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Finding out about famous (and infamous) people is easy through the following links:

Biography Resource Center

This comprehensive database contains biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas. It combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources and also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals . You can search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

This website contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have made their mark on this country. It does not include people who are alive, so you will not find people like Helen Clark or John Key, but you will find people like George Nepia or Michael Joseph Savage. The site includes the collected biographies originally published in the printed Dictionary of New Zealand Biography series between 1990 and 2000, and in the parallel Maori-language series, Nga Tangata Taumata Rau. The 'Our Land, Our People' section includes material from the New Zealand Historical Atlas. It presents snapshots of places, times, events and trends in New Zealand history, linked to the biographical content.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online comprises volumes 1 to 16 in the continuing series, and the Supplementary Volume, of the printed ADB. The over 10,000 biographical articles are concise, authoritative accounts of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history who died before 1980. Print publication details, including the year, accompany each article.
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Encyclopædia Britannica

Encyclopædia Britannica Online offers over 73,000 encyclopaedia articles, both short and book-length. Other content includes over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, today's news headlines from the NZ Herald and BBC News, and links to relevant websites.
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World Book Online

World Book Online is the electronic version of the very popular reference books, suggested for children intermediate age and up. It contains articles from the World Book Encyclopaedia, the World Book Dictionary, and an extensive media database of journal articles, photos, maps, pictures, videos, animations, and audio clips.
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Discovering Collection

Designed for the secondary school student, the Discovering Collection includes biographies, criticisms, overview essays and timeline entries, images/multimedia, and primary source documents. Also searches Merriam Webster's Biographical dictionary.
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MasterFILE Premier

This huge database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general periodicals covering a range of subjects including current affairs, business, entertainment, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. Also features full text from 88,000 biographies.
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ProQuest ANZ Newsstand

This database offers full text access to national and provincial newspapers in Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand titles include The Dominion Post, The New Zealand Herald, The Press (Christchurch), Sunday Star-Times, Truth, and past issues of The Evening Post and The Dominion. Many titles can be searched going back several years.
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ProQuest New York Times

You can search or browse the New York Times on this database. Full text-articles are available from 1980 to yesterday’s edition. The New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review are available from 1997.
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Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online has more than 45,000 encyclopaedia-style articles on the visual arts, including more than 21,000 biographies of artists and craftsmen. While it is particularly strong on European art up to the 20th century, other cultures, countries, and regions are represented from pre-history to today.
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Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Try this tool first for all your research into people involved in film and television. This Ebsco database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications, as well as full text for more than 80 journals and nearly 50 books. Includes full text content from New Zealand’s Onfilm magazine from June 2003 to present, with selective coverage back to 1989.
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Oxford Music Online

This database is the leading online resource for music research and features more than 50,000 articles on musicians, composers, musicologists, and much more.
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Rock's Backpages

This is an archive of reviews, interviews and features on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, by some of the world's best rock writers from the world's most influential music publications.
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All Music Guide

This excellent resource provides searching ability for artists, albums, songs, styles and labels. Extensive biographical details for artists are included.
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Literature Resource Center

Includes biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on more than 120,000 authors and their works. Features include Scribner Writer's Series of 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres, as well as the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.
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Business Source Complete

Search here for information on the leading figures in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Includes full text from over 3000 journals such as Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Forbes, California Management Review plus New Zealand Business.
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