Legacies library · 251 lives

The lives that shaped what we remember.

251 carefully written profiles, from Aristotle to Wangari Maathai. Scientists, writers, reformers and teachers. Each one is a miniature, written here.

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Rosa ParksRead the legacy ->

Ada LovelaceRead the legacy ->

Wangari MaathaiRead the legacy ->

Leonardo da VinciRead the legacy ->

Mary AnningRead the legacy ->

Ibn KhaldunRead the legacy ->

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31 lives

Abdul Sattar EdhiRead the legacy ->

Abraham LincolnRead the legacy ->

Ada LovelaceRead the legacy ->

Ahmed IRead the legacy ->

Alan TuringRead the legacy ->

Albert EinsteinRead the legacy ->

Albert SchweitzerRead the legacy ->

Aldo LeopoldRead the legacy ->

Aldous HuxleyRead the legacy ->

Alexander FlemingRead the legacy ->

Alexander Graham BellRead the legacy ->

Alexander the GreatRead the legacy ->

Alexander von HumboldtRead the legacy ->

Alfred HitchcockRead the legacy ->

Alfred MarshallRead the legacy ->

Alfred TarskiRead the legacy ->

Alfred WernerRead the legacy ->

Ali MazruiRead the legacy ->

Amos TverskyRead the legacy ->

André BazinRead the legacy ->

Andrey Nikolaevich KolmogorovRead the legacy ->

Anne Boleyn: Queen Who Shaped England's History and Tragic FateRead the legacy ->

Anne Frank: Holocaust Victim and Author of the Famous DiaryRead the legacy ->

Ansel AdamsRead the legacy ->

Antonin ArtaudRead the legacy ->

AristotleRead the legacy ->

Arthur DantoRead the legacy ->

Ashoka the Great: Buddhist King Who Shaped Indian HistoryRead the legacy ->

Audrey Hepburn: Iconic Actress and Devoted HumanitarianRead the legacy ->

Auguste Comte: Pioneer of Positivism and Modern SociologyRead the legacy ->

Averroes: Philosopher Bridging Reason and Religion in IslamRead the legacy ->

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5 lives

Barbara WardRead the legacy ->

Barry CommonerRead the legacy ->

bell hooksRead the legacy ->

Benjamin Franklin: Founding Father, Inventor, and Enlightenment IconRead the legacy ->

Bertrand RussellRead the legacy ->

C

14 lives

Carl Edward SaganRead the legacy ->

Carl-Gustaf RossbyRead the legacy ->

Carl Gustav JungRead the legacy ->

Carl Ortwin SauerRead the legacy ->

Cecilia Payne-GaposchkinRead the legacy ->

Cesare LombrosoRead the legacy ->

Charles DarwinRead the legacy ->

Charles DickensRead the legacy ->

Charles LyellRead the legacy ->

Christopher ColumbusRead the legacy ->

Claude Lévi-StraussRead the legacy ->

Claude MonetRead the legacy ->

Coco ChanelRead the legacy ->

ConfuciusRead the legacy ->

D

9 lives

D.T. SuzukiRead the legacy ->

Dalton TrumboRead the legacy ->

Daniel DefoeRead the legacy ->

David HilbertRead the legacy ->

DemocritusRead the legacy ->

Donella MeadowsRead the legacy ->

Doreen MasseyRead the legacy ->

Dorothy DraperRead the legacy ->

Douglas EngelbartRead the legacy ->

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16 lives

E. P. ThompsonRead the legacy ->

Edgar Allan PoeRead the legacy ->

Edmund BurkeRead the legacy ->

Edward SaidRead the legacy ->

Edward SapirRead the legacy ->

Edward W. SojaRead the legacy ->

Eleanor RooseveltRead the legacy ->

Elinor OstromRead the legacy ->

Emily DickinsonRead the legacy ->

Erich AuerbachRead the legacy ->

Erik EriksonRead the legacy ->

Ernest RutherfordRead the legacy ->

Erwin PanofskyRead the legacy ->

Eugene Pleasants OdumRead the legacy ->

EuripidesRead the legacy ->

Eve Kosofsky SedgwickRead the legacy ->

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6 lives

Florence NightingaleRead the legacy ->

Frank HerbertRead the legacy ->

Frantz FanonRead the legacy ->

Fred HoyleRead the legacy ->

Frida KahloRead the legacy ->

Fyodor DostoevskyRead the legacy ->

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11 lives

Gabriel Abraham AlmondRead the legacy ->

Gabriel García MárquezRead the legacy ->

Galileo GalileiRead the legacy ->

George Gordon ByronRead the legacy ->

George OrwellRead the legacy ->

George WashingtonRead the legacy ->

Gilbert RyleRead the legacy ->

Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizRead the legacy ->

Gregor MendelRead the legacy ->

Guglielmo MarconiRead the legacy ->

Gunnar MyrdalRead the legacy ->

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15 lives

Hal FinneyRead the legacy ->

Hannah ArendtRead the legacy ->

Hans Adolf KrebsRead the legacy ->

Hans MorgenthauRead the legacy ->

Harriet MartineauRead the legacy ->

Harry Hammond HessRead the legacy ->

Hattie McDanielRead the legacy ->

Heinrich SchliemannRead the legacy ->

Helen KellerRead the legacy ->

Henrik IbsenRead the legacy ->

Henry FordRead the legacy ->

Herbert A. SimonRead the legacy ->

Herbert MarcuseRead the legacy ->

HippocratesRead the legacy ->

Howard HughesRead the legacy ->

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6 lives

Ibn BattutaRead the legacy ->

Ibn KhaldunRead the legacy ->

Immanuel KantRead the legacy ->

Isaac NewtonRead the legacy ->

Isambard Kingdom BrunelRead the legacy ->

Izaak Maurits KolthoffRead the legacy ->

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7 lives

Karl BenzRead the legacy ->

Karl MarxRead the legacy ->

Karl PopperRead the legacy ->

Käthe KollwitzRead the legacy ->

Katia KrafftRead the legacy ->

Kenneth L. PikeRead the legacy ->

Kurt LewinRead the legacy ->

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7 lives

Leonardo da VinciRead the legacy ->

Lewis Fry RichardsonRead the legacy ->

Linus Carl PaulingRead the legacy ->

Louis PasteurRead the legacy ->

Louis XIII of FranceRead the legacy ->

Luciano PavarottiRead the legacy ->

Lucie RieRead the legacy ->

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7 lives

Nam June PaikRead the legacy ->

Napoleon BonaparteRead the legacy ->

Nicolaus StenoRead the legacy ->

Niels BohrRead the legacy ->

Nikola TeslaRead the legacy ->

Norman L. BowenRead the legacy ->

Norman MyersRead the legacy ->

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4 lives

Octavio PazRead the legacy ->

Orson WellesRead the legacy ->

Oscar WildeRead the legacy ->

Osman I: Founder of the Ottoman Empire & Visionary LeaderRead the legacy ->

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10 lives

Pablo PicassoRead the legacy ->

Paul FarmerRead the legacy ->

Paul J. CrutzenRead the legacy ->

Paul RandRead the legacy ->

Paul TillichRead the legacy ->

Philip W. AndersonRead the legacy ->

Pierre CurieRead the legacy ->

Piet MondrianRead the legacy ->

Pope John Paul IRead the legacy ->

Pope Pius XIIRead the legacy ->

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1 life

Queen VictoriaRead the legacy ->

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11 lives

SapphoRead the legacy ->

Sigmund FreudRead the legacy ->

Simone de BeauvoirRead the legacy ->

SocratesRead the legacy ->

Stan LeeRead the legacy ->

Stanley KubrickRead the legacy ->

Stephen H. SchneiderRead the legacy ->

Stephen HawkingRead the legacy ->

Steve JobsRead the legacy ->

Sun TzuRead the legacy ->

Susan SontagRead the legacy ->

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7 lives

Taha HusseinRead the legacy ->

Theo ColbornRead the legacy ->

Thomas EdisonRead the legacy ->

Thomas JeffersonRead the legacy ->

Thomas PaineRead the legacy ->

ThucydidesRead the legacy ->

Trevor KletzRead the legacy ->

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1 life

Umberto EcoRead the legacy ->

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3 lives

Vasily DokuchaevRead the legacy ->

Vincent van GoghRead the legacy ->

Virginia WoolfRead the legacy ->

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9 lives

W.E.B. Du BoisRead the legacy ->

Waldo ToblerRead the legacy ->

Walter BenjaminRead the legacy ->

Walter MunkRead the legacy ->

Wangari MaathaiRead the legacy ->

Wassily KandinskyRead the legacy ->

William ShakespeareRead the legacy ->

William WordsworthRead the legacy ->

Winston ChurchillRead the legacy ->

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2 lives

Yacoub ShaheenRead the legacy ->

Yuan-Cheng FungRead the legacy ->

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2 lives

Zellig Harris: Pioneer of Structural Linguistics and Linguistic TheoryRead the legacy ->

Zygmunt BaumanRead the legacy ->

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