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Fahrelnissa Zeid: Visionary Artist Bridging East and West
Fahrelnissa Zeid (7 January 1901 – 5 September 1991) was a Turkish artist best known for her large-scale abstract paintings…
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Revisiting Zora Neale Hurston: An Icon of African-American Literature
Zora Neale Hurston (7 January 1891 – 28 January 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American…
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Johann Philipp Reis: The Forgotten Genius Behind the Telephone
Johann Philipp Reis (7 January 1834 – 14 January 1874) was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone,…
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Oskar Luts: Estonia’s Literary Luminary
Oskar Luts (7 January 1887– 23 March 1953) was an Estonian writer and playwright. He is well known for his semi-autobiographical tale, Kevade, which…
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Reviving a Language: The Visionary Work of Eliezer Ben Yehuda
Eliezer Ben Yehuda (7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922), a Russian–Jewish linguist, grammarian, and journalist, was renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary. He…
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Gaspar Henaine: The Comedy King of Mexican Cinema
Gaspar Henaine (6 January 1927 – 30 September 2011) also known by his stage name Capulina, was a Mexican actor,…
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Victor Horta: Master Architect of Art Nouveau
Victor Horta (6 January 1861 – 8 September 1947) was a Belgian architect who is considered one of the pioneers…
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Picking with Precision: The Legacy of Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs (6 January 1924 – 28 March 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called…
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Dr Maggie Lim: Singaporean physician and public health official
Dr Maggie Lim (5 January 1913 – November 1995) was a Singaporean physician and public health official. She was inducted…
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Louis Braille: Illuminating the Path to Literacy for the Blind
Louis Braille (4 January 1809 -- 6 January 1852 was a French educator and inventor who is best known for…
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Emma Ihrer: The Unsung Heroine of the German Labor Movement
Emma Ihrer (3 January 1857 – 8 January 1911) was a German feminist and trade unionist who was active in founding…
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Sir Isaac Newton: The Father of Modern Physics
Sir Isaac Newton ( 4 January 1643 -- 31 March 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and natural philosopher…
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Anna May Wong: Breaking Barriers in Hollywood
Anna May Wong (3 January 1905 – 3 February 1961) an American actress, was considered the first Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood as…
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Nabil Ali Mohamed: The Pioneer of Arabic Computational Linguistics”
Nabil Ali Mohamed (3 January 1938 – 27 January 2016) was an Egyptian computer scientist who made significant contributions to…
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Breaking Barriers: The Inspiring Journey of Tawhida Ben Cheikh
Tawhida Ben Cheikh (2 January 1909 – 6 December 2010) was a Tunisian physician and activist who played a pioneering…
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