Darrell Edmund Figgis was an Irish writer, Sinn Fin activist and independent parliamentarian in the Irish Free State. The little that has been written about him has attempted to highlight how thoroughly his memory and works have been excised from Irish popular culture.
Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 - March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born at Cincinnati. He had two sons: James Ross Brown and Linn Lewis Brown (October 7, 1932 - June 15, 2008). He is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" formstories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well.
Christoph Martin Wieland (September 5, 1733 - January 20, 1813) was a German poet and writer.
William Lucas Collins (baptised 23 May 1815 - 24 March 1887) was a Church of England clergyman and author.
Hans Bethge (* 9 January 1876 in Dessau; 1 February 1946 in Gppingen, buried in Kirchheim unter Teck) was a German poet whose reputation abroad rests above all on the versions of Tang dynasty poetry set in Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde". The Max-Eyth-Haus in Kirchheim unter Teck houses a permanent exhibit of Hans Bethge's books, photographs and other artifacts, while his manuscripts are preserved at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. http://www. dla-marbach. de/
Henry Martyn Blossom (May 10, 1866 March 23, 1919) was the lyricist for several Victor Herbert musicals, including The Yankee Consul (1904), Mlle. Modiste (1905), The Red Mill (1906), Eileen (1917), and Kiss Me Again (film version of Mlle. Modeste, 1931), and was a master at puzzle solving and cipher writing. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he teamed with Thomas Haufington on several puzzles and ciphers. Blossom died from pneumonia in New York City at the age of 53.
Adam Ferguson FRSE, also known as Ferguson of Raith (20 June 1723 - 22 February 1816) was a Scottish philosopher, social scientist and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment. He is sometimes called "the father of modern sociology."
Henry Smith Williams was a medical doctor, lawyer, and author of a number of books on medicine, history, and science. He was born in 1863 and died in 1943. Dr. Henry Smith Williams is one of our very few physicians and scientists of national reputation, combining as he does an expert knowledge of medical facts, a position of authority in his profession, and a remarkable gilt for straightforward, untechnical writing that all can understand and enjoy. Beginning his practice of medicine in 1884, he has held many positions of honor and trust, such as Medical Superintendent of the New York Infant Asylum, and the Randall's Island Hospitals, New York; Assistant Physician to Bloomingdale Asylum; and has written many authoritative books on medical and related subjects, notably: "A History of Science", "The Wonder of Science in Modern Life", "Miracles of Science", "Adding Years to Your Life", etc., etc., also editor of "The Historians' History of the World. " He has also contributed many notable articles to McClure's Magazine and to medical journals. , advertisement for the book Painless Childbirth
Paul Frederick Ernst (born between 1899 and 1902 - died between 1983 and 1985) was an American pulp fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the original 24 "Avenger" novels, published by Street and Smith Publications under the house name Kenneth Robeson.
For the Danish statesman, see Edmund Bourke (1761-1821). Edmund Bourke was an Irish Dominican. Born in Galway during the second half of the 17th century, joining the Order of Preachers in that county where he began his studies before leaving for Spain where he completed them. He is noted as the author of numerous scholarly works, though none of them have been traced. In 1706 he was principal regent of the Irish Dominican school in Louvain. He died in Rome about 1738.
Elizabeth Towne (1865 - 1960) was an influential writer, editor, and publisher in the New Thought and self-help movements.
Grace Miller White (18681957) was an American authoress. Born Mary Esther Miller, she lived her whole life in Ithaca, New York. She adopted the name Grace around 1897, in memory of a younger sister who had died before reaching her first birthday. She married twice, first to Homer White, and then to Friend H. Miller. She began her writing career novelizing plays, before turning her hand to novels in 1909.
Ivan Minchov Vazov (June 27, 1850 - September 22, 1921) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria (then part of the Ottoman Empire).
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 May 1907) (sometimes spelled Keckly) was a former slave turned successful seamstress who is most notably known as being Mary Todd Lincoln's personal modiste and confidante, and the author of her autobiography, Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Mrs. Keckley utilized her intelligence, keen business savvy, and sewing and design skills to arrange and ultimately buy her freedom (and that of her son George as well), and later enjoyed regular business with the wives of the government elite as her base clientele. After several years in St. Louis, she moved to Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1860, where she had the country's most elite women of the time requesting her services. Through shrewd networking and hard work, she ended up making gowns and dresses for more notable wives such as Mrs. Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, and Mrs. Mary Anne Randolph Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee. Of all her clients, she had the closest and most long-standing relationship with Mary Todd Lincoln, devoting many of her days during Abraham Lincoln's administration to being available to her and the First Family in a myriad of ways.
Frances Parkinson Keyes (July 21, 1885 - July 3, 1970) was an American author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Her last name rhymes with "skies," not "keys."
Bartolom de las Casas O.P. (c. 1484 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican priest, the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World he witnessed, and was driven to oppose, the poor treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists and advocated before King Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor on behalf of rights for the natives. Originally having proposed to replace the slave labor of the natives with the importation of slaves from Africa, he eventually recanted this stance as well, and became an advocate for the Africans in the colonies.
Scott William Carter is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
Edmondo De Amicis (21 October 1846 - 11 March 1908) was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.
Franois Pierre Guillaume Guizot (4 October 1787 -12 September 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revolution of 1830, then in government service to the "citizen king" Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 18321837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 18401847, and finally Prime Minister of France from 19 September 1847 to 23 February 1848. Guizot's influence was critical in expanding public education, which under his ministry saw the creation of primary schools in every French commune. But as a leader of the "Doctrinaires", committed to supporting the policies of Louis Phillipe and limitations on further expansion of the political franchise, he earned the hatred of more advanced liberals and republicans through his unswerving support for restricting suffrage to propertied men, advising those who wanted the vote to "enrich yourselves" (enrichissez-vous) through hard work and thrift. As Prime Minister, it was Guizot's ban on the political meetings of an increasingly vigorous opposition in January 1848 that catalyzed the revolution that toppled Louis Philippe in February and saw the establishment of the French Second Republic. Guizot is famous as the originator of the quote "Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head". This quote has been reworked many times, especially in reference to socialism and liberalism. It has been borrowed by or attributed to many notable figures who lived after Guizot, including Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Disraeli, Georges Clemenceau, Otto von Bismarck, Aristide Briand, Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Wendell Willkie, William J. Casey, and others.
Cesrio Verde (February 25, 1855 July 19, 1886) was a 19th-century Portuguese poet. His work, while mostly ignored during his lifetime and not well known outside of the countrys borders even today, is generally considered to be amongst the most important in Portuguese poetry and is widely taught in schools. This is partly due to his being championed by many other authors after his death, notably Fernando Pessoa.
Antoine Gustave Droz (June 9, 1832 October 22, 1895), French man of letters, son of the sculptor J. A. Droz (1807-1872), was born in Paris. He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit in the Salon of 1857. A series of sketches dealing gaily and lightly with the intimacies of family life, published in the Vie parisienne and issued in book form as Monsieur, Madame et Bb (1866), won for the author an immediate and great success.
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (October 23, 1831 January 9, 1924), was an American classical scholar.
Alan Burnett is a television writer-producer particularly associated with DC Comics and Walt Disney television animation. He has had a hand in virtually every DC animated project since the waning years of the Super Friends, and continues to do so as of 2008. Burnett's contributions for Disney were largely a part of the 1990s Disney Afternoon, where he was attached to the Gummi Bears and various projects set in the Scrooge McDuck universe.
Guy Rowlands is a British academic and historian specialising in the history of France. In 2002 he was the winner of the Gladstone Book Prize awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society. He serves as Secretary for the Society for the Study of French History and is Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at St Andrews University. His research has mainly concerned seventeenth- and eighteenth- century France, especially Frances mobilisation for war between 1661 and 1783.
Andrew Younghusband (born December 14, 1971 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian television personality, writer and journalist, best known for his most recent appearances as host of the reality shows Canada's Worst Driver and Canada's Worst Handyman, as well as the documentary series Tall Ship Chronicles.
Federico Frezzi was Italian poet and bishop. He entered in Dominican order, studied in Florence, he became professor of theologhy in various Italian universities and gathered various important positions in church. In year 1403 Frezzi became bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Foligno, he was also a member of council of Constance. The most important work of poetry of Frezzi is long didactic epic Il Quadriregio, imitating Dante's Divine Comedy.
