Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette dite Colette est une femme de lettres, actrice et journaliste française, née le 28 janvier 1873 à Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (Yonne) et morte le 3 août 1954 à Paris.
Colin Ross war ein österreichischer Journalist, Kriegsberichterstatter und Ingenieur. Er gehörte zwischen den Weltkriegen neben Egon Erwin Kisch, Richard Katz und Alfred E. Johann zu den bekanntesten deutschsprachigen Reisejournalisten. Ab 1933 nutzte er seine Auslandsreisen auch zu Zwecken der nationalsozialistischen Propaganda.
Colley Cibber was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert Lowe and Alexander Pope, among others, to criticise his "miserable mutilation" of "crucified Molière [and] hapless Shakespeare".
Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952.
Concepción Rodríguez-Espina y García-Tagle, más conocida como Concha Espina, fue una escritora española, autora de novelas —varias de ellas, adaptadas al cine— como La niña de Luzmela, La esfinge maragata y Altar mayor. También cultivó la poesía, el teatro y el cuento.
Kǒng Fūzǐ, commonly Latinized as Confucius, was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Confucius's teachings and philosophy underpin East Asian culture and society, remaining influential across China and East Asia to this day. His philosophical teachings, called Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, and sincerity.
