2021-02-14 12:28
NEW YORK, NY, FEBRUARY 14, 2021 – Albert Einstein is the best-known scientist, and one of the most famous people, of all time–a man whose work not only led to the development of… Read More
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Simply Charly is an original, one-stop portal to a wealth of information about some of the world's most prominent historical figures.
2021-01-07 20:49
At first glance, a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist and American-born poet stand as far apart as science and literature usually do. But in fact, the two do have some things in com… Read More
2020-12-15 14:13
The Paris Husband, published by Simply Charly in 2018, explores one of the key events in Ernest Hemingway’s life—his first marriage to Hadley Richardson—and his years in Pa… Read More
2020-12-07 14:00
American intellectual Noam Chomsky is 92 years old today. Sometimes during his long life, he has said things that are remarkably obvious. Some people find these statements refreshing, w… Read More
2020-12-03 11:45
It is a widely accepted fact that many geniuses are notoriously strange. The Nobel-winning British physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), whose birthday is on August 8, was no exception. The scie… Read More
2020-11-24 11:45
Adolf Hitler was a fascist, Joseph Stalin a totalitarian, and the famous Irish poet, William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865-1939) was both. In his essay, Passion and Cunning: An Essay… Read More
2020-11-18 11:45
Even though he was born in Illinois and died in California, New York City played—no pun intended—a major role in Miles Davis’ life and career. He had lived in the Big Apple… Read More
2020-11-01 11:45
Regarded by many as one of the most influential philosophers of the 20thcentury, Ludwig Wittgenstein was born on April 26, 1889, and died on April 29, 1951, so this week marks anniversaries… Read More
2020-10-31 11:46
Although he is best known for somber poems like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) had a whimsical side as well. In the late 1930s… Read More
2020-10-22 17:20
American jazz composer, bandleader and trumpeter John Birks Gillespie (1917-1993), better known as Dizzy Gillespie, who would have celebrated his 98th birthday yesterday, once ran for presid… Read More
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