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121Darwin, Erasmus — born Dec. 12, 1731, Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, Eng. died April 18, 1802, Derby, Derbyshire British physician, grandfather of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton. A freethinker and radical, Darwin often wrote his opinions and scientific treatises …
122Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron, 8th Baronet — ▪ English historian and moralist Introduction born Jan. 10, 1834, Naples died June 19, 1902, Tegernsee, Bavaria, Ger. English Liberal historian and moralist, the first great modern philosopher of resistance to the evil state, whether its form be …
123Doris Dungey — Doris J. Dungey (c. 1961 – November 30, 2008) was an American blogger who wrote extensively about the United States housing bubble for the blog Calculated Risk under the pseudonym Tanta.[1][2] Contents 1 Early life and work 2 …
124Portal:United States Marine Corps — Wikipedia portals: Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Natural sciences People Philosophy Religion Society Technology American Civil War · American Revolutionary War · …
125Mowahid Shah — Mowahid Hussain Shah is an attorney at law, writer, and policy analyst. His articles are published regularly in English in both Nation (an English daily) and Nawa i Waqt (an Urdu daily). For over a decade, he has been the lead columnist for… …
126FM-2030 — (October 15, 1930 ndash; July 8, 2000) was a transhumanist philosopher and futurist. FM 2030 was born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary (PerB|فریدون اسفندیاری). He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and… …
127Brian Leiter — (born 1963) is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is currently John Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, and Director of Chicago s Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values. He taught from 1995 to 2008 at the… …
128Hindi-Urdu controversy — In 1867, some Hindus in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh during the British Raj in India began to demand that Hindi should be made an official language in place of Urdu [http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A133 Urdu Hindi… …
