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Grace Hopper

An American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral who was one of the first progr...

Antonio Canova

An Italian Neoclassical sculptor.

Eratosthenes

A Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was the chief librari...

John Sulston

A British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work o...

Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine

A French critic and historian who was one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

An English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the ...

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Henri Matisse and The Healing Power of Art

Henri Matisse and The Healing Power of Art

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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (1869–1954) is known as one of the leading figures of modern art as an outstanding colorist, draughtsman, painter, print-maker, and sculptor. Along with André Derain, he is credited for having launched the Fauvism movement (1904-1908), an intensely emotional style of painting distinguished by a color palette that was rebellious for its time.The artist is proof that art heals and that age has no limitations. In 1941, he was diagnosed with cancer. After his colostomy he had to succumb to the use of a wheelchair. Although he lost the physical strength to paint...

Johann Joachim Becher and the Phlogiston Theory of Combustion

Johann Joachim Becher and the Phlogiston Theory of Combustion

On May 6, 1636, German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar and adventurer Johann Joachim Becher was born. He is best known for his development of the phlogiston theory of combustion, in which all flammable objects were supposed to contain a substance which was released when the object burned and his advancement of Austrian cameralism.“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I s...

Chess Child: America's Youngest Grandmaster

Chess Child: America's Youngest Grandmaster

As an active member of the U.S. chess scene, I of course know of Ray Robson, currently the youngest Grandmaster in the country at 16. In fact, as an active tournament player I have even had the chance to meet him, and play ping pong and chess with him. Just as great a pleasure was meeting his father, Gary Robson, a very kind and intelligent man. So when I heard that Gary had written a book about raising Ray, I immediately knew I had to read it.I've just ordered my copy of the book, Chess Child, but I wanted to immediately share some reviews with the chess.com community as well. ...

Tchaikovsky: Conflicted, Neurotic, Brilliant

Tchaikovsky: Conflicted, Neurotic, Brilliant

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GROWING UP TCHAIKOVSKYBorn May 7, 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk in Russia, Tchaikovsky was a deeply sensitive and emotional child who exceled in foreign languages and music from an early age. In an era when musicians were looked down on and considered in the same social class as peasants in Russia, the idea of a career in music was not an option, and so Tchaikovsky was sent away to boarding school to train for a respectable position in the Russian civil service. At 19, he completed his studies, joined the Ministry of Justice, and embarked on a career which would confer status and a steady income.WEST MEETS EASTTchaikovsky continued to pursue his interest in music by attending lectures at the newly founded Russian Musical Society, whose goal was to promote native Russian music talent. Three years later, despite the risks, he quit his ministry job and was among the first students to attend St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he received formal training in Western European music and compositional techniques. He went on to teach at the institution....

Henri Matisse and The Healing Power of Art

Johann Joachim Becher and the Phlogiston Theory of Combustion

Chess Child: America's Youngest Grandmaster

Tchaikovsky: Conflicted, Neurotic, Brilliant

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Chess Child: America's Youngest Grandmaster

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Chess Child: America's Youngest Grandmaster

As an active member of the U.S. chess scene, I of course know of Ray Robson, currently the youngest Grandmaster in the country at 16. In fact, as an active tournament player I have even had the chance to meet him, and play ping pong and chess with him. Just as great a pleasure was meeting his fat...

Death of Robert Blake

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Death of Robert Blake

Short and thickset at 5 feet 5 inches tall, with the jowls and general demeanour of an angry bulldog, Robert Blake must have been one of the most frightening admirals ever to bestride a quarterdeck. He is often ranked with Nelson and Drake as one of the three greatest commanders in English naval ...

Belief is better

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Belief is better

Volume One of Robert Frost’s Letters wound up in 1919 with his resignation from a teaching position at Amherst College, where he disliked the progressive curriculum fostered by the President, Alexander Meiklejohn. By the second year of Volume Two, he has more than recouped the loss, with steady ...