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William Scoresby (5 October 1789 – 21 March 1857), was an English Arctic explorer, scientisScoresby was born in the village of Cropton near Pickering 26 miles south of Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, William Scoresby Senior (1760–1829), made a fortune in the Arctic whale f... Read more...
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This marvelous book is the sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward, his utopian novel of several years earlier, where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the thread of his utopian vision. Equ... Read more...
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Edmund John Millington Synge (/sɪŋ/; 16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known ... Read more...
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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and scholar of American English.[1] Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most ... Read more...
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The Catastrophe And Holocaust Brought About By The Two Powerful Movements Of Fascism And National Socialism Will Mark Human Life Always. Now, As We Feel Our Hatred For Them, We Find It Difficult To Understand How They Could Have Been So Powerful, How They Could Have ... Read more...
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Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner (see List of urban theorists). He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology.
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Allan Chapman FRAS (born 30 May 1946) is a British historian of science.
Allan Chapman was born in Swinton, Lancashire, England and grew up in the Pendlebury and Clifton districts of the then Swinton and Pendlebury borough. Having attended the local Cromwell Road Secondary... Read more...
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, h... Read more...
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John Young Mason (April 18, 1799 – October 3, 1859) was an American politician, diplomat, and United States federal judge.Born in Hicksford, Greensville County, Virginia, Mason attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of Philanthropic A... Read more...
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Sixty Years Ago Today The Guns That Thundered Round Fort Sumter Began The Third And Greatest Modern Civil War Fought By English-Speaking People. This War Was Quite As Full Of Politics As Were The Other Two--The War Of The American Revolution And That ... Read more...
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