Individuals - Index, History (Pre-20th Century)

By Dint:

Domestic
Protest Within Convention: Victorian Marriage. Mary H. Seymour, story in Peterson's Ladies National Magazine 1865.

Politics
Chester A. Arthur, a President Who Changed in Office: From Patronage, to Reformer

Benjamin Disraeli, More to be Known For The dark horse.

Born out of wedlock
Shadow Children - The "Illegitimate"

Health
William Horation Bates, Ophthalmologist, bane of the vision industry

Compassion
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins

Pre-Christian, Sagas
Otkell, Son of Skarf, Icelandic Saga. From Burnt Njall's Saga, events 900 AD, written perhaps 1100 AD. A man whose greed was simply circumvented by the group's inspired leader, a tactic of indirection leading to a better result than confrontation. Pre-Christian morality

Beowulf: Hwaet! Power of the Written Word
Beowulf, figure in a culture without writing: how much is lost until someone records; how much is lost, changed, when someone does record. Beowulf, Scandinavian, recorded centuries later by proto-Saxon.

BURNT NJALL - Otkell, Son of Skarf, Skarphedinn, Burnt NjalI - Icelandic saga on greed, leadership, human relations before Christianity

Education, Philosophy
COMENIUS - Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius): Educator Valuing, Harnessing Student Enjoyment, "Teacher of Nations"

Religion
Sara la Kali, Sara the Black, Roma Saint









GUGGENBUHL - Dr. Louis Guggenbuhl, Befriender of Cretins, Switzerland

KOMENSKY - Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius): Educator Valuing, Harnessing Student Enjoyment, "Teacher of Nations"



PANTERA - Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera. Pantera, Speculative Pater of the Son - Traditions that do not go away


PHIPPS - Wintley Phipps, Conjuror of Black Slave Experience through Song, Story behind "Amazing Grace"


SALOME - Beowulf, Alaskans, Salome: Power of the Later Written Word, to Augment, or Distort

SARAH - Sara la Kali, Sarah the Black, Gypsy Patron. And Mithra?


SEYMOUR - Mary H. Seymour, Protester, Victorian Marriage









TILLION - Germaine Tillion, French Sage, Nazi Resistor, Anthropologist, Intellectual




Hermann Dah, Artist, Delaware. Attention deserved




Religion, including speculation
Pantera (Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), and Religious Tradition  A persistent but speculative secular explanation for events many see as divine.  Keep an open mind, now. Often the simplest is so, rather than the convoluted complex; and need not affect other matters.

Education
Jan Amos Komensky, The Teacher of Nations Czech philosopher, educator, 18th Century. Roots for Montessori - teach so children have fun. Make it natural. A/k/a Comenius. Check different Czech spellings for any name.