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Short Funny Monologues
Short Funny Monologues -It's an art to be funny. With these short funny monologues on audio you will be able to emulate some of the greatest comedians and comics there are. Some of these short funny monologues are available for FREE: Very Best of BBC Comedy - The Free Audio book - Click to downlo...
Entertainment - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:35:23
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Ray Charles Biography
Ray Charles Biography (1930-2004)... we still miss you!!!!
Ray Charles Robinson was born September. 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia. Ray Charles died June 11, 2004 (At his home in Beverly Hills, California.He was 73) His parents were simple but hard working people who raised their son to become an i...
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:35:42
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Biography Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 - 15 March 44 BCE). Julius Caesar, Emperor, military leader, roman statesman, general and author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium). He changed the Roman republic into a monarchy and a truly Mediterranean empire. Born: 100 B.C.:Birthplace...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:37:02
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Funny Free Monologues
Comic, funny monologues have become a standard element of entertainment routines on stage and television. Well delivered they can amuse large crowds. Famous comic monologuists include Dave Chappelle, George Carlin, Billy Connolly, Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Rove McManus...
How-To & Education - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:35:34
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Isaac Newton Biography
Sir Isaac Newton, President of the Royal Society English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians in history. Born: 25 December 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England (Isaac Newton w...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:37:55
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Marie Curie Biography
Marie Curie (née Maria Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867. She died on July 4, 1934 in Sallanche, Savoy, France. 1903 : Won the Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 : Won her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry She discovered the mysterious element radium. It opened the door to deep changes in...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:40:50
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Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), the father of modern mystery. Edgar Poe was born on 19 January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He died on 7 October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is burried in an unmarked grave in the Old Westminster Burying Ground of Baltimore, Maryland. Father : David Poe (1784 - ...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:37:32
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Thomas Jefferson Biography
Thomas Jefferson Third President of the United States 1743 - 1826 Born: April 13, 1743 in Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia. Died: July 4, 1826 in Monticello in Virginia on the 50tz anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Inherited a considerable landed estate from his father whic...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:40:39
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Emily Dickinson Biography
Emily Dickinson Biography (1830 - 1886) With full name Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Born on 10th December 1830 in Amherst, western Massachusetts, USA, in a house called the Homestead, built by her grandfather. This house was sold out of the familyin 1833 and re-purchased by her father, Edward Dicki...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:39:08
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Winston Churchill Biography
Winston Churchill won The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953. He was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and he died on 24 January 1965 28 Hyde Park Gate, London He studied at Harrow (1888) and Royal Military College, Sandhurst (graduated in 1894) Family: His father was, Lord R...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:05
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Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman is an English classical soprano, actress and dancer.
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:42:30
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Charles Dickens Biography
Name: Charles Dickens Birthname: Charles John Huffam Dickens (early alias: Boz) Born: Friday, February 7, 1812, No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport,Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Died: Thursday, June 9, 1870 (stroke), Gadshill, England Burried: Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, London, England Paren...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:39:28
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Mark Twain Biography
Mark Twain (1835-1910) - pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens American writer, journalist, and humorist.. Genre(s): Novels; humor/satire; short stories;plays; essays; letters. Birth: November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, USA Death: April 21, 1910 in Redding, comté de Fairfield, Connecticut, US...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:29
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519) , usually simply refered to as 'Leonardo da Vinci' was an exceptional artist, scientist and visionary who was way ahead of his time.
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:36:58
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American poet, educator, linguist Born: February 27, 1807, Portland, Maine Died: March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts In London his marble image is seen in Westminster Abbey, in the Poet's Corner Father: Stephen Longfellow was a Portland lawyer and congressman Mothe...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:43:32
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Salvador Dali Biography
Famous surrealist Artist Salvador Dali born Salvador Felip Jacint Dali Domenech May 11, 1904: He was born as "Salvador Domenec Felip Jacint Dalí Domenech" (known as "Salvador Dali") in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain January 23, 1989: He died in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain His father was "Salvador Dal...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:37:12
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Martin Luther King Biography
Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize 1964. He did most probably more for the end of racial discriminaton than any other man. Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later changed his name to Martin. His grandfather was pastor of th...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:37:42
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Cleopatra Biography
Cleopatra Biography - Queen Cleopatra of Egypt Last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.Born: 69 B.C. Birthplace: Egypt Died: 30 B.C. (Suicide, possibly by snake) Daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes. Cleopatra's mother was probably Auletes's sister, Cleopatra V Tryphaena. (It was commonplace for...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:37:23
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Agatha Christie Biography
Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, England on September 15, 1890. She died peacefully at home on January 12, 1976 after a short cold. Agatha Christie wrote also as Mary Westmacott. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Fly...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:37
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Charles Darwin Biography
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) British naturalist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world. Darwin's "On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection, or "The Preservation Of Favoured Races In The Struggle Of Life", was publis...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:57
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William J. Clinton Biography
William Jefferson Clinton (better known under the name of Bill Clinton). 42nd president of the United States - 1993-2001. During his administration , the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosev...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:51
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Placido Domingo
Placido Domingo is an operatic tenor. He is considered as one of the most talented and hardest working musicians with a repertoire of over 120 different music pieces.
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:42:18
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Jimi Hendrix Biography
1942 - 1970: Guitarist, singer, and songwriter. November 27, 1942: Jimi Hendrix was born Johnny Allen Hendrix at Seattle's King County Hospital at 10:15 a.m. August 17, 1970: he died at the age of 27 in London (the day before he took some sleeping pills and some drinks and suffocated in his sleep...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:36:42
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Beatles Lyrics
As producer George Martin said recently: "I wouldn't have believed at the time that 40 years later I'd still be talking about the phenomenon of The Beatles." The Beatles are the greatest pop stars of the 20th century, if we measured it on purely commercial and popularity success. Their impact wil...
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:17
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John Adams Biography
John Adams (1735 - 1826) Member of the Continental Congress, diplomat, vice president and second president of the United States (1797-1801). Revolutionary War Figure. John Adams, son of Deacon John Adams and Susanna Boylston, was the fifth generation from Henry Adams who reached the shores of Ame...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:41:14
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Elvis Presley Funeral
ELVIS PRESLEY GRACELAND. GRACELAND IN MEMPHIS. THE KING OF ROCK N ROLL Elvis Aron Presley Born 8 January 1935 Tupelo, Mississippi Elvis died 16 August 1977, in Graceland Memphis Tennessee. He was 42 years old Funeral August 18, 1977 at 2pm in Graceland Every year on 16 August the "ELVIS WEEK" vig...
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:35:57
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Abraham Lincoln Biography
He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he was named for his paternal grandfather. February 12, 1809 : Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin (now Larue) County, Kentucky. April 14, 1865 : Ford Theater : At 10.13, he was shot in the back of his head by Southern fanatic John Wilk...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:46
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Jose Carreras
Jose Carreras is a Spanish operatic tenor.
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:42:09
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Bob Dylan Biography
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA) is widely regarded as America's greatest living popular songwriter. Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes (married in 1965 and divorced in 1977) had four children together: Jesse, Anna, Samuel, and Jakob. (Dylan also adopted Lownde...
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:36:09
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Biography Langston Hughes
Biography Langston Hughes Born: February 1, 1902 Joplin, Missouri into an abolitionist family Died: May 22, 1967 of cancer Harlem, New York Poet, writer, playwright His residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York has been given landmark status by the New York City Preservation Commissi...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:39:51
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Benjamin Franklin Biography
Benjamin Franklin, Revolutionary War Figure / Inventor / Writer * Born: 17 January 1706 * Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts * Died: 17 April 1790 (pleurisy and old age) * Best Known As: The Founding Father who wrote Poor Richard's Almanach He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josia...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:37:46
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Nelson Mandela
Mandela's words, "The struggle is my life," are not to be taken lightly. "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It ...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:36:22
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Hillary Clinton Biography
Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947 at Edgewater Hospital - Chicago - Illinois. She was raised in a Methodist family in Park Ridge, Illinois. During the 1992 presidential campaign, she observed : "Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to fi...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:36:34
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Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli is an Italian opera singer and recitalist. She sings mezzo-soprano.
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:43:20
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Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet and was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The world's foremost Buddhist leader, he travels extensively, speaking ...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:43:56
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Jimmy Carter Biography
Jimmy Carter ( full name James Earl Carter, Jr.) - 39th President of the United States -1977 - 1981. He was the first Georgian to be elected President and the first President elected from the deep South since 1848. The Nobel Peace Prize 2002 "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful s...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:41:00
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Jane Austen Biography
Jane Austen 1775-1817 Born : 16 December, 1775 in Steventon , near Basingstoke, Hampshire Died : 18 July, 1817 in Winchester, Hampshire. She was 41 years old. Buried :in Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire.Later her sister Cassandra Austen wrote :"It is a satisfaction to me to think that [she is] to...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:40:13
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Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli is a blind polylingual Italian singer and tenor.
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:42:40
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Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is a banker -and he is a banker with foresight and great social conscience. If you have heared of micro loans and Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, then you know already a little about this great man. Muhammad Yunus has received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize in appreciation of his merits in...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:43:40
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John McCormack
John McCormack was an Irish tenor.
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:42:53
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Ernest Hemingway Biography
Ernest Hemingway, Writer. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954. * Born: 21 July 1899 * Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois * Died: 2 July 1961 (suicide) * Best Known As: Famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway was the second of Dr. Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway's s...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:39:17
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Milarepa
Jetsun Milarepa - Milarepa was a Tibetan Buddhist renunciate who roamed the northern slopes of the Himalayas 900 years ago. The easy-going narrative is like a talking meditation, and takes the listener through the stages of his fascinating life, such as: the suffering of his childhood and the ext...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:43:48
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Stephen King Biography
Stephen King Biography: Stephen Edwin King (born 21st September 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:40:07
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John F. Kennedy Biography
KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald, (1917 - 1963) 1917, May 29: Born in Brookline, Massachusetts 1963, November 22: Died in Dallas (shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald) Father: The indomitable Joseph Kennedy (Was Ambassador to Great Britain 1937-1940) Mother: Rose Fitzgerald (Boston socialite) Brothers/Sist...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:39:56
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Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma is an French-born American cellist.
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:42:46
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Ella Fitzgerald Biography
Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Singer Best known as: Jazz vocalist known for "scat singing" She is the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. She won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. She worked with all the greatest jazzmen, from Duke Ellington, ...
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:41:45
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Biography Audio Books
Biography Audio Books (and Autobiography Books too...) are great! I love biographies, and often in biography audio books you can hear the person you learn about in the original voice, telling about his / her life, or a famous speech etc. Biography audio books come to life like this in a way that ...
Entertainment - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:39:03
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Patricia Cornwell Biography
Born: 9 June 1956, Miami, Florida, United States Birth Name: Patricia Carroll Daniels Nickname: Patsy Father: Sam Daniels, appellate attorney Mother: Marilyn Daniels, secretary Brothers: Jim Daniels (1955) and John Daniels (1959) Husband: Charles Cornwell (her former English professor - Married h...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:41:37
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi - Gandhi is best known for his great courage and the civil disobedience campaings he organized to bring the British colonial rule in India to an end.
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:44:19
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Emily Wilding Davison Biography
Emily Wilding Davison is one of the most famous of the Suffragettes. It was Emily Wilding Davison who
threw herself under the king's horse at the Derby of 1913 thus making her mark in history.
Emily Davison (1872 - 1913):
Born: 11 October 1872 - Blackheath (southeast London)
Died: 8 June 1913 (f...
News & Politics - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:44:04
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti was an Italian tenor.
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:41:54
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William Shakespeare Biography
William Shakespeare Biography - The life and work of The Bard:
William Shakespeare is the most important writer in the English language. He still inspires and he still is good for literary discussions and interpretations.
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People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:44:11
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John Updike Biography
John Updike - Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction Born: John Hoyer Updike March 18, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Spent his first years in nearby Shillington. Father: Wesley Russel Updike - High school science teacher. Mother: Linda Grace Hoyer Updike - Had a master's degree from Corn...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:40:30
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Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso was an Italian opera singer and tenor.
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:43:09
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Michael Palin
MICHAEL PALIN is a scriptwriter, comedian, novelist, television presenter, actor and playwright. He established his reputation with Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several famous films with Monty Python, as well as The Missionary, A Private Function, an awar...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:39:39
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Biography Headquarters
Biography - Biographies Biographies of famous people. A biography can be many things: A biography is a picture the outside world has of a person, or the historical view that we have today of a person who lived earlier. An autobiography on the contrary is often a way to justify and defend decision...
People - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:44:39
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Richard Tauber
Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor.
Music - Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:42:59
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