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Konstantin Balmont was a Russian poet, translator, literary critic and essayist, the author of many collections of poems, articles and essays. From the middle of the 1910s he often gave public lectures on issues of concern to him.

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.

Shlomo Yitzchaki

Rashi is the acronym of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, a French religious educator and the head of the Troyes Rabbinical Court. Rashi is most known for his commentaries on the Talmud and the Torah, which are very influential in rabbinic scholarship even today. He is a renowned Jewish scholar who educated himself in Worms and Mainz.

Roger Hargreaves

Roger Hargreaves was a copywriter and was successful in his work. He always wished to do something such that he could work from home. He loved his home and the time to spend with his children. His desire was to earn a living by writing and demonstrating children’s books. In this aim, Roger began by drawing a small man with long extraordinary arms such that it was easy to reach anywhere and had th...

François-Marie Arouet

Francois Arouet, better known by his pen name Voltaire, was a literary genius whose brilliant writings often caused extreme controversy during his time. He is known for his works that include poetry, plays, and writings on philosophy and history. Voltaire gained fame through his work on Candide and several other plays that were based on tragedy.

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He earned fame both as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSN&Y) and as a solo artist, writing and recording such timeless songs as "Old Man," "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)," "Rockin' in the Free World" and "Heart of Gold" - a No. 1 hit.

Babur I

Babur was a conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the base for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor. Bābur, a descendant of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan and also of the Turkic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), was a military adventurer, a soldier of distinction, and a poet and diarist of genius, as...

Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics," Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.