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Lewis Carroll passed away 114 years ago. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an english author, mathematician, logician, anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand… (more)

Lewis Carroll passed away 114 years ago.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an english author, mathematician, logician, anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand… (more)

List of great geniuses connected with chess

This geniuses are known to have played chess, or have declared an interest in the game, or created works of art and literature in which the game is prominently featured:

  • Isaac Asimov
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Franz Brentano
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Miguel de Cervantes
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Eugène Delacroix
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Albert Einstein
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe
  • David Hume
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Karol Wojtyła (John Paul II)
  • Franz Kafka
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Maimonides
  • Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Moses Mendelssohn
  • Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Rembrandt
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • George Washington

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