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1. Micro Histories: A Book List for History Buffs This lens is dedicated to the type of book that is about the history of some particular thing. The genre is perhaps best personified Mark Kurlansky's excellent book "Salt". For history buffs, this is a refreshing and entertaining way to get...
2. Vita Sackville-West I have been fascinated by Vita Sackville-West for over a decade.  This woman was so many extraordinary things:  author, biographer, poet, correspondent, wife, mother, lover, aristocrat, gardener and so much more.  And she did each with...
3. Winston Churchill Biography Winston Churchill won The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953. He was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and he died on 24 January 1965 28 Hyde Park Gate, London He studied at  Harrow (1888) and Royal Military College, Sandhurst...
4. Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until...
5. Biography Audio Books Biography Audio Books (and Autobiography Books too...) are great! I love biographies, and often in biography audio books you can hear the person you learn about in the original voice, telling about his / her life, or a famous speech etc. Biography au...
6. William J. Clinton Biography William Jefferson Clinton (better known under the name of Bill Clinton). 42nd president of the United States - 1993-2001. During his administration , the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the firs...
7. Thomas Jefferson Biography   Thomas Jefferson  Third President of the United States 1743 - 1826 Born: April 13, 1743 in Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia. Died: July 4, 1826 in Monticello in Virginia on the 50tz anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...
8. Books written by Rock Stars The Dirt- By Motley Crue Slash- By Slash from Guns n Roses Walk This Way- By Aerosmith The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx
9. About Anyone Group Headquarters About Anyone Group This group is comprised of lenses devoted to someone, or anyone. About you, about me, or about THAT person! These can lensographys, biographies, SquidWho pages, etc. Anything about anyone is accepted! We'll also accept books, a...
10. Autobiography, Personal History and Memoirs It’s a common misconception that Autobiographies can only be written by celebrities, that only those in the public eye have led lives worthy of reading about. This is simply not true. In fact, most of the everyday people I meet have led fa...
11. Charles Dickens Biography Name: Charles Dickens Birthname: Charles John Huffam Dickens (early alias: Boz) Born: Friday, February 7, 1812, No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport,Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Died: Thursday, June 9, 1870 (stroke), Gadshill, England Burried: Poet's Corne...
12. Emily Dickinson Biography Emily Dickinson Biography (1830 - 1886) With full name Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Born on 10th December 1830 in Amherst, western Massachusetts, USA, in a house called the Homestead, built by her grandfather. This house was sold out of the familyin 183...
13. Humphrey Bogart Movies Humphrey Bogart was one of the most luminous stars in the history of Hollywood. His chiseled Noir features and steller talent illuminated the black and white (and later on in color) screen of 75 films.
14. John Adams Biography John Adams (1735 - 1826) Member of the Continental Congress, diplomat, vice president and second president of the United States (1797-1801). Revolutionary War Figure. John Adams, son of Deacon John Adams and Susanna Boylston, was the fifth gener...
15. John F. Kennedy Biography KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald, (1917 - 1963) 1917, May 29: Born in Brookline, Massachusetts 1963, November 22: Died in Dallas (shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald) Father: The indomitable Joseph Kennedy (Was Ambassador to Great Britain 1937-1940) Mother: Rose...
16. All Running Biographies First, there was the Complete Lens of Running Books. It was an epic endeavor that soon grew too large for Squidoo to support. So it has now been broken down into multiple lenses, of which this is one. This lens lists every running biography ever wri...
17. Jimmy Carter Biography Jimmy Carter ( full name James Earl Carter, Jr.) -  39th President of the United States -1977 - 1981. He was the first Georgian to be elected President and the first President elected from the deep South since 1848. The Nobel Peace Prize 2002 &quo...
18. Maya Angelou Maya Angelou is an American poet, memoirist, actress.
19. "An eccentric old fellow training visionaries." - a lensography Whenever I agree with the majority view, I know it's time to examine my foundations. It's not that the crowd is always wrong; they are only always wrong when it is really important. At dangerous extremes visionaries must swim against an almost unani...
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