Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Author Listing
Robert Beverly Hale
American Artist, Curator of American Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Instructor of Artistic Anatomy
Alex Haley, Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley
American Author best known for Roots: The Saga of an American Family and co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Oveta Culp Hobby
American Editor, Publisher, First Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as well as First Commanding Officer of the Women's Army Corps
Christopher Society NULL
The Christophers are a Christian inspirational group that was founded in 1945 by Father James Keller
Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
American Politician, 30th President of the United States, Lawyer, Governor
Edward Dahlberg
American Novelist, Essayist. Critic and Autobiographer, Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
W. Macneile Dixon, fully William Macneile Dixon
India-born British Author and English and Literature Professor, President of the University Philosophical Society
Edicts of Ashoka NULL
Collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, made by the Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan dynasty during his reign from 269 B.C.to 231 B.C.
Lord Fisher, aka Lord John Arbutnoth Fisher, fully Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot "Jacky" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone
British Admiral
T. L. Fine, fully Terrence L. Fine
American Scientist, Engineer and Philosopher, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Statistical Science at Cornell University, development of alternatives to the classical calculus for probabilistic modeling and decision-making
Alfred George Gardiner
British Journalist and Author. His essays, written under the pen-name Alpha of the Plough
Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman, known as the Vilna Gaon or Elijah of Vilna or by his Hebrew acronym Gra ("Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu")
Polish-Lithuanian Talmudist, Halachist, Kabbalist, and the foremost leader of non-hasidic Jewry of the past few centuries, referred to as"the saintly genius from Vilnius"
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
American Systems Theorist, Engineer, Architect, Futurist, Visionary, Designer and Author
Edmund (Louis Antoine Huot) de Goncourt (1822-1896) and Jules (Alfred Huot) de Goncourt
French Writers and Collaborators, known as Brothers Goncourt
Caryl Parker Haskins
Scientist, Author, Inventor, Philanthropist, Governmental Adviser and Pioneering Entomologist in the study of Ant Biology
John Hay, fully John Milton Hay
American Statesman, Diplomat, Author, Journalist, Secretary of State and Assistant to Abraham Lincoln
David Hume
Scottish Philosopher, Historian, Economist and Essayist known for his philosophical empiricism and scepticism
