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Biography (from the Greek words bíos (βίος), meaning 'life', and gráphein (γράφειν), meaning 'to write') is a genre of Literature or Film which presents a relatively full account of the most interesting and important events of a notable person's life. While a biography may focus on a Fictional person, the term usually refers to non-fiction works. As opposed to summaries of people's lives, such as Profiles or Curriculum vitae, a biography is a continuous narrative which interprets and explains the person's character, personality, and social context.

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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich

,listen (help·info) (Russian: Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич , Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič) (September 25 [O.S. September 19] 1906 – August 9, 1975) was a Russian Composer of the Soviet period. Shostakovich had a complex and difficult relationships with the Soviet government, suffering two official denunciations of his music, in 1936 and 1948, and the periodic banning of his work. At the same time, he received a number of accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet. Despite the official controversy, his works were popular; he is now held to be, as Grove's honers him, the most talented Soviet composer of his generation. (read more...)

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Thomas Young (June 13, 1773 – May 10, 1829) was an English Scientist, researcher, physician and Polymath. In addition to contributing to the fields of Optics, Physics and Physiology. He wrote articles on Linguistics and Egyptology for Encyclopedia Britannica. (read more...)

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... that botanist Thomas Frederic Cheeseman (pictured) had a wide range of interests: he also described a few species of marine gastropods?
... former Regimental Sergeant Major Harry Lapwood was known as having the loudest voice in the New Zealand House of Representatives?
... that in 1951, Bulgarian politician and exile G. M. Dimitrov helped found the first Bulgarian NATO company?
... that Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick published a short book of favorite songs titled Louisiana Let's Sing in honor of her husband Claude's unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in 1963?
... that Canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley, the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution?
... that it took Peter Steinfeld six and a half weeks to write the opening eleven pages of his first screenplay, Drowning Mona?

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"It is not histories I am writing, but lives; the most glorious deeds do not always indicate virtue or vice, but a small thing like a phrase or a jest often reveals more of a character than the bloodiest battles."

— Plutarch

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