Bio: People A-Z - Material comes from the Cambridge Encyclopedia Database, the Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, as well as the A&E family that includes the Biography and HistoryChannels and Biography Magazine.
Biographies PolySearch Engine - Access biographical information, sketches, and full biographies of famous and infamous historical figures, politicians, scientists, authors, artists and athletes.
NameBase - A cumulative index of books and clippings. Includes citations to names of individuals and groups involving: assassinations, organized crime, and scandals; Wall Street and transnational corporations; foreign policy and media establishments; political elites from the right and left; and, cold war history and intelligence.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ONB) - A collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. Also, every day a different biography from the Oxford DNB appears as Today's Life. See Lives of the Week.
Political Graveyard - A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for over 138,150 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
POTUS: Presidents of the United States -
In this Internet Public Library resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included.
Saints' Lives - Ancient, Byzantine, and medieval hagiographic original texts - in translation and otherwise - along with basic data on the cult of saints.
Universal Leonardo - A programme aimed at deepening our understanding of Leonardo da Vinci through a series of European exhibitions, scientific research and web-based resources. Leonardo occupies a unique place in human endeavour. Universal Leonardo is a highly innovative project that aims to radically extend public understanding and appreciation of the deep unity and extraordinary diversity of Leonardo da Vinci's work in all his fields of endeavour.
KWSnet is a human-edited subject directory of the web with special attention paid to U.S. national and international news, the arts, culture, media, politics, law, science and technology. It is based in San Francisco, California. KWSnet's Twitter and RSS Feed direct you to some of the best writing and reporting on the web. KWSnet also provides additional Twitter list feeds, including a News Feed, Cultural Feed, Interesting People Feed, City Feed, and Topical Feed. KWSnet's Video Gallery presents embedded video from artists, journalists, and political activists worldwide. Also see News Videos and the experimental KWSnet Journal.
Use Search for, located on each page, to search within this site. Use Ctrl-F to search within individual pages. The Site Index provides a complete alphabetized listing of all pages. KWSnet contains over 120,000 annotated links to resources worldwide.
KWSnet is intended for educational purposes, research, and personal use. If you subscribe to Google +1, Facebook or Twitter, please use the buttons located at the bottom of each page to share this resource with others. Additionally, KWSnet may be contacted via email with any comments, suggestions or link submissions at comments@kwsnet.com.
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