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17 hours ago · Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre ( / ˈsɑːrtrə /, US also / ˈsɑːrt /; [5] French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key ...
17 hours ago · novelist, crime and mystery writer; Lambda Literary Award winner; contributing editor at Writer's Digest magazine Robin Sloan: B.A. 2002 noted novelist, short story writer, literary magazine founder, columnist,The Atlantic: Vernor Vinge: B.S. science fiction writer; retired math and computer science professor, San Diego State University
17 hours ago · The wife of the Los Angeles barber Robert James died from drowning in a fishing pond after being bound and thrust into a den of rattlesnakes. The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested a 38-year-old night manager of a nearby night club, who said that he was the one who bought the snakes from a Pasadena farm and took them to James's La ...
17 hours ago · e. John Kenneth Galbraith [a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist ...
17 hours ago · Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author, journalist, and educator. [2] [3] Author of 18 books on faith, culture, politics and literature, he was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
17 hours ago · A deaf man, Peter James, was manipulated through a gang into casting off a £28,000 loan from Metro Bank. Despite having no property and unique needs, he changed into authorized for the loan. After intervention by Guardian Money, Metro Bank agreed to write down off the debt, however questions remain approximately their safeguards.
17 hours ago · Signature. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man ...
