| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 604 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"A-Z"--Cover and title page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Faye Glenn Abdellah -- Eduardo Acevedo Diaz -- Aerosmith -- Aesop -- Saint Agnes -- Toshiko Akiyoshi -- Alexander III -- Alicia Alonso -- Natan Alterman -- Calin Alupi -- Yehuda Amichai -- Ivo Andric -- Constance Applebee -- Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad -- German Arciniegas -- Evelyn Ashford -- Mary Astell -- Meher Baba -- Ban Zhao -- Romana Acosta Banuelos -- Marius Barbeau -- John Barbirolli -- Thomas Beecham -- Giaconda Belli -- Gerd Karl Binnig -- Lucian Blaga -- Katharine Burr Blodgett -- Bono -- Fernando Botero -- Adrian Cedric Boult -- Myra Bradwell -- Breyten Breytenbach -- Tony Brown -- Richard Burbage -- Benny Carter -- Laura Cereta -- Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin -- Mary Agnes Chase -- Linda Chavez-Thompson -- Francis Chichester -- Vera Chytilova -- Rebecca Thacher Clarke -- Clement XI -- John Warcup Cornforth -- Howard Cosell -- James Watson Cronin -- Celia Cruz -- Richard M. Daley -- Maurice de Hirsch -- Tamara de Lempicka -- Christine de Pisan -- Ferdinand de Saussure -- Grazia Deledda -- Jose Matias Delgado -- David Mandessi Diop -- Doris Duke -- Tan Dun -- Gerald Malcolm Durrell -- Leo Esaki -- Rene Geronimo Favaloro -- Sally Field -- Val Logsdon Fitch -- Peggy Fleming -- Maria Irene Fornes -- Rube Foster -- A. J. Foyt -- Erik Ivar Fredholm -- Fu Mingxia -- Louis Agassiz Fuertes -- |
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Joseph Galamb -- Henry Highland Garnet -- Uri Greenberg -- Maria Grever -- Peter Hall -- Herbert Hauptman -- Ofra Haza -- Eric Arthur Heiden -- John William Heisman -- Chang Heng -- Alonzo Franklin Herndon -- Johns Hopkins -- Hviezdoslav -- Innocent X -- Lev Ivanov -- Marie Trautmann Jaell -- Nur Jahan -- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson -- Rudolf Emil Kalman -- Raden Ajeng Kartini -- Ali Akbar Khan -- Keisuke Kinoshita -- Teinosuke Kinugasa -- Alexander Kipnis -- Olga Korbut -- Serge Koussevitzky -- Miroslav Krleza -- Julie Krone -- Umm Kulthum -- Susan La Flesche Picotte -- Chuan Leekpai -- Sugar Ray Leonard -- Ada Charlotte Mackenzie -- John James Rickard Macleod -- Agnes Campbell Macphail -- Bob Marley -- Maria Montoya Martinez -- Mary Magdalene -- Vincent Massey -- Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren -- Paul McCartney -- Jose Toribio Medina -- Nellie Melba -- Albert Memmi -- Maud L. Menten -- Carl Wilheim Emil Milles -- Mirabai -- Franco Modigliani -- Ismael Montes -- Ann Haven Morgan -- Jelly Roll Morton -- Alva Myrdal -- Jean Negulesco -- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko -- Dositej Obradovic -- Kenzaburo Oe -- Aristotle Onassis -- Ernest Oppenheimer -- Ferdinand Leopold Oyono -- Panini -- Andrzej Panufnik -- |
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C. Northcote Parkinson -- Dolly Parton -- Eric Partridge -- Annie Smith Peck -- Aristides Maria Pereira -- Philip -- Pin-chin Chiang -- William Plomer -- Alvin Francis Poussaint -- V. I. Pudovkin -- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam -- Dan Irvin Rather -- Nancy Reagan -- Michael Redgrave -- Ilya Efimovich Repin -- Ralph Richardson -- Thomas Joseph Ridge -- Rozanne Lejeanne Ridgway -- Augusto Roa Bastos -- Rachel Ruysch -- Abdus Salam -- Hakim Sana'i -- Sonia Sanchez -- Romy Schneider -- Tex Schramm -- Richard W. Sears -- Ruth Porter Crawford Seeger -- Amartya Kumar Sen -- Ramon Jose Sender -- Huda Shaarawi -- Sheba -- Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko -- Esther Shub -- Nina Simone -- Jessie Carney Smith -- Margaret Jean Smith Court -- Robert Smythson -- Sobhuza II -- Luang Pibul Songgram -- Bruce Springsteen -- Standing Bear -- Susan McKinney Steward -- Jackie Stewart -- Maria W. Miller Stewart -- Sylvester I -- Vivienne Tam -- Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata -- Mildred D. Taylor -- Maria Telkes -- Ellen Terry -- Rosetta Nubin Tharpe -- Leon Theremin -- Sybil Thorndike -- Susumu Tonegawa -- Lee Trevino -- Trota of Salerno -- Agrippina Vaganova -- Wilma L. Vaught -- Jose Garcia Villa -- Carlos Raul Villanueva -- Grete Waitz -- Florence Sophie Wald -- Sippie Wallace -- Vera Wang -- Sarah Frances Whiting -- Dorothy Maud Wrinch -- Cy Young -- Raul Yzaguirre -- Natan Zach. |
| Summary |
A multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture. |
| Subject |
Biography -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Henderson, Andrea Kovacs, editor.
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Ratiner, Tracie, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Encyclopedia of world biography. Volume 24, Supplement. Detroit, Mich. : Thomson Gale, c2005 0787669032 |
| ISBN |
9780787693459 (electronic book) |
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0787693456 (electronic book) |
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0787669032 |
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