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Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
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19 Dec 2022
Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure between the Classical and Romantic periods. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was unable to hear.
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Confucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
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21 Nov 2022
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
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Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
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21 Nov 2022
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
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Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
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10 Oct 2022
Born in London, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
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10 Oct 2022
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
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John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
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3 Oct 2022
John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. John met Paul McCartney in 1957 and invited him to join his music group. They eventually formed the most successful songwriting partnership in musical history. Lennon left the Beatles in 1969. On December 8, 1980, he was killed by a crazed fan named Mark David Chapman.
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Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
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18 Jul 2022
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Nikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
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Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
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27 Jun 2022
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
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Alan Turing (23 Jun 1912 – 7 Jun 1954)
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20 Jun 2022
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, educator, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. The famed code-breaking war hero, now considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, was criminally convicted to chemical castration and harshly treated under the U.K.’s homophobic laws. He committed suicide.
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Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
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30 May 2022
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full article
Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
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16 May 2022
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
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28 Mar 2022
“As for me, I am rather often uneasy in my mind, because I think that my life has not been calm enough; all those bitter disappointments, adversities, changes keep me from developing fully and naturally in my artistic career.” —Vincent van Gogh
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Jane Goodall (Born 3 Apr 1934)
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28 Mar 2022
Animal Rights Activist, Scientist – Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.
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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
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14 Mar 2022
Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
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28 Feb 2022
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
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George Harrison (25 Feb 1943 – 29 Nov 2001)
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21 Feb 2022
George Harrison was a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film producer. As a member of the Beatles, he achieved international fame and renown. In addition to music, Harrison was interested i n Hindu spirituality. After meeting A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, of which he became an active participant, Harrison turned his devotion to Lord Krishna and became a devotee of the Hare Krishna Movement in 1969.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
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10 Jan 2022
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
→ read full articleBruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
→ read full article
Confucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
→ read full article
Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
→ read full article
Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
Born in London, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
→ read full article
John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. John met Paul McCartney in 1957 and invited him to join his music group. They eventually formed the most successful songwriting partnership in musical history. Lennon left the Beatles in 1969. On December 8, 1980, he was killed by a crazed fan named Mark David Chapman.
→ read full article
Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
→ read full article
Nikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
→ read full article
Franz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full article
Alan Turing (23 Jun 1912 – 7 Jun 1954)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, educator, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. The famed code-breaking war hero, now considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, was criminally convicted to chemical castration and harshly treated under the U.K.’s homophobic laws. He committed suicide.
→ read full article
Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full articleMalcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
→ read full article
Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
“As for me, I am rather often uneasy in my mind, because I think that my life has not been calm enough; all those bitter disappointments, adversities, changes keep me from developing fully and naturally in my artistic career.” —Vincent van Gogh
→ read full article
Jane Goodall (Born 3 Apr 1934)
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29 Mar 2021
Animal Rights Activist, Scientist – Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.
→ read full articleAlbert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.
→ read full articleMichelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
→ read full articleGeorge Harrison (25 Feb 1943 – 29 Nov 2001)
Biography Online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
George Harrison was a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film producer. As a member of the Beatles, he achieved international fame and renown. In addition to music, Harrison was interested i n Hindu spirituality. After meeting A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, of which he became an active participant, Harrison turned his devotion to Lord Krishna and became a devotee of the Hare Krishna Movement in 1969.
→ read full article
Martin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
→ read full article
Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
→ read full articleBruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
→ read full articleConfucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
→ read full article
Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
→ read full articleHarold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
→ read full article
John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. John met Paul McCartney in 1957 and invited him to join his music group. They eventually formed the most successful songwriting partnership in musical history. Lennon left the Beatles in 1969. On December 8, 1980, he was killed by a crazed fan named Mark David Chapman.
→ read full articleNikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientist and his path breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
→ read full articleNelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full article
Alan Turing (23 Jun 1912 – 7 Jun 1954)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, educator, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. The famed code-breaking war hero, now considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, was criminally convicted to chemical castration and harshly treated under the U.K.’s homophobic laws. He committed suicide.
→ read full article
Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2020
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full article
Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
→ read full article
Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
“As for me, I am rather often uneasy in my mind, because I think that my life has not been calm enough; all those bitter disappointments, adversities, changes keep me from developing fully and naturally in my artistic career.” —Vincent van Gogh
→ read full article
Jane Goodall (Born 3 Apr 1934)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
Animal Rights Activist, Scientist – Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.
→ read full article
Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2020
Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.
→ read full articleGeorge Harrison (25 Feb 1943 – 29 Nov 2001)
Biography Online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
George Harrison was a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film producer. As a member of the Beatles, he achieved international fame and renown. In addition to music, Harrison was interested in Hindu spirituality. After meeting A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, of which he became an active participant, Harrison turned his devotion to Lord Krishna and became a devotee of the Hare Krishna Movement in 1969.
→ read full article
Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
→ read full article
Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
→ read full articleLudwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
→ read full articleBruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
→ read full articleConfucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
→ read full articleHannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
→ read full articleHarold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
→ read full article
John Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that should have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.” —John Lennon
→ read full articleNikola Tesla (10 Jul 1856 – 7 Jan 1943)
Biography and Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
Very few people know who Nikola Tesla is. They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientist and his path breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. Wireless technology was in large part based on Tesla inventions. He contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).
→ read full article
Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2019
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full article
Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full articleMalcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2019
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
→ read full articleJane Goodall (Born 3 Apr 1934)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
Animal Rights Activist, Scientist, Activist, Scientist – Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.
→ read full article
Vincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.
→ read full article
Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
→ read full article
Martin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
→ read full article
Ludwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar1827)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Ludwig van Beethoven was a deaf German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was baptized on Dec 17, 1770 in Bonn, Holy Roman Empire. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
→ read full article
Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
→ read full article
Confucius (c. 551 BC – 21 Nov 479 BC)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure known for his popular aphorisms and for his models of social interaction. Confucianism is not an organized religion, but it does provide rules for thinking and living that focus on love for humanity, worship of ancestors, respect for elders, self-discipline and conformity to rituals. Confucius lived during a time of ideological crisis in China.
→ read full articleJohn Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that should have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
—John Lennon
Harold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
→ read full articleHannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
Encyclopedia of World Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
→ read full article
Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full article
Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full article
Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
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14 May 2018
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
→ read full articleVincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
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26 Mar 2018
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
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Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
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12 Mar 2018
Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. “God does not play dice.”
→ read full articleMichelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
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5 Mar 2018
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan 1929– 4 Apr 1968)
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15 Jan 2018
Luther King was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
→ read full articleLudwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar1827)
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11 Dec 2017
Ludwig van Beethoven was a deaf German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was baptized on Dec 17, 1770 in Bonn, Holy Roman Empire. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life, when he was quite unable to hear.
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Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
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27 Nov 2017
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
→ read full articleJohn Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
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9 Oct 2017
Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other before, or since.
→ read full articleHarold Pinter (10 Oct 1930 – 24 Dec 2008)
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9 Oct 2017
Born in London in 1930, Harold Pinter is a renowned playwright and screenwriter. His plays are particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters’ thoughts and feelings. In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
→ read full articleHannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 – 4 Dec 1975)
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9 Oct 2017
A Jewish girl forced to flee Germany during World War II (1939–45), Hannah Arendt analyzed major issues of the twentieth century and produced an original and radical political philosophy.
→ read full articleNelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
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17 Jul 2017
Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
→ read full articleFranz Kafka (3 Jul 1883 – 3 Jun 1924)
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3 Jul 2017
Born in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle.
→ read full articleWalt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
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29 May 2017
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
→ read full articleMalcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
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15 May 2017
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
→ read full articleVincent van Gogh (30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890)
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27 Mar 2017
Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. After having been physically and psychologically unstable, he cut off his ear and offered it to a prostitute.
→ read full articleAlbert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
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13 Mar 2017
Born in Germany, Albert Einstein grew up in a secular, middle-class Jewish family. He developed the special and general theories of relativity and in 1921 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King Jr. (15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968)
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16 Jan 2017
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. / “I Have A Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
→ read full articleLudwig van Beethoven (17 Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827)
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12 Dec 2016
Ludwig van Beethoven was a deaf German composer and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras.
→ read full articleBruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 – 20 Jul 1973)
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21 Nov 2016
Bruce Lee was a revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker known for movies like ‘Fists of Fury’ and ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and the technique Jeet Kune Do.
→ read full articleJohn Lennon (9 Oct 1940 – 8 Dec 1980)
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3 Oct 2016
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that should have been left behind in the ’60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
—John Lennon
Nelson Mandela (18 Jul 1918 – 5 Dec 2013)
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18 Jul 2016
Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in Mveso, Transkei, South Africa. Becoming actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, he joined the African National Congress in 1942. Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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