Anniversaries, 14 March
Algernon Blackwood
The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian faith for Buddhism, thereby laying the foundation for a life-long interest in Eastern mysticism, the occult and Theosophy. He spent a year between 1885 and 1886 with the Moravian Brethren in Germany, and after a failed business attempt he became a dairy farmer in Canada in 1890. Two years later he travelled to New York where he worked as a reporter for the New York Sun,...
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Bussi, Michel
Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a speciality within Cultural Geography – at L'université de Rouen where he himself started to study at the age of 18. Until 2016 he was also in charge of Unité mixte de recherche (UMR) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He is also one of the most successful and m...