Clarence Darrow is a well-known libertarian lawyer who defended highly unpopular cases. He is most famous for is the Scopes Monkey Trial. Darrow, at the behest of the then nascent American Civil Liberties (ACLU) and in collusion with the school’s superintendent , approached a Tennessee high school teacher to claim he had lost his position […]
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J12 Daniel Stern & Comtesse d’Agoult
Read her magnificent bio on New World.
The Science Behind Astrology: Insights from Michel Gauquelin’s Research
Michel Gauquelin (November 13, 1928–May 20, 1991) was a French psychologist and statistician who, along with his first wife Françoise Schneider-Gauquelin (born June 19, 1929), conducted very important statistical research on astrology, from the beginning of the 1950s. After their divorce, they each continued their work separately. Gauquelin said he had a lifelong interest in […]
J140 How do i love thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Bronte
Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett was born on Thursday, March 6, 1806, the eldest child of Edward Moulton-Barrett (1785–1857) and Mary Graham-Clarke (1781–1828), at Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, England. Both come from families with extensive plantations in Jamaica, where her father Edward was born and lived until the age of seven. The Barretts left Coxhoe in the Autumn of 1808 and, […]