- Pol Pot
Saloth Sar, was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia (officially renamed the Democratic Kampuchea during his rule) from 1976 to 1979, having been "de facto" leader since mid-1975. Having been directly and indirectly responsible for the physical elimination of about one-third of the Cambodian population during his stay in power, Pol Pot is today regarded as one of the five worst mass-murderers of modern history.
- Franz Mehring
Franz Erdmann Mehring, was a German publicist, politician and historian. He worked for various daily and weekly newspapers and over many years wrote lead articles for the weekly magazine "Neue Zeit". In 1868 he moved to Berlin to study, and worked in the editorial office of the "Die Zukunft" newspaper. From 1871–1874, Mehring worked for the Correspondence Office in Oldenburg, writing reports on sessions of the "Reichstag" and the local parliament.
- Whit Stillman
Whit Stillman (born John Whitney Stillman in Washington, D.C. on January 25, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American writer-director known for his sly depictions of the "urban haute bourgeoisie" (as he terms the upper-class WASPs of the U.S. socio-cultural elite).
- Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. His supporters knew him as The 'Incorruptible' because of his austere moral devotion to revolutionary political change. He was an influential member of the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror that ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.
- Étienne Marcel
Étienne Marcel was provost of the merchants of Paris under King John II. Étienne Marcel belonged by birth to the wealthy Parisian bourgeoisie, being the son of a clothier named Simon Marcel and of Isabelle Barbou. He is mentioned as provost of the "Grande-Confrérie of Notre Dame" in 1350, and in 1354 he succeeded Jean de Pacy as provost of the Parisian merchants. His political career began in 1356, when John was made prisoner after the battle of Poitiers.
- Jürgen Kocka
Jürgen Kocka (born April 19, 1941, in Haindorf) is a German historian. A university professor and president of the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin, Kocka is a major figure in traditional Social History (Bielefeld School). He has focused his research on the history of employees in large German and American businesses, and on the history of European bourgeoisie. He gained his PhD from the Free University of Berlin in 1968.
- Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (July 20 1847 in Berlin - February 8 1935) was a German painter and printmaker in etching and lithography. The son of a Jewish businessman from Berlin, Liebermann first studied law and philosophy, but later studied painting and drawing in Weimar in 1869, in Paris in 1872 and in Holland during 1876-77. Although residing and working for some time in Munich, he finally returned to Berlin in 1884 and worked there for the rest of his life.
- Otto Rühle
Otto Rühle in 1916. The Spartacist League took an oppositional stance to Leninism, and was attacked by the Bolsheviks for inconsistency. Though Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were murdered in 1919 for their involvement in the German Revolution, Rühle lived on to participate in the left opposition of the German labour movement, developing both an early critique of Bolshevism, and an early opposition to Fascism.
- Louis Renault
Louis Renault (February 15, 1877, Paris, France - October 24, 1944) was a French industrialist and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry. The youngest of five children born into a Paris bougeois family, Renault was fascinated by engineering and mechanics from a very early age, and spent many hours in the Serpollet steam car workshop or tinkering with old Panhard engines in the tool shed of the family's second home in Billancourt.
- Carl Sternheim
Carl Sternheim was a German playwright and short story writer. One of the major exponents of German Expressionism, he especially satirized the moral sensibilities of the emerging German middle class during the Wilhelmine period.
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life.
- John Thomson
John Thomson was a pioneering Scottish Victorian photographer, geographer and traveller. He was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people, landscapes and artifacts of eastern cultures. On returning home, his work among the street people of London cemented his reputation, and is regarded as a classic work of social documentary which laid the foundations for photo journalism.
- Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes is a Spanish novelist and member of the Real Academia Española. Born in Valladolid, Spain, Delibes studied law and economics and from 1945 was a professor of commercial law at the University of Valladolid, also working as a journalist. His first novel was "La sombra del ciprés es alargada" in 1947. It won the Premio Nadal. In 1950 "El camino" told of the process undergone by a boy in the discovery of life and experience.
- Ludwig Quidde
Ludwig Quidde (March 23, 1858 - March 4, 1941) was a German pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned four different eras of German history: that of Bismarck (up to 1890); the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm II (1888 - 1918); the Weimar Republic (1918-1933); and, finally, Nazi Germany. In 1927, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Heinrich Laufenberg
Heinrich Laufenberg (1872 - 1932) was a leading German communist and is claimed as a forerunner of National Bolshevism. He lived in Hamburg from 1908. In 1909 he moved from the Catholic Party to the SPD. On November 30 1918, during the German Revolution, he was elected President of the Council of the Workmen and Soldiers of Hamburg. With Fritz Wolffheim, he was involved in the Hamburg branch of the Communist Party of Germany, …
- George Călinescu
George Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, writer and journalist, one of the outstanding figures of Romanian letters of 20th century. He was born in Bucharest, where he later went to the university to study Italian, but much of his formative years were spent in Iaşi. He moved between these two centres for much of his life, as he gained his Ph.D. in Iaşi, and lectured at the university there before becoming a professor at the University of Bucharest in 1945.
- Albert Lortzing
Gustav Albert Lortzing was a German composer. Born in Berlin to parents who both were actors, at the age of 19 Lortzing began to play the role of youthful lover ("Jugendlicher Liebhaber") at the theatres of Düsseldorf and Aachen, sometimes also singing in small tenor or baritone parts. His first opera, "Ali Pascha von Janina", appeared in 1824, …
- Jerzy Szacki
Jerzy Ryszard Szacki (b. 6 February 1929, Warsaw) is a Polish sociologist and historian of ideas, and emeritus professor of the University of Warsaw. After World War II, worked for the Polish Telephone Authority, first as a locksmith, later in a desk job. In 1948, he began to study sociology at the University of Warsaw.
- Hans Folz
Hans Folz was a notable medieval German author. Made a citizen of the city of Nürnberg, Germany in 1459 and master barber of the city in 1486, Folz was a reformer of the meistersangs, adding 27 new tones to those that had been allowed by the twelve "Alten Meister" (old masters) up to that point. His "Meisterlieder" (a type of song), of which he wrote about a thousand, were mostly devoted to religious questions.
- Lennart Eriksson
Lennart Eriksson, born in 1956 was the bass player in the rebellious Swedish punk rock band Ebba Grön. Fjodor grew up in the poor working-class suburb Rågsved outside Stockholm. Fjodor had several petty jobs to get by, but he wanted to play music. His first band was called "Urin" but in 1976 he was one of the founders of Ebba Grön, which would be one of the most successful rock bands in Swedish history.
- Infante Pedro Duke of Coimbra
Pedro, Infante of Portugal, Duke of Coimbra <small>KG</small> - (1392-May 20 1449) was a Portuguese prince of the House of Aviz, son of King John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster. He was regent between 1439 and 1448. Since he was born, Pedro was one of John I's favourite sons. His father made possible for him and his brothers an exceptional education rarely seen in those times.
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky was the first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazi resistance movement. She is mostly remembered today for designing the so-called "Frankfurt Kitchen". She was born Margarete Lihotzky into a bourgeois family in Vienna. The daughter of a liberal-minded civil servant whose pacifist tendencies made him welcome the end of the Habsburg Empire and the founding of the republic in 1918, …
- August Cesarec
August Cesarec (December 4, 1893 - July 15, 1941) was a Croatian and Yugoslav writer and left-wing politician. Cesarec was born in Zagreb, which was part of Austria-Hungary at a time. As a high school student he was involved in radical nationalist politics and joined the group that tried to assassinate Croatian ban (viceroy) Slavko Cuvaj. For his role in failed assassination he received two years of prison sentence, which he served in Sremska Mitrovica penitentiary.
- Izrael Poznański
Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański was a philanthropist, textile magnate, a successful Polish-Jewish industrialist in Łódź, and the husband of Elenora Hertz Poznański. One of the most eminent entrepreneurs in the Russian-dominated part of Poland, Poznański was the son of a Jewish merchant of Kowal, who built up a textile empire and became, next to Karl/Karol Scheibler, the most important manufacturer of Łódź, …
- Prades Tavernier
Prades Tavernier was a weaver and then Cathar parfait in the Comté de Foix in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. Tavernier was originally from Prades d'Aillon, and he was named after the town. There he became a successful and prosperous weaver. Unmarried he had a bastard daughter, Brune Pourcel. Tired of weaving Tavernier decided to become a Cathar parfait and traveled the region preaching and performing Cathar rites.
- Waleran IV of Limburg IV of Limburg
Waleran IV or Walram IV (d.1279) was the duke of Limburg from AD 1247 to his death. He was the son and successor of Henry IV and Ermengarde, countess of Berg. He played a great part in the politics of the Great Interregnum in Germany. He left the Hohenstaufen fold and supported William I of Holland as king. He was sent in an embassy to Henry III of England and after William's death, supported Henry's brother Richard, earl of Cornwall, as king.
- Afonso Duke of Braganza Afonso 1st Duke of Braganza
Afonso I, Duke of Braganza was the eighth Count of Barcelos and the first Duke of Braganza. Historians believe he was born in Veiros, Alentejo, as a natural son of Portuguese King John I and Inês Pires, the daughter of a Jewish cobbler. He married Beatriz Pereira Alvim, daughter of Nuno Álvares Pereira, general of the kingdom, and heir of the most opulent house of the kingdom. Afonso was present in 1415 when the Portuguese conquered Ceuta.
- Holly
LOYAL. I READ A LOT INCLUDING MURDER MYSTERIES, CONSIPRACY THEORIES, POLITICAL JOURNALS, HISTORY, AND THE MOST RELIABLE SOURCE OF INORMATION: THE ONION. I LOVE LOVE LOVE GOING TO THE MOVIES...ANY GENRE ANY TIME. I LOVE GOING TO SPORTING EVENTS...HATE WATCHING SPORTS ON TV.
- Josh Beall
I'm currently a grad student in comparative literature, teaching a hodgepodge of classes in order to put myself through grad school. When I'm not reading or teaching, I run and play basketball with a bunch of analytic philosophers. I also love movies, so get tons of dvds from Netflix. I'm pretty spacy and shy, although for some reason that initially comes off as aloofness.
- Alex Demille
Some may say that I'm morbid and cynical, but astrology says its just a thick casing to hide my squishy innards. Also, when I was a kid I took a dive off of a 15-foot sand cliff and landed on my head.
- Andrew
The only reason I am in academia is the hope that I can sleep till noon every day of my life.
- Laureen
- Matthew Hogan
Physicist, musician, filmmaker, philosopher.
- Alex
msn : ahriman666arallu@hotmail.com.
- Isaac Lau
Le temps, la musique, et quelques poetes maudits... It's all on my blog... O soleil, c'est le temps de la raison ardente!
- Jonas
http://nvc.hu.
- Jordan
ALL ABOUT JORDAN.
- Docteur
DJ au bar Le Scanner du jeudi au samedi,je m'occupe du booking de la place aussi(only rock n' roll,fuck everything else),je fais la mise en onde et l'animation avec Peter North et Buck Adams a l'emission De Radio "LES RAISINS DE LA MORT" le dimanche soir pendant pour CKIA-FM 88,3,et evidemment je joue dans Les Hellcats de Québec.
- Gerardo Yepiz
I fucked my profile entirely with.
- Martin Pulaski
What am I doing here? Where am I going? I lost my rock and roll shoes. Got the blues, can't be satisfied. Come on and put your cat clothes on. Play some of that outsider music. Mean, or soft and low. All night long. And what remains of our days.