People

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Frida Kahlo

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Mexican painter 1907-1954 lived in la Casa Azul

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Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy

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Radio show interviews by dummy during depression

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Karl May

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Karl Friedrich May (1842-1912) was a German writer best known for his adventure novels set in the American Old West. His main protagonists are Winnetou and Old Shatterhand.

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Ben Jonson

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11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637[2]) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. Wrote The Alchemist.

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Actors and theater

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In the mid 1600's England, when the Puritans (fundamentalist Protestants) overthrew the Monarchy and England became governed by the Parlimentary rule of Oliver Cromwell 'Old Ironsides'- actors and playwrites were considered vulgarians and little above theives and prostitutes. They were and underclass. Theater was banned! When the Monarchy was restored in 1660 under Charles the II- the Theaters were reopened, but no new plays had been written for the last two decades. They had to look back to Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. This is referred to as the Restoration era and had wroters like Alexander Pope and John Dryden

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St Augustine of Hippo

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Early Christian theologian of the 1st century from Africa. His writings heavily influenced Western Christianity and particularly today in Roman Catholicism. See also St. That of Villanova 1488-1555 and Catholic University Villanova of Pennsylvania.

"Augustinians have a slight inferiority complex compared to the Jesuits who have a wonderful intellectual tradition, but we have two really important Augustinians in history: Gregor Mendel and Martin Luther" Sean Carroll

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George Santayana

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20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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Aeschylus

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(Eh-skah-lus) An ancient Greek tragedian. He is often described as the father of tragedy. (525-455BCE)

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Edmund Burke

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(1730-1797) an Irish Statesman, author, and political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party. Considered to be the father of modern conservatism.

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Jorge Luis Borges

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(1899-1986) Library of Babel. was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, philosophy, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology.

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Hannah Arendt

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The Banality of Evil

(1906 – 1975) was a German philosopher and political theorist. Her many books and articles on topics ranging from totalitarianism to epistemology have had a lasting influence on political theory. Arendt is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century.

See Aeon's article, "What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil?" by Thomas White

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Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez

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the drunken cook from the Werner Herzog movie, Fitzcarraldo

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Grete Hermann

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Grete (Henry-)Hermann (March 2, 1901 – April 15, 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of a no-hidden-variable theorem by John von Neumann. It has been suggested that, had her critique not remained nearly unknown for decades, the historical development of quantum mechanics might have been very different.

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Olympe de Gouges

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7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793 French playwright and political activist. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. Executed during the Reign of Terror for being a supporter of a constitutional monarchy.

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Girondin

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were members of a loosely knit political faction during the French Revolution 1791-93. Their vision for France included the Republic as a civic community, citizens had to be virtuous to make a republic, a system of education, and delegated authority to representatives

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Joseph Fouché

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(1759-1820) was a French statesman and Minister of Police under First Consul Bonaparte. He surpressed the Lyon insurrection of 1873 and help found the Cult of Reason.

"Death is an eternal sleep"

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Patsy Mink

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first Asian American woman elected to Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from the state of Hawaii, and became the first Asian-American to seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in the 1972 election, where she stood in the Oregon primary as an anti-war candidate.

Awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on November 24, 2014

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Reality Winner

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Former intelligence contractor at Pluribus International Corporation for NSA and whistleblower. She was arrested for leaking intelligence to the Intercept that Russia interfered with the US 2016 election