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edit   The Biography Portal Foxe's Book of Martyrs A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death), biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents the subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Biographical works in diverse media—from literature to film—form the genre known as biography. An autobiography is written by the subject him or herself, sometimes with a collaborator. An authorized biography is written with the cooperation of family and heirs, or of the subject if alive. More about Biography... edit   Featured biography Stede Bonnet (c. 1688 – December 10, 1718) was an early 18th-century Barbadian pirate, sometimes called "the gentleman pirate". Because of marital problems, Bonnet turned to piracy in the summer of 1717. He bought a sailing vessel, named it Revenge, and traveled with his paid crew along the American eastern seaboard, capturing other vessels and burning down Barbadian ships. After arriving in Nassau, Bonnet met the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Incapable of leading his crew, Bonnet temporarily ceded his ship's command to Blackbeard. Before separating in December 1717, Blackbeard and Bonnet plundered and captured merchant ships along the East Coast. After Bonnet failed to capture the Protestant Caesar, his crew abandoned him to join Blackbeard on the Queen Anne's Revenge. Bonnet stayed on Blackbeard's ship as a guest, and did not command a crew again until summer 1718, when he was pardoned by North Carolina governor Charles Eden and received clearance to go privateering against Spanish shipping. By July 1718, he had returned to piracy. In late August and September of that year, Colonel William Rhett led a naval expedition against pirates on the Cape Fear River. Rhett and Bonnet's men fought each other for hours, but the outnumbered pirates ultimately surrendered. Rhett arrested the pirates and brought them to Charleston in early October. Bonnet was brought to trial, and sentenced to death. After his request for clemency was turned down, Bonnet was hanged in Charleston on December 10, 1718. (Read more...) edit   Selected portrait The only known photograph of Frédéric François Chopin (French pronunciation: [fʁedeʁik fʁɑ̃swa ʃɔpɛ̃]), (1 March 18101 – 17 October 1849). Chopin was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period, widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential and prolific composers for piano, and Poland's most significant composer. (Read more...) Photograph believed to have been taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849. 1Some sources give 22 February, for an explanation see here. edit   Things you can do Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a businessperson an educator an engineer a jurist a military person a musician a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references helping to resolve a dispute Review an article Joan Pujol Garcia • Lucius Arruntius the Younger • William Bliss Baker • Joe Clifford Faust • Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo • A. R. 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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 Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya (pictured), a Hindu religious leader who has been blind since the age of two months and never used Braille or any other aid to learn or compose, can speak 22 languages. edit   Quote of the week "Biography should be written by an acute enemy." — Arthur Balfour Quoted by S. K. Ratcliffe, The Observer, 30 January 1927 edit   WikiProjects List of WikiProjects and work groups that involve biography articles: Arts and entertainment Actors and Filmmakers Composers Canadian Dictionary of Biography Initiative Living persons Persondata Philosophers Saints Military Peers and Baronets Politics and government U.S. congresspersons U.S. presidents Royalty and nobility Science and academia Aerospace Sports and games Baseball players List of all WikiProjects See also: Biographies of living persons • Manual of Style (biographies) edit   Related portals Anthropology Astrology Community Criminal justice Culture Death Gangs Human rights LGBT Mind and Brain Personal life Philosophy Sexuality Social/political philosophy Thinking Transgender edit   Associated Wikimedia What are portals? List of portals Featured portals