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Famous Trials

• Background on the Schiavo Case   [ Terri Shiavo ]

• Eric Robert Rudolph

• The Michael Jackson Case

• The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey

• O. J. Simpson Trial

• Profile: Al-Qaeda 'kingpin'   [ Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ]

• Rod Blagojevich

• Saddam Hussein Execution

• Texas v. Andrea Yates

• Timothy McVeigh

• Who Killed Chandra Levy?

Historical Figures

• Amelia Earhart

• American Experience ( PBS Series )
  • Citizen King [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ]
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Houdini [ Harry Houdini ]
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Kinsey [ Alfred Kinsey ]
  • Lindberg [ Charles Lindberg ]
  • Oswald's Ghost [ Lee Harvey Oswald ]
  • The Presidents (of the United States)
  • RFK [ Robert F. Kennedy ]
  • The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
  • The Rockefellers
  • The Time of the Lincolns [ Abraham and Mary Lincoln ]

• Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of a Man

• Darwin

• Einstein

• The Galileo Project

• Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist

• The Life & Times of Frida Kahlo

• Ludwig Van Beethoven

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• My Story: Edmund Hillary & Mt. Everest

• Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

• Plato and His Dialogues

• Shakespeare Resource Center

• Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture

In Memoriam

• Bob Hope   [ 1903-2003 ]

• Charlton Heston   [ 1923 - 2008 ]

• John F. Kennedy, Jr.   [ 1960-1999 ]

• Diana, Princess of Wales   [ 1961-1997 ]

• Farewell to Coretta Scott King   [ 1927-2006 ]

• Sinatra   [ 1915-1998 ]

• George Harrison   [ 1943-2001 ]

• Gerald Ford   [ 1913-2006 ]

• Heath Ledger   [ 1979 - 2008 ]

• Mother Teresa of Calcutta   [ 1910-1997]

• Odetta   [ 1930 - 2008 ]

• Pope John Paul II   [ 1920-2005]

• Ronald Reagan   [ 1911-2004 ]

• Rosa Parks   [ 1913-2005 ]

• Studs Turkel: Conversations with America   [ 1912 - 2008 ]

• Yasser Arafat   [ 1929-2004 ]

Newsmakers

• Barack Obama

• Bill Gates

• Caroline Kennedy's New Profile: Politics

• His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

• The Jane Goodall Institute

• Pope Benedict XVI: Conservative Ideas, New Way Forward

• Professor Stephen W. Hawking

• Steve Jobs

Other Sources

• Biographical Profile Research
  This MSWord formatted library instruction handout provides listings of various SAC reference books, periodical databases, and other sources on biographical research.

• TIME 100 - The People Who Shape Our World
  Scouring its archives,TIME Magazine has chosen 100 individuals "who most influenced" our civilization during the past century.

Periodical / Database Articles

• NOTE:   SAC students, faculty, and staff can also find full-text biographical periodical and database articles in the various sources listed in the Biography & History Databases section of the SAC Library web site.

Search Engines

Biographical Dictionary	www.s9.com/
Busca Biografias - Spanish language biographies	buscabiografias.com
Infoplease Almanac: Biography	www.infoplease.com/people.html
Librarians' Internet Index - Notable People	lii.org/pub/topic/notablepeople
Who2?	www.who2.com/

  "Biographical Research" is best viewed with the Internet Explorer browser. Comments on this document may be emailed to
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