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Étienne Bacrot

A French chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy who became the first French player to enter t...

Emanuel Swedenborg

A Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic best known his book...

Sho Yano

Is an American physician and former child prodigy with an estimated IQ of 200.

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An Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influential within Islamic...

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An Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung wh...

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A scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. He is remembere...

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Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell: A heroine for women

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell: A heroine for women

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In 1849, British-born Dr. Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York, becoming the first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree.“The significance [of this] cannot be overestimated, as this was a time when a woman being a physician was not the social norm,” Dr. Shelley Ross, secretary general of the the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA), told Medical News Today.Until her death in 1910, Dr. Blackwell was a strong advocate for women in medicine, spending much of her time campaigning for women’s rights and establishing institutions dedicated ...

Igor Stravinsky: On Assessing the Greatness of a Composer

Igor Stravinsky: On Assessing the Greatness of a Composer

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At the time of [Igor] Stravinsky’s death on April 6, 1971, at the age of 88, the speculation among critics centered quite naturally on his legacy. Would his music survive into the next century and perhaps well beyond that? Looking back, what had been the substance and scale of his influence? Had he been, perhaps, in Western art music, the last of the “great composers”?Stravinsky was certainly the most celebrated composer of the 20th century and possibly the greatest as well, if by “greatest” we mean “deepest,” as in the depth of the feelings or emotions stirred by his music. Fame arr...

James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet

James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet

‘I believe the Reformation to have been the greatest incident in English history; the root and source of the expansive force which has spread the Anglo-Saxon race over the globe, and imprinted the English genius and character on the constitution of mankind.”This stark credo appears in an 1891 late addendum to History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth (12 volumes, 1856-70), the huge work on Tudor England upon which was established the reputation of one of the most complex and controversial, and certainly among the most prolific, of the literary eminences of ...

John Calvin: The Religious Reformer Who Influenced Capitalism

John Calvin: The Religious Reformer Who Influenced Capitalism

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Love capitalism? Perhaps you believe, like Donald Trump and his coterie, that capitalism is a locus of creativity, genius, and creating wealth. Or perhaps you believe, like many Bernie Sanders supporters, that unbridled capitalism exploits the poor and the powerless.Both the blame and the credit for capitalism have often been placed at the feet not of an economist, but rather a sixteenth-century Christian theologian named John Calvin. Calvin’s belief in predestination and other tenets embraced by aggressive capitalists, is seen as giving the theological justification for a Prote...

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Imhotep: A Sage between Fiction and Reality

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Imhotep: A Sage between Fiction and Reality

The name of Imhotep is associated in Egyptological literature with the first pyramid, the famed stepped tomb of king Netjerkhet, later known as Djoser “the holy one.” Knowledge of both historical figures is shrouded in legend because only a few sources from their time have been found. In the case...

Let There Be Light: An Exploration of the Life of Nikola Tesla

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Let There Be Light: An Exploration of the Life of Nikola Tesla

A great deal is known about Nikola Tesla’s origins—namely, his country and people, to which and of whom he attributed so great a deal. The inventor recognized that he came from an extremely conflicted area in the Balkans, full of strife, struggling for identity— a state which remains to this day....

The Mystery of Grigori Perelman

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The Mystery of Grigori Perelman

Very few people achieve something amazing and then — disappear. One of the few is chess champion Bobby Fischer, who in 1972, won the World Chess Championship in Reykjavík, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR.The match attracted more worldwide attention than any chess champion...