Monthly Archives: January 2013

ǼSOP’S FABLES / Les FABLES de ǼSOP

ǼSOP’S FABLES THE HABIT of telling stories is one of the most primitive characteristics of the human race. The most ancient civilizations and the most barbarous savages we have any knowledge. We have yielded to investigators and have no clear … Continue reading

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RICHARD HENRY DANA Jr. 1815-1882 /“Two-Years Before the Mast”/Deux ans avant le mât

J’ai lu ce livre dans ma bibliothèque privée vers la fin des années 1950 écrites par le JR recherche de RHD PAR LE RB I read this book in my private library in the late 1950’s Written by RHD Jr … Continue reading

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Mortimer Jerome Adler

Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902–2001) He was an American Philosopher was born in New York, to Jewish immigrants. In the middle of the eighteenth century, Voltaire wrote and published a work that he entitled A Philosophical Dictionary. In French the work … Continue reading

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Jean Baptiste Lully

Jean Baptiste Lully The Florentine-born Jean Baptiste Lully and in Italian: Giovanni Battista Lulli; 1632–1687) Florence Italy. He was an Italian-born French Composer working in the court of Louis XI11 as director of music and spent most of his life … Continue reading

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ROBERT BURNS

ROBERT BURNS ROBERT BURNS waS born near Ayr, Scotland, the 25th of January, 1759. He was the son of William Burnes or Burness at the time of tJie poet’s birth of a nurseryman on the banks of the Doon in … Continue reading

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Edo

Edo The original name for Tokyo was Edo. Used from 1180 to 1868, the name Edo means “river gate or bay-entrance also romanized as Yedo or Yeddo. “ Because of its location on a bay at the lower coast of … Continue reading

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William Edwards Deming 1900-1993

William Edwards Deming  1900-1993) American Statistician, Professor, Author, Lecturer and Consultant Dr Deming made numerous efforts to industry in the United States of his principles on competiveness that reached the Japanese industry first and their willingness to change, the rest … Continue reading

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