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Biographies

 

Useful for brief descriptions of the lives of the historically famous.

Biography Resource Center - A Gale Database 
Thomson Gales database of biography reference sources.  An excellent resource.


Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/
Perhaps the slickest of the free biography sites, Biography.com is a searchable index of over 25,000 personalities. Check out their weekly top ten biographies, or search your birthday to see what famous people share your sign.

Biography Center
http://www.biography-center.com/
More biographical sketches, but this time available in English, French, German and Spanish.

Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/
Few frills here, but that doesn't stop them from providing biographical sketches of over 28,000 personalities from ancient times to the present.

Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
Information from 1774 to present.