Jigme Dorji Wangchuck ( Wylie: ‘jigs med rdo rje dbang phyug; 2 May 1929 – 21 July 1972) was the Third Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan.He began to open Bhutan to […]
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Jigme Wangchuck
Jigme Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་དབང་ཕྱུག Wylie: ‘jigs med dbang phyug; 1905 – 30 March 1952) was the second King of Bhutan from 21 August 1926 until his death. He was the […]
William Smithe
William Smithe (Matfen June 30 1842 – March 28 1887 Victoria British Columbia) was a British Columbia politician. Smithe was born William Smith in England and moved to Canada in […]
Diane DiMassa
Diane DiMassa (born 1959) is an American feminist author and cartoonist. Her works include comics illustrations and a graphic novel. She is best known for the character Hothead Paisan Homicidal […]
Joann Sfar
Joann Sfar (French pronunciation: [ʒoan sfaʁ]; born August 28 1971) is a French comics artist comic book creator novelist and film director.
Yuri Dolgorukiy
Yuri I Vladimirovich (Russian: Юрий Владимирович) known under his soubriquet Yuri Dolgorukiy (Russian: Юрий Долгорукий literally Yuri the Long-Armed; also known in various accounts as Gyurgi Dyurgi or George I […]
Alfred Pennyworth
Alfred Pennyworth is a fictional character who appears throughout the DC Universe. The character first appears in Batman #16 (April–May 1943) and was created by writers Bob Kane and Bill […]
Henry Fowler (engineer)
Sir Henry Fowler KBE (29 July 1870 – 16 October 1938) was a Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway and subsequently the London Midland and Scottish Railway.
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher playwright music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at […]
Brand Blanshard
Percy Brand Blanshard (August 27 1892 – November 19 1987) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason. A powerful polemicist by all accounts he comported himself […]