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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Philosophers to Know, Part I

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Is Australia an Island?

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

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U.S. Death Toll During Major Events

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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6 Lost Civilizations

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The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

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Also Known As	Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Born	August 12, 1891 • Durham • England
Died	April 9, 1953 (aged 61) • London • England

George Grant

Canadian philosopher

H.L.A. Hart

English philosopher, teacher, and author

Martin Rees

British cosmologist and astrophysicist

Aldous Huxley

British author

Sir Leslie Stephen

British critic

Kwame Anthony Appiah

British-American philosopher and educator

T.E. Hulme

English critic and poet

John Toland

Irish-born British author

Sri Aurobindo

Indian philosopher and yogi

Joseph Hall

English bishop, philosopher, and satirist

Henry More

British poet and philosopher

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James Beattie

Scottish poet

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

Noam Chomsky

American linguist

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher

René Descartes

French mathematician and philosopher

Benedict de Spinoza

Dutch-Jewish philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard

Danish philosopher

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician

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