(1465 - 1541) ~ 16th-Century, Portuguese Missionary, Explorer, Ethiopian Traveller : A Portuguese missionary and explorer. In 1515 he traveled to Ethiopia as part of the Portuguese embassy to emperor Lebna Dengel accompanied by returning Ethiopian ambassador Matheus. The embassy arrived only in 1520 to Ethiopia where he joined long sought Portuguese envoy P?ro da Covilh (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1892 - 1973) ~ First Woman to Attempt a Hunger Strike in the United States, Ukrainian-American Anarchist, Hunger Striker, 1914 Prisoner Accused of Disorderly Conduct during an Industrial Workers of the World Speech : A Ukrainian-American anarchist and hunger striker who was jailed in 1914 for disorderly conduct during an Industrial Workers of the World speech. According to The New York Times, she was the first woman to attempt a hunger strike in the United States. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(bce450 - bce390) ~ Innovative Dithyrambic Poet, Exponent of "New Music," Ridiculed by Aristophanes but Outsider Chosen as Victor at the Dionysia Theater Competition : An innovative dithyrambic poet (an exponent of the "new music") in classical Athens whose work has survived only in a few fragments. An inscription indicates that he was awarded a victory at the Dionysia in the early 4th century (IG 2/32.3028). His contemporary, the comic poet Aristophanes, ridiculed him in his play The Birds... (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1891 - 1980) ~ Italian Socialist Politician, the National Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and Senator for Life since 1970 : An Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and senator for life since 1970. He was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1951. He was one of the founders of the Italian Republic and a central figure of the Italian political left from the 1920s to the 1960s. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1623 - 1662) ~ French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Philosopher, Writer, and Catholic Theologian : ...a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

"Revenge is Sour," by George Orwell, 1945.

"The Philosophy of Atheism," by Joseph Lewis, Address Delivered February 20, 1960, Over Radio Station WIME, Miami, Florida.

"Art in China," by Craig Clunas, Second Edition, Oxford History of Art, Oxford University Press, 1997.

"Odyssey," by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.

"The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions," by Rosa Luxemburg, 1906, published by Marxist Educational Society of Detroit, 1925, translated by Patrick Lavin.