Skip to content

Search
Timeline
Map
Graph
Threads
Civilizations
Eras
Random

A living digital encyclopedia of human civilization. Begin anywhere; follow the threads.

¶ Browse

Threads
Civilizations
Eras
Timeline
Map
Graph
Random entry
About

¶ Sources & licensing

Adapted prose from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — public domain in the United States.
Imagery via Wikimedia Commons; per-image attribution on each entry.

¶ Colophon

Set in EB Garamond and JetBrains Mono. Built on Next.js 16 + Postgres 17 with pgvector + Drizzle ORM, deployed to Vercel atop a Neon Postgres branch.

Source at github.com/chloeilabs/alexandria.

Alexandria · MMXXVIExplicit colophon · 2026

Person · 1943 CE

Edward M. Burke

Also known as

Edward Michael Burke
إدوارد إم. بيرك
ادوارد ام. برک
ادوارد ام. بورک
ادوارد ام. بيرك
এডওয়ার্ড এম বার্ক

archival plate · Edward M. Burke · placeholder

This entry is a stub. The Library is awakening — a longer account is being written.

Connected to

citizen ofUnited States1784 CE
born inChicago
studied atDePaul University1898 CE

+ 8 further connections to entries not yet ingested

Edward M. Burke · Alexandria