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Classics
Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (Bronze Age ca. BC 3000 – Late Antiquity ca. AD 300-600)....
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Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh) (born June 6, 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements. He is widely, but wrongly, credited with coining the term...
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- 1975
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Henry James Sumner Maine
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI (15 August 1822 — 3 February 1888), was an English comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract." According to the...
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- 1844
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- 1840
Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of...
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Peter Snow
Peter Snow, CBE (born 20 April 1938 in Dublin, Ireland) is a highly respected television and radio presenter in Britain. He is the grandson of First World War general Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow, and cousin of Jon Snow, the main presenter of Channel 4...
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C. A. R. Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (born 11 January 1934), commonly known as Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development in 1960, at age 26, of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used...
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Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
Barton's greatest contribution to Australian history...
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- 1868
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- 1865
Charles Geschke
Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (born 1939) is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 11, 1939, Geschke attended Saint Ignatius...
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John H. Biggs
John H. Biggs is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF. Mr. Biggs served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF (national teachers' pension fund) from January 1993 until November 2002. He is currently a director of...
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- 1958
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960) is an American author and critic.
Mendelsohn was born in Long Island. He graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, which he attended from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, and received his M....
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- 1982
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- 1978
Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960) is an American author and critic.
Mendelsohn was born in Long Island. He graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, which he attended from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, and received his M....
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- 1994
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960) is an American author and critic.
Mendelsohn was born in Long Island. He graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, which he attended from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, and received his M....
