Biography Category
Barack Obama is the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois and a Democratic candidate for president in 2008....
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955), commonly known as Bill Gates, is an American businessman and a microcomputer pioneer. He, along with ...
1789–1858, English physician. In London he was the leading consultant of his time, and he contributed many important clinical observations. He was t...
1838–1913, American surgeon and librarian, b. Indiana. In the Civil War he was medical inspector of the Army of the Potomac. After the war he was gi...
1662–1742, English critic and philologist. Generally considered the greatest of English classical scholars, he was largely responsible for raising s...
(bûr´j z) (KEY) , 1827–81, English architect. An ardent proponent of Victorian medievalism, he was prominent in the Gothic revival. Burges is know...