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Biography articles:

• Trofim Denisovich Lysenko NEW
• Henry Morton Stanley
• John von Neumann
• Galois' Death
• Galileo and the Church
• Giordano Bruno
• Hypatia
• Newton vs. Leibniz in my Mathematics pages
• Sacco and Vanzetti in my History pages
• Leopold and Loeb in my History pages
• Custer in my History pages
• Did Washington Run Unopposed? in my History pages
• My Favorite Nixon Quote in my History pages
• Kevin Mitnick in my Computer pages
• Einstein Did Not Flunk Math in my Physics pages
• Edison and Tesla Win Nobel Prize in Physics in my Physics pages

Book Reviews (also in my Book Review pages):

• Banvard's Folly - by Paul Collins [several]
• Between Silk and Cyanide - by Leo Marks [Leo Marks]
• Born to Fly - by Shane Osborn [Shane Osborn]
• The Bridge Bum - by Alan Sontag [Alan Sontag] NEW
• Catch Me If You Can - by Frank W. Abagnale Jr. [Frank W. Abagnale]
• Counting Coup - by Larry Coulton [Sharon LaForge]
• The Cuckoo's Egg - by Clifford Stoll [Clifford Stoll]
• Endurance (Shackleton's Incredible Voyage) - by Alfred Landsing [Ernest Shackleton]
• Ex-Prodigy - by Norbert Wiener and Genius in Residence by Audrey Grost [Norbert Wiener and Michael Grost]
• The Fugitive Game - by Jonathan Littman [Kevin Mitnick]
• Hanging The Sheriff - by R.E.Mather and F.E.Boswell [Henry Plummer]
• In Code - by Sarah Flannery [Sarah Flannery]
• The Island of Lost Maps - by Miles Harvey [Gilbert Bland]
• Jackson Pollock - by Mike Venezia [Jackson Pollock]
• The Keys of Egypt - by Leslie and Roy Adkins [Jean-Francios Champollion]
• Killing Pablo - by Mark Bowden [Pablo Escobar]
• A Leg to Stand On - by Oliver Sacks [Oliver Sacks]
• Life in Prison - by Stanley "Tookie" Williams [Stanley Williams]
• The Lighthouse Stevensons - by Bella Bathurst [several Stevensons]
• Longitude - by Dava Sobel [John Harrison]
• Losing My Mind - by Thomas DeBaggio [Thomas DeBaggio]
• Lucky Man - by Michael J. Fox [Michael J. Fox]
• Man-Eaters of Kumaon - by Jim Corbett [Jim Corbett]
• The Man Who Knew Infinity - by Robert Kanigel [Srinivasa Ramanujan]
• The Mask of Nostradamus - by James Randi [Nostradamus]
• Maus and Maus II - by Art Spiegelman [Vladek Spiegelman]
• McGoorty (a Billiard Hustler's Life) - by Dan McGoorty and Robert Byrne [Danny McGoorty]
• The Mind of a Mnemonist - by A. R. Luria [S]
• The Murder of Napoleon - by Ben Weider and David Hapgood [Napoleon Bonaparte]
• The Murder of Tutankhamen - by Bob Brier [Tutankhamen]
• My Brain Is Open - by Bruce Schechter and The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - by Paul Hoffman [Paul Erdos]
• No Picnic on Mount Kenya - by Felice Benuzzi [Felice Benuzzi]
• Pictures, a Park, and a Pulitzer - by Tom Lawrence [Mel Ruder]
• Playing Off the Rail - by David McCumber [Tony Annigoni]
• Prisoner's Dilemma - by William Poundstone [John von Neumann]
• Rube Goldberg Inventions [Rube Goldberg]
• Ryan White: My Own Story - by Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham [Ryan White]
• The Sting Man - by Robert W. Greene [Melvin Weinberg]
• The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst - by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall [Donald Crowhurst]
• The Terrible Hours - by Peter Maas [Swede Momsen]
• The Truth About Uri Geller - by James Randi [Uri Geller]
• Tuva or Bust! - by Ralph Leighton [Richard Feynman]
• Unabomber - by Chris Waits and Dave Shors [Ted Kaczynski]
• The Voyage of the Beagle - by Charles Darwin [Charles Darwin]
• The Watchman - by Jonathan Littman [Kevin Poulsen]
• The White Death - by McKay Jenkins [five young mountain climbers]
• Women Who Charmed the West - by Anne Seagraves [various entertainers] NEW
• Word Freak - by Stefan Fatsis [Stefan Fatsis]

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