer. In 1743 he published a treatise on dynamics containing “d&#8217;Alembert&#8217;s principle,” relating to Isaac Newton&#8217;s laws of motion. He developed partial differential equations and published findings of his research on integral calculus. He was associated with the Encyclopédie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Amos) Bronson Alcott Biography (1799 - 1888)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teacher, mystic, and writer, born near Wolcott, Connecticut, USA. The father of Louisa May Alcott, he was largely self-educated and became an itinerant teacher (1823–33) before settling in Boston to found his own school (1834). By this time he was a mystic and transcendentalist, and his radical ideas of educating children, plus his acceptance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alejandro González Iñárritu Biography (1963- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Director. Born August 15, 1963 in Mexico City. Iñárritu began his career as a DJ, eventually composing soundtracks for Mexican films and making TV commercials. His interest in filmmaking soon eclipsed his music career, and he went to the United States to study directing.
During the 1990s, Iñárritu was a producer for the Mexican TV company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcmaeon Biography (6th-c BC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Alcmeon

In Greek mythology, the son of the seer Amphiaraus. The seer had been persuaded by his wife to join the expedition of the Seven Against Thebes. On realizing that he would die, he charged Alcmaeon and his other sons with avenging his death. Alcmaeon led the sons of the seven in the destruction of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicente Aleixandre Biography (1898 - 1984)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 26, 1898, Sevilla, Spain—died December 14, 1984, Madrid) Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of 1927, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. He was strongly influenced by the Surrealist technique of poetic composition.
Aleixandre was the son of a railway engineer. He studied law and business management and from 1920 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcibiades Biography (404 - 450)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  450 , Athens—died 404, Phrygia) Athenian politician and commander. Pericles was his guardian, his father having died in battle. Alcibiades grew up without much guidance, but as a youth he was drawn to Socrates&#8216; moral strength and keen mind. Socrates, in turn, was attracted to the youth&#8217;s physical beauty and intellectual promise. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claribel Alegría Biography (1924 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 12, 1924, Estelí. Nicaragua) poet, essayist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. Noted for her testimonio (testament) concerning the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, she was best known in the United States for the bilingual edition of her volume of poetry, Flores del volcán/Flowers from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcamenes Biography (401 - 450)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Alkamenes

(born 5th century , Lemnos, in the Aegean Sea, and Athens) Greek sculptor. A younger contemporary of Phidias, he was noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite of the Gardens are noteworthy. A copy of the head of his Hermes Propylaeus at Pergamum has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ciro Alegría Biography (1909 - 1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Nov. 4, 1909, Saltimbanca, Peru—died Feb. 17, 1967, Lima) Peruvian novelist who wrote about the lives of the Peruvian Indians.
Educated at the National College of San Juan, Alegría acquired a firsthand knowledge of Indian life in his native province of Huamachuco; this first appeared in his novel La serpiente de oro (1935; The Golden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niceto Alcalá Zamora Biography (1877 - 1949)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 6, 1877, Priego, Spain—died Feb. 18, 1949, Buenos Aires, Arg.) Spanish politician. After serving as minister of works (1917) and minister of war (1922), he opposed the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera and joined the Republican movement. As leader of the revolutionary committee that successfully demanded the abdication of Alfonso XIII, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ricardo E Alegría Biography (1921– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scholar, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA. He was the driving force behind the creation of the influential Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, which he headed from its foundation (1955–72). He became director of the governor&#8217;s Office of Cultural Affairs (1973–6), and launched the Graduate Center for Advanced Studies on Puerto Rico and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcaeus Biography (580 - 620)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Alkaios

(born  620 , Mytilene, Lesbos—died  580 ) Greek lyric poet. Only fragments and quotations survive from his work, consisting of hymns in honour of gods and heroes, love poetry, drinking songs, and political poems. Many reflect Alcaeus&#8217;s vigorous involvement in the life of his native Mytilene, particularly its political life. His poetry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buzz Aldrin Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Buzz Aldrin
Astronaut, born on January 20, 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. He trained at West Point, flew combat missions in Korea, and later flew in Germany with the 36th Tactical Wing. In October 1963, Buzz Aldrin was selected by NASA as one of the early astronauts. In 1966 he set a world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isaac Albéniz Biography (1860 - 1909)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 29, 1860, Camprodón, Spain—died May 18, 1909, Cambo-les-Bains, France) Spanish composer. A piano prodigy by age four, he later studied in Leipzig and Brussels, returned to Spain to teach in Barcelona and Madrid, and then moved to France in 1893. His fame rests on his piano pieces, which, under the influence of Felipe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ira (Frederick) Aldridge Biography (1805 - 1867)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born c. July 24, 1807, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died  Aug. 7, 1867, ód, Pol.) American-born English tragedian, considered one of the greatest interpreters of his day.
Aldridge performed in his teens at the African Grove Theatre in New York City, the first theatre in the United States that catered to and was managed by African [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=198</link>
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		<title>Affonso d&#8217; Albuquerque Biography (1453 - 1515)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Afonso the Great

(born 1453, Alhandra, near Lisbon—died Dec. 15, 1515, at sea, off Goa, India) Portuguese soldier, conqueror of Goa (1510) and of Melaka (1511). He gained military experience as a soldier in North Africa for 10 years but made his reputation fighting in Asia. He paved the way for Portuguese domination in Southeast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Bailey Aldrich Biography (1836 - 1907)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 11, 1836, Portsmouth, N.H., U.S.—died March 19, 1907, Boston, Mass.) U.S. poet, short-story writer, and editor. Aldrich left school at age 13 and soon began to contribute to newspapers and magazines. He was editor of The Atlantic Monthly 1881–90. He drew on his childhood for his classic children&#8217;s novel The Story of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madeleine K(orbel) Albright Biography (1937 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Marie Jana Korbel


(born May 15, 1937, Prague, Czechoslovakia) American public official, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the first woman to hold the cabinet post of U.S. secretary of state.
Marie Jana Korbel was the daughter of a Czech diplomat. After the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, her family fled to England. Although she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Aldrich Biography (1918 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 9, 1918, Cranston, R.I., U.S.—died Dec. 5, 1983, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. film director and producer. He held various jobs at RKO from 1941, working under such directors as Jean Renoir and Charlie Chaplin. After directing his first feature film, The Big Leaguer (1953), he formed his own production company and earned a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ivan Albright Biography (1897 - 1983)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 20, 1897, North Harvey, Ill., U.S.—died Nov. 18, 1983, Woodstock, Vt.) U.S. painter. He was the son of a painter. Independently wealthy, he studied at various institutions, developing a meticulously detailed style and often spending several years of painstaking work on a single painting. With pinpoint exactness and hallucinatory hyperclarity, he repeatedly depicted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=193</link>
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		<title>Nelson W. Aldrich Biography (1841 - 1915)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 6, 1841, Foster, R.I., U.S.—died April 16, 1915, New York, N.Y.) U.S. senator and financier. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1879–81) and the Senate (1881–1911). His work as chair of the National Monetary Commission (1908–12) helped prepare the way for the Federal Reserve System (1913). He also invested profitably in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=192</link>
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		<title>Bernard Siegfried Albinus Biography (1697 - 1770)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 24, 1697, Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg—died Sept. 9, 1770, Leiden, Neth.) German-born Dutch anatomist. A professor at the University of Leiden, he is best known for the excellent engravings in his Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body (1747). He was the first to show the connection of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=191</link>
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		<title>Kurt Alder Biography (1902 - 1958)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 10, 1902, Königshütte, Prussia [now Chorzów, Pol.]—died June 20, 1958, Cologne, W.Ger.) German chemist who was the corecipient, with the German organic chemist Otto Diels, of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their development of the Diels-Alder reaction, or diene synthesis, a widely used method of synthesizing cyclic organic compounds.
Alder studied chemistry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomaso Albinoni Biography (1671 - 1750)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 8/14, 1671, Venice—died Jan. 17, 1751, Venice) Italian composer. Born to a wealthy Venetian family, he was not obliged to work for a living and became a highly prolific composer. He had more than 50 operas successfully produced between 1694 and 1741, though few survive. His approximately 60 concertos became popular; he also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=189</link>
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		<title>John Alden Biography (c.1599–1687)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1599?, England—died Sept. 12, 1687, Duxbury, Mass.) British-born American pilgrim. He was hired as a cooper by the London merchants who funded the Mayflower&#8217;s expedition to the New World in 1620. Alden signed the Mayflower Compact and held various civic positions in the colony, including assistant to the governor (1623–41, 1650–86). He was mythologized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Albertus Magnus Biography (1200 - 1280)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born  1200, Lauingen on the Danube, near Ulm, Bavaria—died Nov. 15, 1280, Cologne; canonized Dec. 16, 1931; feast day November 15) German cleric, theologian, and philosopher. Son of a wealthy German lord, he studied at Padua, where he joined the Dominican order (1223). At the University of Paris he was introduced to the works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Alda Biography (1936– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor and director, born in New York City, USA. He made his Broadway debut in Only in America (1959), and his film debut in Gone Are the Days (1963), but it was his extensive involvement in the television series M*A*S*H (1972–83) that earned him his greatest popularity. He won numerous awards for the series (including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Leon Battista Alberti Biography (1404 - 1472)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 14, 1404, Genoa—died April 25, 1472, Rome) Italian architect, art theorist, and humanist. After pursuing a literary career as papal secretary, in 1438 Alberti was encouraged to direct his talents toward the field of architecture. His designs for the Palazzo Rucellai ( 1445–51) and the facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456–70), both in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=185</link>
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		<title>Alcuin Biography (732 - 804)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[originally Ealhwine, Lat Albinus
born  732, in or near York, Yorkshire, Eng.—died May 9, 804, Tours, France) Anglo-Latin poet, educator, and cleric. As head of Charlemagne&#8217;s Palatine school, he introduced the traditions of Anglo-Saxon humanism into western Europe and was the foremost scholar of the revival of learning known as the Carolingian Renaissance. He also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Prince Albert Biography (1819 - 1861)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Franz Albrecht August Karl Emanuel, prince von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha
(born Aug. 26, 1819, Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha—died Dec. 14, 1861, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, Eng.) Prince consort of Queen Victoria of Britain and father of Edward VII. Albert married Victoria, his first cousin, in 1840 and became in effect her private secretary and chief confidential adviser. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louisa May Alcott Biography (1832 - 1888)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writer, novelist. Born November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Louisa May Alcott was a best-selling novelist of the late 1800s, and many of her works, such as Little Women, remain popular today. She was taught by her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, until 1848, and studied informally with family friends such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=181</link>
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		<title>Eddie Albert Biography (1906-2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor. Born Edward Albert Heimberger, on April 22, 1906, in Rock Island, Illinois. The eldest of five children, he was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with old-fashioned morals and a strong work ethic. Albert took on a paper route at the age of six, and managed to balance working with being a student, performing in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Albert I Biography (1875 - 1934)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born April 8, 1875, Brussels, Belg.—died Feb. 17, 1934, Marche-les-Dames, near Namur) King of the Belgians (1909–34). He succeeded his uncle, King Leopold II, in 1909. He strengthened the army while reaffirming Belgian neutrality in 1914, rejecting William II&#8217;s demand (Aug. 2, 1914) for free passage of German troops across Belgium. Following the Armistice he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Biography (1490 - 1568)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 17, 1490, Ansbach—died March 20, 1568, Tapiau, East Prussia) last grand master of the Teutonic Knights from 1510 to 1525, first duke of Prussia (from 1525), a Protestant German ruler known chiefly for ending the Teutonic Knights&#8217; government of East Prussia and founding a hereditary dukedom in its place.
Albert was the third son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Biography (1490 - 1545)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Albert of Brandenburg, German Albrecht von Brandenburg


(born June 28, 1490—died Sept. 24, 1545, Mainz [Germany]) margrave of Brandenburg, cardinal, and elector of Mainz, a liberal patron of the arts known chiefly as the object of the reformer Martin Luther&#8217;s attacks concerning the sale of indulgences.
Albert was the younger son of John Cicero, elector [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=178</link>
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		<title>Afgan Syah Reza Biography (1989-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


Personal Data









Name
: Afgan Syah Reza


Age
: 18


Date of birth
: May 27th 1989


Interest
: Music, Movies, Piano


Sport
: Swimming, Fitness


Fav Food
: Instant noodle, Italian food


Fav. Wardrob
: Jeans, vintage T-shirt


Role mode
: My mom


Siblings
: 3 from 4


Education
: High school graduates SMA 34, University of Indonesia - International


Shio
: Snake


Blood group
: A


Skill of language
:  English – fluent, French









Afgan&#8217;s Messages 





It’s not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Biography (1848 - 1922)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Albert-honoré-charles Grimaldi

(born November 13, 1848, Paris—died June 26, 1922, Paris) prince of Monaco (1889–1922), seaman, amateur oceanographer, and patron of the sciences, whose contributions to the development of oceanography included innovations in oceanographic equipment and technique and the founding and endowment of institutions to further basic research.
Albert&#8217;s love of the sea developed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Biography (1101 - 1150)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Adalbert, or Aleric

(flourished 12th century) antipope in 1101. He was cardinal bishop of Silva Candida when elected early in 1101 as successor to the antipope Theodoric of Santa Ruffina, who had been set up against the legitimate pope, Paschal II, by an imperial faction supporting the Holy Roman emperor Henry IV in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Akhmatova Biography (1889 - 1966)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[pseudonym of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko


(born June 11 [June 23, New Style], 1889, Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died March 5, 1966, Domodedovo, near Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Russian poet recognized at her death as the greatest woman poet in Russian literature.
Akhmatova began writing verse at age 11 and at 21 joined a group of St. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Biography (1828 - 1902)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born April 23, 1828, Dresden, Saxony—died June 19, 1902, near Öls, Silesia) king of Saxony from Oct. 29, 1873, Catholic king of a Protestant country who was nonetheless popular with his subjects. He also was a capable soldier who fought well in the Seven Weeks&#8217; War of 1866 and in the Franco-German War of 1870–71.
He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josef Albers Biography (1888 - 1976)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born March 19, 1888, Bottrop, Ger.—died March 25, 1976, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) German-U.S. painter, poet, teacher, and theoretician. He studied and taught at the Bauhaus and in 1933 became one of the first Bauhaus teachers to immigrate to the U.S., where he taught at Black Mountain College and later at Yale. He developed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akihito Biography (1933 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Heisei emperor

(born Dec. 23, 1933, Tokyo, Japan) Emperor of Japan from 1989. Son of Hirohito, his role, like that of his father after 1945, has been largely ceremonial. He is the first Japanese emperor to have married a commoner, in what was hailed at the time as a love match rather than the customary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juan Bautista Alberdi Biography (1810 - 1884)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 20, 1810, San Miguel de Tucumán, Río de la Plata [now in Argentina]—died June 18, 1884, Paris, France) Argentine political thinker whose writings influenced the assembly that drew up the constitution of 1853.
Alberdi was one of the best-known of the “Generation of &#8216;37,” an intellectual movement of university students who debated politics, social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akiba ben Joseph Biography (40 - 135)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Akiva

(born  40—died  135, Caesarea, Palestine) Jewish sage, one of the founders of rabbinic Judaism. He is said to have been an illiterate shepherd who began to study after age 40. He believed that Scripture contained many implied meanings in addition to its overt meaning, and he regarded written law (Torah) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Albee Biography (1928 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Edward Franklin Albee
Playwright, born near Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Edward (Franklin) Albee studied at Trinity College, CT, and at Columbia University. His major works include The Zoo Story (1958), a one-act duologue on the lack of communication in modern society, The American Dream (1960), and Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962, filmed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akhenaton Biography (1301 - 1400)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Akhnaton orig. Amenhotep IV


(r. 1353–36 )  Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (1539–1292 ). He came to power during a period of Egyptian preeminence, with Egypt controlling Palestine, Phoenicia, and Nubia. Shortly after his reign began, he began to encourage the exclusive worship of the little-known deity Aton, a sun god he regarded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francesco Albani Biography (1578 - 1660)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Francesco Albano

(born March 17, 1578, Bologna, Papal States—died October 1660, Bologna)  Italian painter. He trained with the Carracci family in Bologna then moved to Rome in 1601 and collaborated with Annibale Carracci and Domenichino on the decoration of the Farnese Palace. While in Rome he established his own studio and painted frescoes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George A Akerlof Biography (1940 - )</title>
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(born June 17, 1940, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.) American economist who, with A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 for laying the foundation for the theory of markets with asymmetric information.
Akerlof studied at Yale University (B.A., 1962) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1966). In 1966 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Alban Biography (201 - 300)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(flourished  3rd century , , traditionally at Verulamium, Britain; feast day June 22) first British martyr.
According to the historian Bede, he served in the Roman army and was converted to Christianity by a fugitive priest whom he sheltered and with whom he exchanged clothes, so that he was martyred in the priest&#8217;s place (c. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akbar the Great Biography (1542 - 1605)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Ab al-Fat Jall al-Dn Muammad Akbar

(born Oct. 15, 1542, Umarkot, Sind, India—died 1605, Agra) Greatest of the Mughal emperors ( Mughal dynasty) of India (r. 1556–1605). Akbar, whose ancestors included Timur and Genghis Khan, ascended the throne as a youth. Initially his rule extended only over the Punjab and the area around Delhi. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jessica Alba Biography (1981- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born on April 28, 1981, in Pomona, California. A popular film actress, Jessica Alba started out in the entertainment business at an early age. She comes from a diverse background. Her father is Mexican-American and her mother has Danish and French roots. As the daughter of a member of the U.S. Air Force, she moved around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>al-ajjj Biography (661 - 714)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  661, Al-&#8216;if, Hejaz, Arabian Peninsula—died June 714, Al-Wsi, Iraq) Provincial governor under the Umayyad dynasty (661–750), first in Mecca and then in Iraq. He ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion in Mecca in 692. Two years later he was named governor of Iraq, where his willingness to use brute force to suppress insurrection made him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba Biography (1507 - 1582)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Oct. 29, 1507, Piedrahita, Old Castile, Spain—died Dec. 11, 1582, Lisbon) Spanish soldier. He commanded Charles V&#8217;s imperial armies to defeat the Schmalkaldic League in 1547, and he served as viceroy of Naples (1556–59). As a chief minister to Philip II, Alba became notorious for his tyranny as governor-general of the Netherlands (1567–73), where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pierre d&#8217; Ailly Biography (1350 - 1420)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lat Petrus de Alliaco

(born 1350, Compiègne, Fr.—died Aug. 9, 1420, Avignon) French theologian and cardinal. D&#8217;Ailly worked to end the Western Schism. He advocated the doctrine of conciliarism ( Conciliar Movement), which maintained that supreme authority in the church was held by a general council. He was active at the Council of Pisa (1409), which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaric I Biography (370 - 410)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[born  370, Peuce Island—died 410, Cosentia, Bruttium) Chief of the Visigoths (395–410). He commanded Gothic troops in the Roman army before leaving to become chief of the Visigoths. He led his tribe into Greece, sacking cities until placated by the Eastern emperor (397). He twice led invasions of Italy, the second time extorting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dai Ailian Biography (1916-2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Dancer and choreographer, born in Trinidad. She studied during the 1930s in Britain, working from 1940 in China, where she was instrumental in introducing the principles and study of Western ballet. In 1959 she co-founded what became the Central Ballet of China, and was the company&#8217;s artistic adviser. Since 1995 the company has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alvin Ailey Biography (1931 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dancer and choreographer. Born January 5, 1931 in Rogers, Texas. In 1943, Ailey and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where he nurtured his interest in dance. He became a member of Lester Horton&#8217;s company in 1950, and when his mentor died in 1953, Ailey was chosen to take over as director and choreographer.
After training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joan (Delano) Aiken Biography (1924- 2004)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ British writer, the daughter of Conrad Aiken, born in Sussex, SE England, UK. She was educated privately, then worked as a librarian for the UN Information Committee (1943-9) and as features editor for Argosy magazine (1955-60). Her many books for children include All You&#8217;ve Ever Wanted (1953), The Kingdom and the Cave (1960), Tales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke Biography (1883 - 1963)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born July 23, 1883, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France—died June 17, 1963, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England) British field marshal and chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II.
He was educated in France and at the Royal Military Academy (Woolwich) and served in the Royal Artillery during World War I. Between the World Wars, he distinguished himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard H. Aiken Biography (1900 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 9, 1900, Hoboken, N.J., U.S.—died March 14, 1973, St. Louis, Mo.) U.S. mathematician and inventor. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. With three other engineers, he began work in 1939 on an automatic calculating machine that could perform any selected sequence of five arithmetical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and reference to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Arkin Biography (1934- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, director, writer, musician. Born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934 in New York City. Raised in a Jewish family, Arkin attended high school in Los Angeles while studying at various drama schools on scholarship. He dropped out of college to perform with the folk music group The Tarriers, most noted for the 1956 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conrad Aiken Biography (1889 - 1973)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Aug. 5, 1889, Savannah, Ga., U.S.—died Aug. 17, 1973, Savannah) U.S. writer. Aiken was traumatized as a child when his father killed Aiken&#8217;s mother and then himself. Educated at Harvard University, Aiken wrote most of his fiction in the 1920s and &#8217;30s. His works are influenced by early psychoanalytic theory. Generally more successful than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Thicke Biography (1947- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, writer, producer, composer. Born Alan Willis Jeffrey on March 1, 1947, in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. During the mid-1980s to early 1990s, Alan Thicke played one of television’s most beloved sitcom dads, psychiatrist Jason Seaver on Growing Pains. He got his start in show business as a writer for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
In the 1970s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clay Aiken Biography (1978-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Singer. Born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The son of Faye Aiken Parker and estranged father Vernon Grissom, Aiken was raised primarily by his mother and her second husband, Ray Parker. A church-going Baptist, Aiken attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he majored in special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Aidan Biography (651 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as the Apostle of Northumbria

(born Ireland—died Aug. 31, 651, Bamburgh, Northumberland, Eng.; feast day August 31) Apostle of Northumbria and founder of Lindisfarne. He was a monk at Iona in Scotland when King Oswald of Northumbria requested that he be made bishop of the newly converted Northumbrians. He established his church, see, and monastery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucas Alamán Biography (1792 - 1853)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born October 1792, Guanajuato, Mex.—died June 2, 1853, Mexico City) politician and historian, the leader of Mexican conservatives for nearly 30 years and the spokesman for a strong, centralized government that would support industrialization, educational expansion, and agricultural modernization. Living during a corrupt and brutal period of Mexican politics, he stood out as an honest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aidan Biography (608 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Aedan

(died c. 608) king of the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada. He was the son of Gabran, king of Dalriada.
Aidan was inaugurated as king at Iona by St. Columba. He refused to allow his kingdom to remain dependent on the Irish Dalriada; but, coming into collision with his southern neighbours, he led a large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alamgr II Biography (1699 - 1759)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full &#8216;Azz al-Dn &#8216;Alamgr II

(born June 6, 1699, Multan, India—died Nov. 29, 1769, Delhi) Mughal emperor of India (1754–59). He was placed on the throne by the imperial vizier Imd al-Mulk Ghz al-Dn and was always the puppet of more powerful men, including the Afghan ruler Amad Shah Durrn, whose agents occupied Delhi in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aida Turturro Biography (1962-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born on September 25, 1962,  in New York, New York. Cousin to actor-director John Turturro, her career began to take off in the late 1980s with her film debut in 1989’s True Love. The next year Turturro made her first guest appearance on the hit television drama Law &#38; Order. In 1992, she performed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>al-Khwrizm Biography (780 - 850)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arabic in full Muammad ibn Ms al-Khwrizm

(born  780, Baghdad, Iraq—died  850) Muslim mathematician and astronomer. He lived in Baghdad during the golden age of Islamic science and, like Euclid, wrote mathematical books that collected and arranged the discoveries of earlier mathematicians. His Al-Kitb al-mukhtaar f isb al-jabr wa&#8217;l-muqbala (“The Compendious Book on Calculation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rif&#8217;ah Rfi&#8217; al-ahw Biography (1801 - 1873)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1801, ah, Egypt—died 1873, Egypt) Egyptian teacher and scholar. Beginning in 1826, he spent five years in Paris as a religious teacher for a group of Egyptian students and later was appointed head of a state language school (1836) and a translation bureau (1841) in Cairo. In these capacities he played a central role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Sharpton Biography (1954- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr.
Social and political activist, religious leader. Born Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr., on October 3, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. Outspoken and sometimes controversial, Sharpton has become a leading figure in the fight against racial prejudice and injustice. He developed his commanding speaking style as a child. A frequent churchgoer, Sharpton [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=140</link>
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		<title>Ahmed Yesevi Biography (1051 - 1100)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Ahmad Yasawi

(born 11th century, Sayrm—died 1166, Yas, Turkistan) Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. When he was young his family moved to Yas, where he began his teaching. The Book of Wisdom, a collection of mystical poetry, is traditionally attributed to him. He established a mystical order whose rituals preserved Islamic and ancient Turco-Mongol customs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Lewis Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor
Actor. Born Alexander Meister on April 30, 1910 in New York City.
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		<title>Ahmadu Seku Biography (1898 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(died 1898, Sokoto, Northern Nigeria) Second and last ruler of the Tukulor empire in West Africa. Succeeding his father, al-jj &#8216;Umar, in 1864, Ahmadu ruled over a great empire centred on the ancient Bambara kingdom of Segu, in present Mali. In 1887 he was forced to abandon Segu and accept French protectorate status. By 1891 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akutagawa Rynosuke Biography (1892 - 1927)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[pseudonym Chkd Shujin or Gaki

(born March 1, 1892, Tokyo, Japan—died July 24, 1927, Tokyo) prolific Japanese writer known especially for his stories based on events in the Japanese past and for his stylistic virtuosity.
As a boy Akutagawa was sickly and hypersensitive, but he excelled at school and was a voracious reader. He began his literary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aerosmith Biography (-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rock group. Although many critics of the 1970s dismissed the band as merely a vulgar imitation of the Rolling Stones and other British blues/rock acts, Aerosmith proved one of the most popular acts of the decade and succeeded in conveying their hard-rock style and attitude to a new generation of fans and musicians into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (Rufus) Agee Biography (1909 - 1955)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 27, 1909, Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.—died May 16, 1955, New York, N.Y.) U.S. poet and novelist. Agee attended Harvard University. In the 1930s and &#8217;40s, film reviews for Time and The Nation made him a pioneer in serious film criticism. His lyrical Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), with photographs by Walker Evans, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agathocles Biography (289 - 361)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 361 , Thermae Himeraeae, Sicily—died 289) Tyrant of Syracuse (317–304?) and self-styled king of Sicily (304?–289). He moved to Syracuse as a youth and served in its army. After two failed attempts, he overthrew the Syracusan oligarchy (317) and took power. He waged wars with other Sicilian Greek cities (316–313?) and with Carthage (311), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Biography (1956 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 28, 1956, Garmsar, Iran) Iranian political leader who served as president of Iran (2005– ).
Ahmadinejad, the son of a blacksmith, grew up in Tehrn, where in 1976 he entered the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) to study civil engineering. During the Iranian Revolution (1978–79), he was one of the student leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmad Shah Durrani Biography (1722 - 1772)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  1722, Multan, Punjab—died Oct. 16?, 1772, Toba Ma&#8217;rf, Afg.) Founder of modern Afghanistan. The son of an Afghan chief, he became shah in 1747 on the death of the Persian conqueror Ndir Shah, in whose army he had served. He proceeded to invade India nine times over the next 22 years in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan Biography (1817 - 1898)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 17, 1817, Delhi—died March 27, 1898, Aligarh, India) Indian educator and jurist. Born into a family of officials in the Mughal dynasty, he worked for the British East India Co. and held various judicial posts. He supported the British in the 1857 Indian Mutiny but criticized their errors in his influential pamphlet Causes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Agatha Biography (201 - 300)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(flourished 3rd century ?, Sicily; feast day February 5) Legendary Christian martyr. Born in Palermo or Catania, she resisted the advances of a Roman prefect sent to govern Sicily. After brutal torture she was sent to the stake, but as the fire was lit a great earthquake occurred, and the crowd demanded her release. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmadou Ahidjo Biography (1924 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born August 1924, Garoua, Cameroon—died Nov. 30, 1989, Dakar, Senegal) First president of Cameroon, 1960–82. He presided over one of the few successful attempts at African unity: the joining of the southern half of the former British Cameroons with the larger French-speaking Cameroun. In 1982, after managing to build up a stable, relatively prosperous nation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz Biography (1822 - 1907)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Elizabeth Cabot Cary

(born Dec. 5, 1822, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died June 27, 1907, Arlington Heights, Mass.) U.S. naturalist and educator. She was educated at home, and in 1850 she married Louis Agassiz. She helped organize and manage several of his field expeditions, and together they founded a marine laboratory in Buzzards Bay, Mass. After his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahab Biography (850 - 900)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(flourished 9th century )  Seventh king of the northern kingdom of Israel (r.  874–853 ). He inherited a realm that included territory east of the Jordan River, in Gilead and probably Bashan, and also the tributary kingdom of Moab. His marriage to Jezebel revived an alliance with the Phoenicians, but her efforts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Agassiz Biography (1835 - 1910)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 17, 1835, Neuchâtel, Switz.—died March 27, 1910, at sea, mid-Atlantic Ocean) Swiss-born U.S. marine zoologist, oceanographer, and mining engineer. The son of Louis Agassiz, he emigrated in 1849 to the U.S., where he conducted significant systematic zoological work on echinoderms (e.g., starfish). He developed and supervised what became the world&#8217;s foremost copper mine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emilio Aguinaldo Biography (1869 - 1964)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born March 23, 1869, near Cavite, Luzon, Phil.—died Feb. 6, 1964, Manila) Philippine independence leader. He was born of Chinese and Tagalog parentage and was educated at the University of Santo Tomás, Manila. He became a leader of the Katipunan, a revolutionary society that fought the Spanish. Philippine independence was declared in 1898, and Aguinaldo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Agassiz Biography (1807 - 1873)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 28, 1807, Motier, Switz.—died Dec. 14, 1873, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.) Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher. After studies in Switzerland and Germany, he moved to the U.S. in 1846. He did landmark work on glacier activity and extinct fishes. He became famous for his innovative teaching methods, which encouraged learning through direct observation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andre (Kirk) Agassi Biography (1970– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professional tennis player. Born on April 29, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada. A stellar athlete, Agassi first burst on the tennis scene in 1986. He turned heads and raised eyebrows with his wild hair and bright clothing. But it was his impressive serve that really wowed tennis fans. It took him several years, however, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christina Aguilera Biography (1980-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born Christina Maria Aguilera on December 18, 1980, in Staten Island, New York. The daughter of a military father and a musician mother, Aguilera appeared on Star Search at age 9 and was a cast member of the Mickey Mouse Club for two years before recording the hit duet &#8220;All I Wanna Do&#8221; in Japan with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karim Aga Khan IV Biography (1936– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Persian gh Khn or q Khn

Title of the imams of the Nizr Ism&#8216;il sect of Sh&#8216;ite Islam. The title was first granted in 1818 to asan &#8216;Al Shah (1800–81) by the shah of Iran. As Aga Khan I, he later revolted against Iran (1838) and, defeated, fled to India. His eldest son, &#8216;Al Shah (d. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Agrippina Biography (15 - 59)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Agrippina the Younger

(born  15—died 59) Mother of Nero and a major influence in the early years of his reign. Daughter of Vipsania Agrippina ( 14 – 33; called Agrippina the Elder) and sister of Caligula, she was exiled (39–41) for conspiring against Caligula. Her first husband, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, was Nero&#8217;s father. Accused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afonso III Biography (1210 - 1279)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 5, 1210, Coimbra, Port.—died Feb. 16, 1279, Lisbon) King of Portugal (1248–79). He emigrated to France and became, by marriage, count of Boulogne. He gained the Portuguese crown when his older brother Sancho II was deposed by order of the pope. As king, Afonso regained control of the district of Faro (1249) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Biography (12 - 63)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born 63 ?—died March, 12 , Campania) Powerful deputy of Augustus. He helped Octavian (later Augustus) take power after Julius Caesar&#8217;s murder (44 ), defeating Sextus Pompeius in 36 and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31. He went on to quell rebellions, found colonies, administer parts of the empire, and give to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afonso IAfonso I Biography (1460 - 1542)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as Afonso the Conqueror
(born 1109/11, Guimarães, Port.—died Dec. 6, 1185, Coimbra) First king of Portugal (1139–85). He defeated his mother to take the throne (1128), ruling first as a vassal of his cousin Alfonso VII of León but later securing Portuguese independence and gaining the title of king (1139). He defeated nearby Muslims and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gnaeus Julius Agricola Biography (40 - 93)</title>
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(born June 13,  40, Forum Julii, Gallia Narbonensis—died Aug. 23, 93) Roman general. After Agricola served as tribune and quaestor in Britain and Asia, Vespasian appointed him governor of Britain (77/78–84). In that role he conquered parts of Wales and northern England, then advanced into Scotland and set a frontier between the Firths of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Affleck Biography (1745 - 1795)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1745, Aberdeen, Scot.—died March 5, 1795, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) Scottish-born U.S. cabinetmaker. Trained in England, he moved to Philadelphia, where he produced outstanding furniture in the Chippendale style for Gov. John Penn and other leading citizens. The Marlborough-style leg (straight, grooved, with a block foot) and elaborate carving characterize his work.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Encyclopædia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgius Agricola Biography (1494 - 1555)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Georg Bauer

(born March 24, 1494, Clauchau, Saxony—died Nov. 21, 1555, Chemnitz) German scholar and scientist known as the father of mineralogy. A town physician in Saxony (1527–33), he was among the first to found a natural science upon observation as opposed to speculation. His De re metallica (1556) dealt chiefly with mining and smelting; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Affleck Biography (1975- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, Director
Actor, director, screenwriter. Born Caleb Casey Affleck on August 12, 1975 in Falmouth, Massachusetts. After his parents&#8217; divorce, Casey Affleck and his older brother Ben were raised by their mother in Cambridge. It was she who first got the boys interested in acting, with Casey gaining notice for his turn as Bobby Kennedy in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Agre Biography (1949 - )</title>
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(born January 30, 1949, Northfield, Minnesota, U.S.) American doctor, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003 for his discovery of water channels in cell membranes. He shared the award with Roderick MacKinnon, also of the United States.
In 1974 Agre earned an M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 1981, following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristides Agramonte Biography (1868 - 1931)</title>
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(born June 3, 1868, Camagüey, Cuba—died Aug. 19, 1931, New Orleans, La., U.S.) Cuban-born U.S. physician, pathologist, and bacteriologist. Reared in New York City, he received his M.D. from Columbia University. He was a member of the U.S. Army&#8217;s Reed Yellow Fever Board, which discovered in 1901 the role of mosquitoes in transmitting yellow fever. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Affleck Biography (1972-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Actor, screenwriter. Born Benjamin Geza Affleck, on August 15, 1972, in Berkeley, California,to Chris and Tim Affleck. His parents separated soon after he was born and divorced when he was 11. Affleck grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first acting experience was in The Dark End of the Street(1979), an independent film produced by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S.Y. Agnon Biography (1888 - 1970)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Shmuel Yosef Agnon , pseudonym of Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes

(born July 17, 1888, Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Buchach, Ukraine]—died  Feb. 17, 1970, Reovot, Israel) Israeli writer who was one of the leading modern Hebrew novelists and short-story writers. In 1966 he was the corecipient, with Nelly Sachs, of the Nobel Prize for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>af al-Dn Biography (1253 - 1334)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born 1253, Ardabl, Iran—died Sept. 12, 1334, Ardabl) Iranian founder of the afavid Sufi order, which in time developed into the afavid dynasty. He was influenced by mystics of the Sufi order and by Sheikh Zhid, a religious leader whose daughter he eventually married. On Sheikh Zhid&#8217;s death, af al-Dn assumed leadership and gradually attracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiro T(heodore) Agnew Biography (1918 - 1996)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Spiro Theodore Agnew

(born Nov. 9, 1918, Baltimore, Md., U.S.—died Sept. 17, 1996, Berlin, Md.) 39th vice president of the United States (1969–73) in the Republican administration of President Richard M. Nixon. He was the second person to resign the nation&#8217;s second highest office (John C. Calhoun was the first in 1832) and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aethelflaed Biography (918 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also spelled Ethelfleda or Aelfled , also called Lady of the Mercians

(died June 12, 918, Tamworth, Eng.) Anglo-Saxon ruler of Mercia in England and founder of Gloucester Abbey.
The eldest child of King Alfred the Great, she helped her brother Edward the Elder, king of the West Saxons (reigned 899–924), in conquering the Danish armies occupying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Gaetana Agnesi Biography (1718 - 1799)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born May 16, 1718, Milan, Habsburg crown land [now in Italy]—died January 9, 1799, Milan) Italian mathematician and philosopher, considered to be the first woman in the Western world to have achieved a reputation in mathematics.
Agnesi was the eldest child of a wealthy silk merchant who provided her with the best tutors available. She was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aesop Biography (?6th-c BC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

the supposed author of a collection of Greek fables, almost certainly a legendary figure. Various attempts were made in ancient times to establish him as an actual personage. Herodotus in the 5th century  said that he had lived in the 6th century and that he was a slave, and Plutarch in the 1st century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Agnes Biography (304 - )</title>
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(flourished 4th century, Rome [Italy]; feast day January 21) virgin and patron saint of girls, who is one of the most celebrated Roman martyrs.
According to tradition, of uncertain value, Agnes was a beautiful girl, about 13 years old, who refused marriage, stating that she could have no spouse but Jesus Christ. Her suitors revealed her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agesilaus Biography (360 - 444)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born  444 —died 360, Cyrene, Cyrenaica) King of Sparta (399–360) and commander of its army during most of the era of Spartan supremacy (404–371). A member of the Eurypontid family, he took the throne with Lysander&#8217;s help while Sparta was fighting Persia. He defeated the allied Thebes, Athens, Argos, and Corinth in the Corinthian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aeschylus Biography (455 - 456)</title>
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(born 525/524—died 456/455 , Gela, Sicily) Greek tragic dramatist. He fought with the Athenian army at Marathon (490) and in 484 achieved the first of his many victories at the major dramatic competition in Athens. He wrote over 80 plays, but only 7 are extant; the earliest of these, Persians, was performed in 472 . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aeschines Biography (314 - 390)</title>
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(born 390 —died  314 ) Athenian orator. He and Demosthenes, who later became his bitter opponent, participated in 346  in forging a peace between Athens and Macedonia. Demosthenes later accused Aeschines of treason because he had promoted the Macedonian cause during the negotiations. At a trial (343) Aeschines was acquitted by a narrow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aloys, Count Lexa von Aehrenthal Biography (1854 - 1912)</title>
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(born Sept. 27, 1854, Gross-Skal, Bohemia—died Feb. 17, 1912, Vienna, Austria-Hungary) Austro-Hungarian diplomat. As foreign minister of Austria-Hungary (1906–12), he aggressively revived the empire&#8217;s dormant foreign policy. His proclamation of the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 provoked fears of war with Russia, inflamed Serbia&#8217;s Austrophobe passions, and drew international censure, leading to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Quincy Adams Biography (1767 - 1848)</title>
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(born July 11, 1767, Braintree [now Quincy], Massachusetts [U.S.]—died February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C., U.S.) eldest son of President John Adams and sixth president of the United States (1825–29). In his prepresidential years he was one of America&#8217;s greatest diplomats (formulating, among other things, what came to be called the Monroe Doctrine); in his postpresidential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Adams Biography (1735 - 1826)</title>
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(born October 30 [October 19, Old Style], 1735, Braintree [now in Quincy], Massachusetts [U.S.]—died July 4, 1826, Quincy) early advocate of American independence from Great Britain, major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), author of the Massachusetts constitution (1780), signer of the Treaty of Paris (1783), first American ambassador to the Court of St. James [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adriana Barraza Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. A popular star of Spanish television, Barraza is also a reputed acting coach and director in her native Mexico. In 2000, she appeared in Alejandro González Iñárritu&#8217;s critically acclaimed Amores Perros. Despite this success, she was virtually unrecognizable to mainstream audiences when cast as Amelia in Iñárritu&#8217;s award-winning film Babel. Barraza&#8217;s tough, complex performance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian Adrian Biography (1889 - 1977)</title>
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(born Nov. 30, 1889, London, Eng.—died  Aug. 4, 1977, Cambridge) British electrophysiologist who with Sir Charles Sherrington won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1932 for discoveries regarding the nerve cell.
Adrian graduated in medicine in 1915 from Trinity College, Cambridge. After medical service during World War I, he spent the greater part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adrian IV Biography (1100 - 1159)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Nicholas Breakspear
(born 1100?, Abbot&#8217;s Langley, near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died Sept. 1, 1159, Anagni, near Rome [Italy]) Pope (1154–59), the only Englishman ever to hold the office. He served in France and Italy before a successful mission to Scandinavia led to his election as pope. Adrian crowned Frederick I Barbarossa emperor in 1155, after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theodor Adorno Biography (1903 - 1969)</title>
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(born Sept. 11, 1903, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.—died Aug. 6, 1969, Visp, Switz.) German philosopher. He immigrated to England in 1934 to escape Nazism. He lived for 10 years in the U.S. (1938–48) before returning to Frankfurt, where he taught and headed the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research ( Frankfurt School). He is notable for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolf Biography (1817 - 1905)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Adolf, Duke (Herzog) von Nassau , in full Adolf Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich

(born July 24, 1817, Biebrich, Nassau [Germany]—died Nov. 17, 1905, Hohenberg, Württemberg, Ger.) duke of Nassau from 1839 to 1867, who, as grand duke of Luxembourg from 1890 to 1905, was the first ruler of that autonomous duchy.
The son of Duke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolf Biography (1250 - 1298)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Adolf, Count (Graf) Von Nassau


(born c. 1250—died July 2, 1298, Göllheim, near Worms [Germany]) German king from May 5, 1292, to June 23, 1298, when he was deposed in favour of his Habsburg opponent, Albert I.
Adolf, who was count of Nassau from 1277 and a mercenary soldier of repute, was chosen king at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Adamson Biography (1821–48)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chemist and pioneer in photography, born in Scotland, UK. In 1843 he helped David Hill apply the Calotype process of making photographic prints on silver chloride paper. Working together, they produced some 2500 Calotypes, mainly portraits but also landscapes (1843–8).
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		<title>Joy Adamson Biography (1910 - 1980)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[née Joy-Friederike Victoria Gessner

(born Jan. 20, 1910, Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]—died Jan. 3, 1980, Shaba National Reserve, Kenya) conservationist who pioneered the movement to preserve African wildlife.
Following an education in Vienna, she relocated to Kenya (1939), where she married George Adamson (1944), a British game warden who had worked in Kenya as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walter (Sydney) Adams Biography (1876 - 1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 20, 1876, Syria—died May 11, 1956, Pasadena, Calif., U.S.) American astronomer who is best known for his spectroscopic studies. Using the spectroscope, he investigated sunspots and the rotation of the Sun, the velocities and distances of thousands of stars, and planetary atmospheres.
Born of missionary parents who returned to the United States when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Adams Biography (1722 - 1803)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Sept. 27, 1722, Boston, Mass.—died Oct. 2, 1803, Boston, Mass., U.S.) American Revolutionary leader. A cousin of John Adams, he graduated from Harvard College in 1740 and briefly practiced law. He became a strong opponent of British taxation measures and organized resistance to the Stamp Act. He was a member of the state legislature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortimer J(erome) Adler Biography (1902 - 2001)</title>
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(born Dec. 28, 1902, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died June 28, 2001, San Mateo, Calif.) U.S. philosopher, educator, and editor. He earned a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University (1928) and taught philosophy of law from 1930 at the University of Chicago, where with Robert M. Hutchins he promoted the idea of liberal education through regular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louisa Adams Biography (1775 - 1852)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born February 12, 1775, London, England—died May 15, 1852, Washington, D.C., U.S.) American first lady (1825–29), the wife of John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States.
Louisa Johnson was born to Joshua Johnson, an American businessman from Maryland, and an Englishwoman, Katherine Nuth Johnson. Louisa was the only first lady born abroad. When she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Adler Biography (1914 - 2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Lawrence Cecil Adler

(born Feb. 10, 1914, Baltimore, Md., U.S.—died Aug. 7, 2001, London, Eng.) U.S. harmonica player. Though he was initially unable to read music, he learned classical compositions by ear and became the first person to perform concert music on the harmonica. His musicality attracted many composers to write especially for him, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guido Adler Biography (1855 - 1941)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 1, 1855, Eibenschütz, Moravia, Austrian Empire—died Feb. 15, 1941, Vienna, Austria) Austrian musicologist. After studying music theory and composition at the Vienna Conservatory, he studied music history at the University of Vienna under Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904), whom he succeeded as professor. He worked with Philipp Spitta (1841–94) and Friedrich Chrysander in founding musicology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfred Adler Biography (1870 - 1937)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 7, 1870, Penzing, Austria—died May 28, 1937, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scot.) Austrian psychiatrist. He earned his medical degree in Vienna, and from his earliest years as a physician he stressed consideration of the individual in relation to his total environment. A student and associate of Sigmund Freud (1902–11), he eventually broke with Freud over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Adams Biography (1947 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Second president of the United States, first vice president of the United States, writer, lawyer, diplomat. Born on October 30, 1735 (by the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1752), in Braintree, Massachusetts (now part of Quincy).
A man known for his intellect and blunt manner of speaking, John Adams served as president of the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Konrad Adenauer Biography (1876 - 1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Jan. 15, 1876, Cologne, German Empire—died April 19, 1967, Rhöndorf, W.Ger.) German statesman, first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). Elected to the Cologne city council (1906), he served as the city&#8217;s lord mayor (1917–33). He was elected to the Prussian Staatsrat (state council) in 1920 and served as its speaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St, Adelaide Biography (931 - 999)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[German Adelheid die Heilige , French Sainte Adélaïde , Italian Santa Adelaide

(born  931—died Dec. 16, 999, Seltz, Alsace [now in France]; feast day December 16) consort of the Western emperor Otto I and, later, regent for her grandson Otto III; one of the most influential women of 10th-century Europe, she helped strengthen the German [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Addison Biography (1672 - 1719)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born May 1, 1672, Milston, Wiltshire, Eng.—died June 17, 1719, London) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. His poem on the Battle of Blenheim, The Campaign (1705), brought him to the attention of leading Whigs and paved the way to important government posts (including secretary of state) and literary fame. With Richard Steele, he was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Adams Biography (1838 - 1918)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 16, 1838, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died March 27, 1918, Washington, D.C.) U.S. historian and man of letters. A product of Boston&#8217;s elite Brahmin class and a descendant of two presidents, he was infused with disgust for American politics of his time. As a young newspaper correspondent and editor, he called for social and political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nat Adderley Biography (1931 - 2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Nathaniel Adderley

(born November 25, 1931, Tampa, Florida, U.S.—died January 2, 2000, Lakeland, Florida) American cornetist and songwriter who starred in the popular “soul jazz” quintet headed (1959–75) by his older brother, Cannonball Adderley.
Although he began playing the trumpet in his teens, Nat Adderley switched in 1950 to the somewhat smaller cornet, playing it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gerry Adams Biography (1948 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Gerard Adams

(born Oct. 6, 1948, Belfast, N.Ire.) Irish nationalist and president of Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was interned without trial as a suspected terrorist in 1972, 1973–76, and 1978. He became vice president of Sinn Féin in 1978 and persuaded the group to enter candidates in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannonball Adderley Biography (1928 - 1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Julian Edwin Adderley

(born September 15, 1928, Tampa, Florida, U.S.—died August 8, 1975, Gary, Indiana) one of the most prominent and popular American jazz musicians of the 1950s and &#8217;60s whose exuberant music was firmly in the bop school but which also employed the melodic sense of traditional jazz. A multi-instrumentalist, Adderley is best-known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Adams Biography (1923-2005)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Comedian, actor. Born Donald Yarmy on April 13, 1923 in New York City. Born of Irish-Hungarian heritage, Yarmy served in the U.S. Marine Cops during World War II. Although he started his post-war career as an engineer, Yarmy turned to stand-up comedy in the 1950s, changing his name to Adams because he got tired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Addams Biography (1860 - 1935)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social reformer, pacifist, and feminist. Born Laura Jane Addams on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. Jane Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. She also established the Hull-House in Chicago, which was the city’s first settlement house and one of the earliest ones created in the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Francis Adams Biography (1807 - 1886)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Aug. 18, 1807, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 21, 1886, Boston) U.S. diplomat. The son of John Quincy Adams and the grandson of John Adams, he served in the Massachusetts legislature and edited a Whig journal. He helped form the antislavery Free-Soil Party and in 1848 was chosen its candidate for U.S. vice president. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Samuel Addams Biography (1955 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cartoonist. Born January 7, 1912 in Westfield, New Jersey. After studying at Colgate University and graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Addams became a regular contributor to The New Yorker in 1935, specializing in macabre humor. His syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, was the first incarnation of a ghoulish group of characters called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ansel (Easton) Adams Biography (1902 - 1984)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born February 20, 1902, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died April 22, 1984, Carmel, California) the most important landscape photographer of the 20th century. He is also perhaps the most widely known and beloved photographer in the history of the United States; the popularity of his work has only increased since his death. Adams&#8217;s most important work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Addams Biography (1912 - 1988)</title>
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(born Jan. 7, 1912, Westfield, N.J., U.S.—died Sept. 29, 1988, New York, N.Y.) U.S. cartoonist. He worked briefly as a commercial artist before selling his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1933. He became famous for darkly humorous cartoons depicting morbid behaviour by sinister-looking characters, especially a family of ghouls whose activities travestied those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marvin Lee Aday (Meat Loaf) Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor, singer, songwriter. Born September 27, 1948 in Dallas, Texas. As a child, Marvin Lee Aday grew up in a family of gospel singers and sang in the local church choir. In the late 1960s, he dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in theater. But soon after making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michel Adanson Biography (1727 - 1806)</title>
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(born April 7, 1727, Aix-en-Provence, France—died Aug. 3, 1806, Paris) French botanist. He studied theology, classics, and philosophy in Paris before traveling to Senegal, where he lived several years. He returned with a large collection of plant specimens, now in the National Museum of Natural History. In Families of Plants (1763), he described his classification [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abigail Adams Biography (1744 - 1818)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former first lady, writer. Born Abigail Smith on November 22, 1744, (by the Gregorian calendar we use today) in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Abigail Adams is best known as the wife of President John Adams and for her extensive correspondence. She was also the mother of John Quincy Adams who became the sixth president of the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur Adamov Biography (1908 - 1970)</title>
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(born Aug. 23, 1908, Kislovodsk, Russia—died March 16, 1970, Paris, France) Russian-born French playwright. He settled in Paris in 1924, and his first major work, written after suffering a nervous breakdown, was his autobiography, The Confession (1938–43). Influenced by August Strindberg and Franz Kafka, he began writing plays in 1947. Professor Taranne (1953) and Ping-Pong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Adam Biography (1728 - 1792)</title>
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(born July 3, 1728, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scot.—died March 3, 1792, London, Eng.) Scottish architect and designer. Son of the architect William Adam, he apprenticed in his father&#8217;s offices. He traveled in Europe in 1754–58, studying architectural theory and Roman ruins. On his return to London, he and his brother James (1732–94) developed an essentially decorative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adam and Eve Biography ()</title>
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in the Judeo-Christian and Islmic traditions, the original human couple, parents of the human race. 
In the Bible, there are two accounts of their creation. According to the Priestly (P) history of the 5th or 6th century  (Genesis 1:1–2:4), God on the sixth day of Creation created all the living creatures and, “in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Adalbert Biography (956 - 997)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Vojtch

(born 956, Libice?, Bohemia—died April 23, 997, near Gdask, Pol.; feast day April 23) Czech prelate. Descended from the princes of Bohemia, he was trained in theology at Magdeburg. Elected the first native bishop of Prague in 982, he promoted the political aims of the Bohemian prince by extending the influence of the church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ada Biography (1158–c.1223)</title>
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High-level computer programming language whose development was initiated in 1975 by the U.S. Dept. of Defense and standardized in 1983. Ada (named for the countess of Lovelace) was intended to be a common language for use on the department&#8217;s computers, which were produced by many different manufacturers. It is similar to Pascal but contains many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Adair Biography (1915-2004 )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[popular name of Paul Adair
 Fire-fighting specialist, born in Houston, Texas, USA. He is regularly called in as a troubleshooter to deal with major oil fires. In 1984 he and his team put out a major fire on an offshore rig near Rio de Janeiro, and in 1988 they were the first men to board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roy Acuff Biography (1903 - 1992)</title>
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(born Sept. 15, 1903, Maynardsville, Tenn., U.S.—died Nov. 23, 1992, Nashville, Tenn.) U.S. singer, songwriter, and fiddler. He turned to music after an aborted baseball career and gained immediate popularity with his recordings of “The Great Speckled Bird” and “The Wabash Cannonball.” Reasserting the mournful musical traditions of Southeastern rural whites, he became a national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton (of Aldenham) Biography (1834 - 1902)</title>
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(born Jan.10, 1834, Naples, Kingdom of Naples—died June 19, 1902, Tegernsee, Bavaria, German Empire) English historian. He served in the House of Commons (1859–65). Editor of the Roman Catholic monthly The Rambler (1859–64), he resigned because of papal criticism of his scientific approach to history. An adviser to William E. Gladstone from 1865, he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uriel Acosta Biography (1585 - 1640)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Gabriel da Costa

(born  1585, Oporto, Port.—died April 1640, Amsterdam, Neth.) Portuguese Jewish freethinker. Born into a Marrano family, he came to feel that there was no salvation through the Roman Catholic church and converted to Judaism. His mother and brother also converted, and he and his family fled to Amsterdam. In 1616 he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Konrad Ernst Ackermann Biography (1710 - 1712)</title>
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(baptized Feb. 4, 1712, Schwerin, Mecklenburg—died Nov. 13, 1771, Hamburg) German actor-manager. After training with a theatre company that specialized in German adaptations of French plays, he led a troupe on tour throughout Europe in the 1750s. He became known for domestic drama and for playing roles that combined the comic and the sentimental. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achilles Painter Biography (401 - 500)</title>
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(flourished 5th century ) Greek vase painter, named for an amphora decorated with a painting of Achilles and Briseis attributed to him. He was active in Athens in the time of Pericles and was a contemporary of Phidias. His Achilles vase ( 450 ) is among the finest surviving examples of red-figure pottery from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward (Goodrich) Acheson Biography (1856 - 1931</title>
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(born March 9, 1856, Washington, Pa., U.S.—died July 6, 1931, New York, N.Y.) U.S. inventor. He helped develop the incandescent lamp and in 1881 installed the first electric lights for Thomas Alva Edison in Italy, Belgium, and France. Attempting to produce artificial diamonds, he created instead the highly effective abrasive material Carborundum. He later found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dean Acheson Biography (1893 - 1971)</title>
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(born April 11, 1893, Middletown, Conn., U.S.—died Oct. 12, 1971, Sandy Spring, Md.) U.S. secretary of state (1949–53). After graduating from Yale University and Harvard Law School, he practiced law in Washington, D.C. In 1941 he joined the State Department, where he later served as undersecretary (1945–47). In 1947 he helped design the Truman Doctrine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinua Achebe Biography (1930 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Albert Chinualumogu Achebe

(born Nov. 16, 1930, Ogidi, Nigeria) prominent Igbo (Ibo) novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the social and psychological disorientation accompanying the imposition of Western customs and values upon traditional African society. His particular concern was with emergent Africa at its moments of crisis; his novels range in subject matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bella Abzug Biography (1920 - 1998)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[orig. Bella Savitzky
Feminist, lawyer, congresswoman, and politician. Born Bella Savitzky on July 24, 1920, in New York, New York. Bold and outspoken, Bella Abzug was a leading liberal activist and politician in the 1960s and 1970s, especially known for her work for women’s rights. She knew from experience the challenges women faced professionally and politically. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absalom Biography (1020 - )</title>
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(flourished c. 1020 , , Palestine) third and favourite son of David, king of Israel and Judah.
The picture of Absalom that is presented in 2 Samuel 13–19 suggests that he was the Alcibiades of the Old Testament, alike in his personal attractiveness, his lawless insolence, and his tragic fate. He is first mentioned as murdering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexei A Abrikosov Biography (1928 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Alexey Alexeevich Abrikosov

(born June 25, 1928, Moscow, U.S.S.R. [now Russia]) Russian physicist, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2003 for his pioneering contribution to the theory of superconductivity. He shared the award with Vitaly L. Ginzburg of Russia and Anthony J. Leggett of Great Britain.
Abrikosov received doctorates in physics from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich Biography (1966– )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Multi-billionaire businessman and entrepreneur, born in Saratov, S Russia. Born into impoverished circumstances and orphaned at age two, he was raised by an uncle and his family in Ukhta, N Russia. While still a student at the Moscow Auto Transport Institute (1987), he set up a small company producing plastic toys, and its success enabled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Abraham Biography (1877 - 1925)</title>
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(born May 3, 1877, Bremen, Ger.—died Dec. 25, 1925, Berlin) German psychoanalyst. He helped establish the first branch of the International Psychoanalytic Institute in 1910 and pioneered the psychoanalytic treatment of manic-depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder). He suggested that the sexual drive develops in six stages and that if development is arrested at any of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Biography (1501 - 2000)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hebrew Avraham , originally called Abram or, in Hebrew, Avram

(flourished early 2nd millennium ) first of the Hebrew patriarchs and a figure revered by the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the biblical book of Genesis, Abraham left Ur, in Mesopotamia, because God called him to found a new nation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abigail Breslin Biography (1996- )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actress. Born Abigail Kathleen Breslin on April 14, 1996 in New York City. The younger sister of actor Spencer Breslin, Abigail got her start in television commercials before M. Night Shyamalan cast her as Mel Gibson&#8217;s daughter in 2002&#8217;s Signs. Since then, she has had supporting roles in several films, including Raising Helen, The Princess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abigail Biography (901 - 1000)</title>
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in the Old Testament, the wife of Nabal of southern Judah, on whose death she became one of the first wives of David (1 Samuel 25) and the mother of his son Chileab. The name Abigail was also borne by David&#8217;s sister (1 Chronicles 2:16), who was the mother of Amasa, commander of the army [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph D(avid) Abernathy Biography (1926 - 1990)</title>
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(born March 11, 1926, Linden, Ala., U.S.—died April 17, 1990, Atlanta, Ga.) black American pastor and civil-rights leader who was Martin Luther King&#8217;s chief aide and closest associate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and &#8217;60s.
The son of a successful farmer, Abernathy was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1948 and graduated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Aberhart Biography (1878 - 1943)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[nickname Bible Bill

(born Dec. 30, 1878, Kippen, Ont., Can.—died May 23, 1943, Vancouver, B.C.) Canadian politician and the country&#8217;s first Social Credit Party premier (Alberta, 1935–43). Aberhart was a high school principal in Calgary, Alta. (1915–35). An active lay preacher, he founded the Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute (1918). In 1932 he used his evangelical rhetoric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen Biography (1784 - 1860)</title>
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(born Jan. 28, 1784, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Dec. 14, 1860, London, Eng.) British foreign secretary and prime minister (1852–55). As special ambassador to Austria in 1813, he helped form the coalition that defeated Napoleon. As foreign secretary (1828–30, 1841–46), he settled boundary disputes between Canada and the U.S. with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty and the Oregon Treaty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Abelard Biography (1079 - 1142)</title>
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(born 1079, Le Pallet, near Nantes, Brittany—died April 21, 1142, Priory of Saint-Marcel, near Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy) French theologian and philosopher. The son of a knight, he abandoned his inheritance to study philosophy. He became private tutor to Héloïse, niece of a canon in Paris,  1114. They fell in love; Héloïse became pregnant, and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abel Biography ()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
in the Old Testament, second son of Adam and Eve, who was slain by his older brother, Cain (Genesis 4:1–16). According to Genesis, Abel, a shepherd, offered the Lord the firstborn of his flock. The Lord respected Abel&#8217;s sacrifice but did not respect that offered by Cain. In a jealous rage, Cain murdered Abel. Cain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abedi Ayew Pelé Biography (1964 - )</title>
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(born November 5, 1964, Ghana) Ghanaian football (soccer) player who was the only man to have won the African Player of the Year award three consecutive times (1991–93). As an attacking midfielder with Olympique de Marseille in France, Abedi Pelé was one of the first African players to have an impact on club football in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abe Shinzo Biography (1954 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Sept. 21, 1954, Tokyo, Japan) Japanese politician, who was prime minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007.
Abe was a member of a prominent political family. His grandfather Kishi Nobusuke served as Japan&#8217;s prime minister from 1957 to 1960, and his great-uncle Sato Eisaku held the same post from 1964 to 1972. After graduating from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abdülhamid II Biography (1842 - 1918)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Sept. 21, 1842, Constantinople—died Feb. 10, 1918, Constantinople) Sultan (1876–1909) of the Ottoman Empire under whose rule the Tanzimat reform movement reached its climax. After initially promoting the first Ottoman constitution (primarily to ward off foreign intervention), he suspended it 14 months later and ruled thereafter as a despot. He used Pan-Islamism to rally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Biography (1947 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called (until 1971) Lew Alcindor, byname of Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.
Basketball player. Born Lewis Ferninand Alcindor on April 16, 1947, in New York, New York. Standing an amazing 7 foot, 2 inches tall, Abdul-Jabbar was one of the best players in basketball history. He started at basketball starting at an early age. Playing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paula Abdul Biography (1962-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

American Idol judge Paul Abdul suffered an awkward lapse in judgment Tuesday night (April 29, 2008) that left her fellow judges, host Ryan Seacrest and millions of television viewers scratching their heads.

She apparently got tripped up by last-minute change of procedure on the popular TV musical talent show.  Instead of offering a critique immediately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tunku Abdul Rahman (Putra Alhaj) Biography (1903 - 1990)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Feb. 8, 1903, Alor Star, Kedah, Malaya—died Dec. 6, 1990, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) First prime minister of independent Malaya (1957–63) and then of Malaysia (1963–70). He was educated in England and served in the Malayan Federal Legal Department (1949–51) before pursuing a career in politics. As president of the United Malays National Organization, Abdul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Biography (1931 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Oct. 15, 1931, Rameswaram, India) Indian president (2002–07). After graduating from the Madras Institute of Technology, Kalam played a leading role in the development of India&#8217;s missile and nuclear weapons programs. He planned a program that produced a number of successful missiles, helping earn him the nickname “Missile Man.” Beginning in the early 1990s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abd-el-Krim Biography (1882 - 1963)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full Muammad ibn &#8216;Abd al-Karm al-Khab

(born 1882, Ajdir, Mor.—died Feb. 6, 1963, Cairo, Egypt) Berber resistance leader against Spanish and French rule in northern Morocco. He was chief Muslim judge for Morocco&#8217;s Melilla district. He became disillusioned with Spanish policies and eventually led a resistance movement with his brother. He set up the Republic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abd-el-Kader Biography (1808 - 1883)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[in full &#8216;Abd al-Qdir ibn Muy al-Dn ibn Musaf al-asan al-Jaz&#8217;ir

(born Sept. 6, 1808, near Mascara, Alg.—died May 26, 1883, Damascus, Syria) Founder of modern Algeria and leader of its struggle against the French. His father had led a harassment campaign against the French, who invaded Algeria in 1830. Abdelkader succeeded his father as emir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir John Abbott Biography (1821 - 1893)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born March 12, 1821, St. Andrews, Lower Canada—died Oct. 30, 1893, Montreal, Que., Can.) Canadian prime minister (1891–92). Educated at McGill University in Montreal, he became a lawyer in 1847 and was made queen&#8217;s counsel in 1862. He was dean of McGill University law school from 1855 to 1880. After serving in the legislative assembly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lyman Abbott Biography (1835 - 1922)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(born Dec. 18, 1835, Roxbury, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 22, 1922, New York, N.Y.) U.S. minister. Son of the writer Jacob Abbott (1803–79), he left law practice to study theology and was ordained in 1860. He became editor of the Illustrated Christian Weekly in 1870 and editor in chief of Henry Ward Beecher&#8217;s Christian Union in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Abbott Biography (1878 - 1939)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Nov. 17, 1878, Grand Island, Neb., U.S.—died June 19, 1939, Chicago, Ill.) U.S. social worker, public administrator, educator, and reformer. She graduated from Grand Island College and did graduate work at the University of Nebraska and the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in political science in 1909. In 1908 she began working at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Abbott Biography (1887 - 1995)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born June 25, 1887, Forestville, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 31, 1995, Miami Beach, Fla.) U.S. theatre director, producer, and playwright. In 1913 he began acting on Broadway, and he soon turned to writing and directing plays, achieving his first of many hits with The Fall Guy (1925). He also wrote, directed, or produced many popular musicals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berenice Abbott Biography (1898 - 1991)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born July 17, 1898, Springfield, Ohio, U.S.—died Dec. 9, 1991, Monson, Maine) U.S. photographer. She left the American Midwest in 1918 to study in New York City, Paris, and Berlin. In Paris she became an assistant to Man Ray and Eugène Atget. In 1925 she set up her own studio and made portraits of Parisian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott and Costello Biography ()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
U.S. comedic duo that was regarded as the archetypal team of burlesque comedy. Bud Abbott (orig. William Alexander Abbott; b. Oct. 2, 1895, Asbury Park, N.J., U.S.—d. April 24, 1974, Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Lou Costello (orig. Louis Francis Cristillo; b. March 6, 1906, Paterson, N.J., U.S.—d. March 3, 1959, East Los Angeles, Calif.) began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Abbey Biography (1927 - 1989)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Jan. 29, 1927, Home, Pa., U.S.—died March 14, 1989, Oracle, Ariz.) U.S. writer and environmentalist. Abbey worked as a park ranger and fire lookout for the National Park Service. He wrote a number of volumes on consumer culture&#8217;s encroachment on the American wilderness. Desert Solitaire (1968), one of his best-known, is set in southeastern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleveland Abbe Biography (1838 - 1916)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(born Dec. 3, 1838, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 28, 1916, Chevy Chase, Md.) U.S. meteorologist. He was trained as an astronomer and appointed director of the Cincinnati Observatory in 1868. His interest turned to meteorology, and he inaugurated a public weather service that served as a model for the national weather service, which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niccolo dell&#8217; Abbate Biography (1512 - 1571)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or Niccolo dell&#8217;Abate

(born  1512, Modena, Duchy of Modena—died 1571, Fontainebleau, Fr.) Italian painter. He was trained in Modena and developed his mature style under the influence of his contemporaries Correggio and Parmigianino in Bologna (1544–52). There he painted portraits and decorated palaces with frescoes of landscapes and figure compositions in the Mannerist style. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mahmoud Abbas Biography (1935 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also called Abu Mazen

(born 1935, Zefat, Palestine [now in Israel]) Palestinian leader. Abbas earned a law degree from the University of Damascus and a doctorate in history from Moscow State University. In the late 1950s he was one of the founders of Fatah, which spearheaded the Palestinian armed struggle and dominated the Palestine Liberation Organization. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferhat Abbas Biography (1899 - 1985)</title>
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(born Aug. 24, 1899, Chahna, Alg.—died Dec. 24, 1985, Algiers) Algerian political leader who served as first president of the provisional government of the Algerian Republic (1958). Originally a Francophile, he became disillusioned with France, and during World War II (1939–45) he issued a condemnation of French rule, demanding a constitution that would grant equality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbas I Biography (1571 - 1629)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[known as &#8216;Abbs the Great


(born Jan. 27, 1571—died Jan. 19, 1629) Shah of Persia (1587–1629). Succeeding his father, Muammad Shah, he strengthened the afavid dynasty by expelling Ottoman and Uzbek troops and creating a standing army. &#8216;Abbs made Efahan Persia&#8217;s capital, and under him it became one of the world&#8217;s most beautiful cities. Persian artistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claudio Abbado Biography (1933 - )</title>
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(born June 26, 1933, Milan, Italy) Italian conductor. Abbado studied piano, composition, and conducting at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory before beginning to conduct in Vienna. He was long associated with Milan&#8217;s La Scala (1968–86), as principal conductor and ultimately as artistic director, as well as with the Vienna Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abba Biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swedish pop singing group, formed in 1973 by Björn Ulvaeus (1945– , guitar, vocals), married to Agnetha Fältskog (1950– , vocals), and Benny Andersson (1945– , keyboards, vocals), married to Anni-Frid (known as Frida) Lyngstad (1945– , vocals). The group&#8217;s name derives from their first-name initials. Their major international breakthrough came with the winning song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magdalena Abakanowicz Biography (1930 - )</title>
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(born June 20, 1930, Falenty, Pol.) Polish sculptor. A descendant of nobility, she graduated from Warsaw&#8217;s Academy of Fine Arts in 1955. She became the pioneer and leading exponent of sculpture made of woven fabrics, calling her three-dimensional weavings “Abakans” (from her surname). She produced series of fabric forms called Heads (1975), Backs (1976–80), Embryology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ab Muslim Biography (755 - )</title>
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(d. 755)  Leader of a revolutionary movement in Khorsn whose efforts brought down the Umayyad dynasty. Born into the mawl (non-Arab Muslim) class and of humble origins, he met an agent of the &#8216;Abbsid family while in prison (741). After his arranged release, he was sent to Khorsn (745–746) to instigate a revolt. Recruiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ab Bakr Biography (573 - 634)</title>
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(born  573, Mecca, Hejaz, Arabian Peninsula—died Aug. 23, 634, Medina) One of the close Companions of the Prophet Muhammad and the first Muslim caliph. Some Muslim traditions say he was the first male convert to Islam after Muhammad. He became caliph after Muhammad&#8217;s death in 632, and during his two years in that office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ab anfah Biography (699 - 767)</title>
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(born 699, Kfah, Iraq—died 767, Baghdad) Muslim jurist and theologian. The son of a merchant in Kfah, he gained wealth in the silk trade and studied law under the noted jurist ammd. After ammd&#8217;s death (738), Ab anfah became his successor. He was the first to develop systematic legal doctrines from the accumulated Islamic legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hank Aaron Biography (1934 - )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[byname of Henry Louis Aaron
Baseball player.Born Henry Louis Aaron on February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama.
Formerly baseball&#8217;s all-time home-run king, Aaron played 23 years as an outfielder for the Milwaukee (later Atlanta) Braves and Milwaukee Brewers (1954–76). He holds many of baseball&#8217;s most distinguished records, including runs batted in (2,297), extra base hits (1,477), total bases (6,856) and most years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aaron Biography (1301 - 1400)</title>
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(flourished  14th century ) the traditional founder and head of the Jewish priesthood, who, with his brother Moses, led the Israelites out of Egypt. The figure of Aaron as it is now found in the Pentateuch is built up from several sources of traditions. In the Talmud and Midrash he is seen as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alvar Aalto Biography (1898 - 1976)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(born Feb. 3, 1898, Kuortane, Fin., Russian Empire—died May 11, 1976, Helsinki) Finnish architect and designer. He graduated from the Technical Institute of Helsinki and in 1925 married Aino Marsio, who served as his collaborator. His reputation rests on a distinctive style that blends classic Modernism, indigenous materials (especially timber), and personal expression. His unique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aaliyah Haughton Biography (1979-2001)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer, actress. Born Aaliyah Dana Haughton, on January 16, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York. Raised in Detroit, Michigan, the young singer competed unsuccessfully on the television program Star Search at age 11. Later that same year, she performed with R&#38;B legend Gladys Knight, the former wife of her uncle and manager, Barry Hankerson, at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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		<title>Christina Milian</title>
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Cuban-American Christina Milian was born in New Jersey but raised in Maryland, making her debut as an actress at a very young age while playing a role in a children-oriented musical, working as junior journalist for The Walt Disney Company, and making guest appearances on Sister Sister and Clueless, among other popular TV shows. Milian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brand New</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Formed on Long Island, NY, Brand New appeared on the punk-pop scene in 2000. Consisting of drummer Brian Lane, vocalist/guitarist Jesse Lacey, bassist Garrett Tierney, and guitarist Vin Accardi, the band began making a name for itself on the local scene with a self-released four-song demo and shows with bands like Midtown and Glassjaw. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Isaak</title>
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Chris Isaak clearly loves the reverb-laden rockabilly and country of Sun Studios. In particular, he transfers the sweeping melancholy of Roy Orbison&#8217;s classic Monument singles (&#8221;Crying,&#8221; &#8220;Oh, Pretty Woman,&#8221; &#8220;In Dreams&#8221;) to the more stripped-down, rootsy sound of Sun. His stylized take on &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s rock &#38; roll eventually made him into a star [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2026</link>
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		<title>Michelle Branch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ust three years after Michelle Branch first picked up a guitar at the age of 14, she was signed to Maverick Records with an album in stores. Branch&#8217;s debut, The Spirit Room, was produced by John Shanks (Melissa Etheridge, Chris Isaak) and issued in August 2001, spawning the leadoff hit single/video &#8220;Everywhere.&#8221; Although she lists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2025</link>
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		<title>Chris Cornell</title>
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Originally finding success as the singer/frontman of Seattle&#8217;s Soundgarden, Chris Cornell also forged a successful solo career after the band&#8217;s 1997 demise. Born in Seattle on July 20, 1964, Cornell&#8217;s music career didn&#8217;t take shape until he was a teenager, playing drums in bands that mixed punk/new wave (the Police) and metal (AC/DC) covers. Although [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2024</link>
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		<title>Brady Brock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While growing up in his native Houston, singer/songwriter Brady Brock found himself following punk&#8217;s hard edge. He joined a band called the Grimple Twins and began playing bass and guitar. By the time he finished college, Brock had already traded his southern roots for the New York City way of life. He developed a fondness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=2023</link>
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		<title>Chris Brown</title>
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Although he started out as an aspiring rapper, Chris Brown&#8217;s early discovery of his singing talent inspired him to follow in the footsteps of influences like Michael Jackson, Tevin Campbell, and Usher. The 16-year-old Virginia native made his debut in summer 2005 with the Scott Storch-produced, Juelz Santana collaboration &#8220;Run It.&#8221; Brown&#8217;s first album, Young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Bradley&#8217;s Blackwater Surprise</title>
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An anachronism in the world of late-&#8217;90s rock &#38; roll, Robert Bradley&#8217;s Blackwater Surprise consists of the group&#8217;s namesake, a wizened Detroit street singer, plus three relatively fresh-faced alterna-kids as a backing band. Robert Bradley was born in Alabama, but gained musical experience and spirit by singing as a child at The Alabama School for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chomsky</title>
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Dallas-based alt-pop quintet Chomsky is comprised of members Matt Kellum (drums), Sean Halleck (guitar, vocals), Glen Reynolds (guitar, vocals), Don Cento (keyboards), and James Driscoll (bass), most of who met each other during their college careers. Musically comparable to such late-&#8217;90s pop-punk chart-toppers as Blink 182, Green Day, and Weezer (with perhaps a dash of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boyz N da Hood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In mid-2003, four of the ATL&#8217;s hardest solo MC&#8217;s, Duke, Big Gee, Jeezy and Jody Breeze, came together to form the super-group Boyz N Da Hood. Referred to as the &#8220;NWA of the South,&#8221; Boyz N Da Hood aren&#8217;t just another crunk group from the ATL, these Boyz have a message. Reminiscent of NWA and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiodos</title>
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Originally known as the Chiodos Bros., the sextet better known as simply Chiodos (pronounced &#8220;chee-OH-dose&#8221;) &#8212; named after an obscure &#8217;80s horror movie term &#8212; came together during high school in their hometown of Davison, MI, located just outside of Flint. Citing influences like Saves the Day, At the Drive-In, and Queen, the band&#8217;s sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boyz II Men</title>
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According to no less an authority than the RIAA, Boyz II Men are the most commercially successful R&#38;B group of all time. They&#8217;ve sold ludicrous numbers of records and been involved in three of the longest-running number one pop singles in history, and they&#8217;ve done it as a unit of equals. In fact, their four-part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chingy</title>
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Reminiscent of Nelly and repped by Ludacris &#8212; the Dirty South&#8217;s two biggest stars in the early 2000s &#8212; Chingy had all the makings of a rap sensation and indeed lived up to his promise immediately, when his debut single, &#8220;Right Thurr,&#8221; became an overnight summer anthem in 2003. Like Nelly and his St. Lunatics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chimpz</title>
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		<title>Boys Night Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ontario-based pop-punk/emo/lotsa yelling combo Boys Night Out included vocalist Connor Lovat-Fraser, guitarists Jeff Davis and Rob Pasalic, bassist Dave Costa, and drummer Ben Arseneau. They debuted in 2002 with Broken Bones and Bloody Kisses (Ferret Music) and immediately began a furious touring regimen that would continue nearly unabated until the end of eternity. (Fellow travelers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boys Like Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unafraid to wear their heart on their collective sleeve, Boston-based pop/rock outfit Boys Like Girls feature singer/guitarist Martin Johnson, bassist Bryan Donahue, drummer John Keefe, and guitarist Paul DiGiovanni (the last two being cousins). After Boys Like Girls posted some early demos online, the band&#8217;s catchy hooks and youthful enthusiasm had gathered them quite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chimaira</title>
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Formed in 1998, the Cleveland, OH-based hardcore sextet Chimaira consists of singer/screamer Mark Hunter, guitarists Matt DeVries (who replaced Jason Hager in mid-2001) and Rob Arnold, bassist Jim LaMarca, drummer Andols Herrick, and electronic specialist Chris Spicuzza. The band&#8217;s mixture of hardcore, metal, and electronics proved to be a big hit back home, as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children Of Bodom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To a promising quintet hailing from Finland, it was acknowledged that few bands these days set out to do something creatively unique without giving any thought to whether or not it would be commercially acceptable. Therefore, in 1997, the band in question, known as Children of Bodom, got together with the sole intention of making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boy Sets Fire</title>
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Progressive hardcore band Boy Sets Fire was formed in Delaware in 1994 by singer Nathan Gray, guitarists Josh Latshaw and Chad Istvan, bassist Darrell Hyde, and drummer Matt Krupanski. Self-releasing their debut single, &#8220;Consider,&#8221; in 1995, Boy Sets Fire soon resurfaced with a split release with Jazz Man&#8217;s Needle, winning acclaim not only for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheyenne Kimball</title>
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Texas native Cheyenne Nichole Kimball had a love for music at an early age. At the age of 7 she was given a guitar as a gift and by age 8, she penned her first song&#8211;&#8221;All I Want Is You&#8221;. Three months and 12 songs later, she booked herself in a local contest performing her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boy Kill Boy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Peck (vocals/guitar), Shaz (drums), Pete Carr (keyboards), and Kevin Chase (bass/vocals) comprise the bright indie rock sounds of Boy Kill Boy. Founded in 2004, the English four-piece delivers an energetic, brash pop performance not unlike the Kaiser Chiefs and the Rakes. With that and the band&#8217;s preferences for the Cure, Depeche Mode, Faith No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chevelle</title>
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Inspired by the lurching riffs of Helmet and the soft/loud vocal styling of Tool, Chicago-based trio Chevelle&#8217;s aggressive, heavy sound is all about mounting tension exploding into raw guitar bursts. Formed in 1995, Chevelle comprised brothers Sam (drums), Pete (vocals, guitar), and Joe Loeffler (bass), the last of whom joining up after he played better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boy Hits Car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1990, childhood friends Scott (bass), Louis (guitar), and CRegg (vocals/guitar) initially formed the aggressive rock sound they would create in the band Boy Hits Car three years later. Singing of typical teenage trials and tribulations, Boy Hits Car inked a deal to independently release My Animal in 1998. They were now firmly planted in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherry Poppin&#8217; Daddies</title>
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The eight-piece ska/swing revival collective Cherry Poppin&#8217; Daddies formed out of several groups around the University of Oregon in Eugene. Vocalist/guitarist Steve Perry (aka MC Large Drink) and bassist Dan Schmid originally played in the Jazz Greats and the Hucks, then formed Cherry Poppin&#8217; Daddies in 1989 with a lineup which gradually encompassed guitarist Jason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherry Monroe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Glammy modern rockers Cherry Monroe formed in 2004 when Youngstown, OH-based vocalist Matt Toka hooked up with Jason Levis (drums), Dave Saltzman (bass), and Ryan Harris (guitar), who&#8217;d been playing with the band Outbound in their native Pittsburgh. They found a common ground in Bowie, Marvelous 3, and the hooky marketability of contemporary groups like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Box Car Racer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Serving as a side project for Blink 182 members Travis Barker and Thomas DeLonge, Boxcar Racer is a return to a more traditional punk sound. Adding guitarist David Kennedy and bassist Anthony Celestino, the group came together between Blink 182 sessions and recorded their eponymous album in the winter of 2001/2002. Cutting much of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherie</title>
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Born in 1984 in Marseilles, France, pop singer Cherie has been singing as long as she can remember. When she started doing it professionally at the age of nine, the enthusiastic audience reaction to her voice became an instant inspiration for her to pursue a career in music. By the age of 12 she had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowling For Soup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Punky power pop outfit Bowling for Soup was formed in 1994 in Wichita Falls, TX, featuring lead vocalist/guitarist Jaret Reddick, guitarist/vocalist Chris Burney, bassist Erik Chandler, and drummer Gary Wiseman. The group really began to jell in 1997 when a heavy touring schedule helped broaden their fan base and landed them opening spots for nationally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cher</title>
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Cher has had three careers that place her indelibly in the public consciousness, and two have been in association with her then-husband, composer/producer/singer Salvatore &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Bono (February 16, 1935-January 8, 1998). She charted major hit records in the 1960s and 1970s, working in idioms ranging from early- &#8217;60s girl group-style ballads to Jackie Deshannon folk-influenced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Bowie</title>
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The cliché about David Bowie says he&#8217;s a musical chameleon, adapting himself according to fashion and trends. While such a criticism is too glib, there&#8217;s no denying that Bowie demonstrated remarkable skill for perceiving musical trends at his peak in the &#8217;70s. After spending several years in the late &#8217;60s as a mod and as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1999</link>
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		<title>The Chemical Brothers</title>
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The act with the first arena-sized sound in the electronica movement, the Chemical Brothers united such varying influences as Public Enemy, Cabaret Voltaire, and My Bloody Valentine to create a dance-rock-rap fusion which rivalled the best old-school DJs on their own terms &#8212; keeping a crowd of people on the floor by working through any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1998</link>
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		<title>Bow Wow</title>
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Every now and then a kid rapper breaks through and enjoys some short-term novelty success before getting swept away by the next big thing, and during the early 2000s, Lil Bow Wow was one of those kid rappers, though he did his best not to get swept away, changing his name to Bow Wow and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1997</link>
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		<title>Cheap Trick</title>
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Combining a love for British guitar pop songcraft with crunching power chords and a flair for the absurd, Cheap Trick provided the necessary links between &#8217;60s pop, heavy metal, and punk. Led by guitarist Rick Nielsen, the band&#8217;s early albums were filled with highly melodic, well-written songs that drew equally from the crafted pop of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1996</link>
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		<title>Bouncing Souls</title>
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The Bouncing Souls started out in 1987 with the intention of playing loud fast three-chord party music around their native New Jersey; besides, it gave them something to do while they were in high school. Upon graduation and after years of struggling to find a label to release their records, friends Greg Attonito (vocals), Pete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1995</link>
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		<title>Dimmu Borgir</title>
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Blending black metal&#8217;s most brutal tendencies, the melancholic beauty of opera, and industrial metal&#8217;s production techniques, Dimmu Borgir carved a niche in the metal world as one of the most savage and creative acts to hail from the Norwegian scene. The group first started in 1993, when members Shagrath (vocals), Erkekjetter Silenoz (guitar), and Tjodalv [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1994</link>
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		<title>Gogol Bordello</title>
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Combining elements of punk, gypsy music, and Brecht-ian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tells the story of New York&#8217;s immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singer Eugene Hütz&#8217;s taste in music was spun out of black market tapes of the Birthday Party and Einstürzande Neubauten in his native Ukraine. After being evacuated to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1993</link>
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		<title>JC Chasez</title>
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In the early &#8217;90s he was a Mousekateer and even played Clarence &#8220;Wipeout&#8221; Adams on Emerald Cove, a soap opera aired within The Mickey Mouse Club. By 2004 he was hiring the slick and ultrahip Basement Jaxx to produce his album. In between he was a star player in one of the biggest teen acts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1992</link>
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		<title>Boomkat</title>
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Boomkat is comprised of the brother-sister duo of Kellin and Taryn Manning. With a slick, radio-ready sound that encompassed elements of trip-hop, urban soul, pop, and danceable hip-hop &#8212; not to mention Taryn&#8217;s star power as a burgeoning actress &#8212; Boomkat&#8217;s seizure of the spotlight was almost inevitable. 
Born to musical parents, Kellin eventually played [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1991</link>
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		<title>Charlotte Gainsbourg</title>
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While Charlotte Gainsbourg is better known as an accomplished actress than as a musician, her singing career has also been significant. Around the same time she began acting, Gainsbourg also started singing professionally. At 13, she recorded her debut, Charlotte for Ever, an album of songs written by her father, singer/songwriter/provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1990</link>
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		<title>Book of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The synth pop group Book of Love were dance club staples in the &#8217;80s. Book of Love formed in Philadelphia, PA, by former art school students Susan Ottaviano (vocals), Ted Ottaviano (keyboards, vocals), Jade Lee (keyboards, vocals), and Lauren Roselli (keyboards, vocals) in 1984. (Although they share the same last name, Susan and Ted are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.solektor.pl/?p=1989</link>
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Rapper Charli Baltimore was born Tiffany Lane in Philadelphia; her music career blossomed after she began a relationship with the Notorious B.I.G., and she adopted her stage alias from the name of Geena Davis&#8217; character in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight. In the wake of the Biggie&#8217;s murder, Baltimore teamed with producer Lance &#8220;Un&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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Originally composed of six Samoan-descended brothers from Los Angeles, the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. offered a distinctly authentic brand of gangsta rap. Sons of a Baptist minister, the brothers Devoux &#8212; lead rapper Paul aka Ganxsta Ridd, bandleader Ted aka the Godfather, Donald aka Don L, Roscoe aka Rosco, Danny aka O.M.B., and David aka E.K.A. &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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For many years, the Charlatans UK were perceived as the also-rans of Madchester, the group that didn&#8217;t capture the zeitgeist like the Stone Roses or the band that failed to match the mad genre-bending of the Happy Mondays. Of course, they were more traditional than either of their peers. Working from a Stonesy foundation, the [...]]]></description>
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Mention Furnace Fest 2002 to any die-hard Norma Jean fan, and they&#8217;ll recall the event with no hesitation. The band, in the midst of releasing their critically acclaimed masterpiece, Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child, seemed to be at the peak of their game. There was a real sense of anticipation in the air, [...]]]></description>
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Singer, poet, activist, and believer: few icons in the history of rock &#38; roll have created and performed their art with the consciousness and passion of Bono and only a handful have done it as successfully. Whether preaching three chords and the truth or donning ironic personas, the first and only frontman for seminal Irish [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Classically trained pianist, singer/songwriter, and pop rebel Bonnie McKee spent her formative years in California. Growing up in a musical family helped develop her love for the theater and her move to Seattle found the artist singing in the world class Seattle Girl&#8217;s Choir. At the age of 12, the precocious tunesmith recorded a demo [...]]]></description>
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Tracy Chapman helped restore singer/songwriters to the spotlight in the &#8217;80s. The multi-platinum success of Chapman&#8217;s eponymous 1988 debut was unexpected, and it had lasting impact. Although Chapman was working from the same confessional singer/songwriter foundation that had been popularized in the &#8217;70s, her songs were fresh and powerful, driven by simple melodies and affecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracy Bonham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[racy Bonham is a singer and classically trained violinist who incorporates both skills into her pop compositions. Her debut EP, The Liverpool Sessions, was released in 1995, with a full-length album, The Burdens of Being Upright, following the next year. Down Here arrived in early 2000, followed by Blink the Brightest in 2005. ~ Steve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manu Chao</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manu Chao helped begin the Latin Alternative movement, way back in the &#8217;80s &#8212; although it had no name then &#8212; and in his later work he cuts a cross-cultural swathe across styles and geographic boundaries. Chao was born on June 26, 1961 in Paris, to Spanish parents &#8212; his father Ramon Chao a respected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bone Thugs-N-Harmony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Graced with a quick, sometimes sung delivery, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony burst out of the Midwest in the mid-&#8217;90s with a pair of massive hits (&#8221;Thuggish Ruggish Bone&#8221; and &#8220;Tha Crossroads&#8221;) along with a great album (E 1999 Eternal) and then quickly unraveled. Eazy-E signed the group &#8212; initially comprised of Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-N-Bone, Layzie [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born Wayne Hardnett, Atlanta rapper Bone Crusher made his mark with a likeable playground machismo and a street-smart pop sensibility. Both of those qualities were on display on his 2003 debut, AttenCHUN!, and its hit single, &#8220;Never Scared.&#8221; Before his success, Bone Crusher was a part of the Lyrical Giants, a crew that worked with [...]]]></description>
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Best known in the mainstream for her superb 1984 cover of Prince&#8217;s &#8220;I Feel for You,&#8221; R&#38;B singer Chaka Khan enjoyed solo success as well as popularity as a member of the group Rufus. Born Yvette Marie Stevens in Great Lakes, IL, on March 23, 1953, she was raised on Chicago&#8217;s South Side, and at [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dubbed &#8220;the Mixtape Messiah,&#8221; Houston&#8217;s Chamillionaire arrived late as a major-label artist during his city&#8217;s 2005 takeover of mainstream rap &#8212; the Top Ten Sound of Revenge, released during November that year, followed albums from Mike Jones, Slim Thug, and former Color Changin&#8217; Click partner Paul Wall &#8212; but he had already built a loyal [...]]]></description>
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Cham, also known as Baby Cham, has become one of the more successful and critically acclaimed dancehall artists throughout the Caribbean &#8212; a stunning feat given that he started up his career only in his teens. With a liking to laying vocals over riddims of relatively lower bpm&#8217;s, he focuses on lyricism, but he has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chad VanGaalen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hailing from Calgary, singer/songwriter Chad VanGaalen creates a delightfully soothing indie rock sound. His airy falsetto is part Christopher Cross and part Thom Yorke, and fans of Broken Social Scene, Band of Horses, and Destroyer should find the charm in VanGaalen&#8217;s wild imagination. Since 1998, the quirky VanGaalen has drafted hundreds of songs well-tailored for [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having no qualms about his desire to be a Rolex-wearing pop and rap star, Cex&#8217;s music actually lies in the lines of intelligent dance music. At the age of 19, Rjyan Kidwell already had a catalog of releases and a record label behind him. His upbeat and over-the-top personality splattered a large dash of color [...]]]></description>
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Multi-talented and flamboyant, Cee-Lo initially made a name for himself and his trademark crooning as part of pioneering Dirty South rappers Goodie Mob before he broke away in the early 2000s for a colorful solo route. Along with fellow Atlanta rappers OutKast, Goodie Mob laid out the blueprint for the Dirty South style during the [...]]]></description>
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The Chicago-based, electronic-tinged modern rock group Caviar formed in 1999 out of the ashes of Fig Dish. Despite the troubles the band had with their label, guitarist/vocalist Blake Smith and bassist/vocalist/keyboardist Mike Willison wanted to continue making music together. A trip to the U.K. made them aware of electronica&#8217;s growing influence and popularity, and inspired [...]]]></description>
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After goth pioneers the Birthday Party called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Bad Seeds, a post-punk supergroup featuring former Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, [...]]]></description>
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Alt metal outfit Cave In originated in 1995, in Methuen, MA, when Stephen Brodsky and Jay Frechette got the idea to start a band in the vein of some of their favorites: Failure, Unwound, Snapcase, etc. With Brodsky on guitar and Frechette&#8217;s vocals, they added bassist Justin Matthes, guitarist Adam McGrath, and drummer John-Robert Conners, [...]]]></description>
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Few bands embodied the era of pop-metal like Bon Jovi. By merging Def Leppard&#8217;s loud but tuneful metal with Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s working-class sensibilities, the New Jersey-based quintet developed an ingratiatingly melodic and professional variation of hard rock &#8212; one that appealed as much to teenagers as to housewives. Bon Jovi skillfully employed professional songwriters to [...]]]></description>
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Cauterize first rocked their way out of Oshawa, Ontario, in 2003. Led by vocalist/guitarist Jesse Smith, the group of lifelong pals also included guitarist Josh Slater, bassist Jason Bone, and drummer Matt Worobec. They certainly weren&#8217;t the only bunch of freshly minted yung&#8217;uns plying punk-pop goodness on the mall-going masses (see their countrymen in Sum [...]]]></description>
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Similar to a sci-fi Danielson Familie or a religiously-inclined Servotron, the Causey Way is a five-piece new wave/punk group that blends noisy synth-pop with cult-like propaganda. The band has released singles on labels like What Else and Put It on a Cracker, and put out their debut album With Loving And Open Arms, in 1999 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Body Head Bangerz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The flagship act of Roy Jones Jr.&#8217;s Body Head label, Body Head Bangerz features Big Perion, Choppa, Giz &#38; Swellz, Magic, Rated PG&#8217;s, and a revolving door of guest collaborators (including YoungBloodZ, Petey Pablo, Juvenile, Lil&#8217; Flip, and Bun B). Body Head Bangerz, Vol. 1 was released in August of 2004, only to be snapped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cato Salsa Experience</title>
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Part of the post-Cardigans trend in Scandinavian pop toward a more rocking, garagey sound, Oslo, Norway&#8217;s Cato Salsa Experience make a righteously sloppy clatter with a strong hint of psychedelia and just enough pop smarts to make it work. The group formed in 2000 when singer and guitarist Cato Thomassen, bassist Christian Engfelt, and drummer [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Mississippi but raised in Atlanta, smooth R&#38;B crooner Bobby Valentino had a hard time convincing his skeptical parents that the music business was the place for him. When the 16-year-old Valentino &#8212; who was then known by his real name, Bobby Wilson &#8212; hooked up with the Organized Noize Productions team, his parents [...]]]></description>
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Hailing from Seattle, the Catheters are comprised of members Brian Standeford (vocals, guitar), Derek Mason (guitar), Dave Brozowski (drums), and Leo Gebhart (bass). 1999 saw the release of their self-titled debut album, which the quartet supported by playing dates with the likes of the Murder City Devils and Mudhoney. In 2001 the group signed to [...]]]></description>
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One of the brightest R&#38;B stars of the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s, Bobby Brown was the man who popularized new jack swing, a blend of classic soul, urban synth-funk, and hip-hop rhythms that often featured rap breaks in between the conventionally melodic verses and choruses. Guy&#8217;s Teddy Riley may have been new jack&#8217;s greatest [...]]]></description>
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By using their influences as a mere launching pad and consistently developing their many strengths, Catherine Wheel was able to outlast all of their early peers. With their initial singles and first album, the band from East Anglia fit snugly with the remainder of bands that the British press eventually labeled as shoegazers, a short-lived [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West Virginia hard rock band Bobaflex went through a typical series of changes in lineup, musical styles, and affiliations in the five years it took them from formation to their first national album release. The band was formed by brothers Shawn &#8220;Beaver&#8221; McCoy and Minister Marvin McCoy, direct descendents of the McCoy family from [...]]]></description>
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Guitarist/singer/songwriter Bob Mould was initially a member of Hüsker Dü, one of the most influential American bands of the &#8217;80s. Hüsker Dü was a post-hardcore punk band that helped define the sound and ideals of alternative rock. After Hüsker Dü broke up, Mould signed a solo contract with Virgin Records in 1988. The following year, [...]]]></description>
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The most traditional pop band of all the Welsh bands to emerge in the post-Brit-pop days of the mid-&#8217;90s, Catatonia reworked the sound of jangling late-&#8217;80s alternative rock with the punchy, amateurish indie-rock attack. Comprised of vocalist Cerys Matthews, guitarist/vocalist Mark Roberts, guitarist Owen, bassist Paul Jones and drummer Aled Richards, Catatonia formed in Cardiff, [...]]]></description>
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Reggae&#8217;s most transcendent and iconic figure, Bob Marley was the first Jamaican artist to achieve international superstardom, in the process introducing the music of his native island nation to the far-flung corners of the globe. Marley&#8217;s music gave voice to the day-to-day struggles of the Jamaican experience, vividly capturing not only the plight of the [...]]]></description>
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Cat Power was the alias of Chan Marshall, a Southern-bred singer/songwriter whose father, Charlie, was an itinerant pianist. After dropping out of high school, Marshall found herself in New York; performing under the name Cat Power, she was booked as the opening act for Liz Phair, where she met Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and [...]]]></description>
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The Casualties formed in 1990 out of a desire to return to the heyday of punk, an era that hung on into the early &#8217;80s and then started to fall by the wayside in favor of the very early grunge movement, as well as hair metal, synth pop, and new wave. But the band&#8217;s lineup [...]]]></description>
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Bob Dylan&#8217;s influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-conscious narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notions that in order to perform, a singer had to have a conventionally good voice, thereby redefining the role of vocalist [...]]]></description>
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The first MC of significance to be supported by Swizz Beatz&#8217;s J-affiliated Full Surface label, Cassidy is a fresh-faced Philadelphian who gained a lot of attention as a battle rapper &#8212; with a successful bout against Freeway as one of the first feathers in his cap. People who had been following him through several mixtape [...]]]></description>
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Johnny Cash was one of the most imposing and influential figures in post-World War II country music. With his deep, resonant baritone and spare, percussive guitar, he had a basic, distinctive sound. Cash didn&#8217;t sound like Nashville, nor did he sound like honky tonk or rock &#38; roll. He created his own subgenre, falling halfway [...]]]></description>
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Boards of Canada are the duo of Michael Sandison (born July 14, 1971) and Marcus Eoin (born May 27, 1973). Based on the northern coast of Scotland, the group got its start on acclaimed experimental electronica label Skam in 1996 after recording an obscene number of tracks and pressing the best of them up as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bo Bice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Husky-voiced American Idol singing sensation Harold &#8220;Bo&#8221; Bice hailed from Helena, AL, and brought his Southern sensibility with him to the fourth season of Fox&#8217;s long-running talent contest. Bice competed weekly against fellow rocker Constantine Maroulis, his long hair, bell bottoms, and drug rug tunics against Maroulis&#8217; biker jacket and stockpile of New York City [...]]]></description>
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The Cash Money Millionaires included whatever rappers happened to rap for Cash Money Records at the given moment. During the label&#8217;s initial breakthrough and golden era, the group included Baby, Mannie Fresh, Juvenile, B.G., Turk, and Lil&#8217; Wayne. The group issued the Baller Blockin&#8217; collection (2000), which also included contributions from some of the group&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A native New Yorker, Case got his start in the music biz in the &#8217;90s, singing backup on albums by several renowned R&#38;B artists (such as Usher). Signed to the Def Jam label in the mid-&#8217;90s, Case issued his self-titled debut in 1996, followed by Personal Conversation in 1999 and Open Letter in 2001. On [...]]]></description>
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Initially, Blur was one of the multitude of British bands who appeared in the wake of the Stone Roses, mining the same swirling, pseudo-psychedelic guitar pop, only with louder guitars. Following an image makeover in the mid-&#8217;90s, the group emerged as the most popular band in the U.K., establishing themselves as heir to the English [...]]]></description>
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German-born British singer Cascada, a.k.a. Natalie Horler, inherited her love of music from her jazz musician father. Influenced by artists like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, Boyz II Men and genres such as gospel, soul and jazz, Cascada began singing and dancing at an early age. At age 18, she started doing studio work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cary Brothers</title>
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Wry, thoughtful singer/songwriter Cary Brothers broke into the mainstream with the single &#8220;Blue Eyes,&#8221; a gorgeously articulate ballad he contributed to 2004&#8217;s Grammy-winning, hip-artist-showcasing Garden State soundtrack. Born in 1974 to a watercolorist mother and surgeon father, Brothers eschewed the sounds of his native Nashville in favor of Britpop artists like the Cure and the [...]]]></description>
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A former British Army officer, singer/songwriter James Blunt is a thoughtful performer with a knack for crafting melodic contemporary soft rock tunes. Born in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England in 1974 to a family with a long military history, Blunt entered the army after graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Ultimately achieving the rank of captain, [...]]]></description>
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As one of the Backstreet Boys, singer Nick Carter became an international superstar during the mid-&#8217;90s as his band became one of the best-selling teen pop bands in history. Born Nickolas Gene Carter on January 28, 1980, in upstate New York, Carter&#8217;s life in entertainment began at an early age. He starred in various commercials [...]]]></description>
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Cartel&#8217;s earnest take on emo/pop-punk emerged out of Atlanta around 2004, when vocalist Will Pugh, guitarists Joseph Peppers and Nic Hudson, bassist Ryan Roberts, and drummer Kevin Sanders released an initial EP that caught the ear of the California-based Militia Group label. Militia signed Cartel, and the Ransom EP reappeared under Militia in 2004. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blues Traveler</title>
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A New York-based blues-rock quartet formed in 1988 by singer/harmonica player John Popper, guitarist Chan Kinchla, bassist Bobby Sheehan, and drummer Brendan Hill, Blues Traveler was part of a revival of the extended jamming style of &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s groups like the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin. Signed to A&#38;M, they released their first album, [...]]]></description>
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Blondie may have had a string of number one hits and Talking Heads may have won the hearts of the critics, but the Cars were the most successful American new wave band to emerge in the late &#8217;70s. With their sleek, mechanical pop/rock, the band racked up a string of platinum albums and Top 40 [...]]]></description>
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In the 1960s, after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones began to take the world by storm, there was a term in Denmark used to describe this new loud and ragged brand of rock and roll: pigtraad. Loosely translated, it means barbed wire.
Four decades later, the term works as well as any to describe the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrie Underwood</title>
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The first country American Idol, Carrie Underwood grew up in the small town of Checotah, OK, and began singing with her church at the tender age of three. Throughout her childhood, she also performed at functions for the Lion&#8217;s Club and Old Settlers Day, and eventually at festivals in several states. Along with developing her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Six</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Musician, producer and remixer Jay Denes, better known as Blue Six, was born in Newark, NJ. After moving to N.Y.C., the newcomer failed to get seriously involved in the local music scene until hip-hop producer Bob Power hooked him up with Dave Boonshoff. Jay Denes began working on his own freestyle project soon after naming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Scholars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Side by side with companion Seattle-based rap groups Common Market and Boom Bap Project, the Blue Scholars led the charge in proclaiming the Pacific Northwest as a breeding ground for &#8220;true school&#8221; hip-hop. Perceiving themselves as blue-collar intellectuals, DJ/producer Sabzi (born Alexei Saba Mohajerjasbi) and MC Geologic (born George Quibuyen) used their music as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vanessa Carlton</title>
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Born in a tiny town in Pennsylvania, Vanessa Carlton was listening to music before she was born, as her mother performed various classical pieces in the home&#8217;s piano. At the age of two, Carlton and her parents went to Disney World, where she heard &#8220;It&#8217;s a Small World.&#8221; Falling in love with the song, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue October</title>
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The Texas indie rock quintet Blue October came together in the late &#8217;90s with vocalist/guitarist Justin Furstenfeld, drummer Jeremy Furstenfeld, violinist Ryan Delahoussaye, bassist Matt Noveskey, and lead guitarist Brant Coulter. In 1998, Blue October independently released their debut album, The Answers. The band&#8217;s catchy modern alternative rock led to 5,000 copies sold in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Thomas</title>
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Bad Boy/Arista recording artist Carl Thomas&#8217; major label debut was certainly Emotional. The buzz caused by the airplay of the not-available-to-retail single &#8220;I Wish&#8221; &#8212; not to be confused with the Stevie Wonder classic &#8212; from the urban R&#38;B singer&#8217;s Emotional album was such that the release date was moved up to April 18, 2000. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Man Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Experimental musical theatre troupe the Blue Man Group was founded in 1987 by longtime friends Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton, and Chris Wink; identical in their blue-painted skin, skullcaps and black clothing, the trio soon became a fixture of the New York underground performance art scene thanks to their regular appearances in Central Park, followed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Cox</title>
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A perennial favorite as the best DJ in the world according to fans as well as the major mixing magazines, Carl Cox has been a part of Britain&#8217;s dance scene from the heady days of disco through to the global clubland of the new millennium, with temporary pit stops covering hip-hop, the rare groove movement, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carina Round</title>
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Singer/songwriter Carina Round got her start with a short stint at Birmingham&#8217;s famed Ronnie Scott&#8217;s club in 1996. Within a few years, she gained attention through support billings for the likes of Mark Eitzel, David Gray, the Wonder Stuff&#8217;s Miles Hunt, and most notably Ryan Adams, who wrote a couple of songs with Round and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloodsimple</title>
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bloodsimple don&#8217;t want to be judged by the merits of their past, but they know that it&#8217;s probably going to happen. And they&#8217;re ready. 
&#8220;People are going to be blindsided by this record, and I can say that with confidence&#8211;I think this is my greatest work,&#8221; says frontman Tim Williams, who along with guitarist Mike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mariah Carey</title>
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The best-selling female performer of the 1990s, Mariah Carey rose to superstardom on the strength of her stunning five-octave voice; an elastic talent who moved easily from glossy ballads to hip-hop-inspired dance-pop, she earned frequent comparison to rivals Whitney Houston and Celine Dion, but did them both one better by composing all of her own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bloodhound Gang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From King of Prussia, PA, the Bloodhound Gang hit the alternative charts in 1996 with a blend of obnoxious sexual innuendo and unpolitically correct stoner wit reminiscent of the early Beastie Boys &#8212; mixing punk rock with hip-hop much as the Beasties had done. Frontman Jimmy Pop Ali and Lupus produced the band&#8217;s first release, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cardigans</title>
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One of the most pleasing pop groups of the &#8217;90s, the Cardigans specialize in sugary confections that would grow annoying very quickly if they weren&#8217;t backed by great musicianship and clever arrangements. The band&#8217;s 1995 breakout album, Life, reflected the Cardigans at their most saccharine &#8212; the sunny disposition of vocalist Nina Persson being the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Has Been Shed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people might view Connecticut as a safe, clean, New England state, a perfect piece of real estate in which to bring up the kids. Well, with one listen to Blood Has Been Shed&#8217;s Spirals, you might think twice about packing up the family and calling Connecticut home. Spirals, the band&#8217;s latest release for Ferret [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blood Brothers (Punk)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rebellious and nasty, the Blood Brothers defined their own punk-soaked angst rock when they came together in 1997. Jordan Blilie (vocals), Johnny Whitney (vocals), Waxwing&#8217;s Cody Votolato (guitar), Morgan Henderson (bass), and Mark Gajadhar (drums) all hail from Seattle; they&#8217;ve shared the stage with Pretty Girls Make Graves and the like. 2000 saw the release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cappadonna</title>
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Cappadonna (b. circa 1969) was one of the last members to join the Wu-Tang Clan. He had known the members since grade school in Staten Island, and he had even decided at the age of 15 that he could write and perform lyrics. It wasn&#8217;t until 1995, however, that he made his recorded debut, appearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capone -N- Noreaga</title>
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Queens rap duo Capone-N-Noreaga enjoyed massive street credibility with the release of their debut album, The War Report, which earned them a devoted following in the hardcore rap world. Capone (born Kiam Holley) and Noreaga (born Victor Santiago) grew up in the projects of Queensbridge and LeFrak City, respectively, and endured rough childhoods and multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blonde Redhead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blonde Redhead&#8217;s noisy, dissonant guitars, alternate tunings, and quiet, stilted lyrics have often been compared to early Sonic Youth. After randomly meeting at an Italian restaurant in New York, Japanese art students Kazu Makino and Maki Takahashi and Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace formed the band in 1993. The name was taken from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Capitol Years</title>
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Shai Halperin was a quiet soul who loved making music on his four-track recorder. In summer 2001, Halperin released the lo-fi package Meet Yr Acres. It was a silent bomb, for critics around the globe praised Halperin&#8217;s work. During this time, Halperin was urged to make his glorious sweet sound much bigger. He brought in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloc Party</title>
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Equally inspired by Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and the Cure, East London art-punkers Bloc Party mix angular sonics with pop structures. Consisting of singer/guitarist Kele Okereke, guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist/singer Gordon Moakes, and drummer Matt Tong, the band was formerly known as Angel Range and Union before settling on Bloc Party. Okereke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capicu</title>
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In the game of Dominoes, &#8220;Capicu&#8221; (pronounced &#8220;ca-pee-coo&#8221;) means &#8220;the game is closed&#8221;&#8211;it&#8217;s over. Exploding from the dark street corners of The Bronx, Capicu is a Latin artist who can spit for the &#8216;hood and the radio. Years spent living in Puerto Rico, Los Angeles, and each of the five boroughs of New York City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blinker the Star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blinker the Star began as a one-man band in the basement of then-22-year-old Toronto native Jordon Zadorozny following a fire in his parents&#8217; music store that resulted in instruments and recording equipment being stored in his cellar. Zadorozny&#8217;s music is proudly lo-fi, making use of as many low-budget effects and recording techniques as he can [...]]]></description>
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The new-school punk trio blink-182 was formed in the suburbs of San Diego, California around guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, and drummer Scott Raynor. Originally known as simply Blink, the band debuted in 1993 with a self-released EP, Fly Swatter. After releasing the album Buddha in 1994, the trio signed to Grilled Cheese/Cargo and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Cantrell</title>
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Jerry Cantrell first came to prominence as a member of Alice in Chains, one of the prototypical Seattle grunge bands. With their 1990 debut Facelift, the quartet scored a surprise hit with the ultra-heavy &#8220;Man in the Box,&#8221; and haven&#8217;t looked back since. Racking up such hit albums as 1992&#8217;s Dirt and 1995&#8217;s self-titled release, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blindside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having gotten their start in Stockholm, Sweden under the name &#8220;Underfree&#8221; during the first two years of their career, Marcus Dahlström (drums), Simon Grenehed (guitar), Christian Lindskog (vocals) and Tomas Naslund (bass) eventually changed their name to Blindside upon the release of their second demo in 1996. Being a regular in the Christian heavy metal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blu Cantrell</title>
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As she grew up in Providence, R.I., with her five siblings, Blu Cantrell was toted from one jazz performance to another to watch her mother sing. From that point forward, she knew what she wanted to do, and began auditioning for vocal gigs and displaying her dynamic alto at talent shows. On a visit to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Melon</title>
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Whereas most up and coming alternative bands of the early &#8217;90s borrowed from the leaders of the pack (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, etc.), Blind Melon was an exception to the rule &#8212; their roots lay in classic rock (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin). And while a promising career lay ahead of them, tragedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary J. Blige</title>
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When her debut album, What&#8217;s the 411?, hit the street in 1992, critics and fans alike were floored by its powerful combination of modern R&#38;B with an edgy rap sound that glanced off of the pain and grit of Mary J. Blige&#8217;s Yonkers, NY, childhood. Called alternately the new Chaka Khan or new Aretha Franklin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by groups like Refused and the Mars Volta, Tucson-based post-hardcore quintet the Bled burst onto the national scene with their 2005 Vagrant debut, Found in the Flood. By that point the band&#8217;s lineup featured vocalist James Muñoz, guitarists Ross Ott and Jeremy Talley, and a rhythm section of Darren Simoes (bass) and Mike Pedicone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blaque</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The R&#38;B trio Blaque (an acronym for &#8220;Believe, Life, Achieving, Quest, Unity and Everything&#8221;) comprised singers Shamari, Natina and Brandi. Discovered by TLC&#8217;s Lisa &#8220;Left Eye&#8221; Lopes, their self-titled debut LP was released on Columbia&#8217;s Trackmasters imprint in mid-1999. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
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		<title>Blacktop Mourning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicago&#8217;s Blacktop Mourning features Max Steger (songwriter/guitar), Joe Levand (bass), Jon Meredith (drums), and Marty James Abezetian (vocals). The punk-pop outfit formed in 2004. For the next two years, Blacktop Mourning honed their infectious and melodic rock sound, playing shows in and around Chicago, and writing material for their debut album. Guitarist Shawn Nystrand joined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackstreet</title>
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One of the top R&#38;B vocal groups of the &#8217;90s, Blackstreet was founded by singer, producer, and new jack swing pioneer Teddy Riley after the breakup of his seminal trio Guy. Riley had taken a few years to concentrate on his booming production career, which saw him working with Wreckx-N-Effect, Bobby Brown, Michael Jackson, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blackout Pact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hailing from Denver, Colorado, The Blackout Pact formed in early summer of 2003 as a response to most of its members being kicked out of their former bands. Drawing from influences as diverse as Hot Water Music, Small Brown Bike, Alkaline Trio, The Lawrence Arms and Murder City Devils, The Blackout Pact play uncompromising, melodic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackalicious</title>
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Like a few other West Coast rap acts, including the Pharcyde and Jurassic 5, Blackalicious has generally favored what hip-hoppers call the &#8220;positive tip&#8221;; in other words, its lyrics have often been spiritual and uplifting rather than violent or misogynous. Like a lot of experimental alternative rappers, Blackalicious can be quirky and eccentric; nonetheless, spirituality [...]]]></description>
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Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to be a defining force in the style. The group took the blues-rock sound of late &#8217;60s acts like Cream, Blue Cheer, and Vanilla Fudge to its logical conclusion, slowing the tempo, accentuating the bass, and emphasizing screaming guitar solos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Rob</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bad Boy Records rapper Black Rob began his recording career appearing on albums like the Cru&#8217;s Da Dirty 30 and collaborating with artists like L.O.X., Busta Rhymes, Lil&#8217; Kim, and Total before releasing his first album, Life Story, in early 2000. The debut featured the hit single &#8220;Whoa!&#8221; and appearances from L.O.X., Cheryl Riley, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Rebel Motorcycle Club</title>
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The seed that became Black Rebel Motorcycle Club &#8212; or B.R.M.C. for short &#8212; was planted back in 1995, when Robert Turner and Peter Hayes met while attending high school in their hometown of San Francisco. They formed a solid friendship and camaraderie based on a mutual love of early-&#8217;90s U.K. bands like Ride and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Maria</title>
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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of Grade, Zyon and New Day Rising, The Black Maria present their new album, Lead Us To Reason. While each member of the band has a long history of success in music &#8212; The Black Maria has nothing to do with those stories. Rather it is a group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zakk Wylde</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best known for his long stint in support of Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Zakk Wylde was born and raised in New Jersey; although he began studying music at age eight, he soon quit, not returning to his lessons until his mid-teens. He formed his first band, Stone Henge, in 1984, followed by a series of appearances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Keys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The two-man duo comprising the Black Keys, singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, were in their early twenties when their debut, The Big Come Up, was issued in 2002. From Akron, OH, they play close-to-the-bone, raw blues-rock, the only instrumentation being Auerbach&#8217;s guitar, Carney&#8217;s drums, and the occasional organ. Auerbach had a fine, mature, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Heart Procession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Formed in late 1997 in San Diego, the Black Heart Procession have been described as beautifully bleak and brooding indie rock with a dark side. Lyrically touching on the melancholy side of human nature, the five-piece band is appropriately named given its themes of isolation, depression, and heartache. The core members of Pall Jenkins and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Eyed Peas</title>
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Positive messages and breakdancing are integral parts of hip-hop culture, but by 1990 those elements had been temporarily eclipsed by the tough gangsta image and bleak but compelling lyrics of West Coast groups like N.W.A. However, despite sharing a zip code, Black Eyed Peas&#8217; vision goes beyond the cracked-sidewalk vignettes and sampled gunfire of Los [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Dahlia Murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Detroit&#8217;s the Black Dahlia Murder actually sounds like they should live in Scandinavia, whence originates much of the frenetic brand of death and black metal that inspires them. Formed in January 2001, the group followed their six-song What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse demo with the four-track A Cold-Blooded Epitaph EP, which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Crowes</title>
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At the time of their 1990 debut, the kind of rock &#38; roll the Black Crowes specialize in was out of style. Only Guns N&#8217; Roses came close to approximating a vintage Stones-style raunch, but they were too angry and jagged to pull it off completely. The Black Crowes replicated that Stonesy swagger and Faces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Box Recorder</title>
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Black Box Recorder included Auteurs main man Luke Haines, former Jesus and Mary Chain member John Moore, and vocalist Sarah Nixey. Like the Auteurs, Black Box Recorder&#8217;s songs commented on the state of English affairs, both social and personal, often using character sketches that exposed the less-than-pleasant with sharp frankness and simplicity. Domesticity and childhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Björk</title>
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Björk first came to prominence as one of the lead vocalists of the avant-pop Icelandic sextet the Sugarcubes, but when she launched a solo career after the group&#8217;s 1992 demise, she quickly eclipsed her old band&#8217;s popularity. Instead of following in the Sugarcubes&#8216; arty guitar rock pretensions, Björk immersed herself in dance and club culture, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bizarre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of Detroit&#8217;s demented rap school along with Eminem, E-Sham, and a host of others. This artist is a cross between a twisted Biz Markie and a cast member of Night of the Living Dead, favoring warped horror-core and devilish themes in his music. His debut EP Attack of the Weirdoes received some notoriety in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biz Markie</title>
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Biz Markie&#8217;s inclination toward juvenile humor and his fondness for goofy, tuneless, half-sung choruses camouflaged his true talents as a freestyle rhymer. The Biz may not have been able to translate his wild rhyming talents to tape, but what he did record was worthwhile in its own way. With his silly humor and inventive, sample-laden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Bisbal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pop singer David Bisbal rose to fame quickly after competing on Spain&#8217;s Operation Triumph, a reality program similar to the U.K.&#8217;s Pop Idol. The five-month program pitted young hopefuls against one another in a series of singing contests; Bisbal eventually finished second overall and embarked on a successful concert tour with his fellow semifinalists. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birdman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When he&#8217;s doing business, Cash Money Records CEO Bryan Williams uses his real name, but when he grabs the mic to spit Dirty South raps, Williams goes by the names Birdman or Baby. Williams formed Cash Money in 1991 with his brother Ronald &#8220;Slim&#8221; Williams. Releases by B.G., the Hot Boys, Juvenile, and many others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bionic Jive</title>
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		<title>Billy Talent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Punk revivalist quartet Billy Talent used to be known as Pezz back in their Streetsville, Ontario, high-school days. But by 1999, the quartet &#8212; vocalist Ben Kowalewicz, guitarist Ian D&#8217;Sa, bassist Jon Gallant, and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk &#8212; had adopted a new moniker and were making their way in Toronto with the self-released Watoosh! LP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Joel</title>
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Although Billy Joel never was a critic&#8217;s favorite, the pianist emerged as one of the most popular singer/songwriters of the latter half of the &#8217;70s. Joel&#8217;s music consistently demonstrates an affection for Beatlesque hooks and a flair for Tin Pan Alley and Broadway melodies. His fusion of two distinct eras made him a superstar in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Idol</title>
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Along with Duran Duran, Billy Idol was one the first pop/rock artists to achieve massive success in the early &#8217;80s due to a then brand-new U.S. television network, MTV. Mixing his bad-boy good looks with an appealing blend of pop hooks, punk attitude, and a dance beats, Idol quickly rocketed to stardom, before hard living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Corgan</title>
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As the guitarist/singer/head-songwriter for the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan was one of alt-rock&#8217;s leaders and focal points for much of the &#8217;90s. Born on March 17, 1967, in Elk Grove, IL, Corgan&#8217;s first true exposure to music came from his father, Bill Corgan, Sr., who was a blues guitarist. After his parents divorced at an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Bragg</title>
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Finding inspiration in the righteous anger of punk rock and the socially conscious folk tradition of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg was the leading figure of the anti-folk movement of the &#8217;80s. For most of the decade, Bragg bashed out songs alone on his electric guitar, singing about politics and love. While his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Clinton</title>
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Like him or hate him &#8212; and there were few, it seemed, who did not energetically embrace one position or the other &#8212; it&#8217;s no surprise that Bill Clinton emerged as the 1990s&#8217; most inescapable figure in the public arena. Being president of the United States didn&#8217;t hurt at all, of course, and his larger-than-life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bilal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Bilal Sayeed Oliver, dreams started falling into place quite rapidly. A self-confessed jazz junkie from Philadelphia, PA, Bilal started out by singing in small clubs until he began training in jazz and big-band arrangements at the Mannes Music Conservatory in New York. With this formal training, the singer/songwriter learned to sing opera in seven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BigDumbFace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When he&#8217;s not wearing skeleton face makeup alongside Fred Durst in the more-macho-than-thou Limp Bizkit, Wes Borland tends to prefer a more subdued, playful brand of music. Big Dumb Face, which consists of him, his brother, and a group of pre-Limp Bizkit friends, reveals this softer, geekier side. And, because Limp Bizkit has been one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Tymers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comprised of Bryan &#8220;Baby&#8221; Williams, Cash Money Records&#8217; co-founder, and Mannie Fresh, the label&#8217;s in-house producer, Big Tymers incorporated substantial outside talent into their ranks and scored some huge hits in the process. Beginning with the duo&#8217;s first release in 1998, How You Luv That? (re-released as How You Luv That?, Vol. 2 later that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Punisher</title>
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The first solo Latino rapper to go platinum, Big Punisher was also yet another member of the hip-hop community to fall victim to an early death &#8212; though in his case, it was due to health problems, not violence. In contrast to his large frame, Big Pun was a surprisingly graceful and nimble rapper, delivering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Gipp</title>
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		<title>Big Bad Voodoo Daddy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy revived big band music for the &#8217;90s. BBVD concentrated on the swinging days of the &#8217;40s and &#8217;50s, borrowing some of the Rat Pack lingo in addition to the zoot suits. Formed in Los Angeles in 1992, the group quickly built up a following by playing regularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cantinero</title>
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You try and try, and then when you give up, it all falls into place. That&#8217;s the story behind Cantinero, the left-of-center pop group that&#8217;s really just multi-instrumentalist Chris Hicken. Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Hicken fell in love with America &#8212; especially the American audience &#8212; when he brought his band Bigmouth to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biffy Clyro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Assembling in the late &#8217;90s, in the town of Kilmarnock, near Glasgow, in Scotland, Biffy Clyro comprises a three-piece lineup, fronted by vocalist and guitarist Simon Neil along with James Johnston (bass) and drummer Ben Johnston. Playing loud combinations of pop/rock, inspired by the music of bands like Weezer, Biffy Clyro first started by playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bif Naked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born in New Delhi, India, to a pair of boarding-school teenagers, Bif Naked was adopted by American missionaries and moved to Minneapolis. Several other moves preceded her eventual settling in Winnipeg where she enrolled at the University of Winnipeg as an aspiring drama major. At this time, she also joined Jungle Milk, an eclectic troupe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Cannon</title>
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Once Nick Cannon firmly established himself on television and then in Hollywood, he expanded his reach into music, signing to Jive Records. The young multi-talent made his smash debut in late 2001 with a remake of DJ Jazzy Jeff &#38; the Fresh Prince&#8217;s 1988 hit, &#8220;Parents Just Don&#8217;t Understand,&#8221; which appeared on the Jimmy Neutron, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canibus</title>
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Though heralded as a prospective talent at the time of his major-label debut in 1998, Canibus nonetheless became little more than a momentary phenomenon as his subsequent work failed to match the hype surrounding him. Following some underground work and cameo appearances, most notably on Wyclef Jean&#8217;s &#8220;Gone Till November&#8221; remix in 1997, Canibus feuded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyoncé</title>
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Born in Houston in the fall of 1981, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles started performing at age seven. From dance classes to singing in the church choir, Beyoncé was a natural. She and cousin Kelly Rowland met Latavia Roberson during this time, and the trio formed a group with Letoya Luckett. Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé&#8217;s father and Rowland&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the &#8217;90s the U.K. music scene was filled to the brim with nerdy cockney types sporting messy threads and even messier hair. Fresh faced Sophie Ellis-Bextor was amongst the first Brit-pop stars to break with this trend. She made it onto the stage in 1997 as the teenage vocalist behind new wave outfit Theaudience. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paula Campbell</title>
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		<title>Isobel Campbell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After vaulting to fame as a founding member of the beloved indie pop collective Belle &#38; Sebastian, Isobel Campbell later enjoyed success as a solo artist, recording lush and elegiac chamber pop under her given name and as the Gentle Waves. Born April 27, 1976, in Glasgow, Scotland, Campbell studied classical cello as an adolescent. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beulah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beulah&#8217;s Miles Kurosky and Bill Swan first started off as officemates, working the mail room at a security firm in their native San Francisco in 1994. While having a small dislike for one another, Kurosky and Swan did share a fondness for music. They two put their animosity aside in 1996 and spent the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Camp</title>
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His testimony has touched countless listeners, his songs have shot straight to the top of the charts, while his debut CD Stay and worship project Carried Me consistently resonate with fans across the country. Indeed, the last two years in Jeremy Camp&#8217;s life have been replete with blessings, starting professionally with a phenomenal run of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between The Buried &#038; Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between the Buried and Me is a thinking man&#8217;s hardcore unit hailing from Raleigh, NC. The band began in 2000 after the dissolution of vocalist Tommy Rogers and guitarist Paul Waggoner&#8217;s previous group, Prayer for Cleansing. Rogers and Waggoner completed their new lineup with the addition of guitarist Nick Fletcher, bassist Jason King (ex-Azazel), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camera Obscura (UK)</title>
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Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, Camera Obscura formed in 1996, when Tracyanne Campbell (vocals), John Henderson (percussion, vocals), Gavin Dunbar (bass), and guitarist David started playing together. They went on to release a number of singles, one of them including the contribution of Richard Colburn, Belle &#38; Sebastian&#8217;s drummer. Three years after the band&#8217;s first releases, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Than Ezra</title>
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Along with such similarly styled outfits as the Goo Goo Dolls, the New Orleans trio Better Than Ezra helped open the floodgates for countless chart-topping mainstream alt-pop acts of the late &#8217;90s (Sugar Ray, Semisonic, Matchbox Twenty, Third Eye Blind, etc.) by merging rock with melody and creating a more easily digestible form of alternative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cam&#8217;ron</title>
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Rapper Cam&#8217;ron was born and raised in Harlem, attending Manhattan Center High School, where one of his basketball teammates was Mason &#8220;Mase&#8221; Betha, who also became a successful rapper. Though his playing earned him scholarship offers from top colleges, Cam&#8217;ron was unable to take advantage of them because of his poor academic record, and he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bette Midler</title>
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Bette Midler counts singing as only one of her talents; at times, since 1972, when she first came to national recognition, it has seemed to be the least of her talents. Still, she has managed to score a number of major hits in a roller-coaster career as a recording artist. Born in Paterson, NJ, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beth Orton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singer/songwriter Beth Orton combined the passionate beauty of the acoustic folk tradition with the electronic beats of trip-hop to create a fresh, distinct fusion of roots and rhythm. Born in Norwich, England in December 1970, Orton debuted as one half of the duo Spill, a one-off project with William Orbit which released a cover of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvin Harris</title>
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Favoring a naughty schoolboy look that makes him seem even younger than his already tender years (22 when his first major-label album was released), Scottish artist, producer, and remixer Calvin Harris has a similarly youthful and forward-looking approach to his music. Skipping the usual apprenticeship in the clubs or on indie labels, Harris went from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beta Band</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Their sound veering from post-grunge balladry to funk and ambient breakbeat to Madchester acid house, the Beta Band emerged on the British scene as (nominally) a pop group with few similarities to any other act going. Formed around three friends originally from Edinburgh &#8212; vocalist Stephen Mason, drummer Robin Jones, and DJ/sampler John Maclean &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Calling</title>
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Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, the rock quintet the Calling (Alex Band [vocals], Aaron Kamin and Sean Woolstenhulme [guitars], Billy Mohler [bass], and Nate Wood [drums]) fit in well with such ready-for-radio rock acts of the early 21st century as Matchbox Twenty, Train, and the Wallflowers. Kamin and Band began the group after the pair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obie Bermudez</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born in the mountain town of Aibonito, Puerto Rico, singer/songwriter Obie Bermúdez moved with his family to the agriculturally rich Vineland, NJ, at the age of 12. An interest in poetry came first, but soon Bermúdez became obsessed with music and composition. A demo was recorded in 1996 and two years later RCA International issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benzino</title>
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Benzino may be a rapper, but he&#8217;s far better known for his disrepute, in particular the discredit he brought to The Source, once the leading rap music magazine. No stranger to controversy, Benzino was long plagued by scandal, from a 1992 incident with the Boston police that drove Tommy Boy Records to drop his group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calla</title>
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Calla was formed in New York City in 1997 by Aurelio Valle (guitar, vocals), Sean Donovan (bass, keyboards, programming), and Wayne B. Magruder (percussion, programming). However, the band&#8217;s origins can be traced to Texas in 1993, where Valle and Magruder began performing together in the Denton band the Factory Press. The band relocated to New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bent Fabric &#038; His Piano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although pianist Bent Fabric (born Bent Fabricius-Bjerre) formed his own jazz combo after WWII and his own label (Metronome) in 1950, it wasn&#8217;t until 1961, when Fabric&#8217;s Alley Cat single hit his native Denmark&#8217;s airwaves, that he really became known in the music world. The song proved infectious, and was released worldwide in 1962, even [...]]]></description>
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German deathcore band Caliban was formed in 1997, and signed almost immediately with Lifeforce Records, which released their eponymous EP the very next year. A hard-working bunch, the band then embarked on a relentless touring and recording schedule, traveling as far as America and Japan while intermittently putting out records like 1999&#8217;s Small Boy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slimm Calhoun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hailing from College Park, GA, rapper Slimm Calhoun grew up listening to the groundbreaking hip-hop sounds of Run-D.M.C., Kurtis Blow, and Grandmaster Flash. In 1994 he hooked up with Outkast and the Dungeon Family crew, who took Calhoun under their wing. Calhoun signed to Outkast&#8217;s own label, Aquemini (via Elektra), in the late &#8217;90s. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhian Benson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rhian Benson
Born in Ghana to a British mother and Ghanaian father, Rhian Benson had a globetrotting childhood moving from her birthplace to India and eventually settling in the U.K. She began playing piano at an early age, writing her first song at age nine. It wasn&#8217;t until after college that she began to take her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calexico</title>
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Calexico, a Tucson collective of musicians focused around Joey Burns and John Convertino, forged an eclectic identity through their exploration of Southwestern culture. Composer Ennio Morricone&#8217;s spaghetti Westerns as well as Portuguese fado, Afro-Peruvian music, and &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s jazz, country, and surf music all factored into Calexico&#8217;s music.
Burns studied classical music at the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin Wagner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter what is &#8220;in&#8221; at a given moment &#8212; hair-metal, boy bands, dance music, whatever &#8212; there will always be scattered men writing songs on guitars, pianos, or computers. They&#8217;ll be writing songs that mean something to them &#8212; regardless of what &#8220;demographic&#8221; it will appeal to &#8212; and without a doubt, these songs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tego Calderon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tego Calderon
Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1972 but raised in nearby Carolina and in Miami, FL, rapper Tego Calderón got the multicultural backbone he&#8217;d need to become a star in the genre-mixing world of reggaeton. Growing up with massive Ismael Rivera fans as parents exposed the young Calderón to envelope-pushing Latin pop music, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Benét</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Benet is a contemporary R&#38;B singer with mild hip-hop and strong adult contemporary influences. As a teenager, Benet was in a vocal group called Benet with his sister and cousin. The group signed with Capitol and released an eponymous album in 1992 that went ignored. Eric went out as a solo artist shortly afterward, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best-known for their ubiquitous hit &#8220;The Distance,&#8221; Cake epitomized the postmodern, irony-drenched aesthetic of ‘90s geek-rock. Their sound freely mixed and matched pastiches of widely varying genres &#8212; white-boy funk, hip-hop, country, new wave pop, jazz, college rock, and guitar rock &#8212; with a particular delight in the clashes that resulted. Their songs were filled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Benatar</title>
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Pat Benatar&#8217;s polished mainstream pop/rock made her one of the more popular female vocalists of the early &#8217;80s. Although she came on like an arena rocker with her power chords, tough sexuality, and powerful vocals, her music was straight pop/rock underneath all the bluster. Born Patricia Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Cagle</title>
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acommon face in New York subways since 2002, singer Susan Cagle was signed to a record deal when producer Jay Levine saw her playing at the Herald Square Street station at 34th Street. Cagle, who spent her childhood traveling the world with her family &#8212; who were part of the Children of God religious sect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cage (Rap)</title>
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The tortured and visceral lyrics of underground rapper Cage (Chris Palko) come from a life of pain, paranoia, hard drugs, and hard living. His father was MP in the U.S. Army, stationed in Wurzberg, Germany, when Cage was born. The family lived there until Cage&#8217;s father, named Bill Murray, was busted for selling and using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miri Ben-Ari</title>
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How many artists can say they got props from both superstar rapper Jay-Z and Carnegie Hall favorite Isaac Stern? Hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari can. When the Israeli-born virtuoso&#8217;s family couldn&#8217;t afford her violin lessons anymore, it was Stern who stepped in and recommended Ben-Ari for an America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship. She was later chosen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caesars</title>
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Sweden&#8217;s Caesars take a confident step out of the garage on their new album, Paper Tigers a lively, layered rock album informed as much by Lennon/McCartney as the 13th Floor Elevators and Stooges.
Hailed by Blender for making music &#8220;as hot as a kiln,&#8221; their upcoming album Paper Tigers finds the band entering adulthood with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Moody</title>
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After achieving both popular and critical success&#8211;including a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2003&#8211;songwriter/guitarist and co-founder of Evanescence, Ben Moody, walked away. Due to creative and personal differences with bandmate Amy Lee, he left the popular band in 2003. After winning a battle with alcohol and drug addiction, he re-emerged to collaborate with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ryan Cabrera</title>
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Guitarist, songwriter, and Texas native Ryan Cabrera never planned on a career in music. His hobby turned into a passion after hearing Dave Matthews, causing him to turn his back on the noisy punk rock of his high-school band, Caine, and pick up an acoustic guitar for the newly minted Rubic&#8217;s Groove. The group found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Lee</title>
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In a music culture where bands dominate, Ben Lee is the youngest singer/songwriter to make an impression on Australian music. Even before his solo career, in his early teens Lee came to attention as a member of Sydney band Noise Addict.
In 1993, on the strength of a self-produced and distributed four-track demo recorded in Lee&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C-Rayz Walz</title>
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Socially conscious and a skilled freestyler, underground rapper C-Rayz Walz had been participating in open mics around New York City before hooking with the Stronghold collective. Walz&#8217;s earliest appearances include mixtapes, an AWOL magazine compilation, and Single Minded Pros&#8217; Session 2 EP. A demo-filled first album, The Prelude, appeared on his own Sun Cycle Entertainment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Kweller</title>
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A lot of kids are raised in musical families, but few had the introduction to music that Ben Kweller had. Nils Lofgren was one of Kweller&#8217;s father&#8217;s buddies during Lofgren&#8217;s days with Bruce Springsteen. Young Kweller, not even old enough for kindergarten at the time, would try to be like the famous guitarist when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Jelen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York City-based multi-instrumentalist Ben Jelen writes lush, orchestral pop songs that celebrate the breadth and complexity of human emotion. The nomadic tunesmith &#8212; he&#8217;s lived in England, Scotland, Texas, and New Jersey &#8212; spent his formative years honing his skills on the guitar, violin, and piano, occasionally sitting in with friends&#8217; bands. He made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Harper</title>
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Combining shuddering, groove-laden funky soul and folky handcrafted acoustics, singer/songwriter Ben Harper had cult status during the course of the &#8217;90s but gained wider attention toward the end of the decade. Harper combined elements of classic singer/songwriters, blues revivalists, Jimi Hendrix, and &#8217;90s jam bands like Blues Traveler, Hootie &#38; the Blowfish, and Phish, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Folds</title>
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Singer/pianist Ben Folds (born September 12, 1966, in Winston-Salem, NC) is best known as the leader of the power pop trio Ben Folds Five, but has also struck out on his own as a solo artist. Despite playing in bands in high school, his musical career didn&#8217;t really get off the ground until the late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C+C Music Factory</title>
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C+C Music Factory wasn&#8217;t really a group &#8212; it was the product of Robert Clivillés and David Cole, two pop-savvy dance producers. In 1989, Clivillés and Cole hired all the singers and created all the tracks for Gonna Make You Sweat, C+C Music Factory&#8217;s first album. While it was prepackaged, it wasn&#8217;t necessarily faceless; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Azure Ray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Southern dream pop duo of Azure Ray began their rise in 2001 when former Bright Eyes members Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor joined Crooked Fingers/Archers of Loaf&#8217;s Eric Bachmann for something musically enchanting. A little more stripped than Bright Eyes and their other outfit, Little Red Rocket, Fink, and Taylor shaped a delicate soundscape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Axl Rose</title>
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Depending who you ask, Guns N&#8217; Roses vocalist Axl Rose is either considered a rock music icon who is worshipped by millions as an almost Christ-like figure, or hated as a homophobic, misogynistic, and woefully self-indulgent &#8220;rock star&#8221; (in his defense, Rose has denied that he&#8217;s a homophobe or a misogynist), as well as thought [...]]]></description>
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One of the numerous thoughtful, literate gangsta rappers to emerge from New York during the mid-&#8217;90s, AZ never garnered the attention of peers like Nas and Jay Z. Instead, he saw his debut album, Doe or Die, become a critical favorite in late 1995 before his career suddenly went downhill after such modest and short-lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avril Lavigne</title>
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Wild child Avril Lavigne hit big in summer 2002 with her spiky-fun debut song, &#8220;Complicated,&#8221; shifting pop music into a different direction. Lavigne, who was 17 at the time, didn&#8217;t seem concerned with the glamour of the TRL-dominated pop world and such confidence allowed her star power to soar. The middle of three children in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drake Bell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though he had been acting since he was five, when he filmed in his first commercial, Drake Bell (born Jared Drake Bell in Orange County, CA) didn&#8217;t start playing the guitar until he was cast in the 2001 TV movie Chasing Destiny, also starring the Who&#8217;s Roger Daltrey, who gave the young performer his initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aventura</title>
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A New York-based, Dominican boy band with their roots deep in bachata? If that sounds unlikely, well, Aventura has managed to cope with it. Formed in 1994 in the Bronx by a group of four boys (Anthony Santos, Lenny Santos, Max Santos, and Henry Santos Jeter) who were determined to break Dominican bachata music out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belanova</title>
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One of the most sensational Mexican pop acts of the mid-2000s, Belanova enjoyed tremendous success in their native country, especially with their second album, Dulce Beat, whose single &#8220;Por Ti&#8221; notably logged a record-setting 29 weeks atop MTV Mexico&#8217;s Top 20 chart. Vocalist/songwriter Denisse Guerrero, programmer/keyboardist Edgar Huerta, and bassist Ricardo Arreola formed Belanova in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avenged Sevenfold</title>
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The members of metalcore outfit Avenged Sevenfold (or A7X) were still attending high school in Huntington Beach, CA, when they formed their band in 1999. Nevertheless, it didn&#8217;t take long for M. Shadows (vocals), Zacky Vengeance (guitar), Synyster Gates (guitar), the Reverend (drums), and Johnny Christ (bass) to make an impression with their aggressive hybrid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avec</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Avec was born in 2003. During the previous six years, three of the members, Brooks, Scott and Adam, played under the name Sand Which Is. Sand Which Is toured the U.S. consistently for four years playing over 300 shows, gathering a small cult of experimental rock fans, as well as releasing two 7&#8243; records and [...]]]></description>
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Considered to be one of the leading death metal bands to emerge from Poland in the 1990s, Behemoth has endured quite a few lineup shifts during their career (especially in the bass department), with founding singer/guitarist Nergal being the only constant member. Behemoth was formed during 1991 (originally as a trio), and began issuing several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avant</title>
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Hailed as the &#8220;new voice of ghetto soul&#8221; and acknowledged as the first act signed to NBA great Magic Johnson&#8217;s Magic Johnson Music, Cleveland native Avant celebrated the MCA Records release of his debut album, My Thoughts, on May 2, 2000. Around the same time, the 22-year-old singer/songwriter was enjoying a Top Five Billboard R&#38;B/Hip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lou Bega</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like the Afro-Cuban and mambo music that inspires his music, Lou Bega is a hybrid, born and raised in Germany as the son of a Sicillian mother and Ugandan father. He sang and danced as a child and listened to R&#38;B and reggae as a teenager, but a trip to Miami as an 18-year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Avalanches</title>
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Never mind digging in the crates &#8212; the Avalanches probably just buy them whole, sight unseen, and find a way to bounce off each platter. Eventually morphing into a gang of six merrymakers bent on filtering their all-encompassing record collections through original instrumentation and a great deal of sampling, the Avalanches came from one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beenie Man</title>
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One of Jamaica&#8217;s most crucial DJs, Beenie Man&#8217;s recording career stretches back to 1981, although it was in the sound systems where he later made his mark. The witty toaster began his true ascent to stardom in the early &#8217;90s, and by 1994, his reputation couldn&#8217;t be beat. Then again, when you&#8217;re a recording veteran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Autumn Defense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Autumn Defense arrived with the 21st century, capturing colors of a bygone era. Fronted by John Stirratt, longtime member of Wilco and formerly Uncle Tupelo, the Autumn Defense is the result of a collaboration between Stirratt and musical compatriot Pat Sansone (who has worked with Joseph Arthur, Swan Dive, and Josh Rouse to name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autopilot Off</title>
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Autopilot Off is an emo-punk four-piece from Orange County, NY. Composed of Chris Hughes (guitar), Chris Johnson (guitar/vocals), Phil Robinson (drums), and Rob Kucharek (bass), they formed in 1996 under the name Cooter. Building a fan base through its live shows, the group was found sharing stages with the likes of MXPX, Less Than Jake, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bee Gees</title>
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No popular music act of the &#8217;60s, &#8217;70s, &#8217;80s, or &#8217;90s experienced more ups and downs in popularity, or attracted a more varied audience across the decades than the Bee Gees. Beginning in the mid- to late &#8217;60s as a Beatlesque ensemble, they quickly developed as songwriters in their own right and style, perfecting in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autolux</title>
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Los Angeles noise pop trio Autolux formed in 2000. Singer/bassist Eugene Goreshter met ex-Ednaswap drummer Carla Azar while collaborating on the score for Dario Fo&#8217;s play Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and following the addition of former Failure guitarist Greg Edwards, the group made its live debut that summer at the noted L.A. area club [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedroom Walls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adam Goldman (guitar/vocals), Kris Canning (bass), Sean Hoffman (guitar), Vanessa Kaufman (drums), and Aurisha Smolarski (violin) compose the romanticore sounds of Bedroom Walls. The bandmembers themselves coined the term romanticore to describe the dreamy, bittersweet, and sometimes moody atmosphere surrounding the sound of this Los Angeles-based indie rock group. In 2002, engineer Rafter Roberts (Black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authority Zero</title>
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Jason DeVore (vocals), Bill Marcks (guitar/vocals), Jeremy Wood (bass/vocals), and Jim Wilcox (drums) comprise the exotic punk sound of Authority Zero. Formed in Mesa, AZ, in 1994, Authority Zero initially started off as a five-piece with vocalist Jerry Douglas. Douglas left the group in 1999, but remained an integral part of the Authority Zero family. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedouin Soundclash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This reggae-influenced Canadian band started in its native Kingston, Ontario &#8212; not the traditional Jamaican reggae capital. In early 2000, bassist Eon Sinclair, drummer Pat Pengelly, and vocalist/guitarist/visual artist Jay Malinowski met at university and discovered a mutual love of dub reggae music. All musicians, the trio began performing classic reggae numbers at university. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augustana</title>
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Mellow piano rockers Augustana are a heartland equivalent to Coldplay or Keane, with a little bit of mid-&#8217;90s adult alternative throwback (think Counting Crows or the Wallflowers) as well. The band formed in Greenville, IL, in 2002, while singer and keyboardist Dan Layus and guitarist Josiah Rosen were attending a small evangelical college there. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natasha Bedingfield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally from New Zealand, Natasha Bedingfield grew up in southeast London, where she and her siblings were raised around music. By their teens, Natasha, brother Daniel, and sister Nikola had formed an R&#38;B-based singing group. It didn&#8217;t last, but the experience encouraged the Bedingfields to keep pursuing music. In 2001 and 2002 Daniel Bedingfield scored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auf Der Maur</title>
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Bassist Melissa Auf der Maur was briefly a member of two of the biggest alt-rock groups of the &#8217;90s, Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, before launching a solo career during the early 21st century. Born on March 17, 1972, in Montreal, Canada (her mother, Linda Gaboriau, was one of Montreal&#8217;s first female rock radio DJs), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Bedingfield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand-born Daniel Bedingfield grew up in southeast London. Mostly influenced by contemporary R&#38;B artists, his sisters Natasha and Nicola teamed up with him to assemble their first band, called the DNA Algorhythm. Inspired by a girlfriend from Leeds, Daniel Bedingfield recorded &#8220;Gotta Get Thru This&#8221; in his bedroom with a microphone plugged to his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Audition</title>
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Drummer Ryan O&#8217;Connor and bassist Joe Lussa formed the core of punk-pop/emo hybridists the Audition in their hometown of Chicago in 2003, working with a revolving cast of early members to hone the band&#8217;s sound and play shows. After recording a demo and playing some gigs with locals like the Academy Is&#8230;, the Audition caught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howie Beck</title>
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Canadian singer/songwriter Howie Beck plays pop music that balances a melancholy undertow with the bright buoyancy of superbly crafted melodies, and the result has made him an international phenomenon almost in spite of himself. Toronto-based Beck made his first album in 1997; the home-recorded and self-released Pop and Crash was primarily made while Beck was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audiovent</title>
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Audiovent is an alternative rock foursome hailing from Calabasas, CA. Vocalist Jason Boyd, guitarist Benjamin Einziger, bassist Paul Fried, and drummer Jamin Wilcox were originally known as Vent, forming in the early &#8217;90s after being inspired by the emerging mainstream alternative rock scene. After releasing one independent album in 1999, the band found group therapy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beck</title>
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One of the most inventive and eclectic figures to emerge from the &#8217;90s alternative revolution, Beck was the epitome of postmodern chic in an era obsessed with junk culture. Drawing upon a kaleidoscope of influences &#8212; pop, folk, psychedelia, hip-hop, country, blues, R&#38;B, funk, indie rock, noise rock, experimental rock, jazz, lounge, Brazilian music &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audioslave</title>
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When Zack de la Rocha left Rage Against the Machine in October 2000, the band&#8217;s future was put into question. Within months rumors flew that ex-Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell would replace de la Rocha. And gossip fueled truth, for Cornell joined the rest of Rage in the studio in May 2001. The mix was great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The core of the Beauty Room is Kirk Degiorgio (producer, keyboards, vocals) and Jinadu (lead vocals, keyboards). Though the group didn&#8217;t make its recorded debut until late 2005, with a low-key 10&#8243; single on the New Religion label, Degiorgio and Jinadu first collaborated four years prior, when the latter provided vocals on the former&#8217;s 21st [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atreyu</title>
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Southern California is celebrated for its sunshine and renowned for continually producing some of the world&#8217;s best rock bands, proving this once again with Atreyu. Coming out of Southern California during the rap-metal explosion around the turn of the century, Atreyu crafted a sound more hardcore than rap, more melodic than metal. Depression, pain, desire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beautiful South</title>
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Following the disbandment of the British indie pop group the Housemartins in 1989, vocalist Paul Heaton and drummer David Hemmingway formed the Beautiful South. Where their previous group relied on jazzy guitars and witty, wry lyrics, the Beautiful South boasted a more sophisticated, jazzy pop sound, layered with keyboards, R&#38;B-inflected female backing vocals and, occasionally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atomic Kitten</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the rise and fall of Take That, Spice Girls, and Boyzone, the U.K. didn&#8217;t hold back with churning out signature pop artists. British acts such as A1, Westlife, and the television spoof band, Hear&#8217;Say burned radio waves for the early part of the decade and the dance-pop trio Atomic Kitten joined the ranks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atom &#038; His Package</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania-native punk pioneer Adam Goren is one of the most unconventional musicians of his time. Armed with only his &#8220;package,&#8221; the creative musician is known for his hilarious, playful synth pop punk songs and outrageous rhymes about unconventional topics. Adam Goren, as his alter ego persona Atom, writes, performs, and records all of the music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beatsteaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Beatsteaks formed in 1995 in their native Germany, playing local shows at food festivals and by the end of that summer, the punk-popsters were recording a demo Beatsteaks - die Erste which went on to sell more than 1000 copies. Still only in high school during this time, the Beatsteaks steared straight for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atmosphere (Rap)</title>
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Atmosphere is a hip-hop group from Minneapolis that centers around rapper Slug (aka Sean Daley). The son of a black father and a white mother who divorced when he was a teenager, Slug became entranced with hip-hop, graffiti, and breakdancing, and formed the Rhyme Sayers Collective with two high school friends &#8212; Siddiq Ali (Stress) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beatnuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An underground Latino crew who moved from being strictly producers to make some action on the other side of the mixing board as well, the Beatnuts first hooked up in the late &#8217;80s, with Junkyard Ju-Ju (aka JuJu, born Jerry Tineo) and Psycho Les (born Lester Fernandez) being joined by Fashion (aka Kool Fashion, born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATL</title>
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The four members of ATL &#8212; vocalists Tre, Will, L-Rock, and rapper Danger&#8211; came together after being chosen though an Atlanta-area talent search. Where previous R&#38;B/vocal groups (112, Jagged Edge) had crossed over into hip-hop, by either featuring a guest rapper, or appearing on someone else&#8217;s album, ATL were a self-contained R&#38;B/hip-hop/fusion band. The quartet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beatles</title>
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So much has been said and written about the Beatles &#8212; and their story is so mythic in its sweep &#8212; that it&#8217;s difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans. To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicole Atkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bringing to mind a blend of Roy Orbison, Loretta Lynn and Jenny Lewis accompanied by melancholy lyrics, Nicole Atkins grew up in Neptune, NJ. After a few years playing in North Carolina with alt-country band Los Parasols, she returned to the tri-state area playing solo gigs in New York City. Nearly broke and ready to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beastie Boys</title>
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As the first white rap group of any importance, the Beastie Boys received the scorn of critics and strident hip-hop musicians, who accused them of cultural pirating, especially since they began as a hardcore punk group in 1981. But the Beasties weren&#8217;t pirating &#8212; they treated rap as part of a post-punk musical underground, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Athlete</title>
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Years before the serene single &#8220;Wires&#8221; propelled them to the top of the U.K. charts, Athlete was yet another Oasis-styled outfit from South London. Childhood friends Carey Willets (bass), Joel Pott (vocals, guitar), Steve Roberts (drums), and Tim Wanstall (keyboards) formed the group in early 2000, initially modeling their sound after that of the famed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aterciopelados</title>
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Calling Aterciopelados one of the most important rock en español innovators since the mid-&#8217;90s would be an accurate summation but merely scratching the surface. Formed as a quartet around the songwriting duo of former Delia y los Aminoacidos singer/guitarist Andrea Echeverri and bassist/producer Héctor Buitrago in Bogotá in 1993, Aterciopelados, whose name translates loosely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beans (Rap)</title>
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Former Antipop Consortium instigator Beans lays down relentless, out-of-this-world beats with highly poeticized and simply mind-boggling lyrics. Leading the hip-hop underground along with such tweaked luminaries as El-P and the Def Jux crew, Prefuse 73 and the Anticon collective, Beans brings to hip-hop an ear for uncompromising experimentalism and intellectual wordplay. Raised in White Plains, [...]]]></description>
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The Europop act ATC (A Touch of Class) first established their infectious dance grooves at the top of the new millennium with their platinum single &#8220;Around the World (La La La La La),&#8221; which became the most overplayed song in German radio history. However, ATC &#8212; the fresh-faced foursome of Joe (New Zealand), Sarah (Australia), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beanie Sigel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philadelphian rapper Beanie Sigel had a rapidly rising career, beginning with his appearance on one of underground rapper/producer DJ Clue&#8217;s mix tapes, to his cameos on Jay-Z&#8217;s Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life, to a consequent solo deal with Roc-A-Fella Records. His distinctive, slightly drawling delivery and his clever but hard-hitting rhymes were showcased on his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beachwood Sparks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles-based cosmic country-pop combo the Beachwood Sparks was formed in mid-1998 by onetime Strictly Ballroom singer/guitarist Chris Gunst, slide guitarist/keyboardist Dave Scher, ex-Further bassist Brent Rademaker, and Lilys drummer Aaron Sperske. Inspired by the pioneering country-rock efforts of West Coast legends like the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Buffalo Springfield, the group issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ataris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ataris have produced several full-length recordings of relatively cookie-cutter pop-punk. Taking more influence from mainstream alternative acts than the punk artists they tour with, the Ataris were discovered by Vandals founder Joe Escalante in early 1997, after songwriter Kris Roe met him at a Vandals concert. Impressed by his demo tape, Escalante asked Roe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBMak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The British pop trio BBMak consists of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Unlike many of their teen-friendly peers, BBMak plays their own instruments and write and produce most of their music as well. Barry, Burns and McNally met while they were playing with other bands in Northwest England and, after jamming together for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Drive-In</title>
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Combining emotional melodies and an upbeat rhythm moving at an unpredictable rate, At the Drive-In definitely stuck out in their hometown El Paso, TX. Formed in early 1994, the group debuted soon after with their first EP, Hell Paso, followed by a brief tour across the Lone Star state. With a lineup secured around Cedric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bayside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long Island-based Bayside formed in the winter of 2000 and quickly started developing a local following with their melodic brand of moody, guitar-driven emo. They soon hit the road, sharing stages across the United States with bands like the Alkaline Trio, Taking Back Sunday, and Further Seems Forever along the way. Their first release, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aslyn</title>
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There&#8217;s a shocking intimacy to singer-songwriter Aslyn&#8217;s debut album, Lemon Love. That&#8217;s not to say that it&#8217;s full of titillating sexual imagery or blistering diatribes. Listening to the album, which was produced by Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams, Jewel) and Eric Valentine (SmashMouth, Third Eye Blind, Queens of the Stone Age), you get the sense that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bat for Lashes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brighton, England&#8217;s Bat for Lashes is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Natasha Khan. The Pakistan-born Khan pulls from her art school education and her experience producing multimedia installations when it comes to writing songs. She also cites Steve Reich and Susan Hiller as influences, while echoes of Björk and Siouxsie Sioux are heard throughout Bat for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashley Tisdale</title>
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Best known for her roles as Sharpay Evans in the remarkably popular Disney Channel movie High School Musical and Maddie Fitzpatrick in the series The Suite Life of Zack &#38; Cody, New Jersey-born actress/singer/model Ashley Tisdale began her career in show business at age three, and sang for President Bill Clinton at age 12. Manager [...]]]></description>
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The production duo of Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton released several of Britain&#8217;s most respected and enjoyable progressive house anthems of the &#8217;90s from their base in South London. Before they met (at a Thames riverboat party organized by Buxton), Ratcliffe grooved to the deep Latin funk of War and George Duke while Buxton was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashley Parker Angel</title>
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Hailing from Redding, California, Ashley Parker was thrust into the spotlight when he was chosen to be a member of the pre-fab boy band O-Town for the ABC reality TV show Making The Band. The show documented the creation of O-Town and the progression of their careers; the group would end-up signing to Clive Davis&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashlee Simpson</title>
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&#8220;I&#8217;m a simple girl in a complex world,&#8221; sings 19-year-old Ashlee Simpson on a track aptly titled &#8220;Autobiography&#8221; from her debut Geffen Records album Pieces of Me. But that doesn&#8217;t begin to sum up this multi-talented performer&#8217;s accomplishments at her tender age. With a regular role as Cecilia in WB&#8217;s hit TV Seventh Heaven , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barenaked Ladies</title>
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Toronto, Canada&#8217;s quirky popsters Barenaked Ladies were never ones to follow a trend. They were more interested in making someone laugh than being astute and serious. Most of all, a friendship consumed this band, and that bond cemented their place in alternative rock.
Teenage friends Ed Robertson and Steven Page found themselves laughing at the innocent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Ashcroft</title>
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As the frontman for the epic British drone-pop band the Verve, Richard Ashcroft proved himself the spiritual descendant of rock &#38; roll icons like Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison &#8212; rivetingly charismatic, menacingly serpentine, and possessed of an almost shamanic intensity, he embraced and articulated the anthemic fervor of rock music with a power and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asobi Seksu</title>
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Asobi Seksu, like Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine before them, are evolving and redefining what noise means within the model of pop songwriting. The band melds lush yet wonderfully crushing waves of white noise in variation with synth-driven pop delicacies and tight lounge progressions ala Stereolab. The quartet&#8217;s melting-pot aesthetics also include narratives sung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baptist Generals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crafting lo-fi, acoustic indie-rock that draws comparisons to artists like Roky Erikson, the Band, Will Oldham and Howlin&#8217; Wolf, Denton, TX&#8217;s the Baptist Generals feature main members singer/guitarist Chris Flemmons and drummer Steven Hill. Originally named the Poor Bastard Sons, the group formed in the late &#8217;90s and mixed folk and country sounds and song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Banner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One half of the rap duo Crooked Lettaz, David Banner helped put Mississippi on the map in 1999. In 2000, he released his first solo album in Them Firewater Boyz, Vol. 1. Originally on Penalty Records, he realized quickly that a New York-based record label just didn&#8217;t know how to handle the south. With the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashanti</title>
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With hitmaker Irv Gotti at the helm, Ashanti blasted into the urban music scene in 2002, topping the charts with multiple singles at once. She quickly became a sensation, gracing the covers of magazines and dominating urban radio. Ashanti built her reputation with duets, where she would complement an already popular rapper &#8212; Ja Rule [...]]]></description>
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Irish punk-pop trio Ash first formed in 1989 when childhood mates Tim Wheeler and Mark Hamilton got guitars for Christmas and established the metal act Vietnam. Nothing more than something for kicks, Vietnam switched to Ash in 1992 as Wheeler (guitar/vocals), Hamilton (bass), and Rick &#8220;Rock&#8221; McMurray (drums) aimed to be something more serious. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyd Banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lloyd Banks was raised in Jamaica, Queens, by his Puerto Rican mother; his father spent much of his son&#8217;s childhood behind bars. Like many young men amid the poverty and ruin of his community, he found solace through ghetto poetry and the work of rappers like Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick. He dropped out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As I Lay Dying</title>
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As I Lay Dying is a California metal-hardcore crossover band from San Diego, CA. The group formed as a trio in 2001 with vocalist Tim Lambesis, drummer Jordan Mancino, and guitarist Evan White, and shortly thereafter released Beneath the Encasing of Ashes. A split CD with the American Tragedy followed the next year. In 2003 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devendra Banhart</title>
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Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, and Los Angeles, Devendra Banhart was always playing music and drawing. But it wasn&#8217;t until his brief stay at the San Francisco Art Institute that the disciplines became his constant companions. With the encouragement of poet and SFAI professor Bill Berskon, Banhart began experimenting with all kinds of art. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aruna</title>
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&#8220;I can see things that you walk right through,&#8221; sings Aruna in &#8220;Break You Open,&#8221; the opening track on her newest CD, Running Red Lights. Psyches, souls, lives and lovers: in the span of nine songs, she embraces them all with striking clairvoyance. Whereas her previous work was socio-political, Aruna now focuses on the intricate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bangles</title>
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Originally &#8220;Colours,&#8221; &#8220;the Supersonic Bangs&#8221; and &#8220;the Bangs&#8221;, the all singing/all performing four-woman the Bangles formed in 1981 and sprung from the L.A. paisley underground scene. Later they traded their garage band roots for a slick, heavily-produced pop sound that turned them into one of the most successful chart groups of either gender during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Arthur</title>
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Singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-&#8217;90s and soon signed to his Real World label. His debut, Big City Streets, was released in 1997 and was practically unnoticed. Not discouraged by industry politics, the native of Akron, OH, continued to make music and dove into his Earth-inspired abstract art. His eclectic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of Horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emerging in 2004 with a woodsy blend of midtempo rock and reverb-laden vocals, Band of Horses quickly gained an audience in their native Northwest before Everything All the Time made them indie rock darlings. Multi-instrumentalists Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke founded the group after an eight-year run with Carissa&#8217;s Wierd, and an early performance alongside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrested Development</title>
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One of the major success stories of 1992, Arrested Development was a progressive rap collective fusing soul, blues, hip-hop, and Sly and the Family Stone-influenced funk with political, socially conscious lyrics. The group was founded in the late &#8217;80s by rapper Speech and DJ Headliner, who decided to make the transition to a more positive, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banco de Gaia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired to enter the field of electronic music by Britain&#8217;s acid house explosion of the late &#8217;80s, Toby Marks took quite a different spin on electronica with his recordings as Banco de Gaia, introducing elements of Eastern and Arabic music, sampling similarly exotic sources, and tying the whole to ambient-dub rhythms. Marks began releasing cassette-only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army of Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Army of Me

Army of Me frontman Vince Scheuerman&#8217;s early years were not made of the parents-with-great-record-collections stuff most readers of rock star biographies are used to stumbling across, but that shouldn&#8217;t count him and his three bandmates out as serious contenders for indie-alternative greatness. Born into a religious cult in Gaithersburg, MD, Scheuerman and bassist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charli Baltimore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rapper Charli Baltimore was born Tiffany Lane in Philadelphia; her music career blossomed after she began a relationship with the Notorious B.I.G., and she adopted her stage alias from the name of Geena Davis&#8217; character in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight. In the wake of the Biggie&#8217;s murder, Baltimore teamed with producer Lance &#8220;Un&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Army Of Freshmen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Punk-pop combo Army of Freshmen formed in Ventura, CA, in late 1997 &#8212; vocalist Chris Jay, a recent New Jersey transplant with some 500 completed songs to his credit, assembled the band after meeting guitarist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Kai Dodson, keyboardists Owen Bucey and Dan Clark, and drummer Mike Milligan at local open-mike showcases. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baldwin Brothers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite sharing monikers with one of Hollywood&#8217;s most famous acting clans, the groove-based electronic group the Baldwin Brothers (aka drummer/programmer Jason Hinkle and keyboardist T.J. Widner) actually got their name from a childhood in-joke: as kids in Kokomo, IN, the duo used &#8220;Baldwin&#8221; as a term for someone &#8220;in-the-know.&#8221; Hinkle and Widner also began their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nic Armstrong</title>
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Substance, simplicity, soul and a bit of love in the context of rock n&#8217; roll are not as common as, perhaps, they once were. Enter Nic Armstrong, a 25 year-old English boy blessed with an uncommonly powerful voice. Nic and his band, The Thieves, have fashioned a remarkably confident and exciting debut album, The Greatest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armor For Sleep</title>
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New Jersey dream rock quartet Armor for Sleep&#8217;s emotionally charged lyrics, energetic live shows, and D.I.Y. work ethic have won them a loyal fan base. Singer/songwriter/guitar player Ben Jorgensen began writing songs the summer before his freshman year at college, and recorded two of them at a local studio. Weary of playing all of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Balas</title>
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		<title>Arlo</title>
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Quirky indie-rockers Arlo began life in the mid-&#8217;90s, when L.A. guitarists/vocalists Nate Greely and Sean Spillane formed a band called Otto while in college. A revolving-door rhythm section didn&#8217;t stop the band from releasing a split single on the Glimmerfed label; they finally settled on bassist Shmedley and drummer Soup, both formerly of the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ari Shine</title>
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		<title>Bailey</title>
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		<title>Ari Hest</title>
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Ari Hest became interested in music while still a teenager growing up in the Bronx. Though he&#8217;d taken piano lessons as a child, he taught himself how to play the guitar, mostly by listening to records from his parents&#8217; collection (Paul Simon) and alternative radio (Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews). While studying at NYU, Hest hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bahamadia</title>
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Bahamadia rose to prominence on the hip-hop scene as the female protégée of Gang Starr&#8217;s Guru, and lent her smooth-flowing raps to a variety of projects during the late &#8217;90s, including several electronica and acid jazz artists. Born Antonia Reed in Philadelphia, Bahamadia started out DJing at local house parties in the early to mid-&#8217;80s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ari Gold</title>
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Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, Ari Gold was discovered while singing at his brother&#8217;s bar-mitzvah at the age of five. Along with brothers Steven and Elon, he was awarded top prize at the First Annual Jewish Children&#8217;s Song Festival. It was then that Ari landed his earliest job as a professional singer [...]]]></description>
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The Bahamian music and dance tradition of Junkanoo, which traces back to the slavery days when slaves were allowed to gather together one day a week for festivities, is fused with the modern influences of dance rhythms, pop music and Latin percussion by Isaiah Taylor and his band, The Baha Men. According to &#8220;Billboard&#8221;, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic Monkeys</title>
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Citing influences such as the Jam, the Clash, and the Smiths, the Arctic Monkeys create a vibrant punk-inspired sound well suited for Britpop and alternative rock fans alike. Alex Turner (vocals/guitar), Jamie Cook (guitar), Andy Nicholson (bass), and Matt Helders (drums) formed the Arctic Monkeys in Sheffield, England, in 2003. A year prior, Turner and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erykah Badu</title>
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She grew up listening to &#8217;70s soul and &#8217;80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm. The grooves and production on the album are bass-heavy R&#38;B, but Badu&#8217;s langurous, occasionally tortured vocals and delicate phrasing immediately removed her from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture In Helsinki</title>
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The Australian indie pop ensemble Architecture in Helsinki hails from Fitzroy, Melbourne, and counts multi-instrumentalists Cameron Bird, James Cecil, Gus Franklin, Isobel Knowles, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry, Tara Shackell, and Kellie Sutherland among its ranks. The band&#8217;s musical arsenal is even bigger than its roster, featuring instruments as diverse as analog synths and samplers, glockenspiel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Badly Drawn Boy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Belying his status as a narcoleptic slacker icon, Badly Drawn Boy proved himself a tireless pop songwriter, with arrangements that reflect a great deal of creativity. Born Damon Gough, he began recording after meeting the like-minded Andy Votel at a Manchester nightclub. The pair formed the Twisted Nerve label, and Gough debuted as Badly Drawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archie Eversole</title>
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A product of rap&#8217;s Dirty South school, Atlanta, GA, resident Archie Eversole is a hardcore rapper who thrives on thug-life imagery and specializes in lyrics that are violent and/or sexually explicit. Eversole&#8217;s style of rapping is distinctly Southern, but not all of his influences are from the Deep South; Eversole&#8217;s rhymes also owe a creative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Wizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Formed in Athens, GA, in 1999 by singer Curtis Brown and drummer Scott Nutt, Bad Wizard soon migrated north to New York City, where they would eventually add guitarist Eddie Lynch and bassist Marc Tanner to their lineup. Boasting a high-energy hard rock sound combining AC/DC&#8217;s bombast and the MC5&#8217;s manic hyperactivity with traces of [...]]]></description>
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Formed by ex-Carnage, Carcass, and Candlemass guitarist Michael Amott (concurrently of Spiritual Beggars) with his brother Christopher (Armageddon), Arch Enemy took a straight-ahead approach to death metal reminiscent of Entombed or late-period Carcass, blending catchy, classic-style metal riffs with crushing grooves for an intense yet accessible sound. The group&#8217;s charter lineup was rounded out by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Ronald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Named after an obscure made-for-TV-movie from 1974, the New York City quartet Bad Ronald fits in well with early 21st century crop of goofy rap-popsters as the Bloodhound Gang. Comprised of three MCs and a DJ (which includes gentlemen who go by the names of Ray, White Owl, Kaz Gamble, and DJ Deetlax), the group [...]]]></description>
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Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Parry, Tim Kingsbury, and Win&#8217;s kid brother William Butler formed the Arcade Fire in summer 2003. The experimental indie rock quintet, which hails from Montreal, initially began when the elder Butler spotted Chassagne singing jazz standards at a local art exhibit at Concordia University in their hometown. From there, two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Religion</title>
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Out of all of the Southern Californian hardcore punk bands of the early &#8217;80s, Bad Religion stayed around the longest. For over a decade, they retained their underground credibility without turning out a series of indistinguishable records that all sound the same. Instead, the band refined their attack, adding inflections of psychedelia, heavy metal, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Boy&#8217;s Da&#8217; Band</title>
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		<title>Bad Acid Trip</title>
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		<title>Arab Strap</title>
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The Scottish post-folk duo Arab Strap were formed in mid-1995 by vocalist Aidan Moffat and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton, longtime friends who after years of exchanging cassettes of their respective bands decided to finally begin collaborating together. Upon signing to the hip Chemikal Underground label, they issued their debut single, the stark and downcast &#8220;The First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aquabats</title>
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A zany eight-piece (or more) ska unit from the bleached-out California coast, Aquabats earned respect for an energized new wave of ska-punk from figures ranging from Courtney Love to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Squirrel Nut Zippers. Apparently led by vocalist Christian Jacobs (&#8221;The Bat Commander&#8221;), the group &#8212; which impersonated a different horde of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backstreet Boys</title>
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Backstreet Boys were, in many ways, a contradictory band. Comprised entirely of white, middle-class Americans, the group sang a hybrid of new jack balladry, hip-hop, R&#38;B, and dance club pop that originally found its greatest success in Canada and Europe, with their 1996 debut album charting in the Top Ten in nearly every country on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appliance</title>
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Exeter, England-based post-rock trio Appliance was formed by guitarist/vocalist James Brooks, bassist Stuart Christie, and drummer David Ireland, schoolmates whose earliest music sprung from their mutual admiration of bands like Spacemen 3 and Joy Division. Upon completing their recorded debut &#8220;Weightless Conditions&#8221; for an improvisational compilation on the M.T.B. label, Christie left the group to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tal Bachman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the son of Guess Who/BTO guitarist Randy Bachman, Canadian-born pop singer/songwriter Tal Bachman was raised in a musical environment, absorbing the breadth of his father&#8217;s enormous record collection and teaching himself to play guitar. As a teen he increasingly lost interest in music, however, and instead went on to study political philosophy at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Appleseed Cast</title>
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Lawrence, KS-based emo quartet Appleseed Cast were originally comprised of singer/guitarist Christopher Crisci, guitarist Aaron Pillar, bassist Jason Wickersheim, and drummer Louie Ruiz. Signing to Deep Elm, the group made its debut on the 1998 label sampler Records for the Working Class, releasing the full-length The End of the Ring Wars later that same year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sebastian Bach</title>
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The onetime frontman for hair-metal hitmakers Skid Row, singer Sebastian Bach was born Sebastian Bierk in the Bahamas on April 3, 1968. A veteran of short-lived, little-known bands including Herrenvolk, Madame X, V05 and Kid Wikkid, he was living in Canada when in 1987 he received a demo tape from an unknown New Jersey band [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiona Apple</title>
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Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple gained a recording contract in 1995 as one in a crop of mid-&#8217;90s female artists, but her confessional writing and throaty vocals made the teenager sound like much more than just the latest flavor. Born in 1977 in New York to singer Diana McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart, Apple began playing the [...]]]></description>
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Formed in spring 2004, just as the Libertines were beginning to fall apart, Babyshambles became the main vessel for Pete Doherty&#8217;s poetic, chaotic rock when he was ousted from the Libertines for his increasing drug use and erratic behavior. Babyshambles released their self-titled debut 7&#8243; in April 2004, and settled on the lineup of Doherty, [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8217;90s dance act unafraid to throw a growing variety of styles (and samples) into the mix, Apollo 440 hit the British Top Ten in 1997 by sampling Van Halen for the single &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Talkin&#8217; Bout Dub,&#8221; and big-band drummer Gene Krupa for &#8220;Krupa.&#8221; The group was formed in 1991 by Howard Gray (a former [...]]]></description>
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As a singer, producer, and songwriter, Babyface was an inescapable presence in virtually every major facet of pop music during the &#8217;90s. His own recordings helped rejuvenate the R&#38;B tradition of the smooth, sensitive, urban crooner and made him a staple of urban contemporary radio. Yet their considerable success was eclipsed by his songwriting and [...]]]></description>
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Exploring the experimental possibilities inherent in acid and ambience, the two major influences on home-listening techno during the late &#8217;80s, Richard D. James&#8217; recordings as Aphex Twin brought him more critical praise than any other electronic artist during the 1990s. Though his first major single, &#8220;Didgeridoo,&#8221; was a piece of acid thrash designed to tire [...]]]></description>
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The Apex Theory came together because of an ethnic bond. Frontman Andy Khachaturian, guitarist Art Karamian, and bassist David Hakopyan are of Armenian descent. While growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, each of them was exposed to various genres of world music as well as pop music, jazz, and classical. Drummer Sammy J. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apartment 26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The eclectic British metal band Apartment 26 blends hard rock, drum &#8216;n&#8217; bass, and rave elements into their aggressive sound. Before they released their debut album, Hallucinating, the quintet &#8212; consisting of vocalist Biff, guitarist Jon Greasley, bassist Louis Cruden, keyboardist A.C. Huckvale, and drummer Kevin Temple &#8212; issued an independent EP that they sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby D (Rap)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Underground Atlanta rapper Baby D was only 16 when his first album, Off da Chain, was released in 2000 on Big Oomp Records. Two years later his followup, Lil&#8217; Chopper Toy was released to much underground acclaim. A major label bidding war ensued, garnering the young MC a multi-million dollar deal with Epic. ~ Wade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Flag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Making their debut at a local Pittsburgh radio station in 1993, Anti-Flag got together for the sake of responding to their disgust at religion, nationalism, and fascism. Justin Sane (vocals/guitar), Andy Flag (bass/vocals), and Pat Thetic (drums) bopped around their hometown much to the dismay of skinheads while recruiting a following who proudly wore torn-up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Boy Da Prince</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hailing from New Orleans, Baby Boy da Prince followed in the footsteps of his city&#8217;s two major camps, No Limit and Cash Money Records. His excursion into the rap game officially began when he opened in concert for No Limit recording artist Choppa. After signing with the independent label Extreme Entertainment around 2004 and opening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthrax</title>
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Nearly as much as Metallica or Megadeth, Anthrax was responsible for the emergence of speed and thrash metal. Combining the speed and fury of hardcore punk with the prominent guitars and vocals of heavy metal, they helped create a new subgenre of heavy metal on their early albums. Original guitarists Scott Ian and Dan Spitz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Bash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smooth rapper Baby Bash can&#8217;t recall where he got the &#8220;Bash&#8221; moniker but his alternate name, Baby Beesh, comes from the fact he used to drive around in a Mitsubishi. Born in the Vallejo, CA, area in 1975 to a Latin mother and an Anglo father who both eventually became addicted to heroin, Baby Bash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc Anthony</title>
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A multi-talented artist, Marc Anthony (born Marco Antonio Muniz) has balanced an acting career with a musical career. In addition to appearing in films like The Substitute, Big Night, and Hackers, and in Broadway productions such as Paul Simon&#8217;s Capeman, Anthony rose to the top level of Latino music. The biggest-selling salsa artist of all [...]]]></description>
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In every family there&#8217;s usually one kid that stands out; one that has exceptional talent, dashing good looks and irresistible charm. Not so in this family. Most would agree that of the five boys born to Adrian Breeding not one of them stands out. They all do.
Dustin, 16, Kelly, 15, Patrick, 14, Carnell, 13, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Hamilton</title>
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A soul singer who has drawn comparisons to such classic R&#38;B vocalists as Bill Withers and Bobby Womack, Anthony Hamilton struggled for the better part of the 1990s as two of his albums went unreleased. Getting his start at age ten singing in his church choir, the Charlotte, NC, native also performed as a teenager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B2K</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Urban boy band B2K broke into the pop market in early 2002 with &#8220;Uh Huh,&#8221; a fun song driven by more-dance-than-hip-hop beats and a hot delivery, downright sexy for four young innocent-looking men. The single&#8217;s success drew attention toward the group&#8217;s self-titled debut album and group members Omarion, Raz-B, Lil Fizz, and J-Boog. Epic Records, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Anniversary</title>
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The Anniversary brought its own blend of male-female vocals, jangly guitars, and synth keyboards to the emo scene after signing with Heroes and Villains in 1999. The five Kansans produced Designing a Nervous Breakdown, drawing comparisons to their label owners, the Get Up Kids, and another boy-girl snyth pop band, the Rentals. The band&#8217;s willingness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B.R. Gunna</title>
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Bold and brash, two young guns from Detroit crank out beats like a sonic wrecking ball. Both just shy of 21, Curtis &#8220;Black&#8221; Cross and Ralph &#8220;Young R.J.&#8221; Rice are already hip hop studio veterans. As a unit, they are the production duo B.G. Gunna and their skills are impeccable.
Introduced as teenagers with family ties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annie Lennox</title>
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Following the disbandment of Eurythmics in 1991, vocalist Annie Lennox began a solo career that rivaled Eurythmics&#8216; in terms of crossover popularity. Born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland, Lennox began playing music as child, learning how to play both the piano and flute. In her late teens, she won a scholarship to London&#8217;s Royal Academy [...]]]></description>
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Long before the Cash Money camp became known as Cash Money Millionaires, the label got its start hustling albums by a young teen known as B.G., who eventually scored a national anthem with his track &#8220;Bling Bling.&#8221; Originally known as the Baby Gangsta, B.G. grew up in the dangerous uptown section of New Orleans, among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B Rich</title>
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		<title>Annie</title>
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Norwegian singer Annie (born Anne Lilia Berge-Strand) is as pop as early Madonna or late Kylie Minogue, yet her hipster credibility puts her just as close to Saint Etienne or Miss Kittin. She first made an impression in 1999 with a juicy Madonna-sampling single called &#8220;The Greatest Hit,&#8221; produced by Tore Andreas Kroknes (aka Erot); [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Collective</title>
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In 2000, in New York City, Avey Tare (aka David Porter) and Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) established Animal Collective with the issue of Spirit They&#8217;re Gone, Spirit They&#8217;ve Vanished on their own Animal imprint. It was the first of a flurry of captivating, occasionally frustrating releases exploring the fringes and intersecting boundaries of folk, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The B-52&#8217;s</title>
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The first of many acts to cement the college town of Athens, GA, as a hotbed of alternative music, the B-52&#8217;s took their name from the Southern slang for the mile-high bouffant wigs sported by singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, a look emblematic of the band&#8217;s campy, thrift-store aesthetic. The five-piece group, which also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ani DiFranco</title>
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A folkie in punk&#8217;s clothing, Ani DiFranco battled successfully against the Goliath of corporate rock to emerge as one of the most influential and inspirational cult heroines of the 1990s. A resolute follower of D.I.Y. ethos, DiFranco released her records through her own indie label, Righteous Babe, slowly but steadily building a devout grassroots following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angie Stone</title>
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A singer, a self-taught keyboardist, and a prolific songwriter, Angie Stone&#8217;s first claim to fame was being the lead vocalist on Vertical Hold&#8217;s smooth urban dance track &#8220;Seems You&#8217;re Much Too Busy.&#8221; An R&#38;B Top 40 hit during the summer of 1993, it eventually led to a solo career, and her debut album Black Diamond [...]]]></description>
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Part of the New York City hip-hop scene, Angie Martinez got her start working in radio. Raised in Brooklyn, Martinez was first introduced to music via her mother&#8217;s diverse musical tastes (who was a program director for a jazz radio station). Eventually Martinez discovered hip-hop, and after a short stint at a Miami radio station [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angels &#038; Airwaves</title>
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The San Diego-based quartet is comprised of former blink-182 guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, former Offspring drummer Atom Willard, one-time Distillers bassist Ryan Sinn and guitarist David Kennedy, a colleague from DeLonge&#8217;s other project Box Car Racer. But Angels &#38; Airwaves (&#8221;AVA&#8221; for short) is no side project like Box Car Racer, nor a thinly-disguised solo vehicle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angel got her start in the entertainment industry while still a child, taking singing and dancing lessons and learning a bit of piano. She signed with Jive Records at 13, and joined a teen pop combo called No Secrets. The group debuted in 2001, backing up pin-up sensation Aaron Carter on songs like &#8220;Stride [Jump [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Androids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Led by ex-Superjesus guitarist/vocalist Tim Henwood, the Androids also included drummer Marty Grech, guitarist Matt Tomlinson, and bassist Sam Grayson. After recording their debut album in summer 2002, the band quickly found themselves at the crest of a wild wave of press and platinum sales. Upon its release that September, their cheeky, insanely catchy single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android Lust</title>
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		<title>Michael Andrews</title>
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		<title>Andrew W.K.</title>
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Not just a party animal but a party guerrilla, Andrew W.K. burst onto the scene with a hybrid of metal, pop, and dance that parodied and paid tribute to the cheesiest, sleaziest aspects of all three styles. The California-born, Michigan-bred W.K. &#8212; the initials stand for everything from &#8220;White Killer&#8221; to &#8220;Women Kum&#8221; to &#8220;Wilkes-Krier,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine Anderson</title>
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Though she sang in musicals and talent shows throughout her childhood, Charlotte, NC, native Sunshine Anderson was discovered while she was waiting in line in a cafeteria at North Carolina Central University, where she earned a B.S. in criminal justice. A friend of producer/Soulife A&#38;R Vice President Mike City heard Anderson humming while she waited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jade Anderson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British singer/songwriter and soul music fan Jade Anderson began writing poetry and composing when she was a teenager. The youngest daughter of Jon Anderson, leader of the legendary progressive rock band Yes, became involved in show business at the age of 16 after joining a female teen pop group. However, she wanted to express herself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead was formed in late 1994 by singers/guitarists/drummers Jason Reece and Conrad Keely, longtime friends who originally met in Hawaii before both settled in the perennial indie hotbed of Olympia, WA (where Reece fronted the notorious Mukilteo Fairies). Upon relocating together to Austin, TX, the duo [...]]]></description>
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Orlando, FL&#8217;s Anberlin formed out of various other area projects, including the Christian punk outfit SaGoh (Servants After God&#8217;s Own Heart). Led by the soaring vocals of Stephen Christian, the positive-thinking Anberlin also included Joseph Milligan (guitar), Nathan Young (drums), Joey Bruce (guitar), and Deon Rexroat (bass), and presented an alternative pop/rock sound that, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trey Anastasio</title>
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Since co-founding the seminal improv rock outfit Phish in 1983, guitarist, composer, and songwriter Trey Anastasio has explored a wide variety of musical pathways ranging from atonal fugues and elaborate charts with Phish to adventurous free jazz on his first solo project, Surrender to the Air (1996), to collaborations with the likes of Tom Marshall, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anastacia</title>
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Raised in New York City, Anastacia came from an entertainment-oriented family: her father was a singer; her mother an actress in musical theater on Broadway. Despite being diagnosed with the chronic intestinal illness Crohn&#8217;s disease at age 13, she developed a career as a dancer, appearing on Club MTV and in such music videos as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Angle</title>
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At the center of An Angle is youthful Sacramento songwriter Kris Anaya. He tapped various pals in area bands to record And Take It With a Grain of Salt, the project&#8217;s debut, which he released on his own imprint in 2002. It proved to be a rambling indie pop sensation, incorporating comfy folk and emo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Winehouse</title>
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Much can be said about Amy Winehouse, one of the U.K.&#8217;s flagship vocalists during the 2000s. The British press and tabloids seemed to focus on her rowdy behavior and heavy consumption of alcohol, but fans and critics alike embraced her rugged charm, brash sense of humor, and distinctively soulful and jazzy vocals. Her platinum-selling breakthrough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Studt</title>
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		<title>Tori Amos</title>
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Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos) was one of several female singer/songwriters who combined the stark lyrical attack of alternative rock with a distinctly &#8217;70s musical approach. Her music falls between the orchestrated meditations of Kate Bush and the stripped-down poetics of Joni Mitchell. In addition to reviving the singer/songwriter traditions of the &#8217;70s, Amos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amon Amarth</title>
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Swedish death metal band Amon Amarth originally formed in 1988 under the name Scum; by the time the new moniker was adopted four years later, the line-up consisted of vocalist Johan Hegg, guitarists Olli Mikkonen and Anders Hansson, bassist Ted Lundstrom and drummer Niko Kaukinen. In 1993, the quintet recorded their first demo Thor Arise, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amil is a female rapper from New York whose vocals were featured on the popular rap singles &#8220;Can I Get A&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;Jigga What?&#8221; by Jay-Z. She is the child of a black father and a European/Cherokee mother, raised in all five boroughs of New York. Her earliest influences were classic rap groups, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amerie</title>
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Singer Amerie is the daughter of a Korean mother and an African-American father who was a career military member. She grew up on bases from Alaska to Germany, meanwhile gaining an appreciation of the classical arts from her mother and of R&#38;B music from her father. She studied dance from an early age and performed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Minor</title>
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American Minor is a five-piece guitar-driven rock and roll band that hails from the Kanawha River valley of southern West Virginia, not exactly known for being a hotbed of musical activity or a hotbed of anything else really. For the past year, when their van hasn&#8217;t been breaking down on the highway, they&#8217;ve been practicing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Hi-Fi</title>
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Drummer Stacy Jones already had his hand in rock &#38; roll prior to his gig with American Hi-Fi. Having been a part of some of the 1990&#8217;s biggest alternative acts, Letters to Cleo and Veruca Salt, Jones turned his experience inside out for his own musical project. While working on Nina Gordon&#8217;s Tonight and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amen (hardcore)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neo-metal act Amen was formed in Los Angeles in 1994 by singer Casey Chaos and guitarist Paul Fig; eventually onetime Ugly Kid Joe drummer Shannon Larkin signed on, bringing with him ex-Snot guitarist Sonny Mayo and ex-Snot bassist John &#8220;Tumor&#8221; Fahnestock as well, and this line-up signed to the newly-formed Roadrunner imprint I Am Records [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Head Charge</title>
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Born out of a chance meeting in rehab between Cameron Heacock and Chad Hanks, Minneapolis-based industrial metal collective American Head Charge match their brutally executed music with their behavior. Heacock and Hanks, now known as Martin Cock and Mr. H.C. Banks III, formed AHC in the late &#8217;90s, releasing their critically acclaimed debut, War of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amel Larrieux</title>
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R&#38;B singer-songwriter Amel Larrieux grew up in New York&#8217;s Greenwich Village; her mother, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, was a dance critic and professor, and she was raised in an artistic environment. She formed Groove Theory, a duo with former Mantronix member Bryce Wilson (AKA Bryce Luvah), which signed to Epic Records and scored a gold-selling Top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambulance Ltd.</title>
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Brooklyn, New York&#8217;s Ambulance LTD resurrect the British shoegazing movement of the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s, employing swirling, dreamy guitars in an indie rock landscape cluttered by emo purists and punk opportunists. Formed by Marcus Congleton (vocals/guitar), Benji Lysaght (guitar), Matt Dublin (bass), Andrew Haskell (keyboards), and Darren Beckett (drums), Ambulance LTD were greeted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aly &#038; AJ</title>
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Sister acting/singing duo Aly &#38; AJ &#8212; whose full names are Alyson and Amanda Joy Michalka &#8212; showed a passion for both kinds of performing at a very young age: they started playing piano at age six and began acting classes soon after. Born in L.A., the Michalkas moved to Seattle in the early &#8217;90s, [...]]]></description>
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French-born pop singer Amanda started getting involved in music after her  family settled in Taby, Sweden. While taking dance classes, the artist joined  the musical The Sound of Music, and was soon singing &#8220;Little Stars&#8221; at  Gottenburg&#8217;s World Athletic Games. Amanda became the first young female pop act  to sign with [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A fortuitous 2000 meeting with a talent scout in her native Fort Wayne, IN, led to Amanda Perez being signed by California-based indie Powerhouse. A versatile performer who wrote, sang, and produced her own material, it wasn&#8217;t much of a step for Perez to find herself in a studio helming the creation of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Time Low</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drawing heavy influence from Green Day and blink-182 early on, pop-punk quartet All Time Low formed in the suburbs of Baltimore, MD, in 2003 around singer/guitarist Alex Gaskarth and guitarist Jack Barakat. The two soon added bassist Zack Merrick and drummer Rian Dawson to round out their energetic pop-punk sound and rowdy live show, which [...]]]></description>
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&#8220;I think it is safe to say that All That Remains is a metalcore band,&#8221; says Philip Labonte, All That Remains&#8217; singer. &#8220;We try to cover lots of ground, but do stuff that is still true to ourselves: we do solos because we like them; we do breakdowns because we like them; we have clean [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alkaline Trio



Though the current world of Alkaline Trio is not nearly as fraught with and fueled by drink and drama as in the band&#8217;s formative years, the making of the new Crimson (out May 24, 2005 on Vagrant), was not without its share of dark portents: Two bone-shattering skateboarding accidents, one PunkVoter tour that failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice in Chains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, Alice in Chains was the definitive heavy metal band of the early &#8217;90s. Drawing equally from the heavy riffing of post-Van Halen metal and the gloomy strains of post-punk, the band developed a bleak, nihilistic sound that balanced grinding hard rock with subtly textured acoustic numbers. They were hard enough for metal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alissa Moreno</title>
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		<title>Alice Donut</title>
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Alice Donut formed in the punk underground of New York City&#8217;s Lower East Side in 1987, eventually releasing six studio albums and one live LP (recorded at CBGB&#8217;s) before breaking up eight years later. Jello Biafra initially encouraged the group and signed them to his Alternative Tentacles label, where Alice Donut released all of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice in Chains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, Alice in Chains was the definitive heavy metal band of the early &#8217;90s. Drawing equally from the heavy riffing of post-Van Halen metal and the gloomy strains of post-punk, the band developed a bleak, nihilistic sound that balanced grinding hard rock with subtly textured acoustic numbers. They were hard enough for metal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Cooper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally, there was a band called Alice Cooper led by a singer named Vincent Damon Furnier. Under his direction, Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal, and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aidan Hawken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the frontman for San Francisco-based rock outfit Highwater Rising, singer/songwriter Aidan Hawken found many of his band&#8217;s songs appearing on various hit TV shows over the years, including The OC, Sex and the City, Boston Public, and One Tree Hill. A Bay Area native, Hawken relocated to Los Angeles in spring 2005. That same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A.C. Newman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A.C. Newman
You might know AC Newman as Carl Newman, the spry redheaded leader of the New Pornographers. That band put Newman&#8217;s brilliant songs in the hands of a varied crew of insanely talented pals; however, with his breaking out solo record The Slow Wonder, Newman&#8217;s own talents take center stage, showcasing him as a classic, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The A.K.A.s (Are Everywhere)</title>
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Based out of New York City, the energetic and danceable punk of the A.K.A.s materialized around vocalist Mike Ski, the former frontman for influential Pennsylvania hardcore outfit Brother&#8217;s Keeper. He relocated from Erie to N.Y.C. while BK were still active, and though the band managed to release one more album and tour worldwide, the distance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ali Shaheed Muhammad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad first came to prominence as the &#8220;sound provider&#8221; and conspicuously silent member of the renowned hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest (ATCQ). Formed in 1988, when high school friends Q-Tip (Kamal Fareed) and Muhammad joined forces with Tip&#8217;s neighborhood friend Phife (Malik Taylor), the jazzy, afrocentric trio would go on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ali &#038; Gipp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bringing the sounds and spirit of two crews along with two cities together, Ali &#38; Gipp came on the scene in 2005 when they collaborated on Nelly&#8217;s track &#8220;Grillz,&#8221; which also featured Paul Wall. Gipp from the Atlanta crew Goodie Mob and Ali of St. Louis&#8217; St. Lunatics decided to turn this collaboration into something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add N To (X)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Name-checking a diverse cast of progenitors including Varése, Xenakis, and Robert Moog, as well as Can and Stereolab, Add N to X are electro-historians of a sort, collectors of vintage synthesizer technology, and fierce propagators of the man-machine aesthetic (the cover of their second album features member Ann Shenton on the operating table with a [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Über-ABBA tribute the A-Teens assembled Stockholm, Sweden-based adolescents Marie Serneholt, Sara Lumholdt, Dhani Lennevald, and Amit Paul. Beginning work on their debut album The ABBA Generation in 1998, two years later the group topped the European charts with their cover of &#8220;Mamma Mia,&#8221; achieving the feat exactly a quarter of a century after the original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>algorithm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Algorithm is as complex as the human experience.  They compose songs about anything and everything under the sun.  Many say they&#8217;re ultra-political or radical, when, in fact, they&#8217;re just telling the truth as they see it.  Probing the heart, mind and soul of humanity looking for any common ground which may exist. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Manchester quintet Alfie (singer Lee Gorton, guitarist Ian Smith, cellist Matt McGeever, bassist Sam Morris, and drummer Sean Kelly), came about in the late &#8217;90s after Gorton became increasingly fed up with the local music scene &#8212; when most bands at the time were merely rehashing Oasis songs. The band caught a break with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alien Ant Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SoCal alt-metal foursome Alien Ant Farm formed in 1996 with the raging singer/songwriter Dryden Mitchell, guitarist Terry Corso, bassist Tye Zamora, and drummer Mike Cosgrove. All were bored with their day jobs and sought something else to break them from corporate norms. Music allowed them to freely express themselves, and a friendship was born. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wilhelm Scream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post-hardcore quintet A Wilhelm Scream formed in New Bedford, MA, in the mid-&#8217;90s. Playing gritty punk rock in the same vein as Hot Water Music and Propagandhi, the group has since toured all over the country with the likes of Rise Against, Pennywise, the Lawrence Arms, Less Than Jake, and Strung Out. Originally called Smackin&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribe Called Quest</title>
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Without question the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s, A Tribe Called Quest jump-started and perfected the hip-hop alternative to hardcore and gangsta rap. In essence, they abandoned the macho posturing rap music had been constructed upon, and focused instead on abstract philosophy and message tracks. The &#8220;sucka MC&#8221; theme had never been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Static Lullaby</title>
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Post-hardcore/alternative rock outfit A Static Lullaby came together after a casual high school jam session led its members to quit their existing bands and come together as one. Formed in 2001 in Orange County, CA, the group began with singer Joe Brown, bassist Phil Pirrone, drummer Brett Dinovo, and guitarists Dan Arnold and Nathan Lindeman. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emerging in 2000, the heavy-hitting sounds of Montreal&#8217;s A Perfect Murder stem from a combination of classic heavy metal, thrash, and early hardcore punk influences blended into a brutal mixture of Hatebreed-like breakdowns, harsh vocals, dense rhythms, and searing guitar leads and solos. A year after forming, the group began making a name for itself [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ohio&#8217;s experimental rock quartet Aloha consists of guitarist/vocalist Tony Cavallario, bassist Matthew Gengler, multi-instrumentalist/percussionist Eric Koltnow, and drummer Cale Parks. On the group&#8217;s two Polyvinyl Records releases, 1998&#8217;s limited-edition 7&#8243; and the following year&#8217;s The Great Communicators, the Interpreters, the Nonbelievers EP, Aloha incorporates jazz and post-rock elements with personal, emotional songwriting, which is mirrored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Circle</title>
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Formed by Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan and former Tool guitar tech Billy Howerdel, A Perfect Circle is an extension of the alt-metal-fused-with-art rock style popularized by Tool in the early to mid-&#8217;90s. While similar to Tool in intensity and melancholy, A Perfect Circle is less dark and more melodic, with a theatrical, ambient quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Life Once Lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally formed in 1999, Philadelphia&#8217;s A Life Once Lost joined a rapidly growing fraternity of metalcore bands (Converge, God Forbid, Killswitch Engage, to name but a few) spread across the U.S. Eastern Seaboard &#8212; over the next few years, these groups helped define the so-called New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Featuring vocalist Robert Meadows, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Girl Called Eddy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not playing into her androgynous-sounding performing name, A Girl Called Eddy matches the grace of Karen Carpenter and the brutal honesty of Aimee Mann and Beth Orton. She emerged in the thicket of pop radio queens (Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne) during summer 2004 and introduced a sophisticated reflection of songs on her self-titled debut. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Flock of Seagulls</title>
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As well-known for their bizarrely teased haircuts as their hit single &#8220;I Ran (So Far Away),&#8221; A Flock of Seagulls were one of the infamous one-hit wonders of the new wave era. Growing out of the synth-heavy and ruthlessly stylish new romantic movement, A Flock of Seagulls were a little too robotic and arrived a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fine Frenzy</title>
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Though she was born in Seattle, Alison Sudol spent most of her life in Los Angeles, moving there with her mother when she was five. Despite the fact she was always interested in music, it wasn&#8217;t until she was in her late teens, inspired by bands like Coldplay and Keane, that she began playing an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cursive Memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Cursive Memory
Southern California-based quartet A Cursive Memory is comprised of teenage rockers Mark Borston-Smith (bass, keyboards, vocals), Shaun Profeta (drums, percussion, vocals), Colin Baylen (guitar), and Brian Bolen (guitar and vocals). Their music combines subtle piano leads, churning guitars, twisting 80&#8217;s-style keyboards and huge, anthemic choruses for a sound that recalls influences as varied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexisonfire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a band names themselves after the world&#8217;s only lactating contortionist, you know you are in for something different; and as with the original act, you know that some people are going to be fascinated, some will be in awe, and some will consider the whole lot to be a complete and utter waste of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adam and the Ants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the seminal figures of new wave, Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard) had several distinct phases to his career. Initially, he explored a jagged, guitar-oriented post-punk with his group Adam &#38; the Ants before giving way to a more pop-oriented, glam-tinged musical direction that brought him to the top of the charts. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though the members of Adair had played together under a different name since 1993, the St. Louis-bred rock quintet formally came into existence in 2001. The lineup culled together members from several area bands, namely Rob Tweedie (vocals), Josh Goldenhersh (guitar/vocals), Patrick Baum (guitar/vocals), Matt Tuttle (drums), and Jeff Meyer (bass, ex-Open Hand). After solidifying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acceptance&#8217;s sparkling rock themes unveil not only their previous musical experience, mostly coming from punk rock ground, but also the crossbred musical wishes shared by each member of the lineup. Forming in Seattle, WA, Acceptance signed their particular view of alternative pop/rock not only due to their pure rocking influences, but also because of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Academy Is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Academy Is . . . almost never was. Frontman William Becket and guitarist Mike Carden grew up as rivals, in separate bands on the local Chicago music scene. William eventually left his band, wanting to take music more seriously and looking for someone who shared his passion. Mike&#8217;s band broke up also and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexisonfire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a band names themselves after the world&#8217;s only lactating contortionist, you know you are in for something different; and as with the original act, you know that some people are going to be fascinated, some will be in awe, and some will consider the whole lot to be a complete and utter waste of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Gopher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French DJ Alex Gopher joined the ranks of his electronic counterparts such as Daft Punk, Les Rhythmes Digitales, and Cassius with the release of his debut album You, My Baby &#38; I in mid-2000. His combinations of jazz and blues fusion and technology makes for an original demeanor versus his club/dance compatriots. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alejandro Sanz</title>
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The most commercially successful Spanish singer of all time, Alejandro Sanz earned a reputation as an industrious hitmaker in his native country during the 1990s, and by the decade&#8217;s end, he&#8217;d expanded his fan base internationally as he broadened his style beyond romantic ballads and began collaborating with fellow Latin superstars, most memorably Shakira. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alejandro Fernandez</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Mexico&#8217;s most famous performers of romantic songs, ballads and traditional mariachi favorites, Alejandro Fernandez has played New York&#8217;s Madison Square Garden and routinely sells out Mexico City&#8217;s Auditorio Nacional (once for 12 dates within three weeks). He debuted with a self-titled 1992 album on Sony Discos and continued to sell millions of records [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Almost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Almost is an emo solo project by Aaron Gillespie, drummer and occasional lead singer for Underoath, the Christian metalcore outfit he co-founded in 1998. Choosing to come out from behind the skins like his idol Dave Grohl before him, the Florida-bred Gillespie (who relocated to Salt Lake City in early 2007, following his marriage) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lily Allen</title>
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With her omnivorous musical tastes and cheeky attitude, London-based pop singer/songwriter Lily Allen made a name for herself almost as soon as she released her demos on the Internet. The daughter of comedian Keith Allen, Lily spent most of her childhood bouncing from one school to another &#8212; in fact, she attended 13 different schools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alicia Keys</title>
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Her official website says she possesses an &#8220;old soul,&#8221; and the hard facts seem to back up the implied claim of wisdom and experience that transcend Alicia Keys&#8217; youth. Barely in her twenties, Keys was responsible for an extremely hot debut, Songs in A Minor. The release, which she wrote and produced for Clive Davis&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Album Leaf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Album Leaf is the one-man solo project of Tristeza guitarist Jimmy LaValle. By taking elements of classical, jazz, and post-rock, LaValle constructs his pieces utilizing ambient noise, field recordings, and radio transmissions. A collaboration between Linkwork and Music Fellowship sparked the Album Leaf&#8217;s first full-length, An Orchestrated Rise to Fall, in 1999. An EP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>al kapone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pioneer of the raucous Dirty South Crunk/Buck style of hip-hop popularized by Lil Jon and The Eastside Boys, Al Kapone is a mainstay of the Memphis, Tennessee independent rap scene and a major musical contributor to the MTV Film Hustle &#38;Flow. Kapone gained fame on the Memphis music scene with solo albums like 2001&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>al green</title>
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Al Green was the first great soul singer of the &#8217;70s and arguably the last  great Southern soul singer. With his seductive singles for Hi Records in the  early &#8217;70s, Green bridged the gap between deep soul and smooth Philadelphia  soul. He incorporated elements of gospel, interjecting his performances with  wild [...]]]></description>
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		<title>akon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although he was born in St. Louis, Aliaune Thiam &#8212; aka Akon &#8212; grew up in Senegal before he and his family (including his father, jazz percussionist Mor Thiam) returned to the United States and settled in New Jersey when he was seven. There he discovered hip-hop for the first time, as well as crime. [...]]]></description>
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More apt to cite stately rock paragons Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson as their inspirations than Derrick May or Aphex Twin, the French duo Air gained inclusion into the late-&#8217;90s electronica surge due chiefly to the labels their recordings appeared on, not the actual music they produced. Their sound, a variant of the classic disco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aimee Mann</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

During the &#8217;80s, Aimee Mann led the post-new wave pop group &#8216;Til Tuesday.  After releasing three albums with the group, she broke up the band and embarked  on a solo career. Her first solo album, Whatever, was a more introspective,  folk-tinged effort than &#8216;Til Tuesday&#8217;s albums, and received uniformly positive  reviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>aiden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hailing from rainy Seattle, Aiden combines post-hardcore and punk attitudes with gothic aesthetics and a love of all things horror (not to mention, of course, the Misfits) to create surging, darkly melodic music. The group formed in the spring of 2003 while its members were still in high school, taking their name from the young, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clay Aiken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

As the runner-up to Fox TV&#8217;s second American Idol: The Search for a Superstar  competition, vocalist Clay Aiken wowed television audiences in 2003 with his  Southern charm, sweet demeanor, and bright, glorious voice, and became a pop  star. Originally, Aiken planned to try out for the reality TV series The  American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aidan Hawken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the frontman for San Francisco-based rock outfit Highwater Rising, singer/songwriter Aidan Hawken found many of his band&#8217;s songs appearing on various hit TV shows over the years, including The OC, Sex and the City, Boston Public, and One Tree Hill. A Bay Area native, Hawken relocated to Los Angeles in spring 2005. That same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a-ha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pal Waaktaar and Magne Furuholmen, formerly of Bridges formed a-ha in the early &#8217;80s. Morten Harket joined the duo, and they left for the now &#8216;legendary London flat&#8217; (so called because of its state of disrepair) to make it. By late 1983 they had achieved part of that goal by signing to WEA. &#8220;Take on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christina Aguilera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

After Britney Spears, Christina  Aguilera was the most popular female singer of the late-&#8217;90s teen pop revival.  Unlike many of her contemporaries, Aguilera was a technically skilled singer  with a genuinely powerful voice, belting out her uptempo dance numbers and  ballads with a diva&#8217;s panache. Born Christina Maria Aguilera on December [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agony Scene , the or The Agony Scene</title>
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		<title>Agnostic Front</title>
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At the dawn of the &#8217;80s, New York City was mired in debt and crime, grappling  with one of the most trying periods in its history, yet ironically (or perhaps  fittingly), its underground music scene was seething with activity like never  before. Still reeling from the violent inception and subsequent implosion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>against me!</title>
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The roots of Against Me!&#8217;s rousing punk-folk sound lie in Tom Gabel&#8217;s  guitar-and-stool troubadourship around his native Gainesville, FL, beginning in  1997. The then 17-year-old Gabel performed as a solo act wherever anyone would  have him, drawing much influence from early acoustic protest music. The band  around him would eventually solidify [...]]]></description>
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The unlikely origin of the Texas-based rock quartet The Afters is steeped in  caffeine.
Josh Havens and Matt Fuqua were working together at a Starbucks in Mesquite,  Texas while playing for other bands. On slow nights, they entertained customers  and themselves by playing a few acoustic songs. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure we weren&#8217;t supposed to [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although After the Tragedy&#8217;s members are only between the ages of 17 and 23, the  Cabot, Arkansas quintet has set up do-it-yourself tours all across the Midwest,  spreading their gospel of incredibly melodic hooks and passionate indie rock.  Forming in August 2003, singer Joel, bassist Ron, drummer Kody and guitarists  Jon [...]]]></description>
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Born Joseph Foreman, Afroman may be the first artist to achieve a worldwide  hit with the assistance of the Internet. Citing his influences as Too Short, Big  Daddy Kane, and 2 Live Crew, he began his rap career in the eighth grade when he  started making homemade tapes of his own songs [...]]]></description>
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Hardcore punk revivalists AFI (A Fire Inside) originally formed in 1991 when  their members &#8212; vocalist Davey Havok, guitarist Markus Stopholese, bassist  Vick, and drummer Adam Carson &#8212; were attending high school in Ukiah, CA. Vick  was replaced by Geoff Kresge after several months, and the band played a few  local [...]]]></description>
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Evolving from a garage punk band in the vein of the Replacements, Dinosaur  Jr., and Mudhoney to a literate,  pretentious, soul-inflected post-punk quartet, the Afghan Whigs were one of the  most critically acclaimed alternative bands of the early &#8217;90s. Although the band  never broke into the mainstream, they developed a dedicated [...]]]></description>
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Building on the rapping style of eccentrics Kool Keith and Del tha Funkee  Homosapien, Def Jux headliner Aesop Rock became one of the hottest MCs in  the post-millennial underground. After a pair of self-released LPs (Appleseed,  Music for Earthworms), he recorded Float for Mush in 2000. The former Ian Bavitz  then [...]]]></description>
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Perry Project. Night in the Ruts performed respectably, climbing to number 14  and going gold, yet it was the least successful Aerosmith record to date. Brad  Whitford left the group in early 1980, forming the Whitsford-St. Holmes Band  with former Ted Nugent guitarist Derek St. Holmes. 
As Aerosmith regrouped with new guitarists [...]]]></description>
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Adema formed in the California Central Valley that spawned Korn and Videodrone. The melodic hard  rock band consists of guitarist Mike Ransom, guitarist Tim Fluckey, bassist Dave  DeRoo, drummer Kris Kohls, and singer Mark Chavez, the younger half-brother of  Korn&#8217;s  Jonathan Davis. Adema consists of former members of Bakersfield bands Juice [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[British singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Adem Ilhan writes pastoral  pop that&#8217;s augmented by eclectic instrumentation and wistful and irreverent  lyrics. He began recording in his teens as the bass player for the popular  post-rock trio Fridge, recording four full-length records and releasing numerous  singles and EPs. In 2003 he signed with Domino, home to [...]]]></description>
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Mixing the heartfelt angst of a singer/songwriter with the cocky brashness of  a garage rocker, Ryan Adams is at once one of the few artists to emerge from the  alt-country scene to achieve mainstream commercial success and the one who most  strongly refused to be defined by the genre, leaping from one [...]]]></description>
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Born September 9, 1966, in Brooklyn, Adam Sandler was raised in Manchester,  New Hampshire. At the age of 17, his brother dared him to take the stage at a  Boston comedy club&#8217;s amateur night and was surprised at how well Adam performed.  That planted the seed for his career, though he first [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[With his distinctive vocals and blue-collar songwriting skills, Canadian icon  Bryan Adams&#8217; take on rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll basics found a niche that has lasted for over  20 years. Adams solo career was launched with the release of his self-titled  debut album Bryan Adams in February of 1980 on A&#38;M Records. Adams had [...]]]></description>
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Adam Richman hated college biology. As eukaryotes wept for the boy who would never love them back, Richman, usually drumming on his faux-wood desk and drowning out the class lecture, was becoming immersed in a science of his own.
&#8220;It&#8217;s as educational as it is expressive,&#8221; says the indie pop whiz kid. &#8220;Beyond writing - exploring [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singer/songwriter Adam Green is most known for his stint with the Moldy Peaches, but in the new millennium he also did the solo thing. His music is a sophisticated indie-folk mix, showcasing an appealing peculiarity similar to the likes of Leonard Cohen. In September 2002, Green marked his solo debut with the release of Garfield, [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the seminal figures of new wave, Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard)  had several distinct phases to his career. Initially, he explored a jagged,  guitar-oriented post-punk with his group Adam &#38; the Ants before giving way  to a more pop-oriented, glam-tinged musical direction that brought him to the  top [...]]]></description>
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AC/DC&#8217;s mammoth power-chord roar became one of the most influential hard rock sounds of the &#8217;70s. In its own way, it was a reaction against the pompous art rock and lumbering arena rock of the early &#8217;70s. AC/DC&#8217;s rock was minimalist &#8212; no matter how huge and bludgeoning the guitar chords were, there was a [...]]]></description>
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With a name like Aborted, it doesn&#8217;t take a genius to file a band into the  realm of grindcore; but since being formed in 1995 by vocalist Sven de Caluwé  (aka Gurgloroth Sven), these Belgians have broken through stylistic limitations  to also meddle in straightforward death metal and other metallic forms. So [...]]]></description>
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Edinburgh indie-chamber pop quintet Aberfeldy, named after a small Scottish holiday town set deep within the heart of the Perthshire Highlands, utilize a blend of soft percussion, shimmering acoustic guitars, and boy-girl harmonies to create dreamy soundscapes for songwriter Riley Briggs&#8217; simple and honest lyrics. Along with Briggs, the group consists of Ian Stoddart, [...]]]></description>
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Boston&#8217;s Aberdeen City features Christopher McLaughlin (vocals/guitar), Robert McCaffrey (drums), Bradley Parker (vocals/bass), and J. Ryan Heller (guitar). The alternative rock foursome met in 2001, and together they create a swirling, hypnotic rock sound. In 2003, the band self-released the We Learned by Watching EP. Two years later, Aberdeen City issued The [...]]]></description>
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Multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Tommy Walter goes by the alias of  Abandoned Pools. Walter picked up a bass guitar in grade school and by high  school was a classically trained French horn player. He enrolled at the  University of Pacific in Stockton, CA, where he studied and taught music theory  (and [...]]]></description>
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The youngest male solo artist to have four Top 40 singles, pop sensation Aaron Carter began his career in show biz at the tender age of seven. Over the next five years he made a name for himself as an energetic and charismatic performer, both onstage and on albums such as his 1998 [...]]]></description>
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A star in the R&#38;B world before she was even out of her teens, Aaliyah&#8217;s  promising career was tragically cut short by her death in a plane crash at age  22. Even with only three albums under her belt, she&#8217;d already earned a place as  a talented trendsetter among the R&#38;B [...]]]></description>
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 About me:
a fortunate &#38; blessed son, I am thankful to Adonai JAH Ras TafarI that he has given me a chance to esape the west and exodus to the East, the land where I and I foreparents was born, Indonesia. My journey is still long and Mount Zion is a tough road to trod&#8230;so [...]]]></description>
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Despite his flair for dramatic overreaching, or perhaps because of it, Nas became New York&#8217;s favorite rapper in the mid-&#8217;90s and remained near the top for over a decade. Rivals and time challenged his stay at the top of the New York rap scene — one of the more notable challenges being his bout with [...]]]></description>
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Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973) is an American producer, singer, rapper, and songwriter. He is one half of the production duo The Neptunes, where, along with Chad Hugo, he produces hip-hop and R&#038;B music. He is also the lead singer and drummer of the funk-rock band, N*E*R*D. He released his debut single &#8220;Frontin&#8217;&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
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Chicago-bred, soul sampling, producer wunderkind, Kanye West&#8217;s music is inarguably the most exciting thing going on in hip-hop right now. He is the man that helped make Jay-Z&#8217;s The Blueprint the soul-drenched nostalgic masterpiece that it was. He has produced a consistent array of chart-topping inspirational beats for artists as diverse as Ludacris (&#8221;Stand [...]]]></description>
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jay z AT millennium&#8217;s end, the hottest rapper in pop music is Jay-Z. Since the release of his quadruple-platinum Vol. II … Hard Knock Life, Jay-Z has had an incredible string of urban radio hits: &#8220;Can I Get a …,&#8221; &#8220;Hard Knock Life,&#8221; &#8220;Jigga What, Jigga Who,&#8221; &#8220;Money, Cash&#8221; … the list goes on and [...]]]></description>
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rihana
Since the turn of the century, every American summer has seemed to produce one or two Caribbean-styled dance-pop hit sensations, and the summer of 2005 was no different, as the relentless dancehall-lite booming rhythms ofRihanna\&#8217;s \&#8221;Pon de Replay\&#8221; seemed as omnipresent as sunshine. Like Daddy Yankee (\&#8221;Gasolina\&#8221;) and Sean Paul (\&#8221;Get Busy\&#8221;) in summers prior, [...]]]></description>
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Ask Beyonce what she wants people to hear when they listen to Dangerously In Love, her debut solo album, and the multi-platinum-selling pop/urban recording artist answers, &#8220;My range. I want them to hear all of the musical influences from hip-hop to rock to jazz, there&#8217;s even a Shuggie Otis sample. I want them to really [...]]]></description>
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Fergie biographyFergie LyricsSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_Ferguson
Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975), professionally known as Fergie, is a Grammy Award-winning American pop and R&#38;B singer. She is a former member of Kids Incorporated, Wild Orchid and current vocalist of the The Black Eyed Peas. She is currently pursuing a solo career and has released her first solo [...]]]></description>
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Usher
Usher After being spotted by a La Face record executive at a talent show in his hometown of Atlanta, GA, it took no time for Usher Raymond&#8217;s career to take off. The 14-year-old auditioned for La Face co-founder L.A. Reid, who signed the gospel choir boy to a recording contract. Raymond was introduced to the [...]]]></description>
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Nelly
Nelly When Nelly first debuted nationally in summer 2000, he seemed like a novelty, but it quickly became apparent that he was, in fact, an exceptional artist, a rapper with truly universal appeal. He wasn&#8217;t from the East or West Coast, and wasn&#8217;t really from the Dirty South, either. Rather, Nelly was from St. Louis, [...]]]></description>
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Eminem, born Marshall Bruce Mathers III, 17 October 1973, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. This white rapper burst onto the US charts in 1999 with a controversial take on the horrorcore genre. Mathers endured an itinerant childhood, living with his mother in various states before eventually ending up in Detroit at the age of 12. He [...]]]></description>
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snoop doog
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. (born October 20, 1971), better known professionally as Snoop Dogg and previously Snoop Doggy Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of producer Dr. Dre&#8217;s most notable protégés. His catch [...]]]></description>
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Lil&#8217; Bow Wow
Real name: Shad MossBirth date: March 9 1987Birth place: Columbus OhioStep father&#8217;s name: Rodney CalswellMother&#8217;s name: Theresa CaldwellFavorite Sport&#8221; Basketball and FootballMovies: like mike, carmen, all about the benjaminsSiblings: 2 sistersFavorite player: A.I. and Michel Jordan
The story of Lil&#8217; Bow Wow is a truly remarkable tale. Not just another kid rapper, Lil&#8217; Bow [...]]]></description>
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JoJo
A singer.  A songwriter.  A prodigy. With just a few notes, she&#8217;s made some of the most influential men and women in America stop in their tracks to find her, and meet her. She possesses a rare talent that has enchanted talk show hosts, celebrities and audiences throughout the United States.  And [...]]]></description>
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Akon BiographyAliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam, often going by the shorter Aliaune Thiam (born 14 October 1981 in St. Louis, Missouri; raised in Dakar, Senegal), and better known by stage name Akon, is a Grammy Award-nominated Senegalese hip-hop and R&#038;B singer, songwriter, record producer, and record executive. He [...]]]></description>
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The Truth King Koopa a.k.a the Chamillinater, started off in Screwston, Tx (houston, tx) in the late 1990s dropping many freestyle albums and mixtapes. The mixtapes were made for the nawf side of H-town and were backed by the Swishahouse and Michael &#8220;5000&#8243; Watts. The southside had Screw (R.I.P.) and the rest of the S.U.C. [...]]]></description>
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lil john
Jonathan Smith (born January 27, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American hip-hop artist &#038; producer. He is best known as a pioneer of the sub-genre of hip hop known as &#8220;crunk&#8221; (a combination of elements of Bounce Music, Southern hip hop and bass music). His group, Lil Jon [...]]]></description>
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TI
REALITY is a hard pill to swallow, and it can sometimes leave a bitter aftertaste. But just as the most torturous elixir can cure what ails you, a dose of reality can be the best medicine for someone who wants to get in touch with life and experience first hand its many lumps and bruises.
On [...]]]></description>
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SOME things never change. South Bronx-native Joe Cartagena&#8217;s upbringing in the heart of hip-hop&#8217;s birthplace has kept him grounded. His success has had little effect on his ability to produce rap music in its purist form. After three solid albums, the man known as Fat Joe still feeds hungry hip-hop heads with the most [...]]]></description>
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Representing Tupac online since 1996!&#8220;I just played it to win. Mothafucka took a bet against the odds, rolled those mothafuckin dice. Sometimes a nigga hit 7-11, sometimes a nigga crap out. That&#8217;s just the chance a mothafucka take when you ridah though.&#8221; &#8212; Tupac Amaru Shakur (T.I.P)
Check out www.ThugCDs.com for unreleased Makaveli CDs and 2Pac [...]]]></description>
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50 cent
More so than any other music since the blues, hip-hop is all about stories. And its stories are both criminal minded and grand, making them enthralling and unbelievable, but also making them only as interesting and convincing as the teller. That&#8217;s why, despite being blackballed by the industry, without a major-label recording contract, heads [...]]]></description>
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Avril Lavigne Detailed BiographyAvril Ramona Lavigne (born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian pop punk singer/songwriter and actress who is well known for her &#8220;skater punk&#8221; persona. Her two albums to date, Let Go (2002) and Under My Skin (2004), have topped the charts in numerous countries. Although her name is of French origin, she [...]]]></description>
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Not long ago, accepted sonic belief held that rock music, certainly hard rock music, had been stretched, manipulated and tinkered with to its logical end. With no new forms looming, the genre would slip into malaise and the kids would look elsewhere for an outlet. Enter Los Angeles quartet System of a Down, [...]]]></description>
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Korn&#8217;s cathartic alternative metal sound positioned the group among the most popular and provocative to emerge during the post-grunge era. Korn began its existence as the Bakersfield, CA-based metal band LAPD, which included guitarists James &#8220;Munky&#8221; Shaffer and Brian &#8220;Head&#8221; Welch, bassist Reginald &#8220;Fieldy Snuts&#8221; Arvizu, and drummer David Silveria. After issuing an LP, the [...]]]></description>
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Limp Bizkit is a band from Jacksonville, Florida. They started out on around late 1994 giving free shows and concerts whenever they could get a gig. Yes i know its hard to believe but the Number 1 band in the nation once was nothing but your tipical Local Band trying to get a record deal. [...]]]></description>
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Blink-182 consists of Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge and Travis Barker.
Mark was born on March 15, 1972, in California. When he was 14. his parents divorced and he went to live with his dad in Washington.His dad gave him his first bass and amp when he was 15, in return for helping to paint his house. [...]]]></description>
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Linkin Park Biography:Old-school hip-hop, traditional classic rock, and spooling electronic vibes were the initial factors behind the building of the alternative metal quintet Linkin Park. The band&#8217;s Southern Californian musical roots were also an underlying basis, for drummer Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson, and MC/vocalist Mike Shinoda formed a tight friendship while still in high [...]]]></description>
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Ludacris And Dtp Are Strength In Numbers
Call it the ultimate mixtape event of 2007, as STRENGTH IN NUMBERS showcases the label&#8217;s family of artists on 12 brand new previously unreleased tracks, set to arrive in stores on August 28th.
In addition to multi-platinum DTP core artists Ludacris, who is CEO of the company (distributed worldwide by [...]]]></description>
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