Born in 1925, Don Ritchie was was an Australian who, over a 45+ year period of time, officially saved 160 people from suicide (although those close to him claim that number is actually closer to 400). Ritchie resided next to The Gap, a famous cliff in Sydney, Australia, known for multiple suicide attempts. After witnessing […]
Ritz is a South Bronx teacher & administrator who believes that inner city students shouldn’t have to leave their urban communities to learn about life or live a full one … and one of the most effective methods he uses to bring these Truths across is community gardening. Ritz’s extended family of students and community […]
Fred Rogers was an American television personality who was most famous for creating, composing the theme music for, and hosting the educational television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968–2001); a show which allowed the millions of children who watched itto bear witness to – and benefit from – Roger’s honest directness, his grandfatherly kind-heartedness, and his […]
Born in late September of 1207, Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Immensely popular in Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, the United States and South Asia, Rumi’s importance & reverence clearly transcends both national and ethnic borders. Rumi, was a philosopher and mystic of Islam, one whose doctrine advocated unlimited […]
Walter Russell was an American painter, sculptor, natural philosopher, author, and builder. While his books and lectures place him firmly in the New Thought Movement, the New York Herald Tribune more appropriately labeled him as “the modern Leonardo” … His legacy centers around a unique Cosmogony (or concept of the universe), having spent many years […]
Bayard Rustin was an American leader in the social movements for civil rights, peace, and gay rights. He openly championed non-violence as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the War Resisters League. He also collaborated on the March on Washington Movement in 1941 to press for an end to discrimination in employment. He […]
Over 20 years ago, Mona Rutger realized that no one in her community was able to care for injured wildlife, so — alongside her full-time secretarial job — she became a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Originally she envisioned caring for wounded animals as a part-time hobby, thinking she would get a few dozen animals a year. […]
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science educator. Sagan advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology, and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. […]
As early as 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, Irena began aiding Jews. Initially she and her helpers created more than 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families avoid detention, and then later organized the smuggling of Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Sendler was a registered nurse, and under the pretext of conducting […]
Born in 1511, Servetus was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist credited with discovering the correct workings of human pulmonary circulation. He wrote a book outlining his discovery, along with a few avant garde ideas about reforming Christianity (he was openly critical of both the concept of original sin and the church’s invented […]
Born in 1856, Shaw was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his works & writings address prevailing social problems, doing so most often with a vein of comedy which made their stark themes a bit easier to contemplate. Among the issues upon which Shaw focused were education, animal rights, religion, […]
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