I like reading biographies, especially of historical figures.  Even
better, I would prefer to be able to load them into my palm device (a
Sony Clie) so that I can read them on the go, using Avantgo.  Can you
compile a list of URLs that point to free biographies that are almost
entirely in plain text, so that they will load easily in Avantgo?

Hi! Thanks for the question.

Here are some websites with almost all plain text biographies.

Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people

Biographies of some Noted Christians
http://www.webzonecom.com/ccn/bio/bio.htm

Women Mathematicians
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/alpha.htm

Indexes of Biographies (Mathematicians)
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/BiogIndex.html 
 
From Revolution to Construction
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/

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