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Abraham Kuyper, Dutch Theologian
Abraham Kuijper generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian. He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime min... |
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John Muir
Writer, conservationist. America's most famous and influential conservationist, John Muir was the founder of the Sierra Club and a major influence on conservation policy... |
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Stanley, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley travelled to Zanzibar and outfit... |
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Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating y... |
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Bram Stoker
Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker was a sick... |
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Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant, French novelist and short-story writer, of an ancient Norman family. He worked in a government office at Paris and became known c.1880 as the most bril... |
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Stevenson, Writer of Jekyll and Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh’s New Town in 1850. He died 44 years later on a small Samoan island in the Pacific. During his short life he travelled the wo... |
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José Martí, Leader Cuban Independence
José Julián Martí Pérez was a leader of the Cuban independence movement as well as a renowned poet and writer. Active in the Cuban independence movement from boyhood, he... |
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Among Wild... |
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George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic. He revolutionized the Victorian stage, then dominated by artificial melodramas, by presenting vigorous dramas of ideas.... |
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Baden-Powell, Founder Scouting - 1907
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, also known as B-P, was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, writer, and founder of... |
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Selma Lagerlöf, The Adventures of Nils
Selma Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sveri... |
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Doyle, Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, born in Edinburgh. Educated at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, he received a medical degree in 18... |
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Anton Chekhov, Russian Playwright
Anton Chekhov wrote both plays and short stories. He is generally listed in the first rank of Russian playwrights and in the high second rank (a notch below Pushkin and T... |
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J. M. Barrie, Creator of Peter Pan
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM, more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the b... |
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