Discover more
about the famously reclusive Emily Dickinson
Photograph: Mary Evans Picture Library
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If you have not managed to store away the
main facts of every important historical figure's life, The Biography
Channel's website (www.biography.com)
is a handy online tool. Its searchable database of some 25,000 names
returns near-perfect as well as perfect matches, encouraging exploration and
negating the effects of misspellings. Find out which famous person, living
or dead, shares your birthday - the poet Emily Dickinson , pictured, and
Kenneth Branagh are among those born on the 10th December.
There is also a section called Biographies of the day: on the day I looked,
it included those of George W Bush, Al Gore and Gwyneth Paltrow, all
considered important enough for articles of several hundred words each. And
not a ballot paper in sight.
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Leixlip, 10 December 2000 |
