[OPLINLIST] Biography Reference Bank -- News and Tips -- February 2011

[Laura Solomon]

*Lin Dan*

	
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*Chinese athletes making **
*their mark**

*Biography Reference Bank*features several profiles of Chinese athletes 
and sports people, including Li Na, in the news at the moment as the 
first Chinese tennis player to reach a grandslam final.

Other inspirational and trustworthy profiles include Fu Mingxia, the 
Olympic medal-winning diver who has retired from her sport not once, but 
twice; Wang Meng, considered one of the finest female short-track speed 
skaters in the world; and Lin Dan, one of the most successful players on 
the international badminton circuit.

*How to find them:*If you want to search for Chinese sports people or 
athletes, you can enter China in the Place of Origin text box and either 
sports people or athletes in the Profession/Activity text box on the 
Advanced Search screen. Notice how the auto complete feature ensures 
that your query is spelled correctly and corresponds to keywords already 
found in the database.

*More Biography Reference Bank tennis trivia:*Check Inside Wilson for a 
short quiz on tennis players using Biography Reference Bank profiles.

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*Unrest in the Middle East*

	

Offer your patrons detailed, accurate, and reliable profiles of some of 
the major players in the current turmoil in the Middle East, including 
long-time Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, recently-ousted President 
Zine el Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, and Ali Abdullah Saleh, president of 
Yemen.

*Biography Reference Bank*features multiple profiles of all three of 
these important men, as well as links to articles and books that 
reference them (ideal for students or patrons with an interest in 
current affairs), and background information on the countries they rule, 
which could help your patrons to put current events into context.

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*February is Black History Month*

Whether you are looking for famous names like Martin Luther King, Jr, or 
lesser-known but still important individuals, such as:

. Opera singer Marian Anderson (1897-1993) who became a precursor of the 
civil rights movement in 1939 when she was refused permission to rent 
Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. for a concert and sang instead at 
Lincoln Memorial to an audience of 75,000.

	


*Marian Anderson*

. Reginald F. Lewis (1942 - 1993), venture capitalist and founder of TLC 
Beatrice Holdings, the first African-American-owned company with 
revenues in excess of $1 billion.

. Lewis Latimer (1848-1928), the son of an escaped slave, member of the 
group of scientists known as the Edison Pioneers and inventor of the 
Latimer lamp.

We found these remarkable people by entering /African American/ in the 
And text box and choosing /Ethnicity/ from the drop down list. We 
narrowed our search by choosing Bio/Obit from the tabs at the top of the 
Results page.

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*New biographies this month*

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*Artist and Graphic Novelist*
*Eric Drooker*
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*Current Biography's*cover profile this month is on artist and graphic 
novelist Eric Drooker, known for his /New Yorker/ covers, and the 
animation for the 2010 movie /Howl/, starring James Franco.

Other profiles this month include Chauncey Billups, basketball player 
with the Denver Nuggets, Jamey Johnson, country singer and songwriter, 
and movie producer Edward R. Pressman.

Our featured biography this month on hwwilson.com 
<http://hwwilson.com/newsmakers/newsmakers.cfm> is New Jersey Governor 
Chris Christie, the first Republican to win a statewide election there 
in a dozen years and something of a polarizing figure.

*Other new biographies this month include *
Molecular biologist Stephen P. Bell . Football player Joshua Cribbs . 
Actor Jesse Eisenberg . Composer Henryk Gorecki (obituary) . Writer 
Laura Kipnis . Journalist Walter Pincus . Baseball player David Price . 
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker . Opera singer Shirley Verrett 
(obituary) and many more!

	


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