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  1. 12 hours ago · Baruch ( de) Spinoza [b] (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. As a forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture ...

  2. 4 days ago · Octavia E. Butler (born June 22, 1947, Pasadena, California, U.S.—died February 24, 2006, Seattle, Washington) was an African American author chiefly noted for her science fiction novels about future societies and superhuman powers.

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  3. 4 days ago · This is the family tree for monarchs of England (and Wales after 1282) from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth I of England.The House of Wessex family tree precedes this family tree and the family tree of the British royal family follows it.

  4. 5 days ago · Joseph Roth (born Sept. 2, 1894, Brody, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now in Ukraine]—died May 27, 1939, Paris, France) was a journalist and regional novelist who, particularly in his later novels, mourned the passing of an age of stability he saw represented by the last pre-World War I years of the Habsburg empire of Austria-Hungary. Details ...

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  5. 4 days ago · This is a list of historians, but only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included and names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality. [1]

  6. 3 days ago · If you think your institution would be interested in an institutional subscription, recommend British History Online to your history librarian.

  7. 5 days ago · Harlan Ellison (born May 27, 1934, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died June 27, 2018, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer of short stories, novels, essays, and television and film scripts. Though he eschewed genre categorization himself, his work was most frequently labeled science fiction.

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