Emerson Spartz. Emerson Spartz (born February 17, 1987) is a New York Times best selling author and CEO of Chicago-based Spartz Media.[1] Spartz founded the Harry Potter site MuggleNet at age 12.[1][2] Early life[edit] Spartz was raised in La Porte, Ind.[1] At the age of twelve, Spartz convinced his parents to allow him to drop out of school and homeschool himself. He developed his own curriculum,[3] which his parents supplemented by requiring him to read four short biographies of successful people every day.[1] Career[edit] MuggleNet[edit] Spartz founded the MuggleNet website in 1999.[4] In 2007, Emerson co-authored a book - MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7 - Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love, and How the Series Finally Ends.[5] As of July 21, 2007, the book sold 335,000 copies and reached #2 on the New York Times Children's Bestseller List, where it spent six months.
Spartz Media[edit] In November 2010, GivesMeHope released a book of the top 127 stories from the site. Richard C. Hoagland. Richard Charles Hoagland,[3] (born April 25, 1945 in Morristown, New Jersey[4]) is an American author, and a proponent of various conspiracy theories about NASA, lost alien civilizations on the Moon and on Mars and other related topics. His writings claim that advanced civilizations exist or once existed on the Moon, Mars and on some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and that NASA and the United States government have conspired to keep these facts secret. He has advocated his ideas in two published books, videos, lectures, interviews,[5][6] and press conferences.[7][8] His views have never been published in peer-reviewed journals.[9] Hoagland has been described by James Oberg of The Space Review and Dr.
Phil Plait of Badastronomy.com as a conspiracy theorist and fringe pseudoscientist.[10][11] Background[edit] Hoagland appears regularly as the "Science Advisor" for Coast to Coast AM, a late-night radio talk show.[19] Hyperdimensional physics[edit] Mars, Face on Mars, and Cydonia[edit] Vera Stanley Alder. Vera Dorothea Stanley Alder (29 October 1898 - 26 May 1984) was a portrait painter and mystic. She wrote several books and pamphlets on self-help and spirituality.
She founded the World Guardian Fellowship. Background and family life[edit] Vera Dorothea Stanley Alder was born 29 October 1898 at Eglingham, near Alnwick, Northumberland.[1] Her father David Julius Adler (born 3 April 1871) was Danish and her mother Sylvia Marie Stanley (born 12 December 1880) was English. Vera first married Roland Hunt, a naval architect, on 12 June 1943[4] with whom she shared a common enthusiasm for esoteric subjects.
On 16 February 1963[5] Vera married Aage Larsen, her Danish publisher; the marriage lasted until her death on 26 May 1984, in Bournemouth, where Vera was cremated on Wednesday 6 June[6] the local paper noting that she had a 'wide ranging and exuberant interest in spiritual life'. Career and works[edit] Works[edit] References[edit] VideoLightBox Gallery generated by VideoLightBox.com. Walter Russell. Walter Bowman Russell (May 19, 1871 – May 19, 1963) was an American polymath known[1] for his achievements as a painter, sculptor, author and builder and less well known as a natural philosopher and for his unified theory in physics and cosmogony.[2][3] He posited that the universe was founded on a unifying principle of rhythmic balanced interchange. This physical theory, laid out primarily in his books The Secret of Light (1947) and The Message of the Divine Iliad (1948–49), has not been accepted by mainstream scientists.[4] Russell asserted that this was mainly due to a difference in the assumptions made about the existence of mind and matter; Russell assumes the existence of mind as cause while he believes that scientists in general assume the existence of mind as effect.[5] Russell was also proficient in philosophy, music, ice skating, and was a professor at the institution he founded, the University of Science and Philosophy (USP).
Biography[edit] Legacy[edit] Nuclear reactors[edit] Rodney Stich. Rodney Stich (born 1923) is an American author and former Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) investigator (1962–1968). According to Burnett's Conspiracy Encyclopedia, "his work led him to believe that there was major corruption at the heart of the aviation business. His "whistle-blowing" campaign was carried out for over 30 years, in which he filed his own "federal actions" in courts throughout the United States. His book Unfriendly Skies (1968) led to a "tale of Job-like proportions in which Stich doggedly filed private lawsuits against the FAA and eventually lost his business, money, home, and ultimately his liberty.
" In 1986 he was imprisoned for six months for contempt of court.[1] Christopher Story's conspiracy journal, International Currency Review (ICR), considers that Stich was a pioneer in exposing the crimes committed by the United States government and their concealment. Bibliography[edit] References[edit] (Saving...) Obo Addy. Obo Addy (January 15, 1936 – September 13, 2012) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s. He taught music at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Biography[edit] After a long battle with liver cancer, Addy died on September 13, 2012.[2] Awards[edit] He founded the Homowo African Arts and Cultures organization, which sponsors the annual Homowo Festival of African Arts in Oregon.
Recent albums[edit] AfieyeOkropong (Alula Records)Wonche Bi (Alula Records)Let Me Play My Drums (Burnside Records)The Rhythm Of Which A Chief Walks Gracefully (Earthbeat Records)Okropong (Santrofi Records) References[edit] External links[edit] Kahudes. Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook[1] on April 24, 1954) is an American prisoner convicted for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.[2] His original sentence of death, handed down at his first trial in July 1982, was commuted to life imprisonment without parole in 2012.[3] Described as "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate" by The New York Times,[4] supporters and detractors have disagreed on his guilt, whether he received a fair trial, and the appropriateness of the death penalty.[5][6][7] Born in Philadelphia, Abu-Jamal became involved in black nationalism in his youth, and was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970.
Alongside his political activism, he became a radio journalist, eventually becoming president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists. On December 9, 1981, Officer Faulkner was shot dead while conducting a traffic stop on Abu-Jamal's brother, William Cook. Early life and activism[edit] Daniel Faulkner. Daniel Collamore Heath. Daniel Collamore Heath (1843-1908) Daniel Collamore Heath (1843-1908) was the founder of D. C. Heath and Company, part of Houghton Mifflin. Daniel C. Heath was born in Franklin County, Maine in 1843. He studied at Nichols Latin School and Bates College (then called the Maine State Seminary) before graduating from Amherst College in 1868. Ginn and Heath, the predecessor to D.C. Herman Kahn. Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation.
He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove.[1] His theories contributed to the development of the nuclear strategy of the United States. Background[edit] Cold War theories[edit] Kahn considered this theory untenable because it was crude and potentially destabilizing.
Kahn rested his theory upon two premises, one obvious, one highly controversial. The bases of his work were systems theory and game theory as applied to economics and military strategy. "The unthinkable"[edit] The Year 2000[edit] 26. Richard Stallman. Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, RMS,[1] is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner, such that a user receiving it, likewise receives with it the freedoms to use, study, distribute and modify that software: software that ensures these freedoms (on receipt) is termed free software.
He is best known for launching the GNU Project, founding the Free Software Foundation, developing the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and writing the GNU General Public License. Stallman launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to create a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software.[2] With this, he also launched the free software movement.
In 1989 he co-founded the League for Programming Freedom. He has received fourteen honorary doctorates and professorships for this work. Early years[edit] New York City[edit] MIT[edit] Events leading to GNU[edit] Russell Means. Russell Charles Means (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012) was an American Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American people and libertarian political activist. He became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968, and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage. Means was active in international issues of indigenous peoples, including working with groups in Central and South America, and with the United Nations for recognition of their rights. He was active in politics at his native Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and at the state and national level. Early life[edit] Means was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, to Theodora Louise Feather and Walter "Hank" Means.[1] His mother was a Yankton Dakota from Greenwood, South Dakota and his father, an Oglala Lakota.[2] He was given the name Wanbli Ohitika by his mother, which means "Brave Eagle" in the Lakota language.[3]
John Napier. John Napier of Merchiston (/ˈneɪpɪər/; 1550 – 4 April 1617) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchistoun. John Napier is best known as the inventor of logarithms. He also invented the so-called "Napier's bones" and made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic and mathematics. Napier's birthplace, Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland, is now part of the facilities of Edinburgh Napier University. After his death from the effects of gout, Napier's remains were buried in St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh.
Early life[edit] Merchiston Castle Napier's father was Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston Castle, and his mother was Janet Bothwell, daughter of the politician and judge Francis Bothwell, Lord of Session, and a sister of Adam Bothwell who became the Bishop of Orkney. Merchiston Castle from an 1834 woodcut Advances in mathematics[edit] Theology[edit] Adam Curtis. Biography[edit] Curtis was born in 1955 as Kevin Adam Curtis in Kent.[2] His father was Martin Curtis (10 August 1917 – January 2002), a cinematographer from Sevenoaks in Kent who worked with Humphrey Jennings.[1] His family had a left wing background.[3] Curtis attended the Sevenoaks School on a county scholarship.[4] Curtis completed a Bachelor of Arts in Human Sciences at Mansfield College, Oxford, which included courses in genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, politics, anthropology and statistics.
He started a PhD, during which he tutored in Politics, but while on the course became disillusioned with academia.[3] He applied to the BBC, and was hired to make a film for one of the BBC training courses, comparing designer clothes in pop music videos to the design of weapons. He subsequently obtained a post on That's Life! , a programme that often placed serious and humorous content in close juxtaposition. Politics[edit] Of his general political outlook, Curtis has said: Films[edit] Alfred W. McCoy. Alfred William McCoy (born June 8, 1945) is a historian of Southeast Asia.
He is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. McCoy graduated from the Kent School in 1964. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College, and his Ph.D in Southeast Asian history from Yale University.[1] Thesis[edit] The principal thesis of McCoy's work is that organized crime in both America and Europe collaborated in a wide-ranging conspiracy to establish new centers of opium production, heroin refining and distribution in Southeast Asia. This collaboration occurred following the effective suppression of the heroin trade in America during World War II and the subsequent decision to stamp out opium growing by Turkey which had been one of the main sources of raw opium.
McCoy points out that the French SDECE military intelligence agency during the First Indochina War (1947–1954) was in need of money for its covert operations. Recent work[edit] Grant Goodman Prize[edit] See also[edit] Peter Dale Scott. Peter Dale Scott (born 11 January 1929[1]) is a Canadian born, former English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a former diplomat and a poet. A son of the Canadian poet and constitutional lawyer F. R. Scott and painter Marian Dale Scott, he has been critical of American foreign policy since the era of the Vietnam War. Scott was a signatory in 1968 of the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, in which participants vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[2] He spent four years (1957–1961) with the Canadian diplomatic service.
He retired from the UC Berkeley faculty in 1994. Literary works[edit] In terms of poetry, he is best known for his book-length poem Coming to Jakarta (subtitled "a poem about terror"), which describes in measured, prosodically regular verse the 1965 crisis in Indonesia that resulted in the Indonesian Civil War and the deaths of as many as half a million people, in which he believed the CIA to have played a role.[3] Will Durant.