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John Baskerville (1706–1775): English typesetter, printing innovator and typefounder, designer of the typeface that bears his name. Richard Branson (1950–): English business magnate, investor and philanthropist. Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919): Scottish-American industrialist, who led the expansion of the steel industry.
First recorded example. The earliest known example of a bar joke is Sumerian, appearing in the form of two slightly different versions of a proverb inscribed alongside many others on two clay tablets [1] [2] excavated at Nippur at the end of the 19th century. The tablets were etched around 1700 BCE, [3] during the Old Babylonian Empire ...
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most important stand-up comedians of all time.
This is an incomplete, non-exhaustive list of notable people in film, television and theater who are identified as atheist. Film, radio, television and theater Douglas Adams Woody Allen Robert Altman Michelangelo Antonioni Kevin Bacon Bernardo Bertolucci Mel Brooks Luis Buñuel Richard Burton James Cameron Guillermo del Toro Stanley Donen Clint Eastwood Sergei Eisenstein Ricky Gervais Richard ...
Julian Baggini (1968–): British writer specialising in the philosophy of personal identity, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction. [10] Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876): Russian philosopher, writer and anarchist. [11] Roland Barthes (1915–1980): French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic and semiotician.
Larry Adler [60] – American musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players. Irving Berlin (agnostic [61]) – American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. Aaron Copland (agnostic [62]) – American composer.
Jason Mantzoukas (/ m æ n ˈ z uː k ə s /; born December 18, 1972) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and podcaster.He is best known for his recurring role as Rafi in the FX comedy series The League, and as one of the three co-hosts of the podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael.
One of the titular brothers and the most amoral one. Ivan's agnosticism stands in contrast to his half-brother's, Alyosha, devotion. Alexei Nilych Kirillov. Demons. Fyodor Dostoevsky. A mentally ill socialist, who doesn't believe in God and desires the whole world to commit suicide and set itself free from fear.