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A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their 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. 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 written by the person themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter. (Full article...)
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- ... that Bill Hatfield, the oldest person to have sailed solo around the world, had previously narrowly survived a shipwreck with his young family?
- ... that actor Oscar Isaac contributed to the creation of his character's background history in the film A Most Violent Year (2014)?
- ... that when the studio album Jim Reeves Sings was released by Abbott Records in 1955, the artist himself had already signed with RCA Victor?
- ... that after developing the first packet switching network for the ARPANET in the United States, computer scientist David Walden went to Norway to develop a packet switching network in that country?
- ... that Chinese leader Xi Jinping called common prosperity an essential requirement of socialism but also said that it does not represent uniform egalitarianism?
- ... that writer Ed Brubaker earned more from the residuals for his cameo appearance in the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier than he did for his comic from which the film was adapted?
- ...that the Locumba uprising was thought by many to be a cover for the escape of Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's de facto leader from 1990 to 2000?
- ... that graffiti artist Al Diaz cuts up New York metro signs and reconfigures the letters into his own text?
- ... that Anne Baker's book Wings over Kabul: The First Airlift describes the first significant use of airpower in an insurgency campaign?
- ... that the proposed third season of teen sitcom Sonny with a Chance was reworked into the sketch comedy series So Random! after the departure of its lead actor Demi Lovato?
- ... that the actor who played Screech on Saved by the Bell portrayed Harvey Weinstein in a music video for the song "Kill All the Things"?
- ... that the pseudonymous manga artist Junichi Yamakawa never disclosed to his editor his legal name, address, or contact information?
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On this day – April 28
Births
- 1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831) (pictured)
- 1878 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
- 1889 - António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)
- 1922 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (d. 1987)
- 1926 - Harper Lee, American author (d. 2016)
- 1937 - Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)
- 1941 - Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
- 1948 - Terry Pratchett, English author (d. 2015)
- 1950 - Jay Leno, American comedian and television host
Deaths
- 1695 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
- 1936 - King Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
- 1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1882)
- 1978 - Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
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- 13 February 2024 – Estonia–Russia relations
- Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas is reportedly placed on the Russian Interior Ministry's register of wanted people due to the country's removal of Soviet War Memorials, making Kallas the first known government leader to be added to a wanted list by Russian authorities. (The Guardian)
- 4 February 2024 – 66th Annual Grammy Awards
- Taylor Swift wins Album of the Year for Midnights, becoming the first artist to win the award four times. She also announces the release of a new album, The Tortured Poets Department, on April 19. (Variety)
- 27 January 2024 –
- Venezuela's Supreme Court ratifies a ban from seeking any political office for 15 years on María Corina Machado, opposition leader backed by the United States. (Le Monde) (The Economist)
- 24 January 2024 –
- The Constitutional Court of Thailand acquits former Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat for owning shares in the defunct media company iTV, thereby allowing Limjaroenrat to resume serving as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives. (AP)
- 23 January 2024 –
- North Korea demolishes the Arch of Reunification in Pyongyang after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ruled out peaceful reunification with South Korea. (NDTV)
- The Senate of the Philippines' committee on women conducts a public hearing regarding the alleged abuses within the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Three women, two Ukrainian nationals and one Filipino, accuse church leader Apollo Quiboloy of sexually abusing them. (CNN Philippines)
Quote of the week
"There is no Death! What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call Death."
In Resignation, 1849
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