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April 01, 2013 11:53 AM UTC --
César Estrada Chávez (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) , American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta , co-founded the . . .
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March 31, 2013 01:17 PM UTC --
Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta (born April 10, 1930) , American labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with César Chávez , co-founded the National Farmworkers . . .
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March 29, 2013 09:38 PM UTC --
Democritus , meaning " chosen of the people " (ca. 460 – ca. 370 BC) , Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, on the coast of Thrace. He was an influential pre-Socratic . . .
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March 28, 2013 01:57 AM UTC --
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) , American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global . . .
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March 27, 2013 10:37 AM UTC --
Alfred W. Adler (February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937) , Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance . . .
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March 25, 2013 11:46 AM UTC --
Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) , Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and . . .
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March 24, 2013 12:23 AM UTC --
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) , Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. He called economics "the . . .
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March 22, 2013 10:05 PM UTC --
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943), Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design . . .
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March 20, 2013 07:51 PM UTC --
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) , American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including . . .
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March 19, 2013 10:10 PM UTC --
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) , British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, . . .
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March 18, 2013 03:25 PM UTC --
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes CB, FBA (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) , British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, . . .
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March 16, 2013 02:09 AM UTC --
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) , American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, historian, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and . . .
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March 14, 2013 03:47 PM UTC --
Confucius (551–479 BCE) , Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal . . .
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March 13, 2013 01:25 PM UTC --
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) , American academic historian, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor . . .
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March 12, 2013 03:14 PM UTC --
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell , OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) , British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. . . .
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March 11, 2013 12:54 AM UTC --
Alfred Russel Wallace , OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) , British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently . . .
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March 10, 2013 03:21 AM UTC --
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) , Tasmanian-born actor and writer, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his playboy lifestyle. . . .
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March 09, 2013 12:28 AM UTC --
Henry James , OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) , American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. James alternated between . . .
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March 08, 2013 10:27 AM UTC --
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) , American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick . His first three books . . .
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March 07, 2013 02:45 PM UTC --
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) , Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island , Kidnapped . . .
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