We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.
Denny Smith - from WIBC ("Indy's News Center," at 93.
Denny Smith - from WIBC ("Indy's News Center," at 93.
This "unsolved crime" radio show - "Somebody Knows" - was aired by the Columbia Broadcasting Company.
Heinrich Karl Bukowski - better known as Charles Bukowski (or "Hank," to his friends and family) - was born in Andernach, Germany on the 16th of Augus...
Until she was nearly seven, Helen could not communicate with anyone except by her own sign language.
When she was 11, Helen wrote a story she thought was her own, and "The Frost King" was published by the director of the Perkins Institute.
At the age of seven, Helen Keller experienced her first real Christmas.
William Butler (W.B.) Yeats wrote the poem which consistently tops the list of Ireland's favorite poems.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was born 21 years after the United States Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" - between whites and people of...
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