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René Goscinny (French: [ʁəne ɡosini]; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comics editor and writer who is best known internationally for the comic book Astérix which […]

Franco Zeffirelli KBE (Italian: [ˈfraŋko ddzeffiˈrɛlli]; born 12 February 1923) is an Italian director and producer of films and television.

Assata Olugbala Shakur (born July 16 1947) as JoAnne Deborah Byron married name Chesimard is an African-American activist and escaped convicted murderer who was a member of the Black Panther […]

Teresa of Ávila also called Saint Teresa of Jesus baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 – 4 October 1582) was a prominent Spanish mystic Roman […]

Edith Stein also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross OCD (German: Teresia Benedicta vom Kreuz Latin: Teresia Benedicta a Cruce) (12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942) was […]

William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne usually referred to as Lord Melbourne PC FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary […]

Henry David Thoreau (/θəˈroʊ ˈθɔroʊ ˈθoʊroʊ/; July 12 1817 – May 6 1862) was an American author poet philosopher abolitionist naturalist tax resister development critic surveyor historian and leading transcendentalist.

Julian of Norwich (ca. 8 November 1342 – ca. 1416) was an English anchoress who is regarded as one of the most important Christian mystics. She is venerated in the […]

Aurelian (Latin: Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Augustus; 9 September 214 or 215 – September or October 275) was Roman Emperor from 270 to 275. Born in humble circumstances he rose through […]

Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school […]