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Robespierre, Leader French Revolution
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, known to his contemporaries also as "the Incorruptible", is one of the best known of the leaders of the French Revolutio... |
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Horatio Nelson, Admiral
200 years after his death, Horatio Nelson is still Britain's most popular hero. Nelson's great victories at the Nile (1 August 1798) and Copenhagen (2 April 1801) made h... |
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James Monroe, 5th US President
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825), and the fourth Virginian to hold the office. Monroe, a close ally of Thomas Jefferson was a diploma... |
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Candide, Voltaire
Voltaire wrote Candide at the age of sixty-five as a response, in the form of satirical mockery, to the optimism of Leibniz. "Everything is for the best in the best of wo... |
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Robert Burns, Scotland's Greatest Poet
Robert Burns, Scotland's greatest poet, was born on 25th January 1759 in a two roomed thatched cottage at Alloway, near Ayr, where his father, William Burnes, ran a small... |
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Feminist
Wollstonecraft's lasting place in the history of philosophy rests upon A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In this classical feminist text, she appealed to egali... |
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Friedrich von Schiller, German Writer
Johann Christoph Friedrich (later: von) Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last several years of his life (1788–1805), Schille... |
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Lord Grenville, Abolition Slave Trade
William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759–1834, British statesman; youngest son of George Grenville. He was foreign secretary in the ministry of his cousin William Pitt from... |
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Sir Arthur Guinness
Guinness was born in Celbridge, Co Kildare, in 1725. His father was land steward to the archbishop of Cashel, Dr Arthur Price, and brewed beer for workers on th... |
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The Social Contract, Rousseau
Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concep... |
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Emile, Rousseau
This work by Jean Jacques Rousseau probably represents the single greatest work in defining what we would call education today. I am a Francophone living in Northern Onta... |
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George IV of Great Britain and Ireland
George IV was the king of Hanover and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten... |
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Josephine, Empress of France
A socialite without equal, Josephine was mistress to several leading political figures and left a young General Napoleon Bonaparte completel... |
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James Kirkpatrick, Resident in Hyderabad
Lieutenant Colonel James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident in Hyderabad from 1798 to 1805. He also built the historic Koti Residency in Hyderabad, a landmark... |
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The Lunar Society
The Lunar Society was a remarkable grouping of gifted polymaths who met every month in and around Birmingham on the Monday nearest the full moon (when there was most lig... |
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