Noam Chomsky
“We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
December 7, 1928: Happy 85th birthday, Noam Chomsky! The philosopher is recognized as one of the fathers of modern linguistics. He has at least one namesake—a chimpanzee who was the subject of a Columbia University study on animal language acquisition was called Nim Chimpsky.
Leonard Woolf
“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
November 25, 1880: Though he was an influential literary figure in his own right and part of the famed Bloomsbury group, Leonard Woolf is best known as Virginia Woolf‘s husband. He was born in London, 133 years ago today.
via dublin7peopleshistory: On this day in 1913 – The Dublin Lockout Begins.
The Dublin Lock-out (Irish: Frithdhúnadh Mór Baile-Átha-Cliath) was a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers which took place in Ireland’s capital city of Dublin. The dispute lasted from 26 August 1913 to 18 January 1914, and is often viewed as the most severe and significant industrial dispute in Irish history. Central to the dispute was the workers’ right to unionise. (Wikipedia)
Nadine Gordimer
“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
November 20, 1923: Happy 90th birthday, Nadine Gordimer! The novelist and Nobel Prize winner has been an anti-apartheid activist since the 1960s.
Astrid Lindgren
Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
November 14, 1907: Delightfully rude redhead Pippi Longstocking was the creation of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, but it was her seven-year-old daughter who came up with that perfect name. Lindgren was born in Småland, 106 years ago today.
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