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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Tel Asiado
Nov 26, 2009
Francis Bacon Philosophy and Works
In: Great Philosophers
Philosophy and works of English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon. Best known books include The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum and New Atlantis.
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Nov 24, 2009
William Carlos Williams Biography
In: Great Writers
American poet, short story writer and novelist W.C. Williams, also an obstetrician, was a prolific poet and writer. He is best known for Pictures from Brueghel.
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Nov 24, 2009
Thornton Wilder Biography
In: Great Writers
Brief biography of American writer Thornton Wilder, multi-awarded Pulitzer Prize winner of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, and The Skin of Our Teeth.
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Nov 22, 2009
Paul Ehrlich Biography
In: Great Scientists
Brief biography and work of Paul Ehrlich, German scientist in immunology and hematology. He coined the word chemotherapy, the chemical that kills cancerous cells.
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Nov 22, 2009
Sean O'Casey Biography
In: Great Writers
Brief biography of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, famous for Mirror in My House and The Shadow of a Gunman.
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Nov 22, 2009
History of Internet and WWW Revisited
In: Great Thinkers (general)
A rewind and brief history of Internet and the World Wide Web, WWW Inventor Tim Berners-Lee, the early Internet players, ISPs, the Net now, broadband and wireless.
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Nov 21, 2009
Jean Rhys Biography
In: Great Writers
Brief biography of Dominican-born British novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys, whose fiction echoes her childhood, best known for Wide Sargasso Sea.
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Nov 21, 2009
Luigi Pirandello Biography
In: Great Writers
Brief biography of Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, best known for Six Characters in Search of an Author and Right You Are, If You Think You Are.
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