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  2. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Kidd (1858–1916), British sociologist, was not given a formal education. [1] As a working adult, he attended some evening classes and he read incessantly. [2] Kidd gained worldwide fame by the publication of Social Evolution in 1894. [1] Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize.

  3. List of notable autodidacts - Wikipedia

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  4. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    Generally, autodidacts are individuals who choose the subject they will study, their studying material, and the studying rhythm and time. Autodidacts may or may not have formal education, and their study may be either a complement or an alternative to formal education. Many notable contributions have been made by autodidacts.

  5. List of 18th-century British working-class writers - Wikipedia

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    There was a vogue among middle- and upper-class readers, particularly later in the eighteenth-century and throughout the Romantic era, for writers with an "interesting story of genius-in-rags," [1] for "the Unschooled Sons" — and daughters — "of Genius."

  6. List of centenarians (authors, editors, poets and journalists)

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    Spanish intellectual and writer [16] Eric Bentley: 1916–2020: 103: American playwright and theatre critic [17] Edward Bernays: 1891–1995: 103: Austrian-born American publicist [18] Harry Bernstein: 1910–2011: 101: English-American author [19] Colm de Bhailís: 1796–1906: 109: Irish poet, songwriter and stonemason [20] H.J. Blackham ...

  7. Category:15th-century English writers - Wikipedia

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  8. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be) comprises all its conjugations (is, was, am, are, were, etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [5]

  9. List of centenarians (engineers, mathematicians and scientists)

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    American astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution [1] Fred Aftalion: 1922–2022: 100: French chemical engineer [2] Saleh Ajeery: 1920–2022: 101: Kuwaiti astronomer [3] Horace Alexander: 1889–1989: 100: British biologist and ornithologist [4] Doris Twitchell Allen: 1901–2002: 100: American psychologist and founder of ...