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Great Thinkers Feature Writer: Tel Asiado

Featuring ideas and major works of great thinkers: philosophers - Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant, Foucault, Locke, Machiavelli, Sartre, Proust, Beauvoir, Fayol, Confucius; scientists & inventors - Faraday, Marie Curie, Einstein, Copernicus, Edison, Newton; writers & authors - Shakespeare, Milton, Woolf, Maupassant, Tolstoy; explorers & pioneers - J. Cook, Lindbergh; composers - Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert; artists - van Gogh, Matisse, Goya; innovators - Da Vinci, Freud, Jung; historians; teachers - Boulanger, Montessori; impresario - Sergei Diaghilev, Cousteau; business & management gurus - Drucker, Fayol; and world leaders.

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Feature Writer Articles in Great Thinkers

Nobel Laureates Born on Christmas Day
Featuring Nobel Prize Laureates with birthdays on Christmas Day, December 25, their major achievements and contributions to humankind.
Karel Capek Biography
Brief biography of Czech author Karek Capek, best known for the play R.U.R. about race robots that became human, and credited for the word 'robot.'
Christmas Day Celebrity Deaths
Featuring famous celebrities whose passing away falls on Christmas Day, December 25th. They include Joan Miro, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Karel Capek, and Yoshihito.
Christmas Tree Lights as Great Inventions
Insights into Christmas lights inventions, the inventors, Xmas trees with candles, and the tradition of stringing Xmas lights inside and outside houses.
Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics
Famous for inventing the discipline of Cybernetics and his communications theory, Norbert Wiener introduced the concept of feedback mechanism, and terms input and output.


Contributing Articles in Great Thinkers

Mystical Experiences of Divine Consciousness
Exploring the mystical visions of poets, saints, seers of traditions and finding their common thread.
The Early Years of Amma's Life
From an early age, love and compassion were felt and expressed by Amma, the 'hugging Saint'. She has expressed 'Oneness' from the time she was born.
CS Lewis and the Apologetic Trilemma
During the life of CS Lewis many new ideas concerning the divinity of Jesus came into bloom. Lewis a former atheist himself, had much to say on the subject.
Life Quotes for Inspiration and Motivation
Whenever people are feeling downtrodden, overwhelmed, or disheartened, these great inspirational quotes can provide them with motivation and hope.
Did Jesus and Buddha Read the Same Script?
Marcus Borg in his book Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings, examines the similar wisdom teaching that both Jesus and Buddha espoused during their lifetime.