Category: Authors
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Sir Arthur C Clarke, who has died aged 90, was, for many, synonymous with science fiction, and in particular with 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s film of his …
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Scottish author and creator of the oft-quoted detective-master Sherlock Holmes. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, and Guy de Maupassant, he became one of …
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He served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 to 2011. As of 2020, he is the most recent Republican governor of California. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at …
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He was a great figure in Greek philosophy, making contributions to logic, biology, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance, and theatre. He was a student of …
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He was the most famous mathematician and inventor of ancient Greece. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily, in 287 BC, where he spent most of his life. He did, …
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He was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, and human rights activist. He earned renown as the designer of the Soviet Union’s Third Idea, a codename for Soviet development of …
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He was widely considered to be one of the most intelligent and wide-ranging English writers of the twentieth century. Huxley symbolized a man in his restless curiosity. He searched …
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He was the famous Alsatian-born German theologian, philosopher, organist, and mission doctor. His family for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and education. He was a great humanitarian, …
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German-born American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and received Nobel Prize in physics. His many contributions include general and special relativity, photoelectric effect, Brownian …
