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Meaning of biography in English

The strength of the notion of the cultural biography, in my mind, is that it provides us with a way to escape from these preoccupations.

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The algorithm takes a set of earthly biographies as input and produces a set of improved resurrection biographies as output.

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However, an annotation of the essays, together with a more detailed biography, would have increased its value for subsequent scholarship.

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This biography presents a figure who deserves to be better known and appears to have been an unusually attractive and amiable character.

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This book purports to be a biography, but the writer faced very considerable difficulties in researching it.

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This book permits the reader to see the many parallels between the biographies of the two lingua francas and the positions adopted by their elites.

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Despite these differences

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Tłumaczenie słowa biography - Słownik angielsko-polski

Sublime genres, such as the ode, the historical novel, and the heroic biography, were in demand in many empires.

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There are other indications, however, that the biography of a house did not necessarily end with the end of habitation of the farmstead.

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This book permits the reader to see the many parallels between the biographies of the two lingua francas and the positions adopted by their elites.

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The audiotheque was accompanied by projected texts on each work and biographies of each artist.

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Thus, rather than making a single assumption about each biography's access to occupational provision, we have examined variant employment histories.

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It is also important that we can compare the contrasting biographies of houses, cemeteries, land divisions and enclosures.

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These are essentially intellectual biographies followed by references to the

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Polish Biographical Dictionary

Biographical dictionary

This article is about a multi-volume Polish-language biographical dictionary. For a one-volume English-language Polish-biography dictionary, see The Polish Biographical Dictionary.

Polish Biographical Dictionary at the Silesian library
Editors	Andrzej Romanowski et al.
Author	est. 4,000 contributors
Original title	Polski Słownik Biograficzny
Language	Polish
Publisher	Polish Academy of Learning Polish Academy of Sciences
Publication date	1935–ongoing
Publication place	Poland
Media type	print, soft cover
ISBN	978-83-86301-01-0
OCLC	221985208
Website	Official website

Polski Słownik Biograficzny (PSB; Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a Polish-languagebiographical dictionary, comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation of authoritative biographies of some 25,000 notable Poles and of foreigners who have been active in Poland – famous as well as less-well-known persons – from Popiel, Piast Kołodziej, and Mieszko I, at the dawn of Polish histo