• Sir Edward Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG (18 November 1872 – 13 January 1953) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant. He was the...
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  • Edward Marsh may refer to: Edward Marsh (cricketer) (1865–1926), British cricketer Edward Marsh (polymath) (1872–1953), British polymath, translator, arts...
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  • politician 13 December – Jim Davidson, comedian 13 January – Sir Edward Marsh, polymath and civil servant (born 1872) 28 January – Derek Bentley, criminal...
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    have been "a rebuff to Indian students". Marsh was father to the polymath Edward Marsh and father-in-law of the controversial general and writer, Frederick...
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    Act I, the character introduces himself by presenting his résumé as a polymath but admitting to fundamental shortcomings. He claims a wide range of classical...
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  • to the Center of the Earth. A major influence was the Arts and Crafts polymath William Morris. Tolkien wanted to imitate his prose and poetry romances...
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    134–142. doi:10.1080/00029890.2009.11920920. JSTOR 27642690. S2CID 6068179. Marsh, Allison (30 April 2020). "Who Invented Radio: Guglielmo Marconi or Aleksandr...
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    his ministry there, Malan was enabled to do many more things that his polymath interests prompted him to pursue while there than if he had been, for example...
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    Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences...
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    death which took place a few days ago from a singular cause at Grayton-le-Marsh [sic]... "The occurrence of a similar case to the above is either so rare...
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    original on January 28, 2020. Retrieved June 14, 2022. Steve Martin Is A Polymath: Click To Find Out What That Means! on YouTube published September 29,...
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    and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of Western cryptography, a claim he shares...
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  • Edward Adrian Wilson (1872–1912), English polar explorer, physician, naturalist, painter and ornithologist Thomas Young (1773–1829), English polymath...
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    Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy...
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    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer...
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  • Musa as an astronomer. According to one story, al Ma’mun saw the Greek polymath Aristotle in a dream telling him about the importance of natural philosophy...
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  • N (natural sciences), Nh (natural history, environment), O (opera), P (polymath), Ph (philosophy), Po (politics, government), Ps (psychology), R (religion...
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     1292), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was a polymath, a medieval English philosopher, scientist, theologian and Franciscan friar...
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    helped to create a Pan-Asian culture that is shared across the region. The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer from Santiniketan...
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    The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists...
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    Hawthorne. Later well-known works were Dracula by Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh's The Beetle and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr...
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    city of Gotha to be purely mineral in nature, Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel, a polymath in the employ of the ducal court of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, correctly recognised...
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  • Cameroonian-Gabonese-French biographical drama film about Albert Schweitzer, the Alsatian polymath Heat (1995) – crime drama film loosely based on Chicago police officer...
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  • writers were certainly important to him, including the Arts and Crafts polymath William Morris, and he undoubtedly made use of some real place-names, such...
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  • Grimmelshausen, author of the novel Simplicius Simplicissimus Athanasius Kircher, polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician Ehrenfried Walther...
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  • 1915. Brian Yeo, footballer, was born in the town in 1950. Thomas Young, polymath and translator of the Rosetta Stone List of people from Sussex Worthing...
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    of the Maldives was then referred to as Diva Kanbar by the scholar and polymath al-Biruni (973–1048). The name Maldives may also derive from Sanskrit माला...
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    and Moody Square in New Westminster, are named after him. Moody was a polymath who excelled in engineering, architecture, and music. He planned the restoration...
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  • Rabindranath Tagore (Law 1878–1879, did not graduate), Bengali poet and polymath; first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) Sean Thomas...
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  • imitate the prose and poetry romances of the 19th-century Arts and Crafts polymath William Morris in style and approach. The Desolation of Smaug, portraying...
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