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hagiography

a biography of a saint; also, in modern usage, a biography that idealizes someone

Sightings:

Uncritically reverential

Spontaneous or scientific?

Transatlantic legend scholars

Norse sagas
(explore the URL for Anglo-Saxon resources)

It's all Greek saints to me

Bloggers and a weapons executive remember Reagan

Re-appraising jihad

Jackie ... Fang?

From alternating current to charging the earth

Inspired by the Cretan School

Reporting on reporters
(explore for more media watching)

Travelogues through Bush's mind and Che's youth

The Bengal Renaissance and Methodists on the Canadian prairies

Virgin martyrs and female-to-male saints

Edward Albee's weird life

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