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William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 ...
English Wikipedia is the most-read version of Wikipedia, [2] [3] accounting for 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining percentage split among the other languages. [4] The English Wikipedia has the most articles of any edition, at 6,830,224 as of June 2024. [5] It contains 10.8% of articles in all Wikipedias, [5] although it lacks millions of articles found in other editions ...
François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac ( French: [fʁɑ̃swa d (ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published. His Maximes portrays the callous nature of human conduct ...
Ahmed Shawqi ( Arabic: أحمد شوقي, ALA-LC: Aḥmad Shawqī, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʔæħmæd ˈʃæwʔi]; 1868–1932), nicknamed the Prince of Poets ( Arabic: أمير الشعراء Amīr al-Shu‘arā’ ), was an Egyptian poet laureate, Linguist, and one of the most famous Arabic literary writers of the modern era in the ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3] His novels include The Adventures of Tom ...
Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois ( French: [øʒɛn dybwɑ]; 28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus ), or "Java Man". Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful ...
Robert Corlett Proctor (July 5, 1934 – February 3, 2022 [1]) was a Canadian, new age self-help author and lecturer. [2] He was best known for his New York Times best-selling book You Were Born Rich (1984) and being a contributor to the film The Secret (2006). [3] Proctor's teachings maintained the idea that a positive self-image is critical ...
