Biography of Miguel Fisac Serna: – He studied architecture at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). He graduated in 1942, obtaining the special end of race prize. His early works are from the early 40’s and in them predominated references to traditional and official factors, typical in the Spanish architecture of those years. In the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Madrid, 1942, these historicist references are lacking
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Biography of Wassily Leontief
Biography of Wassily Leontief: – American economist who stood out for his theoretical studies and developed the input-output methodology of economic analysis, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1973. Biography of Wassily Leontief Born:- 5 August 1906, Munich, Germany Died:- 5 February 1999, New York City, New York, United States Known:- Input-output analysis Children:- Svetlana Alpers Education:- Humboldt University of Berlin(1925–1928), Saint Petersburg State University, Harvard University Awards:- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Guggenheim Fellowship
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Biography of Saint Thomas of Aquino:- Son of one of the most influential aristocratic families of southern Italy, he studied in Montecassino, in whose Benedictine monastery his parents wanted him to follow the ecclesiastical career. Later he moved to Naples, where he studied arts and theology and came into contact with the Order of Brother Preachers. Biography of Saint Thomas of Aquino Born:- 1225, Roccasecca, Italy Died:- 7 March 1274, Fossanova Abbey, Italy Feast:- 28
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Biography of Victor Hugo:- French poet, playwright and novelist considered the greatest exponent of Romanticism in his country. Victor Hugo’s childhood was spent in Besançon, except for two years (1811-1812) in which he lived with his family in Madrid, where his father had been appointed general commander. Of early literary vocation, already in 1816 wrote in a school notebook: “I want to be Chateaubriand or nothing”. Biography of Victor Hugo
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Biography of Martin Luther: – Whether or not his doctrine is shared, Luther is an apostle or at least a prophet to some, and to others a renegade heretic. Destroyer of countless things, this man of intense and energetic convictions represents, with his conception of man as an individual isolated from God, history and the world, one of the pillars on which the Modern Age is based. Initiator of the
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Writer, social reformer, designer and English artist who through his literary, theoretical and artistic work tried the renewal of the culture recovering the spirit of medieval arts and crafts. As a designer and craftsman, his work would have great influence on book design, the art of printing, the visual arts, and industrial design of the nineteenth century. His social ideology, of utopian sign, was collected in theoretical writings and in
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Biography of Naoya Shiga: – He grew up in the bosom of a well-to-do family that presumed to descend from the military aristocracy of the Tokugawa era (1600-1867). His youth was bitter because of clashes with his father, who did not approve of his decision to devote himself to literature, something that was still frowned upon by well-meaning society, or his idealistic humanism, inspired by the ideas of Uchimura Kanzo,
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Biography of Antonio Trueba: – His works in prose always reflect the rural environment of the Basque Country or Castile, aspect that announces the generation of 98. Son of a family of farmers worked in Madrid like dependent of a hardware store. Later he would be archivist and chronicler of the Senorio de Vizcaya and staunch defender of the fueros of this region. Kind and simple man and self-taught writer,
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American Baptist pastor, civil rights advocate. The long struggle of Black Americans to achieve the fullness of rights has since 1955 seen an acceleration in which the young pastor Martin Luther King was soon to be highlighted. His nonviolent action, inspired by Gandhi’s example, mobilized a growing portion of the Afro-American community to culminate in the summer of 1963 in the historic march on Washington that drew 250,000 demonstrators. There,
Read MoreBiography of Leon Trotski
Russian Revolutionary, who was born in a Jewish family of proprietary farmers and studied law at the University of Odessa. From youth he participated in the clandestine opposition against the autocratic regime of the czars, organizing a Workers’ League of the South of Russia (1897). Biography of Leon Trotski Born:- 7 November 1879, Bereslavka, Ukraine Died:- 21 August 1940, Coyoacán, Mexico Cause of death:- Assassination Political party:- RSDLP; SDPS; Mezhraiontsy; CPSU; Fourth International Spouse:- Natalia Sedova (m. 1903–1940), Aleksandra
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