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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60 – Interview with David B. Roosevelt, author of Grandm?re – a personal history of Eleanor Roosevelt
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60 - Interview with David B. Roosevelt, author of Grandm?re - a personal history of Eleanor Roosevelt

You have written a book about your grand mother, Eleanor Roosevelt? What inspired you to do so? This is a question I asked myself over and over as I first considered writing Grandm?re. After all, there had been numerous biographies and books written about her life and work, so what could I possibly offer that was different? To my knowledge no one had written about Eleanor Roosevelt from quite the same personal perspective as I could, as one of…

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JOHN KNOX (1514 ?-1572)

The fourth huge limestone figures on the Wall of the Reformation in the Parc des Bastions in Geneva is of John Knox. Why should the leader of the Scottish Reformation be commemorated in Geneva ? In fact, he did spend a short time there. Very little is known about his early life. Those who have studied the subject assume that he was born into a farming community to the east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in about 1514. It is equally assumed…

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