Escritas - Authors List

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (October 3, 1877 - July 7, 1965) was an American academic and the sole female US delegate to the San Francisco United Nations Charter Conference in April 1945

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz (born 1946) is an American psychologist. Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and social action at Swarthmore College. He frequently publishes editorials in the New York Times applying his research in psychology to current events

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Dick Gregory

Dick Gregory (born Richard Claxton Gregory on October 12, 1932) is an American comedian, social activist, writer and entrepreneur

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Max Weinreich

Max Weinreich was a linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.

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Virginia

a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War one of the British colonies that formed the United States a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range

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Barry Neil Kaufman

Barry Neil Kaufman is a writer.

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Dick Francis

Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE FRSL was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer, whose novels centre around horse racing in England.

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Max Weber

1864 - 1920

Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced social theory, social research, and the entire discipline of sociology.

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Barry Lopez

Barry Holstun Lopez is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns.

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Virgil Thompson

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Dick Clark

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Max Silver

Inventor (Silver Global Manufacturing)

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Barry LePatner

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Virgil Garnett Thomson

United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989)

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Dick Cheney

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Max R. Hickerson

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Virgil

a Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC)

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Barry Halper

Barry Halper was an extensive collector of baseball memorabilia who had been a limited partner owning about 1% of the New York Yankees.

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Dick Cavett

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Max Planck

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, FRS was a German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

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Barry Goldwater

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 - May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election

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Vinny Nayak

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Dick Butkus

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Max Percy

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