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10/06/2008
Obama Biography Spotlights Potential First Lady (NPR)
To national audience, Michelle Obama is well-known because of her husband's presidential candidacy. But the attorney and businesswoman has an impressive and distinguished career of her own. Liza Mundy, author of Michelle , a new biography of Michelle Obama, writes about the Chicago native's professional aspirations and how they coincided with her Sen. Barack Obama's political journey.
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10/06/2008
Book Review: - Crosby Stills & Nash: The Biography (Updated 40th Anniversary Edition) by Dave Zimmer With ... (Blogcritics.org)
For both CSN&Y fans and students of American music history, the updated version of CSN's biography is an essential read. Originally published in 1984, Crosby Stills & Nash: The Biography is the story of how three (and occasionally four) quite talented musicians in their own right came together to form the first true American "supergroup," and how they eventually went on to become one of ...
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10/07/2008
Original Dixieland Jazz Band (All About Jazz)
Biography Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a New Orleans band that made the first jazz recording in 1917. The group made the first recordings of many jazz standards, probably the most famous being “Tiger Rag.” In late 1917 it changed the name's spelling to “Jazz.”
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10/07/2008
Nick LaRocca (All About Jazz)
Biography Sillian-American born Dominick James “Nick” La Rocca claimed to have invented Jazz and often complained that African-American musicians have been given too much credit for the birth of Jazz. He was so obnoxious about this, that many people tend to try and overlook the important contributions he made to the music and the role that the Original Dixieland Jass Band played in popularizing ...
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10/06/2008
Paksas Taps Stunt-Pilot Biography in Lithuanian Comeback Bid (Bloomberg)
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Former Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas is using a movie about his life as a stunt pilot to pull off another trick: resurrecting his political career after becoming the only European head of state ever impeached out of office.
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10/06/2008
Splashgirl (All About Jazz)
Biography Splashgirl is a trio and occasionally a sextet, playing their own music inspired by any number of musical genres. The band was initiated in 2003, and sweet music was created almost instantly.
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10/07/2008
PHILIP NORMAN: Lennon has been painted a crazed recluse. But the truth is very different - and deeply touching... (Daily Mail)
No writer knows more about The Beatles than Philip Norman - and, as he prepared his definitive new biography of John Lennon, he was given hours of astonishingly frank interviews by the star's widow, Yoko Ono.
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10/06/2008
Greg Nagy (All About Jazz)
Biography From the Lansing Jazz Festival website: As the guitarist for the internationally acclaimed and award-winning band Root Doctor, guitarist Greg Nagy's playing has earned praise from many significant publications, such as Down Beat , Hittin' the Note , The Chicago Sun Times and Living Blues, to name a few.
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10/07/2008
Schuylkill County Man Recalls Memories of McCain (WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey)
var nopreviewimage = "1"; if (nopreviewimage == ""){ document.write(' '); document.write(' '); document.write(' '); } As we near the end of one of the longest presidential campaign seasons in history... it may seem like there's not much we *don't* know about the candidates. For one local man... John McCain's biography is personal. The two were shipmates during the Vietnam War. WFMZ's ...
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10/06/2008
Laura Wolfe (All About Jazz)
Biography The lovely entertainer Laura Wolfe embodies the description “triple threat,” a handle defining her equal abilities as an actor, singer and dancer.
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| About Famous People - A collection of the biographies of various historical personages.Biographical Dictionary - More than 25,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world.Biography Center - Multi-lingual biographical directory.The Biography Channel - Features 25,000 very brief biographical notes.Buscabiografias - Database of thousands of short biographies. In English and Spanish.Dictionary of Labour Biography - Tool for all those interested in nineteenth and twentieth century British history.FemBio - Institute for Women's Biography Research - Luise F. Pusch's FemBio database contains biographical information on over 30,000 notable women worldwide. Accumulated since 1982; entries added continually. Also: Woman of the Day/Week.Great Men and Women of the World - Provides biographies of great men and women of the world. Organized into sections on leaders and activists, heroes and humanitarians and scientists. Profiles available in English and French.Heroes of History - Selection of noteworthy persons, their accomplishments and failures.International Biographical Centre - List of dictionaries in the fields of Music, Literature and Poetry. General and specific biographical titles of today's leading personalities.MyHero.com - Tells the stories of ordinary people who have accomplished extraordinary things.Time 100 - Profiles the 100 most influential people of the 20th century (as selected by TIME Magazine) in five fields of endeavor.World Biographical Index - K. G. Saur Publishing - Free access to a large biographical database containing over 2 million references to persons. Search by name (or part of name) in combination with occupation, year of birth or death, year cited, and biographical archive.
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