Both born in 1941, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel became an American music duo in 1957, though they first rose to fame & adoration in 1965, largely on the strength of the hit single “The Sound of Silence”. Their music was also featured in the landmark film The Graduate in 1967, further propelling them into […]
Clive Stafford Smith is a British civil rights attorney who currently works diligently to dismantle the death penalty in the United States of America; helping to overturn death sentences for nearly 300 convicts. He also helped to found both the non-profit Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans and the Gulf Region Advocacy Center in […]
Socrates was a Greek philosopher credited with being one of the founders of Western philosophy, and with being the very first moral philosopher on record. An enigmatic figure, with none of his own writings having been discovered to date, Socrates is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. […]
Rudolf Joseph Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic, and yet became truly prominent at the beginning of the twentieth century when he founded the anthroposophic spiritual movement – one that had roots in German idealist philosophy, […]
Born Stevland Hardaway Morris in May of 1950, Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter who has become one of the most creative and loved musical performers of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder signed with Motown’s Tamla label at the age of eleven and continues to perform and record for […]
Tom Stoppard is a British playwright who has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along […]
Gino Strada is an Italian war surgeon and founder of the humanitarian, charity-based NGO Emergency. Starting out as a heart-lung transplant surgeon in the 1980’s, Gino has always believed that healthcare is a human right. It was this belief that led him to abandon his posh position in the United States in 1988, and begin […]
Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese government official who served as vice consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During the Second World War, Sugihara risked the lives of himself and his entire family by helping by issuing transit visas to thousands of Jews so that they could flee Europe through Japanese territory … And this […]
Born in 1950, Swimme obtained a PhD in mathematics from the University of Oregon (1978), and is currently a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students. He has also authored several books related to the field of cosmogenesis, among them […]
Born in 1861, Tagore was a Bengali poet, artist & musician who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 1900’s & early 1900’s. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 (primarily for his genius work “Gitanjali: Song of Offerings”), and was highly influential in introducing the best […]
“Tank Man” (also known as the “Unknown Protester”) is the nickname of an unidentified man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks on June 5, 1989 — the morning after the Chinese military had ruthlessly suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 … As the lead tank maneuvered to pass by the […]
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