| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Gale virtual reference library |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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| Contents |
Magdalena Abakanowicz -- Eddie Adams -- Akhenaten -- Rania Al-Abdullah -- Al-Battani -- Alexander VII -- Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander -- Iyad Allawi -- Paul G. Allen -- Al-Shukairy -- Linda Alvarado -- Benny Andrews -- Julie Andrews -- Peggy Bacon -- Roger Nash Baldwin -- Etta Moten Barnett -- Vanessa Bell -- Carol Bellamy -- Carl Michael Bellman -- Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo -- Maria Luisa Bemberg -- Polly Bemis -- Silvio Berlusconi -- Eubie Blake -- Aage Niels Bohr -- Marie Gillain Boivin -- Anne Bonny -- Louyse Bourgeois -- Theodor Heinrich Boveri -- Paul Delos Boyer -- Robert Bresson -- Tom Brokaw -- Laura Welch Bush -- Adolf Butenandt -- Betty Carter -- Mary Lucy Cartwright -- Lauro Cavazos -- Enrico Cecchetti -- Youssef Chahine -- Owen Chamberlain -- Katherine Sui Fun Cheung -- Rene Clair -- Helen Elizabeth Clark -- Kenny Clarke -- Nils Gustaf Dalen -- Geoffrey de Havilland -- Ninette de Valois -- Edward de Vere -- John Dee -- Anita Desai -- Gail Devers -- Marlene Dietrich -- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf -- Alexander Dovzhenko -- Alice Allison Dunnigan -- Shirin Ebadi -- Esther -- Rudolf Eucken -- Carly Fiorina -- Kirsten Flagstad -- John Ambrose Fleming -- Tom Ford -- Marie Foster -- Tommy Ray Franks -- Abel Gance -- Sonia Gandhi -- Gao Xingjian -- Ava Gardner -- Joao Gilberto -- Mauro Giuliani -- Karl Adolph Gjellerup -- Percy Grainger -- Henry Benjamin Greenberg -- Gregory XVI |
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Bozena Nemcova -- Haing S. Ngor -- Nicomachus of Gerasa -- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard -- Ellison Onizuka -- Katherine Davalos Ortega -- Joseph Vincent Paterno -- Paul II -- Pausanias -- Nancy Pelosi -- William Henry Perkin -- Giorgio Perlasca -- Eliza Pinckney -- Henrik Pontoppidan -- Chaim Potok -- Andrea Pozzo -- Sully Prudhomme -- Ilan Ramon -- Louis Renault -- Mary Lou Retton -- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont -- Burton Richter -- Mendi Rodan -- Heinrich Rohrer -- J.K. Rowling -- Johan Ludvig Runeberg -- Martin Ryle -- Aulis Sallinen -- Sima Samar -- Barry Sanders -- Jose Saramago -- Cicely Saunders -- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf -- Emilio Segre -- Jaroslav Seifert -- Claude Simon -- John Snow -- Steven Soderbergh -- Sondok -- Fernando Sor -- Samuel Spencer -- Art Spiegelman -- Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon -- M.S. Swaminathan -- Sylvester II -- Wislawa Szymborska -- Corrie Ten Boom -- Tommy Thompson -- Dick Van Dyke -- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck -- Gustav Vigeland -- Vaira Vike-Freiberga -- Luchino Visconti -- Margarethe von Trotta -- G. Richard Wagoner -- Andrzej Wajda -- Mary Vaux Walcott -- Ethel Waters -- Fred Lawrence Whipple -- Jody Williams -- Wu Yi -- Hisaye Yamamoto -- Frank Yerby |
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Virgil Ivan Grissom -- Halldor Gudjonsson -- Charles Edouard Guillaume -- Carol Guzy -- Claudie Andre-Deshays Haignere -- Tarja Kaarina Halonen -- Dorothy Hamill -- Ruth Handler -- Joy Harjo -- George Harrison -- Herophilus -- Gustav Hertz -- Werner Herzog -- Al Hirschfeld -- Robert Hofstadter -- Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim -- Johann Nepomuk Hummel -- Shohei Imamura -- Peter Jackson -- Etta James -- Miklos Jancso -- Robert Koffler Jarvik -- Alois Jirasek -- Eyvind Johnson -- Joseph -- Jan Kadar -- Angelica Kauffman -- Danny Kaye -- Elizabeth Beach Keller -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. -- John Kerry -- Mwai Kibaki -- Krzysztof Kieslowski -- Jack S. Kilby -- Aleksis Kivi -- Joy Nozomi Kogawa -- Junichiro Koizumi -- Chandrika Kumaratunga -- Ann Landers -- Rod Laver -- Philipp Lenard -- Reginald Francis Lewis -- Li Qingzhao -- Eli Lilly -- Lin Yutang -- Gabriel Lippmann -- Elias Lonnrot -- Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier -- Rebecca Lukens -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo -- Catharine Macaulay -- Francois Magendie -- John Sidney McCain, III -- Norman McLaren -- Melisende -- Willy Messerschmitt -- Norman Yoshio Mineta -- Frederic Mistral -- Issey Miyake -- Michael Moore -- Nampeyo -- Willie Nelson |
| Summary |
A multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture |
| Notes |
"A-Z"--Cover and title page |
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Cumulative listing of biographies included in the entire second edition of the Encyclopedia of World Biography and its supplements (volumes 1-25) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Biography -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.
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Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ratiner, Tracie.
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Thomson Gale (Firm)
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| ISBN |
1414404697 |
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9781414404691 |
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