http://biographies.info-tecnica.org Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:41:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, GCSI (19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas for the first time in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East. He attempted to repeat ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/ferdinand-marie/ Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India until her death. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months, longer ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/victoria/ José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (September 15, 1830 – 2 July 1915) was a Mexican politician who would later become the President of Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911, and one of the most controversial figures of the country. The term Porfiriato refers to the ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/jose-de-la-cruz-porfirio-diaz-mori/ Susan Sontag (16 January, 1933 – 28 December 28, 2004) was an American author, filmmaker, philosopher, literary theorist and political activist. Life Sontag, originally named Susan Rosenblatt, was born in New York City to Jack Rosenblatt and Mildred Jacobsen, both Jewish Americans. Her father ran a fur trading business in China, where ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/susan-sontag/ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian and Whig politician and one of the two Members of Parliament for Edinburgh. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. Life The son and eldest child of ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/thomas-babington-macaulay/ Pierre Bayle (18 November 1647  – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer. Pierre Bayle was a progressive Christian scholar who argued that faith could not be justified by reason, on the grounds that God is incomprehensible to man. As one of his proofs he pointed out that no ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/pierre-bayle/ John von Neumann (Hungarian: margittai Neumann János Lajos) (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/john-von-neumann/ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour. He is famous for ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/sir-arthur-stanley-eddington/ Pío Baroja y Nessi (December 28, 1872 – October 30, 1956) was a Spanish Basque writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family, one of his relatives was a painter and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja was ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/pio-baroja-y-nessi/ Benazir Bhutto (Sindhi: بينظير ڀٽو, Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو, IPA: [beːnəziːɾ bɦʊʈːoː]) (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime ... http://biographies.info-tecnica.org/benazir-bhutto/