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Introduction
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.
Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography.
An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An autobiography is written by the person himself or herself, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter.
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Did you know...
- ... that the 2017 film Dunkirk was conceived in the mid-1990s when writer and director Christopher Nolan sailed with Emma Thomas across the English Channel, as did many small boats during the Dunkirk evacuation?
- ... that at a 1999 performance of Savuka's anti-apartheid song "Asimbonanga", former South African President Nelson Mandela danced on stage?
- ... that Femi Claudius Cole offers free health checks as she campaigns to become President of Sierra Leone?
- ... that Seyyed Abdollah Behbahani, a Shia theologian and leader of the constitutional movement, was assassinated in Iran and buried in Iraq?
- ... that U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed to revoke government funding using the rescission process, which was successfully used 461 times prior to 2000 but has never been attempted since?
- ... that Kate Devlin is a computer scientist working in the field of sex robots and human-computer interaction?
- ... that Ernest Addison, the fifteenth Governor of the Bank of Ghana, is a Mfantsipim alumnus?
- ... that Wang Guangying, the brother-in-law of Chinese President Liu Shaoqi, was likely the first person to be publicly referred to as a "red capitalist"?
- ... that Harry Bush obsessed that if anyone found out he was a gay erotic artist he would lose his American military pension?
- ... that Pope Alexander VIII, elected in 1689, was the first Venetian in over 200 years to become pope?
- ... that actor Michael Rennie and temperance activist Catherine Gurney are buried in Harlow Hill Cemetery?
- ... that US President Donald Trump's nomination of meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to direct the Office of Science and Technology Policy has been received positively by scientists?
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- 3 March 2019 – 2019 Estonian parliamentary election
- Jüri Ratas, incumbent Prime Minister of Estonia, and his party gets second place in the election, while opposition leader Kaja Kallas's Estonian Reform Party gets the largest number of votes, and the right-wing Conservative People's Party doubles in seats. (BBC)
- 1 March 2019 – North Korea–Vietnam relations
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un begins an official visit to Vietnam, three days after arriving in the country for a nuclear summit with U.S. President Donald Trump that ended in deadlock. (The Straits Times)
- 28 February 2019 – 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, North Korea–United States relations
- The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi abruptly ends earlier than scheduled, with the White House saying no deal has been reached in regards to relations between the two countries and North Korea's nuclear weapons policies and sanctions due to them. (NBC News)
- 28 February 2019 – 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
- Venezuelan opposition leader and interim president Juan Guaidó said Thursday he will return to his country by Monday, and that a dialogue with President Nicolás Maduro won't be possible without discussing elections. (CNN)
- 27 February 2019 – 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit
- U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet face-to-face for the first time since their summit last year. (CNBC)
- 26 February 2019 – 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits his country's embassy in Hanoi on Tuesday in preparation for the summit. (Reuters)
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