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

Frank Zappa · Alexandria

Person · 1940 CE – 1993 CE

Frank Zappa

Also known as

00033522513 IPI
00070189383 IPI
00077638143 IPI
Francis Vincent Zappa
Franciscus Vincentius Zappa
Franciscus Zappa

Image illustrating Frank Zappa — archival plate · Wikimedia Commons · Frank Zappasee Wikimedia Commons

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

Connected to

citizen ofUnited States1784 CE
director · performer200 Motels
child · father ofAhmet Zappa1974 CE
performer · producerBaby Snakes
performer · producerChunga's Revenge
performer

+ 12 further connections to entries not yet ingested

¶ Auctoritates · sources

Adapted from Wikipediaview source ↗
CC BY-SA 4.0

Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison

performer · producerFillmore East – June 1971