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May 21, 2022

Joseph Thompson McAlister : French Anthropologist and Devoted Scholar of Vietnam

David Brin : Author of Science Fiction, Winner of Locus, Campbell, and Nebula Awards, Graduate in Astronomy : American scientist and author of science fiction. He has won the Hugo, Locus, Campbell] and Nebula Awards. His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

May 14, 2022

William Doyle : Prominent English Historian, Specialist in 18th Century France, Oxford Scholar, Lecturer at the University of York, Nottingham, and Bristol : A British historian, specialising in 18th-century France, who is most notable for his one-volume Oxford History of the French Revolution (1st edition, 1989; 2nd edition, 2002; 3rd edition, 2018). (From : Wikipedia.org.)

Jan 03, 2021

James Herriott Duke : Australian-UK Anarchist Poet

Jan 03, 2021

Adrian Derbyshire : Anti-Ableist and Anti-Bullying Champion : A former British international wheelchair fencer, ambassador for anti bullying, stigma and hate crime for the United Kingdom and CEO of The Adrian Derbyshire Foundation. He was a member of the Great Britain Fencing Squad, and British National Wheelchair Sabre champion of 2010 and has won 2 gold and 3 silver domestic medals. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

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Farkas Bolyai

Hungarian Mathematician, Non-Euclidian Geometer, Accomplished Violinist, and Talented Swordsman : A Hungarian mathematician, mainly known for his work in geometry. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

Angus Wright

Professor Emeritus, Scholar of Agrarian, Land, and Environmental Reform in South America, and Co-founder of the Environmental Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento, where he Taught from 1972 to 2005 : Professor emeritus and one of the founders of the Environmental Studies program at California State University, Sacramento, where he taught from 1972 to 2005. (Wes Jackson was another of the founders.) Wright earned his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Michigan in 1976 with a dissertation on "Market, Land and Class: Southern Bahia, Brazil, 1890?1942." He conducted research in Mexico and Brazil... (From : Wikipedia.org.)

Grace Isabel Colbron

Mystery Writer, Social Critic, and Journalist : 79 works in 193 publications in 1 language and 9,268 library holdings... (From : WorldCat.org.)

Reuben Atwater Chapman

American Attorney who Served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1868 until his Death in 1873 : An American attorney who served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1868 until his death in 1873. As a youth he was employed as a store clerk in Blandford, Massachusetts when he was given the opportunity at the age of 19 to read law as a clerk in a law office. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

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An American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarcho-communist. She is remembered as a powerful orator. Parsons entered the radical movement following her marriage to newspaper editor Albert Parsons and moved with him from Texas to Chicago, where she contributed to the newspaper he famously edited, The Alarm.

A Cura?aoan-American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. He is regarded as the forefather of the idea of revolutionary industrial unionism and was the leading figure in the Socialist Labor Party of America from 1890 until the time of his death.

An English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy.

Clergyman, social reformer, and journalist, was born in Salisburyville, Pa., the son of John Ryan and Catherine Scott Comfort McKelway. His father, a Presbyterian minister in Albemarle County, Va., was sympathetic towards the South during the Civil War...

An Athenian statesman, constitutional lawmaker and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in Archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet Solon is credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. His constitutional reform also succeeded in overturning most laws established by Draco.