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(Marysville, Missouri, 1888 – Forest Hills, New York, 1955) American writer, one of the pioneers in the genre of public relations, sales and self-help books. Paradigm of the writer who accumulates numerous experiences outside the literary field to later turn them into a book, he grew up on his parents’ farm and worked in the fields … Read more
(Kung Fu-Tse; Lu, present-day Shantung, China, h. 551 – 479 BC) Chinese thinker. Coming from a ruined noble family, throughout his life he alternated periods in which he worked as a teacher with others in which he served as an official of the small state of Lu, in the northeast of China, during the time of … Read more
CS Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. He is the son of Florence Augusta, daughter of an Anglican priest, and Albert James Lewis, a lawyer. As a child he was fond of reading, especially fantasy stories. In 1908, he entered the Wynyard School, located in Watford, although he had previously … Read more
Over the centuries, the image of the Buddha has been depicted so many times that even in the West his effigy is as familiar as any other art object. We usually see him sitting on his legs in a meditative attitude, with a more or less protruding protuberance on the top of his skull and a … Read more
(San Francisco, 1941 – Hong Kong, 1973) American martial arts fighter and actor. A true myth of martial arts cinema, Bruce Lee is one of the icons of popular culture of the last third of the 20th century. As the promoter of a unique style of hand-to-hand fighting, Jet Kune Do, Lee favored a business of international … Read more
In 1960, when he was only fifteen years old, Bob Marley formed a vocal group, whose members also included Peter Tosh, another important figure in the genre. In 1962, Jimmy Cliff (another future big star) introduced Bob Marley to a producer and they recorded his first album, Judge Not . Under the name of The Wailing Wailers they recorded more than … Read more
(Boston, 1706 – Philadelphia, 1790) American politician, scientist and inventor. A student of electricity and everything that attracted his interest, inventor of the lightning rod and other useful devices, honest and efficient public figure and outstanding architect of the independence of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was perhaps the most beloved character of his time in … Read more
She was born on February 2, 1905 in Petrograd , Russia. A week before her twenty-first birthday, she left the Soviet Union, never to return. The communist regime expropriated her father’s business and killed her family. Ayn met director Cecil B. De Mille who gave her work as an extra on his film King of Kings , as well as advice on … Read more
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in the Belgian city of Brussels, descendant of a family of the Dutch aristocracy, the Van Heemstra. Her grandfather was a baron very close to the Court. Her father was a banker named Joseph Victor Henry Ruston and her mother an aristocrat of Dutch origin. Her name, with which she … Read more
Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947 in Thal , a rural town near Graz , Austria. Family Son of the local police chief, Gustav Schwarzenegger, and Aurelia Jadrny. Gustav served in World War II after joining the Nazi Party in 1938. Raised in a humble Catholic family, his only brother died in a car accident on May 20, 1971. … Read more