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Candide, Voltaire
Voltaire wrote Candide at the age of sixty-five as a response, in the form of satirical mockery, to the optimism of Leibniz. "Everything is for the best in the best of wo... |
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Robert Burns, Scotland's Greatest Poet
Robert Burns, Scotland's greatest poet, was born on 25th January 1759 in a two roomed thatched cottage at Alloway, near Ayr, where his father, William Burnes, ran a small... |
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Feminist
Wollstonecraft's lasting place in the history of philosophy rests upon A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In this classical feminist text, she appealed to egali... |
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Friedrich von Schiller, German Writer
Johann Christoph Friedrich (later: von) Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last several years of his life (1788–1805), Schille... |
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Lord Grenville, Abolition Slave Trade
William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759–1834, British statesman; youngest son of George Grenville. He was foreign secretary in the ministry of his cousin William Pitt from... |
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Sir Arthur Guinness
Guinness was born in Celbridge, Co Kildare, in 1725. His father was land steward to the archbishop of Cashel, Dr Arthur Price, and brewed beer for workers on th... |
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The Social Contract, Rousseau
Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concep... |
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Emile, Rousseau
This work by Jean Jacques Rousseau probably represents the single greatest work in defining what we would call education today. I am a Francophone living in Northern Onta... |
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George IV of Great Britain and Ireland
George IV was the king of Hanover and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten... |
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Josephine, Empress of France
A socialite without equal, Josephine was mistress to several leading political figures and left a young General Napoleon Bonaparte completel... |
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James Kirkpatrick, Resident in Hyderabad
Lieutenant Colonel James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident in Hyderabad from 1798 to 1805. He also built the historic Koti Residency in Hyderabad, a landmark... |
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The Lunar Society
The Lunar Society was a remarkable grouping of gifted polymaths who met every month in and around Birmingham on the Monday nearest the full moon (when there was most lig... |
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Robert Fulton, 1st Practical Submarine
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of ste... |
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Joseph Niépce, Inventor of Photography
When the craze for the newly invented art of lithography swept France in 1813, it naturally attracted Joseph's attention. Unable to draw well, he placed engravings, made... |
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William IV of Great Britain and Ireland
William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death. William, the third son of George III and younger... |
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