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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), a biography also portrays a subject's experience of these events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of a 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 authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and, at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An autobiography is about a life of a subject, written by that subject or sometimes with a collaborator. More about biographies… edit   Featured biography Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (ca. 495–429 BC, Greek: Περικλῆς) was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age–specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. He had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles", though it can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century. He promoted the arts and literature, helping to build the reputation of Athens as the cultural centre of Ancient Greece. He started an ambitious project that built most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). (Read more...) edit   Selected portrait Oceana Mahlmann (born January 23, 1982) is a German singer. UEFA chose her to write and perform the theme song for the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament, one of the biggest sports events in the world. At the closing ceremony on July 1, 2012, Oceana performed the song "Endless Summer" live to a television audience of approximately one billion people. edit   Things you can do Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a jurist a military person a musician a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer a photographer Improve an article by: adding references Review an article William Trussell • Susan Gerbic • Yevgeniy Fiks • John Findley Wallace • Carolyn Crane • Stephen Payne (naval architect) Stephen V. Cameron * Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari * Luis Buñuel • Nipo T. Strongheart • Bennett Greenspan • Edward Manville • Jaroslav Nešetřil • Stuart Milk • George M. Stratton • Paul S. Walsh • José Rizal • Joan Pujol Garcia • Lucius Arruntius the Younger • William Bliss Baker • Joe Clifford Faust • Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo • A. R. Rahman • Anna Hazare • Heather O'Rourke • Johnny Bright • Frithjof Tidemand-Johannessen • Frithjof Tidemand-Johannessen • Luigi Facelli Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles edit   Categories Biography • People By association • By behavior • By ethnicity • By gender • By language • By nationality By occupation: Academics • Scientists Actors • Artists • Choreographers • Comedians • Dancers • Directors • Musicians • Photographers • Playwrights • Writers Astronauts • Aviators • Explorers • Mountain climbers Businesspeople • Computer designers • Innovators Heads of state • Humanitarians • Journalists • Lawyers • Politicians • Warriors Sportspeople • Association football players • Baseball players • Basketball players • Olympians By place • By political orientation • By religion By status: Award winners • Billionaires • Celebrities By time • Lists of people ▼ Biography ► Biography awards ► Biographers ► Family history ► Biography journals ► Biographical museums ► Oral history ► The Biography Channel shows ► Biographical works edit   On this day – January 15 Births 1412 - Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431) 1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673) 1816 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852) 1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d. 1975) 1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968) (pictured) Deaths 1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609) 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870) 1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, (b. 1924) 1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904) 1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904) edit   Did you know ... that Prince Antasari (pictured), who led a war against Dutch colonists for over three years, was ultimately defeated by smallpox? ... that Tonya Butler, while playing for the University of West Alabama under head coach Randy Pippin, became the first female to score a field goal in a NCAA college football game? ... that the partitioning of the state of Jin, during the reign of Duke Chu, is often considered the start of China's Warring States period? ... that Shlomo Moussaieff owns rare gemstones worth millions of dollars, including a flawless blue diamond and the world's largest known red diamond? ... that baseball pitcher Darin Downs had to regain the ability to speak after being hit in the head by a batted ball? ... that in 2013, Singaporean politician Desmond Lim set a new record for the lowest percentage garnered in an election since the independence of Singapore in 1965? ... that due to his role in the national uprising, Bahraini human rights activist Mohammed al-Maskati received a number of death threats? edit   Quote of the week "History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth." — E. L. Doctorow Interviewed by George Plimpton in The Paris Review, Winter 1986 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 Philosophers Saints Romance authors Military Peers and Baronets Politics and government U.S. Members of Congress 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 Community Criminal justice Culture Death Gangs Human rights LGBT Mind and brain Music Philosophy Religion Sexuality Social and political philosophy Thinking edit   Associated Wikimedia The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: Wikipedia's Portals All Portals Overview Glossaries Indices Lists Outlines Categories Reference Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Featured portals About portals