(1911 - 2013) ~ Vietnamese General, Communist Politician, Greatest Military Strategist of the 20th Century, Interior Minister of President H? Ch? Minh's Vi?t Minh Government : A Vietnamese general and communist politician who is regarded as having been one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century. He served as interior minister in President H? Ch? Minh's Vi?t Minh government, the military commander of the Vi?t Minh, the commander of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), minister of defence, and deputy prime minister. He also served as a member of the Politburo of the Vietnam Workers' Party, which in 1976 became the Communist Party of Vietnam. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1872 - 1940) ~ French, University Professor of South-East Asian Studies and Council Member on Southeast Asia Studies : A major scholar of Buddhism before he was 33 and a decorated lieutenant of machine guns, fighting in France, five years later. In his long and fruitful career he was successively a subsidized scholar, a soldier, a colonial official under Vichy, a commando, a secret agent, and the political advisor to a French general. (From : cseas.yale.edu.)

(1915 - 2008) ~ American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War, the Last Commander of the Lincoln Battalion of XV International Brigade, and a Prominent Communist : An American veteran of the Spanish Civil War, the last commander of the Lincoln Battalion of XV International Brigade, and a prominent communist. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(bce380 - bce320) ~ Ancient Greek Mathematician, Geometer and Philosopher : An ancient Greek mathematician, geometer and philosopher born in Alopeconnesus or Prokonnesos in the Thracian Chersonese, who was known for his friendship with the renowned philosopher Plato and for his apparent discovery of conic sections and his solution to the then-long-standing problem of doubling the cube using the parabola and hyperbola. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1937 - 1993) ~ Visionary in the Field of Environmental Politics, Strong and Influential Critic of the Dominant Role of Private Interest Groups in American Politics : Grant McConnell ?37, September 27, 1993, at his home in Bonny Doon, California. He was a distinguished political scientist and an ardent conservationist. After graduating from Reed, Grant was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1938?39 and also studied at Cambridge and Harvard. (From : Reed.edu.)

"Marxism, Freedom, and the State," Translated and Edited with a Biographical Sketch by K. J. Kenafick, First published in 1950 by Freedom Press, chapter 3.

"The Sermon of the Fifty," by Voltaire, translated by Joseph McCabe. Quoted from "A Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays," Prometheus Books, 1994, originally published by 1752.

"The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction," by William Doyle, Oxford University Press, 2001.

"My Revolutionary Life," by Juan Garc?a Oliver, interviewed by Freddy Gomez, translated by Paul Sharkey, published by the Kate Sharpley Library, 2008.

"Small Key can Open a Large Door, A: The Rojava Revolution" edited by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, First Revision, published by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, 2015.