Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945) is a Burmese politician. An emblematic figure of the opposition to the dictatorship in place, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 2016-2017, her attitude towards the crimes and persecutions committed against the Muslim minority of the Rohingyas in Burma was
Originally from the upper middle class of Chinon, François Rabelais was first a Benedictine monk, then a Cordelier, before swapping his homespun robe for a doctors coat (1537). Gradually, he turned to writing. Writer and above all a great humanist, François Rabelais tinted the French language writte
We can pin Polybius date of birth to around 210-200 BC. in Megalopolis, a city located in the Greek region of Arcadia and capital of the Achaean League, of which his father, Licortas, was an outstanding leader. We know little about his youth, although it seems that, as a member of a family of the lo
Gynecologist, Gisella Perl (circa 1900 – 1988) risked her life to try to save that of many women during her deportation to Auschwitz, performing thousands of abortions. (Warning:this article deals with torture, extreme abuse, experimentation inflicted on prisoners - especially pregnant - in Auschw