Cecilia Meireles

Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (1901-1964, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best poetess from Brazil, though she rightly combatted the word "poetess" because of gender discrimination. She traveled in the Americas in the 1940s, on one trip visiting the U.S.A, Mexico, and on others Argentina and Uruguay, and Chile. In the summer of 1940 she gave lectures at the University of Texas, Austin. She wrote two poems about her time in the capital of Texas, and a long (800 lines) very socially-aware poem "USA 1940", which was published posthumously. As a journalist her columns (crônicas, or chronicles) focused most often on education, but also on her trips abroad in the western hemisphere, Portugal, other parts of Europe, Israel, and India (where she received an honorary doctorate). As a poet, her style was...

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Toma George Maiorescu

Surname: MAIORESCU Given Names: TOMA GEORGE Date of Birth: December 8, 1928 Married on: July 15, 1955 Number of Children: 1, Daughter - Daniela Wanda Education: Graduate, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy University of Bucharest, Graduate, Literaturni Institut, Moscow, Doctor in Humane Letters, Doctor Honoris Causa. Career to Date: 1954-1971 Editor "Contemporanul" Magazine; 1971-1982 Deputy Editor-in-Chief "Romania Pitoreasca" Magazine; 1990-Present Director of "ECO" Magazine, "Ecosophia", President of the Romanian Ecological Movement; President of The European Foundation for Ecological Education and Culture. Memberships: Active member of the "New York Academy of Sciences"; Member of the "Academie Internationale du Tourisme" (Monaco); Honor member of the Academy of Ecology (Romania). Publications: PROSE: A Trip Through Time, 1956; The Place where Cosmonauts Return, 1962; Barefoot Gods, 1966; A Dialogue with the Century, Volume I 1967, Volume II 1972; 0,17 Operation,1972; Wandering...

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Paul Strassburg

Secret Counsellor of the King of Sweden, Gustav the 2nd Adolf Paul Strassburg (1595 – 1654) was born at Nurnberg in 1595, two years after his father, a jurist, settled in the town arriving from Saxony. He acquired an academic degree at Altdorf. For three years he studied Italian and Latin in Italy. While in Prague he joined the protestant uprising in Bohemia, since he was a Calvinist, and he fought at The Battle of White Mountain (1) thus becoming a captain. In 1624 he makes a first trip to Transylvania as diplomatic agent / secret agent trying to persuade the prince of Transylvania Gabriel Bethlen (2) to become a member of the Hague Alliance of the Protestant countries: England, Holland, Denmark and thus to fight against the Habsburg Empire. The prince asked for too much money and nothing was settled. Four years later Paul Strassburg is commissioned with a new mission to Transylvania, on behalf of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden, who was now brother-in-law with the prince of...

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Monica Trif

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