New Additions

• Miguel Ángel Asturias Hombres de ma?z
• Richard Ayoade Dean Learner on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
• Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky
• Isaac Brock Frontman for Modest Mouse
• Harold Budd Ambient composer, Eno collaborator
• Rudolf Carnap The Logical Syntax of Language
• Luis Cernuda Generation of '27
• Bram Cohen Creator of BitTorrent
• Max Eastman Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
• Alfred Eisenstaedt Life magazine photographer
• Franz Ferdinand Assassination touched off WWI
• Arthur Fiedler Conductor of the Boston Pops
• Margot Fonteyn Exceptional British ballerina
• Peter Gay The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
• Jean Genet Theatre of the Absurd
• Knut Hamsun Norwegian novelist, Sult
• James Hong Indeed!
• Fred Hoyle Steady-state universe
• Scott Joplin The King of Ragtime
• Gary Kildall Founder of Digital Research, Inc.
• Dorothea Lange Depression-era photographer
• Wassily Leontief Structure of the American Economy
• René Lévesque Premier of Quebec, 1976-85
• Patrice Lumumba First Prime Minister of Congo
• Alexander Luria Pioneer of neuropsychology
• Antonio Machado Generation of '98
• Sorley Maclean Scottish/Gaelic poet
• John McEntire Tortoise
• Vyacheslav Molotov Stalin's right-hand-man
• Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion
• John Cardinal O'Connor Archbishop of New York, 1984?2000
• Peter D. Ouspensky Esoteric philosopher, Tertium Organum
• Enver Pasha Young Turk leader, planned the Armenian genocide
• Markus Popp Oval
• Willard Van Orman Quine Positivist philosopher
• Roberto Rossellini Stromboli
• Lillian Roth I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Michael Sandison Half of Boards of Canada
• Moritz Schlick Positivist philosopher, Vienna Circle
• William Seabrook Thoroughly sodden traveling author
• Selim II Ottoman Sultan, 1566-74
• Shock G The Humpty Dance is your chance
• Horace Silver The Jazz Messengers
• Richard Sorge Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa
• Isaac Stern Violin virtuoso
• Jean-Louis Trintignant Un homme et une femme
• Moise Tshombe Katanga secessionist
• Shaun White The Flying Tomato
• Howlin' Wolf Blues guitarist
• Alvin York Highly decorated WWI veteran
• Azita Youssefi The Scissor Girls

Posted: February 28, 2006