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Dorothy Day was a radical Catholic who refused to choose between God and the poor. She founded the Catholic Worker movement in 1933, during the Great Depression, by opening a hospitality house in New...
Read article →Malala Yousafzai (born July 12, 1997) is a Pakistani education activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman on October 9, 2012, at age 15, for her advoc...
Read article →Malala Yousafzai was fifteen years old when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, asked which girl was Malala, and shot her in the head. The bullet entered above her left eye a...
Read article →Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. He first appeared in the animated short Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928, which was one of the first cartoons with synchr...
Read article →Mickey Mouse is recognized by more people worldwide than any real human being. A 1998 survey by the Lintas agency found that 97 percent of children between ages three and eleven globally could identif...
Read article →Kenshiro is the protagonist of Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken), a manga by Buronson (writer) and Tetsuo Hara (artist), serialized from 1983 to 1988. Set in a post-nuclear wasteland, the series...
Read article →Kenshiro walks through a post-apocalyptic wasteland punching people so hard they explode. That sentence is accurate and completely misleading. Fist of the North Star, created by Buronson and Tetsuo Ha...
Read article →Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the primary antagonist of It, a 1986 horror novel by Stephen King. Pennywise is the preferred form of an ancient, shapeshifting entity called It (also known as Bob Gray...
Read article →Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the form most people associate with It — Stephen King's 1986 novel about a group of children who face an ancient evil in Derry, Maine. But Pennywise is not It. It is an...
Read article →Gintoki Sakata is the protagonist of Gintama, a manga and anime by Hideaki Sorachi serialized from 2003 to 2019. He is a former samurai who fought in the Joui War — a failed rebellion against the Aman...
Read article →Gintoki Sakata fought in the Joui War — a failed rebellion against aliens who conquered Japan. He was known as the White Demon, one of the most feared warriors of his generation. He lost. The revoluti...
Read article →Might Guy is a jounin (elite ninja) from the Hidden Leaf Village in Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. He is a taijutsu specialist who, like his student Rock Lee, cannot use ninjutsu or genjutsu and fights...
Read article →Might Guy is a man who cannot use ninjutsu or genjutsu, wears a green spandex bodysuit, gives thumbs-up speeches about youth, and nearly killed the most powerful villain in Naruto history through shee...
Read article →J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) was an American writer best known for The Catcher in the Rye (1951), one of the most widely read and frequently banned novels in American literature. His other published work...
Read article →J.D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951. It sold sixty-five million copies. It was found in the possession of Mark David Chapman when he assassinated John Lennon and in the apartment of...
Read article →Haku (real name Nigihayami Kohakunushi, meaning Spirit of the Kohaku River) is a major character in Spirited Away (2001) by Hayao Miyazaki. He appears as a boy working in Yubaba's bathhouse and is rev...
Read article →Haku is a boy who works in the spirit bathhouse under the witch Yubaba. He is polite, competent, and carrying a secret that he himself has forgotten: he is not a boy. He is a river spirit — the spirit...
Read article →Pema Chodron (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, and teacher. She is the most widely read Western Buddhist teacher, with books including When Things Fall...
Read article →Pema Chodron became a Buddhist nun after her second divorce. She was in her late thirties, a mother and teacher in New Mexico, and she has said that the moment her second husband told her he was havin...
Read article →Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) was an American dancer who is considered the founder of modern dance. She rejected classical ballet in favor of free-form, barefoot dance inspired by Greek art, nature, and...
Read article →Isadora Duncan removed her corset, took off her shoes, walked onto a stage in a Greek tunic, and invented modern dance. She did this in 1899, when ballet was the only respectable form of theatrical da...
Read article →Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident. He is known for his theological works The Cost of Discipleship (1937) and Letters and Papers from Pri...
Read article →Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, and pacifist who joined a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. That sentence contains a contradiction that Bonhoeffer spent the last years of...
Read article →Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was an American science fiction writer whose works explore themes of reality, identity, consciousness, and authoritarianism. He wrote 44 novels and over 120 short stories, m...
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