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  1. 2 days ago · Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. As a forerunner of the Age of Reason, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century Rationalism, and contemporary conceptions of the self and the universe, establishing himself as one of the most ...

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    4 days ago · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...

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  4. 3 days ago · Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. He was inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty as a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.

  5. 4 days ago · Notable Works: “The Moving Image”. Judith Wright (born May 31, 1915, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia—died June 25, 2000, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) was an Australian poet whose verse, thoroughly modern in idiom, is noted for its skillful technique. After completing her education at the University of Sydney, Wright worked ...

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  6. 5 days ago · Show More. Muḥammad VI (born August 21, 1963, Rabat, Morocco) king of Morocco (1999– ). Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan completed primary and secondary schooling at the Royal Palace College before entering the Mohammed V University in Rabat; there he received a bachelor’s degree in law in 1985 and, three years later, a master’s degree in ...

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  7. 5 days ago · Mason Locke Weems (born Oct. 11, 1759, Anne Arundel county, Md. [U.S.]—died May 23, 1825, Beaufort, S.C.) was an American clergyman, itinerant book agent, and fabricator of the story of George Washington’s chopping down the cherry tree. This fiction was inserted into the fifth edition (1806) of Weems’s book The Life and Memorable Actions ...

  8. 4 days ago · Mary Sarah Bilder (Caitlin Cunningham) Boston College Law Founders Professor of Law Mary Sarah Bilder’s new book, Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution, implodes the assumption that America’s framing was exclusively attributable to white men—as history would supposedly have us believe. Instead ...

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