Monday, September 30, 2013

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder


 (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer, most notably the author of the Little House series of children’s novels based on her childhood in a pioneer family

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Lemuel Kelley Washburn 

He was an American free-thinker writer. He was the compiler of a Cosmian hymn book – a collection of original and selected hymns (1888) announced as “perfectly free from all sectarianism

Saturday, September 28, 2013

John Griffith “Jack” London

 (born John Griffith Chaney, (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as his short stories

Rumi


Born 1207 A.D Died  1273 A.D
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumiand popularly known as Mevlana in Turkey and Mawlana in Iran and Afghanistan but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi  was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi is a descriptive name meaning “Roman” since he lived most of his life in an area called “Rum” (then under the control of Seljuq dynasty) because it was once ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire. He was one of the figures who flourished in the Sultanate of Rum.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Amelia Mary Earhart

 (July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author.Earhart was the first aviatrix (female pilot) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis

She is a licensed psychologist, poet, dancer, and minister. Dr. Bryant-Davis, an Associate Professor at Pepperdine University, is Past-President of the Society for the Psychology of Women. The North Carolina Arts Council named her Emerging Artist of the Year.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

William Arthur Ward

 (1921–March 30, 1994), author of Fountains of Faith, is one of America’s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.