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John Wallis

An English clergyman and mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinit...

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

A French mechanical engineer in the French Army, military scientist and physicist, and often desc...

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

A Prussian Generalfeldmarschall who fought Napoleon at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 18...

Joseph Fouché

French statesman and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

A Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated...

Lope de Vega

A Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age...

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6-year-old piano prodigy from Milton featured on NBC’s Little Big Shots

6-year-old piano prodigy from Milton featured on NBC’s Little Big Shots

ATLANTA — A 6-year-old boy from Milton, Georgia got the opportunity of a lifetime, appearing on NBC’s “Little Big Shots” twice during this current season.The show tells us that William Zhang, 6, was just a baby when he started showing an interest in music. His parents had an inclination that their young boy loved creating songs, so they bought William his very first piano worth $20,000 at age 2.His mom Julie told “Little Big Shots” producers that piano instructors told her that William was too young for lessons, so she taught herself how to play so that she could team him.A video of William playing Mozart got him first prize in the American Protégé International Piano and Strings competition....

Eight Things I Learned from Peter Thiel’s Zero To One

Eight Things I Learned from Peter Thiel’s Zero To One

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir. He also made the first outside investment in Facebook and was an early investor in companies like SpaceX and LinkedIn. And now he’s written a book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, with the goal of helping us “see beyond the tracks laid down” to the “broader future that there is to create.”Zero To One is an exercise in thinking — about questioning and rethinking received wisdom to create the future. And thinking about thinking is what we’re all about....

Leopold and Loeb’s Criminal Minds

Leopold and Loeb’s Criminal Minds

smithsonianmag.com

Nathan Leopold was in a bad mood. That evening, on November 10, 1923, he had agreed to drive with his friend and lover, Richard Loeb, from Chicago to the University of Michigan—a journey of six hours—to burglarize Loeb's former fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau. But they had managed to steal only $80 in loose change, a few watches, some penknives and a typewriter. It had been a big effort for very little reward and now, on the journey back to Chicago, Leopold was querulous and argumentative. He complained bitterly that their relationship was too one-sided: he always joined Loeb in his escapades, ye...

How I found potential lost works of the great British painter William Hogarth

How I found potential lost works of the great British painter William Hogarth

theconversation.com

On the banks of River Kennett, Wiltshire, sits an Elizabethan country house. You might know Littlecote if you enjoy fly fishing or, if you’re interested in civil war re-enactments – it possesses a unique Cromwellian Chapel and an outstanding Roundhead armoury. Above all, however, Littlecote is known for the many mysteries that shroud it: colourful ghost sightings, a cursed elm tree, tales of tragedies and many puzzling local legends inflect its knotty history.One such legend, that of Littlecote’s Dutch parlour, is widely considered true. The ceiling and wood-panelled walls of this ro...

6-year-old piano prodigy from Milton featured on NBC’s Little Big Shots

Eight Things I Learned from Peter Thiel’s Zero To One

Leopold and Loeb’s Criminal Minds

How I found potential lost works of the great British painter William Hogarth

Henri de Saint-Simon

A guide to Gluck’s style…

Music

A guide to Gluck’s style…

Widely travelled and cosmopolitan, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s determination to make opera simpler and free of frills would reform the art form far beyond his own works. Here’s a guide to his style and some recommended recordings…Word-settingIn the famous Alceste preface, Gluck clai...

Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle

Astronomy

Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle

The recent deaths of Freeman Dyson, Philip Anderson and Margaret Burbidge have stirred up memories of other giants of physics. I’m posting profiles of some of these characters in the hope that readers will find them interesting and relevant to current scientific controver...

Saheela Ibraheem: accepted to Harvard at 15, graduates at 20

Child Prodigy

Saheela Ibraheem: accepted to Harvard at 15, graduates at 20

There are few people who want to remember how they were at the age of fifteen. However, Saheela Ibraheem had already achieved one of the heights in her life. She was accepted at Harvard University, where she followed her very first classes when she was sixteen years old. Besides Harva...