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
Charles Kendall Adams
American Educator and Historian, President of Cornell University and President of the University of Wisconsin
Walter Bagehot
English Economist, Critic, Businessman, Essayist, Social Darwinist and Journalist who wrote extensively about Literature, Government and Economic Affairs
Percy W. Bridgman, fully Percy Williams Bridgman
American Physicist awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
Richard E. Byrd, fully Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr.
American Naval Officer, Pioneer, Aviator, Polar Explorer
Hugh C. Cameron
American Brigadier General, Vice Commander, 9TH Air Force, U.S. Central Command Air Forces
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Canassatego, Onondaga Chief. Treaty concluded between the Six Nations (Iroquois) and the colonies of Virginia and Maryland. Deliberations began at Lancaster, Pennsylvania on June 28, and ended on July 4, 1744.
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, fully Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, conte di Cavour
Italian Piedmontese Statesman, Politician and Patriot, Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, First President of the Council of Ministers
Edgar Cayce, known as the "Sleeping Prophet"
American Psychic, "father of holistic medicine," and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years, Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come
Edward S. Casey
American Philosopher, President of the American Philosophical Association, Chairman of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University
Charles I NULL
Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland until his execution
Chazon Ish, named Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz
Named Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, Worldwide Authority on Jewish Law, Talmudic Author
William Pitt, Lord Chatham or Lord William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, aka The Elder Pitt and The Great Commander
English Whig Statesman, Prime Minister of Great Britain who led Britain during the Seven Years' War
Tim Considine, fully Timothy Daniel "Tim" Considine
American Child and Young Adult Actor who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Writer, Photographer, and Automotive Historian
Mandell Creighton
English Historian, Bishop of the Church of England,a scholar of the Renaissance Papacy
Taisen Deshimaru
Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist Teacher, Founded the Association Zen Internationale
Lewis W. Dillwyn, fully Lewis Weston Dillwyn
English Porcelain Manufacturer, Naturalist and Member of Parliament
Dubner Magid, name for Rabbi Jacob ben wolf Krantz
Lithuanian-born Russian Rabbi, Teacher on Morals and Ethics, Torah Scholar and Master Orator
Melvin James Evans
American Businessman, President of Melvin J Evans Company, a Management Engineering, Industrial Relations and Marketing Company
Nosson Tzvi Finkel
American-born Haredi Litvish Rabbia and Den of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem
Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis, born Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin
French Author
Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) and his brother Augustus William Hare
English Clergyman, Wrote in Collaboration
Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan
American Blues and Jazz Singer and Songwriter, nicknamed "Lady Day" by her Friend and Musical Partner, Lester Young
Lynn Hill, aka Lynn Hill-Raffa
America’s Foremost Female Rock-Climber, married to climber Russ Raffa
