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Biography

A biography is a description of an individual person's life, including short articles, multivolume book works, radio documentaries, and films. The term also describes the scholarly discipline[?] of creating such descriptions. See List of biographers for well-known exponents of biography as a genre.

In Wikipedia, biographies are collected under List of people, they are also found in several higher level articles, such as:

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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

... to his son, Philip II of Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire to his brother, Ferdinand. Charles retired to the monastery of Yuste[?] and is thought to have had a nervous ...

 
 
 
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