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This week's featured author pages

Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883) -- Russian novelist and playwright; leading stylist in the genre

Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) -- enigmatic Italian philosopher who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition

Pythagoras (550 - 500) -- a reputed mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, about whom very little is really known

John Buridan (1295 - 1360) -- nominalist philosopher of the Middle Ages who was especially concerned about questions of logic and theology

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 0) -- a courageous Russian political commentator during the second world war.