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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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In: Great Writers
Brief biography of Roman Poet Sextus Propertius, best known for elegies of passionate love. His name is mentioned alongside Horace and Ovid. more...
Francis Bacon Philosophy and Works
Philosophy and works of English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon. Best known books include The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum and New Atlantis. more...
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. more...
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. more...
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. more...
In: Great Writers
Brief biography of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, famous for Mirror in My House and The Shadow of a Gunman. more...
History of Internet and WWW Revisited
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. more...
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. more...
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Life Quotes for Inspiration and Motivation
Did Jesus and Buddha Read the Same Script?
Synchronicity of Joseph Campbell & Paulo Coelho
In: Great Writers
Carl C. Jung – Mystic or Psychologist?
By: Maya Trimner
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles
In: Great Writers
By: Nadine Visagie
All contributing articles in Great Thinkers