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All about Leonardo da Vinci and his influence on the worlds of art and science. He's also re-entered pop culture in books and movies.
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Find news about Martina Navratilova and check out the latest Martina Navratilova pictures.
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The George Washington Carver National Monument is a national monument in Diamond, MO.
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A community portal about Marcel Proust with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time, a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction consisting of seven volumes published from 1913 to 1927.
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A community portal about William Butler Yeats with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure, brother of the artist Jack Butler Yeats and son of John Butler Yeats. Yeats, though born to an Anglo-Saxon Protestant mother and father, was perhaps the primary driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and was co-founder of the Abbey Theatre . Yeats also served as an Irish Senator. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for what the Nobel Committee described as "his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".
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A community portal about Thomas Paine with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Thomas Paine was an English-American intellectual, scholar, revolutionary, deist and political and religious thinker, who spent much of his time in America and France. A radical pamphleteer, Paine anticipated and helped foment the American Revolution through his powerful writings, most notably Common Sense, an incendiary pamphlet advocating independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. An advocate of liberalism, he outlined his political philosophy in Rights of Man, written both as a reply to Edmund Burke's view of the French Revolution and as a general political philosophy treatise as well as Common Sense, a treatise on the benefits of personal liberty and limited government, in which he considers society a representation of human ideals, and government a necessary evil. In Agrarian Justice, he argued for a form of welfare state and social security provisions for the old and a capital sum for the young to set them up in their adult career. Paine was also noteworthy for his support of deism, taking its form in his treatise on religion The Age of Reason, as well as for his eye-witness accounts of both the French and American Revolutions.
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A community portal about Sigmund Freud with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the co-founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, especially involving the mechanism of repression ; his redefinition of sexual desire as mobile and directed towards a wide variety of objects; and his therapeutic technique, especially his understanding of transference in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires.
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A community portal about Salvador Dali with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali Domenech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador Felip Jacint Dali Domènech, known popularly as Salvador Dali, was a Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dali's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award -nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003. Born in Catalonia, Spain, Dali insisted on his "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors descended from the Moors who invaded Spain in 711, and attributed to these origins, "my love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes."
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a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss
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A community portal about Ralph Waldo Emerson with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American author, poet, and philosopher.
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