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This week's featured author pages

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 - 1923) -- American educator and writer, famous for her children's works

Anaxagoras (500 - 428) -- influential pre-Socratic philosopher

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) -- one of the greatest French poets of the 19th century

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911) -- German philosopher, whose contributions include the development of hermeneutics and broadening the application of Kant's philosophy

Vitoria Francisco de (1480 - 1546) -- best remembered for his arguments for a system of international law based on natural law