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Pramod Karan Sethi Biography

doctorDied: January 6, 2008 (Jaipur, India) Best Known as: inventor of a prosthesis called the Jaipur foot Dr. Sethi invented the first affordable…

Aesop's Fables: The Cat and the Birds

by Aesop The Peacock and the CraneThe Spendthrift and the SwallowThe Cat and the Birds A Cat heard that the Birds in an aviary were ailing. So he got himself up as a doctor, and, taking…

Aesop's Fables: The Monkey and the Camel

by Aesop The Ass and the WolfThe Sick Man and the DoctorThe Monkey and the Camel At a gathering of all the beasts the Monkey gave an exhibition of dancing and entertained the company…

Aesop's Fables: The Quack Frog

by Aesop The Boy BathingThe Swollen FoxThe Quack Frog Once upon a time a Frog came forth from his home in the marshes and proclaimed to all the world that he was a learned physician,…

Your Friends and Neighbors

PolyGram Video; rental pricingFeature; RDirector:Neil LaButeCast:Jason Patric, Catherine Keener, Ben Stiller and Aaron Eckland LaBute's switchblade-sharp follow-up to In the Company of Men…

Marie Stopes

Marie Stopes was a palaeobotanist who became the United Kingdom's greatest advocate for birth control after the 1918 publication of her book Married Love. Trained in biology and geology, she had her…

Andreas Lubitz

Andreas Lubitz was a German pilot who flew a passenger plane with 149 other people into the French Alps on March 24th, 2015, killing everyone on board. The confounding details of the crash were…

Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is a celebrity doctor whose specialty is the healing ways of his native India. Chopra was born and raised in India and moved to the United States in the 1970s. He settled in Boston and…

Robin Cook

Robin Cook, a medical doctor, is a founding father of the "medical thriller" genre of popular fiction. His 1977 novel Coma was a sensation (and was turned into a film directed by another author/M.D…

Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 -- while serving a prison sentence in China for "inciting subversion" with writings that urged reform of the government. A poet and scholar, Liu earned…