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This week's featured author pages

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

Empedocles (495 - 435) -- Greek philosopher who developed the pluralist tradition by arguing that the world is comprised of four elements

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830 - 1886) -- American whose poetry deals with universal themes in a profoundly original manner.

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 0) -- a courageous Russian political commentator during the second world war.

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) -- one of the greatest French poet and most important of the French Romantic movement.