Nanak (1469-1538) was an Indian religious reformer and founder of the Sikh religion. He combined elements of both the Moslem and the Hindu traditions in his teachings. Nanak was born into an upper-caste Hindu family near Lahore. His enviro...

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. From the American newspapers you'd thi...

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."....

Cartwright, Nancy(1944–) Nancy Cartwright, as of 2005, held several academic positions, including professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics (since 1991); ...

When Edward Stratemeyer conceived of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories in 1929, he envisioned a girls' version of his popular Hardy Boys series. He hoped it would prove successful, but he could not have foreseen that it would fast beco...

Award-winning novelist Nancy Farmer writes "large-scale stories in which children battle inner demons and ferocious villains in a series of perilous adventures through hostile but richly conceived landscapes," according to Roger Sutton, wr...

Nancy Garden, winner of the 2003 Margaret A. Edwards Award, is chiefly known for her candid fiction on gay and lesbian issues. Garden was among the first authors for young adults to write of lesbian romance from a positive, affirming persp...

This people article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of people articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to the current standard . Nancy Grace (born October 23, 1958 in Macon, Georgia) is a vi...

As a U.S. senator from Kansas, Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (born 1932) was a political maverick whose stands ranged from support of the Equal Rights Amendment and a woman's right to choose abortion to support for the failed nomination of ...

"All forms of biological manipulation will be it for the twenty-first century," predicted award-winning science fiction writer Nancy Kress in an interview with Authors and Artists for Young Adults. "We're on the verge of a biotech explosio...

Nancy López is one of the youngest women golfers to achieve professional success. Since 1978, she has consistently ranked among the top women players. She is one of only five women in the sport to have earned more than $1 million in...

Producer, director, and writer Nancy Meyers is best known for screenwriting collaborations with Charles Shyer, collaborations that resulted in films the couple often produced and directed as well. From their break-out hit with Private Benj...

Born c. 1744North Carolina or PennsylvaniaDied c. 1841Henderson County, Kentucky Farmer, spy Legend has it that Nancy Morgan Hart captured British soldiers during the American Revolution, then sang the words to "Yankee Doodle"...

Nancy Joyce Peters is an American author, publisher and co-owner with Lawrence Ferlinghetti of the City Lights Bookstore . Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 Quotes about Nancy Joyce Peters 4 External links // Sourced The tempest unleashes a...

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses....

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer....

Psychologist Nancy Wexler (born 1945) researches Huntington's disease. She developed a presymptomatic test for the condition and identified the genes responsible for the disease. Nancy Wexler's research on Huntington's disease has led to t...

ĀNANDAMAYĪ MĀ (the bliss-permeated Mother, 1896–1982) was a leading Hindu spiritual master in twentieth-century India. She was regarded a divine manifestation by her disciples, who came from all strata of the In...

The principal traditional dramatic genres of Thailand are khon (masked drama), lakhon (dance-drama), likay (folk opera), nang (shadow theater) and hun (puppet theater). While there is a secondary school that specializes in training childre...

The Forgotten Holocaust : Why was such savagery inflicted on a nation the Japanese once regarded as their main source of cultural inspiration, their Rome and Greece? The Japanese invasion of China lasted from 1931 to 1945, immediately b...

Nannerl Overholser Keohane (born 1940), a professor of political science, is the first woman to become the president of both a U.S. women's college, Wellesley, and a major research university, Duke. Dr. Nannerl Overholser Keohane has broke...

The Nanny Diaries is a 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, both of whom are former nannies. The book satirizes upper class Manhattan society as seen through the eyes of their children's caregivers. A film adaptation starring Sca...

"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." This is the title of Richard Feynman speech on nanotechnology delivered in 1959, through which the theory of nanotechnology was first introduced. After its introduction in 1959 the first comprehensiv...

Discovered while shopping in 1985, British model Naomi Campbell became an instant success in the United States, where she metamorphosed from a sweet schoolgirl into a polished—and, many would say, primadonna—professional. Her...