Featured Biographies |
Dana, Richard Henry - author of Two Years Before the Mast
Abauzit, Firmin - (1679-1767), French scientist
Brand, Neville - (1920-1992), actor
Faubus, Orval - (1955-1967), US politician
Bulfinch, Charles - architect
Wayans, Shawn - (born 1971), actor, writer, producer
Wakoski, Diane - (born 1937), (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
Aesop - (c.620-c.560 BC, writer of the Fables
Daimler, Gottlieb - (1834-1900), German automotive manufacturer
Firestone, Harvey - (1868-1938), manufacturer
Bova, Ben - (born 1932), US science fiction author
Eyskens, Gaston - (1905-1988), Belgian politician
Kanno, Yoko - Japanese composer
Agnon, S.Y. - Nobel prizewinning author
O'Brien, Flann - At Swim-Two-Birds
Baker, Michael - astronaut
Boscovich, Rudjer Josip - (1711-1787)
Blatchford, Robert - (1854-1943), socialist author
Burnet, William - (1688-1728), British governor in American Colonies
Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg - (1736-1809), composer
Parsons, Jack - astronaut and occultist
Edison, Charles - (1890-1969), Governor of New Jersey
Eric II of Norway - (1280-1299), Norwegian monarch
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jakob - (1804-1851), German mathematician
James, Etta - (born 1938), musician
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