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  José Mattoso

  JOSÉ MATTOSO nasceu em Leiria, a 22 de Janeiro de 1933. Professor catedrático jubilado, doutorou-se em História Medieval pela Universidade de Lovaina (Bélgica), em 1966, quando era monge beneditino do Mosteiro de Singeverga, onde permaneceu até 1969. Pediu a redução ao estado laical em 1970, iniciando então uma carreira universitária. Leccionou na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, entre 1971 e 1977, e, daí até 1990, na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universidade de que foi também vice-reitor (1991-1995). Foi presidente do Instituto Português de Arquivos (1988-1990), director do Instituto de Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo (1996-1998) e Presidente do Conselho Científico das Ciências S

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  Ernest Hemingway

  Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
  Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a

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  Henry Kissinger

  Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger) was a German-born American bureaucrat, diplomat, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President.
  
  A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente.
  
  During his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations he cut a flamboyant figure, appearing at social occasions with many celebrities. His foreign policy record made him a nemesis to the anti-

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  Jordan B. Peterson

  Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, self-help writer, cultural critic and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance.
  
  Peterson grew up in Fairview, Alberta. He earned a B.A. degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in 1991. He remained at McGill as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and an associate

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  José Mattoso

  JOSÉ MATTOSO nasceu em Leiria, a 22 de Janeiro de 1933. Professor catedrático jubilado, doutorou-se em História Medieval pela Universidade de Lovaina (Bélgica), em 1966, quando era monge beneditino do Mosteiro de Singeverga, onde permaneceu até 1969. Pediu a redução ao estado laical em 1970, iniciando então uma carreira universitária. Leccionou na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, entre 1971 e 1977, e, daí até 1990, na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universidade de que foi também vice-reitor (1991-1995). Foi presidente do Instituto Português de Arquivos (1988-1990), director do Instituto de Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo (1996-1998) e Presidente do Conselho Científico das Ciências S

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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