Dictionaries of Biography (Who's Who)

This book provides capsule biographies of 909 of the nation's most notable African Americans. The entries are arranged alphabetically, with all ...

This directory provides an extensive listing of household information collected for over 2,265 famous or notorious individuals who were alive du...

John Carradine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Yvonne De Carlo, Faith Domergue, Boris Karloff, Otto Kruger, Bela Lugosi, Jack Palance, Vincent Price, Santo, ...

Though professional wrestlers are usually ignored by sportswriters and entertainment reporters alike, the popularity of these gifted athletes an...

Farmers, shopkeepers, businessmen, politicians--the fathers of the presidents of the United States have come from a wide variety of professions ...

This work provides biographies of more than 500 men and women who have served as admiral, vice admiral, or rear admiral. While officers from the...

During his playing career, a baseball player's every action on the field is documented--every at bat, every hit, every pitch. But what becomes o...

Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter… This is a comprehensive guide to 1,054 composers and lyricists (in English) from all th...

First published in 1987 to overwhelming international acclaim, Jeremy Gaige's Chess Personalia has been called "one of the most useful chess boo...

From 1900 through 2000, the Catholic Church has had nine popes. Their terms of office have ranged from over 25 years (Leo XII) to slightly over one...

In 1916, over 500 men played in a major league game. Many of those players' names are inseparable from baseball--39 are members of the Hall of F...

In 1922, an early association of film publicists known as the Western Associated Motion Picture Advertisers (Wampas) hit upon a strategy to call...

From the time Westinghouse started commercial broadcasting in 1920 through the end of the radio soap operas in the early 1960s, hundreds of men ...

True professional baseball has not been played in Cuba since banned by the communist regime after the 1961 season, but there is a legacy of more...

Over the course of his varied career, Gene A. Budig has served as a professor, the president of the American League of Major League Baseball, the h...

Behind the familiar names of the military and political leaders whose names we all know--Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Grant, Sherman, and Jackson, are the ...

Connecting people with places, London’s distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in ...

"Cornell is unique among American research universities and in the Ivy League.... It aspires to the ideals of Ezra Cornell, who founded an institut...

The history of Albania includes some memorable characters - from the legendary Albanian hero Scanderbeg to the glamorous Queen Geraldine. Robert El...