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Look up: biography

  1. Biography
    a written account of another person's life.
    Found on http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glo

  2. biography
    [n] - an account of the series of events making up a person`s life
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Biography
    person's unique history of thinking, feeling and acting
    Found on http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/wps/media/obj

  4. biography
    Account of a person's life. When it is written by that person, it is an autobiography. Biography may consist simply of the factual details of a person's life told in chronological order, but has...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  5. Biography
    a life-story of an individual written by another author. Generally written in the third person.
    Found on http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary

  6. biography
    document recording the life and activities of a person Category: History, ethnology, manners and customs
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. Biography
    Bi·og'ra·phy noun ; plural Biographies [ Greek ... ; ... life + ... to write: confer French biographie . See Graphic .] 1. The written history of a person's life. 2. Biographical writings in general.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/54

  8. biography
    1. The written history of a person's life. ... 2. Biographical writings in general. ... Origin: Gr.; life + to write: cf. F. Biographie. ... (21 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. biography
    life noun an account of the series of events making up a person`s life
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Biography
    : `For other uses, see Biography (disambiguation)` A `biography` (from the Greek words `bios` meaning `life`, and `graphos` meaning `write`) is an account of a person's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film. An autobiography (`auto`, meaning `self`, giving `self-biography`) is a biography by the same person it is about. A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts (like birth, educat...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography

  11. Biography
    • (n.) The written history of a person`s life. • (n.) Biographical writings in general.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. Biography
    (from the article `Frisch, Max`) ...them to destroy his home and his world rather than confront them. Frisch`s later plays include Andorra (1961), with its theme of collective guilt, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/66

  13. biography
    form of literature, commonly considered nonfictional, the subject of which is the life of an individual. One of the oldest forms of literary ... [15 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/66

  14. biography
    biography 1. The history of the lives of individual men and women, as a branch of literature. 2. The written record of the life of an individual.3. The life-course of a man or other living being; the “life-history” of an animal or plant. This is the best biography by me I have ever read. —Lawrence Welk A biography is a book that is usually writ...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  15. biography
    A book which covers a famous person´s life and character. In contrast to the autobiography that account of life is written by somebody else.
    Found on http://www.menrath-online.de/glossaryeng

  16. biography
    biography, reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real men and women. Together with autobiography—an individual's interpretation of his own life—it shares a venerable tradition, meeting the demands of different audiences through the ages.Sections in this article:Introduction...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08076


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22 November 2009

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On Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. At his death, the 35th president was 46 years old and had served less than three years in office. Despite this intimate experience of events surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy, the nation failed to achieve closure. Oswald never confessed, and the facts of the case remain mysterious. The Warren Commission's conclusion Oswald acted alone failed to satisfy the public. In 1976, the House of Representatives' Select Committee on Assassinations reopened investigation of the murder. The Committee reported that Lee Harvey Oswald probably was part of a conspiracy that may have involved organized crime. read more

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