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1. Archaeologists - Biographies (About.com - Hirst)
   Provides sources of biographies of archaeologists. 2-01

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1. Abigail Adams (Gale Group)
   Provides a biography of the famous wife of the second President of the United States. Includes a picture. 6-00.
2. Adams, Gerry (Biography.com)
   Provides a short biography of the Northern Ireland politician who has represented the Sinn Fein. May be misspelled by visitors as Jerry. 3-00
3. Addams, Jane (Biography.com)
   Provides a short biography of the social reformer and pacifist. May be misspelled by visitors as Adams. 3-00
4. Addams, Jane (Gale Group)
   Provides a biography of the woman who was "the first female secretary of state and the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government." 8-01
5. Adenauer, Konrad (Biography.com)
   Provides a short biography of the former chancellor of Germany. 3-00
6. Aeschylus (Biography.com)
   Provides a short biography of Aeschylus, known as "the father of Greek tragedy." 3-00
7. African American Authors (About.com - Howell)
   Provides biographies and other information related to key African American literature. 2-01
8. African American Biographies A - C (Learning Network - TeacherVision.com)
   Provides short biographies of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Alvin Ailey, Marian Anderson, Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Arthur Ashe, Crispus Attucks, James Baldwin, Benjamin Banneker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Johnson Bunche, George Washington Carver. 2-01
9. Albright, Madeleine (Gale Group)
   Provides a biography of "one of the first people in America who sought to improve the lives of these desperate poor." Visitors sometimes misspell as Adams. 6-00
10. Albright, Madeleine Korbel (ABC News)
    Provides a brief background on how the former U.S. Secretary of State came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, a picture, and a short biography.
11. Albright, Madeleine Korbel (Northeastern University - Whats New)
    Provides a brief biography of the former U.S. Secretary of State. 7-01
12. Albright, Madeleine Korbel (Northeastern University - Whats New)
    Provides a brief biography of the former U.S. Secretary of State. 7-01
13. Ali, Muhammad (Who2.com)
    Provides a brief biography of the great boxer and celebrity. 7-01
14. Anastasia and the Romanov Family
    Provides over a dozen sources of information.
15. Annan, Koffi (Time.com)
    Provides a short biographical statement about why this person was influential in the year 2000, according to Time magazine. 12-00
16. Annan, Kofi (ABC News)
    Provides a brief background on how the United Nations Secretary-General came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, a picture, and a short biography. He won the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001. (Sometimes incorrectly called Secretary General, without the hyphen.) 7-00
17. Annan, Kofi (United Nations)
    Provides a brief background on the United Nations Secretary-General, as well some of his initiiatives with the United Nations. He won the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001. Includes a picture. (Sometimes incorrectly called Secretary General, without the hyphen.) 8-01
18. Anthony, Susan B. (Excellent Drawing from the Kansas Collection)
19. Anthony, Susan B. (Gale Group)
    Provides a biography of the famous women's suffragist. 6-00
20. Anthropologists - Biographies (Minnesota State University)
    Provides over 100 biographies. 2-01
21. Aquash, Anna Mae (Gale Group)
    Provides a biography of the Native rights activist. 6-00
22. Arafat, Yassar (Time.com)
    Provides a short political biography of the Palestinian leader, as well as a picture. 3-01
23. Architects - Biographies (About.com - Craven)
    Provides biographies of some of the most influential architects. 3-01
24. Armstrong, Lance - Biography (Biography.com)
    Provides a biography of the champion cyclist through the year 2000. Armstrong, who has had cancer, won the Tour de France in July of 2001. 7-01
25. Armstrong, Louie (RedHotJazz.com)
    Provides a biography of the man considered to be the greatest contributor to the development of jazz as a musical form. Includes music 1-01
26. Armstrong, Louis (About.com - Schwalbe)
    Provides a biography of Louie "Satchmo" Armstrong, the jazz singer, trumpeter, and innovator. 2-01
27. Artists - Biographies (About.com - Mulder-Slater)
    Provides dozens of biographies of influential artists. 3-01
28. Artists - Biographies (Artchive.com)
    Provides biographies by style or period of art, including Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, Rothko...), Baroque (Rubens, Rembrandt, Bernini...), Contemporary and Postmodern (Basquiat, Beuys, Clemente...), Dada and Surrealism (Dali, Duchamp, Magritte...), Futurism (Boccioni, Balla...), Impressionism (Monet, Renoir, Degas...), Photographers (Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman...), Post-Impressionism (Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin...), Renaissance (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael...), Romanticism (Friedrich, Delacroix, Fuseli...), Spanish (Goya, Velazquez, El Greco...), Women (O'Keeffe, Cassatt, Kahlo...), American Art (Homer, Hopper, Whistler...), Art Nouveau (Klimt, Schiele, Mucha...), Bauhaus (Kandinsky, Klee...), Cubism (Picasso, Braque, Gris...), Expressionism (Munch, Beckmann, Bacon...), Hudson River School (Bierstadt, Cole, Church...), Neo-Classical (David, Ingres, Poussin...), Pop Art (Warhol, Johns, Rauschenberg...), Pre-Raphaelites (Rossetti, Millais, Hunt...), Rococo (Watteau, Fragonard), Sculptors (Rodin, Brancusi, Moore...), and Symbolism (Blake, Moreau, Redon...). Provides copies of the most famous work of many of the artists. 3-01
29. Artists - Biographies (WebMuseum) 3-01
30. Augustus (Roman Empire)
    Provides an extensive biography of Gaius Julius Octavius, often referred to as Augustus, the Roman Emperor. (Includes some grammatical errors.) 11-00
31. Aung Suu Kyi - Interview (Free Burma Coalition)
    Aung San Suu Kyi, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, speaks to youth about issues such as power and freedom.
32. Aung Suu Kyi Biography and News (Free Burma Coalition)
    Provides news related to Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, as well as a biography (upper left corner). She is known for her work to provide democracy in Myanmar (Burma).
33. Austen, Jane (Gale Group)
    Provides a biography of the novelist who "creates as profound an understanding and as precise a vision of the potentialities of the human spirit as the art of fiction has ever achieved. " 8-01
34. Austen, Jane - Eighteenth-Century
35. Azikiwe, Nnamdi (NewJan Communications - Nigerian Galleria)
    Provides a biography of "the father of modern Nigerian nationalism and chief architect of the country's independence." 3-01
36. Baez, Joan (Baez and Diamonds and Rust Productions)
    Provides a chronology of the life of the folk singer and activist. 8-01
37. Ball, Lucille (Gale Group)
    Provides a biography of the comedian and owner of Desilu studios who has been called "the most popular female comedian on television, and arguably the most popular female practitioner of physical comedy in the first half-century of prime-time television." Visitors sometimes misspell as Lucile, Lucel, Lucelle, or Luciele. 8-01
38. Barak, Ehud (ABC News)
    Provides a short political biography of the Israeli leader, as well as a picture. 3-01
39. Barak, Ehud (ABC News)
    Provides a brief background on how the Israeli Prime Minister came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, a picture, and a short biography.
40. Barton, Clara (Gale Group)
    Provides a biography of the founder of the American Red Cross. 8-01
41. Becket, St. Thomas A. (Biography.com)
    Provides a short biography of the famous Archbishop of Canterbury born in 1118. 3-00
42. Beethoven, Ludwig van - Biography (Classical Music Pages - Boynick)
    Provides a biography, pictures, and a list of works. 2-01
43. Black History - Biographies (Encyclopedia Britannica)
    Provides hundreds of biographies of outstanding African Americans. Loads slowly. 2-01
44. Blair, Tony - Prime Minister of Britain (Britannia)
    Provides a biography of Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair's political life. leader 5-00
45. Boies, David (Time.com - Okrent)
    Provides a glimpse of the life style and background of David Boies, lawyer for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, Napster, the U.S. Justice Department (against Microsoft), and many more famous cases. 12-00
46. Bolivar, Simon (Daniels)
    Provides a short biography. 7-00
47. Boone, Daniel
48. Boone, Daniel (Arthur)
    Provides biographical information compiled from sources in the 1700's. 3-00
49. Bradley, Pat (HW Wilson Company)
    Provides statistics on her achievements, as well as discussing the disability that she has had to overcome to return as a champion. 7-00
50. Bradstreet, Anne (Georgetown University - Cowell)
    Provides background information on the first (known) North American to publish a book of poems. Her work is unusual in that, as a Puritan, she uses poetry to express feelings rather than simply use the medium for devotional purposes. 9-00
51. Brutus, Marcus (McNeil-Lehrer Productions)
    Provides views of teens about the presidential election in the United States and their own countries. Also describes elections in Britain and Italy. 11-00
52. Bryan, William Jennings (Zwick)
    Provides a speeches by Bryan on Imperialism. 3-00
53. Buchanan, Pat (Biography.com)
    Provides highlights of Buchanan's career. 8-00.
54. Burnell, Susan Jocelyn Bell (Gale Group)
    Provides a biography of the astronomer. 6-00
55. Bush, George - Library
56. Bush, George W. (Biography.com)
    Provides an editorial style of biography of Bush's political and business career. 3-00
57. Bush, George W. - Biography (DiscoverySchool.com)
    Provides a complete biography on the U.S. President. 3-01
58. Bush, George Walker (POTUS)
    Provides facts and biographical articles. 1-01
59. Bush, Laura Welch (White House)
    Provides a short biography of the First Lady for the 43rd President of the United States. 12-01
60. Caesar, Julius (Roman Empire)
    Provides an extensive biography of Gaius Julius Caesar, often referred to as Caesar, the Roman Emperor. (Includes some grammatical errors.) 11-00
61. Cairo, Alberto (Ciriello)
    Provides a short statement on a famous doctor, helping severely injured persons in Afghanistan. 12-01
62. Carnegie, Andrew (Adkins)
63. Carnegie, Andrew (Brian B.)
64. Carroll, Lewis (A and E Television Networks)
    Provides a short biography of the author of Alice in Wonderland.
65. Carson, Ben (TopBlacks.com)
    Provides a picture and biography of Dr. Ben Carson, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins. 5-00
66. Carter, Jimmy (James Earl) (Biography.com)
    The thirty-ninth (39th) President of the United States and the founder of the Carter Center for conflict resolution. 9-00
67. Carter, Jimmy - Library (NARA)
    Provides historical information related to the thirty-ninth (39th) President of the United States, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr. 9-00
68. Carver, George Washington (Hargrove)
    Provides quotes, a picture, and many links to biographical information. 3-00
69. Castro, Fidel (ABC News)
    Provides a brief background on how the leader of Cuba came into a position of power. Also provides quotes, a picture, and a short biography.
70. Cepeda, Orlando (Latino Legends in Sports)
    Provides key events, achievements, and biography of Cepeda, one of the greatest baseball players. 10-00
71. Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
    Provides a short autobiography of the Indian-American Nobel laureate, after whom the Chandra X-ray Observatory is named. 9-00
72. Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
    Provides a short biography of the Indian-American Nobel laureate, after whom the Chandra X-ray Observatory is named. 9-00
73. Chaney, Dick (Biography.com)
    Provides highlights of Chaney's career. 8-00.
74. Chao, Elaine L. (Heritage Foundation)
    Provides a short professional background on Elaine Chao, George W. Bush's choice for Secretary of Labor. 1-01
75. Chief Joseph (The West Project and WETA)
    Provides a short history of the famous chief who called for peace between his people and the European Americans. 2-01
76. Chirac, Jacques Chirac - President of France (Infoplease.com)
    Provides a biography of the leader of France. 5-00
77. Chomsky, Naom (Minnesota State University)
    Provides a short chronological biography, with an emphasis on Chomsky's influence on linguistics and politics. 7-99
78. Clark, Ron - The 2000 Outstanding Teacher of the Year (Oprah.com - Winfrey)
    Provides an interview with Ron Clark, a hero recognized by the Disney 2000 Outstanding Teacher of the Year and Oprah Magazine's first "Phenomenal Man." 1-02
79. Clemente, Roberto (Latino Legends in Sports)
    Provides key events, achievements, and biography of Clemente, one of the greatest baseball players and role model for youth. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 10-00
80. Clinton, Hillary Rodham (Gale Group)
    Provides a biography of the former First Lady, politician, and senator. 8-01
81. Coates, Dorothy Love (PBS)
    Provides a short background of the African American singer. 12-00
82. Cochran, Jackie (Carl Vinson Institute of Government)
    Provides short profile of the first woman to travel faster than the speed of sound. 12-01
83. Cochran, Jackie (McFadden)
    Provides short profile of the first woman to travel faster than the speed of sound. 12-01
84. Cochran, Jackie (WomeninAviation.com)
    Provides short profile of the first woman to travel faster than the speed of sound. 'At the time of her death on August 9, 1980, Jacqueline Cochran held more speed, altitude, and distance records than any other pilot, male or female, in aviation history.' 12-01
85. Collins, Eileen (NASA)
    Provides a profile of the female astronaut. "Collins was the first woman pilot of a Space Shuttle." 4-02
86. Constantine (Roman Empire)
    Provides an extensive biography of Flavius Valerius Constantinus, often referred to as Constantine the Great or Saint Constantine. (Includes some grammatical errors.) 11-00
87. Copeland, Aaron (PBS.org)
    Provides a short biography and a list of major works. 11-01
88. Copernicus, Nicolaus (Discovery.com)
    Provides a picture and a short biography of the astronomer. 3-02
89. Corrigan, Mairead and Betty Williams (Nobel Foundation)
    Provides biographies of the two recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in Ireland. 6-00
90. Crazy Horse (The West Project and WETA)
    Provides a short history of the famous Lakota chief who resisted expansion of territory by the European Americans. 7-00
91. Curie, Marie (Gale Group)
    Provides a biography of the person who was the first woman to earn a doctorate in Europe and recipient of the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics. 6-00
92. Famous People with Name Changes (Famous Name Changes)
    Provides a short profile of hundreds of persons in sports, entertainment, acting, singing, politics, or religion. Also provides their name at birth, birth date, death date (if they have died), and place of birth. For example, Tom Cruise was originally Thomas Cruise Mapother and Cher's name used to be Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere. 8-01
93. Horne, Lena (PBS.org)
    Provides a short biography. 11-01
94. Porter, Cole (PBS.org)
    Provides a short biography. 11-01