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Directory: Arts / Movies / Filmmaking / Screenwriting / Screenwriters / L / Lardner,_Ring,_Jr.
Title: Ring Lardner
Description: Biography and obituaries from the BBC, E-Online and The Guardian.
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlardner.htm
 
  
Directory: Arts / People / B / Berlin,_Irving
Title: Spartacus: Irving Berlin
Description: Brief biography, for kids. Includes portrait.
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAberlinI.htm
 
  
Directory: Arts / People / P / Parks,_Gordon
Title: Spartacus Educational: Gordon Parks
Description: Short biography of the American photographer, for schoolchildren.
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAPparks.htm
 
  
Directory: Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / History / Biographies
Title: Arkwright, Richard
Description: Biography of the inventor of the industrial cotton spinning mill. Links to illustrations and local history. 1732-1792.
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRarkwright.htm
 
  
Directory: Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / History / Biographies
Title: Paul, Lewis
Description: Short history of the inventor of a hand driven carding machine for cotton fiber processing.
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TEXpaul.htm
 
  
Directory: Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / History / Biographies
Title: Jacquard, Joseph
Description: Short history of the inventor of a loom which produced repeated weave patterns in cloth and carpets, programmed by a series of punched cards. 1752-1834.
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCjacquard.htm
 
  
Directory: Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / History / Biographies / Hargreaves,_James
Title: Hargreaves, James
Description: Biography of the British carpenter, weaver and self-made engineer who invented the eight-thread spinning jenny. 1720-1778.
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SChargreaves.htm
 
  
Directory: Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / History / Biographies / Kay,_John
Title: John Kay
Description: A short biography with related links and a section of a mural produced by William Bell Scott . From Spartacus Educational .
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCkay.htm
 
  
Directory: Business / Textiles_and_Nonwovens / Resources / History / Industry
Title: The Textile Industry
Description: A collection of articles on inventions, inventors and entrepreneurs in the British textile industry of the 18th and 19th centuries. Also, descriptions of the conditions in textile mills, factory workers and child labor. From Spartacus Schoolnet.
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm
 
  
Directory: Health / Nursing / History / Florence_Nightingale
Title: Florence Nightingale
Description: In-depth information of this pioneer in nursing and a brief overview of some of her works.
Location: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REnightingale.htm