"G. J. R. Krishnan Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman Radhakrishnan, popularly known as GJR Krishnan, is a Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer. Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan was born in Chennai to violin maestro, Lalgudi Jayaraman. A post graduate in commerce and a Cost & Works Accountantband a Company Secretary education, Krishnan has dedicated his life to a career in music. Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan debuted in 1973 and became popular. He travels extensively on musical tours all over the world. His style like his father's is the gayaka style closest to vocal rendition. G J R Krishnan typically performs"
"Tolkien family The Tolkien family is an English family whose best-known member is J. R. R. Tolkien, Oxford academic and author of the fantasy books ""The Hobbit"", ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Silmarillion"". According to J. R. R. Tolkien, the family emigrated from Lower Saxony in Germany to England in the 18th century. The Tolkien name, with different spellings, is also still found in Germany. The name was possibly derived from the village of Tolkynen near Rastenburg, East Prussia (now in Poland and known as Tołkiny). John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973)"
"to ingratiate himself with the radical youth. However, in 1880, Dostoyevsky's speech at the unveiling of the Pushkin monument brought about a reconciliation of sorts with Turgenev, who, like many in the audience, was moved to tears by his rival's eloquent tribute to the Russian spirit. Turgenev's health declined during his later years. In January 1883, an aggressive malignant tumor (liposarcoma) was removed from his suprapubic region, but by then the tumor had metastasized in his upper spinal cord, causing him intense pain during the final months of his life. On 3 September 1883, Turgenev died of a spinal abscess,"
"existence of not only infinite sets, but even of large integers such as 10. He sketched a program for proving the consistency of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory using ultrafinitistic techniques in , and . Alexander Esenin-Volpin Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin (also written Ésénine-Volpine and Yessenin-Volpin in his French and English publications; ; May 12, 1924March 16, 2016) was a prominent Russian-American poet and mathematician. A notable dissident, political prisoner and a leader of the Soviet human rights movement, he spent a total of fourteen years incarcerated and repressed by the Soviet authorities in prisons, psikhushkas and exile. Alexander Volpin was born on"
"it was there that he wrote the main part of his music, including his two symphonies and the incidental music for Alexey Tolstoy's ""Tsar Boris"". Exhausted, he died of tuberculosis on January 11, 1901, just before his 35th birthday. Thanks to Sergei Rachmaninoff's help, Tchaikovsky's publisher P. Jurgenson bought three Kalinnikov songs for 120 rubles, and later the Symphony No. 2 in A major. The Symphony No. 1 in G minor, which uses some cyclic principles, was performed in Berlin, Vienna and Moscow during his lifetime, but not published until after his death, so Jurgenson increased the fees he would"
"He has self-published a number of books through his Four Ahau Press. He died on 2 July 2017 from cancer of the kidney at the age of 53. Jenkins considered scientific approaches to cosmology a byproduct of limited thinking. In ""Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies,"" he writes, ""I primarily wish to promote a visionary approach to these matters, as there is much more to the Sacred Calendar than can be seen with the rational intellect,"" and that these visionary perspectives ""can more closely touch the spirit of the calendar"" than does the anthropological literature. Jenkins also maintained that, in"
"consider price alone are that man's lawful prey."") John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and"
"he identifies himself and for which he speaks."" Botkin called on writers to utilize folklore in order to ""make the inarticulate articulate and above all, to let the people speak in their own voice and tell their own story."" Botkin was harassed and subject to surveillance for many years by the F.B.I. A recent study by Professor Susan G. Davis documents extensive surveillance of Botkin over more than a decade. Botkin died on July 30, 1975 in his home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Botkin embraced the ever-evolving state of folklore. According to him, folklore was not static but ever changing"
"replaced. On July 19, she announced that he had died. Jordin Kare Jordin T. Kare (October 24, 1956 – July 19, 2017) was a physicist and aerospace engineer known for his research on laser propulsion. In particular, he was responsible for Mockingbird, a conceptual design for an extremely small (75 kg dry mass) reusable launch vehicle, and was involved in the Clementine lunar mapping mission. Kare was also known as developer of the ""Sailbeam"" interstellar propulsion concept and, in the science fiction fan community, as a composer, performer and recording artist of filk music. Kare grew up in the Philadelphia"
"Fleeming Jenkin Prof Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE LLD (; 25 March 1833 – 12 June 1885) was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of the cable car or telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer, economist, lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. His descendants include the engineer Charles Frewen Jenkin and through him the Conservative MPs Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Bernard Jenkin. Generally called Fleeming Jenkin, after Admiral Fleeming, one of his father's patrons, he was born to an old"
"lives of Konstantin Batyushkov, Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Kozlov, and Yevgeny Baratynsky. It was Turgenev that took the body of Pushkin from Saint Petersburg to the family vault at the Svyatogorsk Monastery. All his life he never stopped learning, and his letters were, according to I. N. Sreznevsky, ""one of the treasures of our literature, with the diversity and richness of the historical information, vivid and true, and all the thoughts and feelings expressed in them."" Alexander Turgenev Alexander Ivanovich Turgenev (; (27 March [7 April] 1784, Simbirsk - 3 [15] December 1845, Moscow) was a Russian statesman and historian. Alexander"
"nationalist movement. He was stricken with tuberculosis in 1883 and died on February 1, 1885 in Merano, Italy. He completed his last novel, ""The Inheritance"", shortly before his death. Smolenskin was a leader in the revolt of young Jews against medievalism and a strong voice for Jewish nationalism. His Hebrew periodical, ""The Dawn"" (""Ha-shahar"" השחר), was highly influential in these spheres. Shortly before his death he was associated with Laurence Oliphant and became deeply interested in schemes for the colonization of Palestine. Smolenskin was among the first of Jewish nationalists to disassociate Messianic ideals from theological concomitants. His six novels"
"USSR Academy of Sciences. He worked there on the theory of economic growth and economic equilibrium. He remained at the Institute until 1976, when he emigrated to the United States. In 1977, he became a professor at Cornell University. Dynkin died at a hospital in Ithaca, New York, aged 90. Dynkin was an atheist. Dynkin is considered to be a rare example of a mathematician who made fundamental contributions to two very distinct areas of mathematics: algebra and probability theory. The algebraic period of Dynkin's mathematical work was between 1944 and 1954, though even during this time a probabilistic theme"
"On 29 July 1938, he was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on charges of ""participating in a counter-revolutionary organization"" and ""training terrorists"". He was executed on 29 July 1938, and his body was buried in the Moscow region of Kommunarka. He was rehabilitated 8 September 1956. His name appears in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's cycle of novels ""The Red Wheel"". Alexander Andreyevich Svechin Alexander Andreyevich Svechin (; 17 August 1878, Odessa – 28 July 1938) was a Russian and Soviet military leader, military writer, educator and theorist, and author of the military classic"
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, ""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"" (1962), in the periodical ""Novy Mir"". After this he had to publish in the West, most notably ""Cancer Ward"" (1968), ""August 1914"" (1971), and ""The Gulag Archipelago"" (1973). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel"
"of the Imaginists. In early 1925 Yesenin met and married Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya (1900-1957), a granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. In May what proved to be his final large poem ""Anna Snegina"" came out. During the year, he compiled and edited The Works by Yesenin in three volumes which was published by Gosizdat posthumously. On 28 December 1925, Yesenin was found dead in the room in the Hotel Angleterre in St Petersburg. His last poem ""Goodbye my friend, goodbye"" (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья) according to Wolf Ehrlich was written by him the day before he died. Yesenin complained that"
"it done by Tolstoy's magic brush? ""No - too expensive, but how terrifically sweet"""" (the last line is taken from Ivan Dmitriev's fable ""The Fashionable Woman""). Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (; 21 February 1783 – 25 April 1873) was a Russian artist who served as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years (1828–1868). His works — wax-reliefs, watercolours, medallions, and silhouettes — are distinguished by a cool detachment and spare and economical classicism. Fyodor Tolstoy came from the Tolstoy family. His father Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy, governed a ministry of war supplies. Tolstoy early"
"Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy () ( – ), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy ""The Death of Ivan the Terrible"" (1866), ""Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich"" (1868), and ""Tsar Boris"" (1870). He also gained fame for his satirical works, published under his own name (""History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev"", ""The Dream of Councillor Popov"") and under the collaborational pen name of Kozma Prutkov. His fictional works include the novella"
"of what happens to the information held by objects once they disappear into a black hole"". Also in October 2018, Hawking's last book, ""Brief Answers to the Big Questions"", a popular science book presenting his final comments on the most important questions facing humankind, was published. Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death and died on the 139th anniversary of Einstein's birth. His private funeral took place at 2 pm on the afternoon of 31 March 2018, at Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge. Guests at the funeral included Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist"
"Julián Gorkin Julián Gómez García-Ribera, better known as Julián Gorkin (January 1901, Benifairó de les Valls - 8 August 1987, Paris) was a Spanish revolutionary socialist, and a central leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) during the Spanish Civil War. He was also a writer of many books on political and cultural themes, as well as novels and some plays. After the Spanish Civil War, he escaped to Mexico where he became a part of the strong anti-Stalinist socialist community there. He helped obtain visas for Victor Serge and his son Vlady to enter Mexico when they"
"John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation. The elaborate style that"
"Sergei Tolstoy Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy (Russian: Сергей Львович Толстой; 10 July 1863, Yasnaya Polyana - 23 December 1947, Moscow) was a composer and ethnomusicologist who was among the first Europeans to make an in-depth study of the music of India. He was also an associate of the Sufi mystic, Inayat Khan, and participated in helping the Doukhobors move to Canada. He was the eldest son of Leo Tolstoy. As a child, he studied music with his mother Sophia. He also studied composition with Sergei Taneyev. From 1881 to 1886, he was enrolled in the ""Department of Natural Sciences, Physics"
"Shortly before his death, on 28 April 1791, Potemkin used the palace to host unprecedented festivities and illuminations with the purpose of winning the Empress's waning affections. The ball was described by Gavrila Derzhavin in the longest of his compositions. Notwithstanding all the expenses, Potemkin failed in his ambition and departed for Iaşi in despair. After the owner's death several months later, Catherine II purchased his palace and ordered architect Fyodor Volkov to transform it into her summer townhouse. Volkov was responsible for many improvements in the grounds, including the construction of the theatre in the east wing and the"
"letter to poet Karolina Pavlova (who was also a translator of his dramas) on 8 July 1875. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy died on September 28, 1875, in Krasny Rog, Chernigov Governorate, after having given himself a lethal injection of morphine. He was buried in the family vault in the Uspenskaya Church in Krasny Rog. Tolstoy represented the later period of Romanticism in Russian literature; art for him was a mystic link between the human world and the higher spheres where ""eternal ideas dwell."" Along with Afanasy Fet, his artistic and spiritual ally, he saw Art as a higher science, man's only"
"1928 until his death in Oswego, New York on August 4, 1943. Culkin died as the result of histoplasmosis, a rare tropical disease he was believed to have contracted while on a trip to South America in 1938. He was buried at St. Paul’s Cemetery in Oswego. A World War II Liberty ship was named for Culkin. Culkin Hall at the State University of New York at Oswego was named for him. Culkin's Oswego law firm is still in operation as Amdursky, Pelky, Fennell & Wallen P.C. Francis D. Culkin Francis Dugan Culkin (November 10, 1874 – August 4, 1943)"
"London periodical ""Polar Star"". Death of the Poet ""Death of the Poet"" () is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel on January 27, 1837, and died on the 29th. Lermontov began his first formulation of the poem (ending with the phrase ""...his lips forever sealed"") as soon as he heard of the event, and within a short time copies of the poem began to be circulated in St. Petersburg. Within days the doctor Nikolai Arendt visited Lermontov (who was ill) and told him the"
"perceived as a threat to accede to supreme power. In subsequent years Trotsky's essay was reprinted several times under its own covers by the international Trotskyist movement. Following a series of strokes, which had incapacitated him for more than a year, Soviet leader V.I. Lenin died on January 21, 1924 at the age of 53. Despite his chronic illness, Lenin's premature death nevertheless came as a shock both to the people of the Soviet Union and to the small circle of individuals who collectively ruled in his stead through the governing Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) [RKP(b)]"
"Jakob Bettelheim Jacob Bettelheim, ""' (pseudonym: ""Karl Tellheim""; October 24 (26), 1841, Vienna – July 13, 1909, Berlin), a Jewish Austrian-German dramatist, writer, translator. He attained considerable prominence by his first attempt in the field of literature, """"Elena Taceano"""", a romance. This he followed with """"Intime Geschichten"""" (novelettes) and a drama, """"Nero,"""" written in collaboration with Von Schönthan in 1889. After"" ""Die Praktische Frau,"""" a farce, came """"Giftmischer"""" and """"Vater Morin,"""" two popular plays; 2 dramas, """"Ehelüge"""" and """"Sein Bester Freund""""; """"Madame Kukuk,"""" a farce; """"Syrenen,"""" a popular play; """"Seine Gewesene,"""" farce; """"Aus der Elite,"""" farce, 1894; """"Der Millionenbauer,"""" drama,"
"film was based on a 1990 biographical novel by American writer Jay Parini, who in turn based his novel on, amongst others, the memoirs of Bulgakov. Valentin Bulgakov Valentin Fyodorovich Bulgakov (; 25 November 1886 in Kuznetsk, Russian Empire – 22 September 1966 in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Oblast, Soviet Union) was the last secretary of Leo Tolstoy and his biographer. He was director of a number of literary museums and was engaged in Tolstoyan, pacifist, and anti-communist activities. He was imprisoned by both the Tsarist and Soviet regimes and was a Nazi concentration camp survivor. During the final 20 years"
"Sergei Alexandrovich Zhevakin Sergei Alexandrovich Zhevakin () (April 11, 1916 – February 21, 2001) was a Russian astronomer. Zhevakin is credited for identifying ionized helium as the valve for the heat engine that drives the pulsation of Cepheid variable stars. S. A. Zhevakin was born on April 11, 1916 in Moscow. The family moved to Nizhny Novgorod in the late 1920s. Graduated from N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod in 1939, and, after two years of working at various local factories, entered graduate program in 1941. However, because of the invasion of Nazi Germany, was conscripted into army"
"sea and in the hinterlands of China. Three years later on February 23, 1868, Verbist died of typhoid fever at the age of 45 in Lao-Hu-Kou. During World War II, Father Raskin, ordained in the congregation in 1910, and during the 1920-1930's was a missionary to Inner Mongolia, was made a chaplain in the Belgium army and was a personal advisor to King Leopold III. While he was operating under the codename Leopold Vindictive 200 for the Dutch resistance in 1942, he was captured by the Gestapo, tried, convicted, then sentenced to death and beheaded on October 18, 1943. His"
"Studies of the University under Prof. Nicholas Poppe and edited the milestone ""Mongol chronicles of the XVIIth century"". He was arrested in 1937, convicted to five years imprisonment on February 19, 1940, and died on May 14, 1942 in Sol-Iletsk prison (Orenburg). Details were released by the Russian government in 1993. One of his many interests was research into cryptozoological organisms like the Yeti or the Mongolian Death Worm. Jamsrangiin Tseveen Jamsrangiin Tseveen (; ; often romanized to Jamtsarano), (1880 - May 14, 1942) was a Buryat scholar and one of the leading figures in Mongolian politics and especially academia"
"In 1973 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. Abroad he again alarmed the Soviet authorities in 1977 by threatening to sue them for spreading rumours that he was mentally ill. In 2005, Esenin-Volpin participated in ""They Chose Freedom"", a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement. He died on March 16, 2016, aged 91. His early work was in general topology, where he introduced Esenin-Volpin's theorem. Most of his later work was on the foundations of mathematics, where he introduced ultrafinitism, an extreme form of constructive mathematics that casts doubt on the"