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Tamara Karsavina
Ibn Khaldun

Stephen King
Charles Kingsley

Ballerina Thamara Karsavina Posing in Costume for the Ballet "Pavilion D'Armide", Photographic Print

Tamara Karsavina
b. 3-10-1885; St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 5-26-1978; England

Tamara Karsavina, noted for her beauty, graduated from the Imperial Bellet School. Karsavina was also a leading ballerina of the Tsar's Imperial Ballet, danced in the Ballet Russe of Diaghilev and was the ballet teacher of Markova and Fonteyn.

Johannes Kepler
b. 12-27-1571; Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt, near Stuttgart, now Germany
d. 11-15-1630; Regensburg, Electorate of Bavaria

Astronomer, astrologer, mathematician and teacher Johannes Kepler, a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, is best remembered for describing the motion of planets around the Sun. His work provided insights to Isaac Newton for the theory of universal gravitation.

Kepler had smallpox as a child and suffered from impaired vision and crippled hands.

FYI ~ Kepler's mother, Katharina, was an herbalist, and who according to Kepler took him to “... a high place to look” at the Great Comet of 1577, was accused of witch craft, and was saved from execution by her son.

Johannes Kepler quotes ~
• “Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
• “We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.”
• “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
• “Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
• “I feel carried away and possessed by an unutterable rapture over the divine spectacle of heavenly harmony... I write a book for the present time, or for posterity. It is all the same to me. It may wait a hundred years for its readers, as God has also waited six thousand years for an onlooker.”
• “The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.”

• Kepler's Witch : An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother

Ibn Khaldun
b. 5-27-1332; Tunis
d. 3-19-1406; Cairo

Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun is noted as a historian, astronomer, jurist, theologian, mathematician, and philosopher.

Stephen King
b. 9-21-1947; Portland, Maine

Stephen King, best known as an author of horror and suspense novels, also was a teacher.

Stephen King quotes ~
• “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
• “People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
• “The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

Charles Kingsley
b. 6-12-1819; Holne, Devon, England
d. 1-23-1875; Eversley, Hampshire

Charles Kingsley, a priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, is best remembered for The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863).

Maxine Hong Kingston, Great Asian Americans, Wall Poster

Maxine Hong Kingston
b. 10-27-1940; Stockton, CA

Poster Text: In one sense, Maxine Hong Kingston's writing career began when she was only eight years old. That was the year she completed her very first work: a poem whe wrote because whe was bored with her real assignment to draw a map of California. Her teacher could not possibly guessed that the little girl who didn't do her homework would grow up to become an educator and the author of three award-winning books. ...

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Im Bachschen Stil, 1919, Paul Klee, Art Print

Paul Klee
b. 12-18-1879; Münchenbuchsee bei Bern, Switzerland
d. 6-29-1940; Muralto,

Artist Paul Klee's work ranges through Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and Surrealism. He also was a master of color theory, a teacher at the Bauhaus, and a member of Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four).

Paul Klee quotes ~
• “First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.”