Deaths from Stroke - Mircea Eliade, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Mihail Sadoveanu, L. Ron Hubbard, Richard Nixon, Akira Kurosawa, Wood (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 190. Chapters: Mircea Eliade, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Mihail Sadoveanu, L. Ron Hubbard, Richard Nixon, Akira Kurosawa, Woodrow Wilson, Paul Robeson, Jawaharlal Nehru, John Tyler, Jose Raul Capablanca. Excerpt: Mircea Eliade (Romanian: March 13 1907 - April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most influential contributions to religious studies was his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them. His literary works belong to the fantastic and autobiographical genres. The best known are the novels Maitreyi ("La Nuit Bengali" or "Bengal Nights"), Noaptea de Sanziene ("The Forbidden Forest"), Isabel i apele diavolului ("Isabel and the Devil's Waters") and the Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent, the novellas Domni oara Christina ("Miss Christina") and Tinere e f r tinere e ("Youth Without Youth"), and the short stories Secretul doctorului Honigberger ("The Secret of Dr. Honigberger") and La ig nci ("With the Gypsy Girls"). Early in his life, Eliade was a noted journalist and essayist, a disciple of Romanian far right philosopher and journalist Nae Ionescu, and member of the literary society Criterion. He also served as cultural attache to the United Kingdom and Portugal. Several times during the late 1930s, Eliade publicly expressed his support for the Iron Guard, a fascist and antisemitic political...