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Awesome Men Throughout History: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Posted March 12, 2013

I’m going to hazard a guess that we all had to read The Little Prince for school at some point, although most of us don’t remember anything from it except asteroids and ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Giorgio Moroder

Posted March 5, 2013

I think most of us like at least some electronic music. Your interest in it might be limited to wanting a 4/4 dance beat when you’re on the elliptical, or maybe you’re ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Abe Sherman

Posted February 12, 2013

This week’s subject of Awesome Men Throughout History is a Baltimore icon, and something of a hyper-local legend for people who still remember old Baltimore (defined roughly ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Vince Lombardi

Posted February 5, 2013

In honor of the Super Bowl (go Ravens!), this week’s Awesome Men Throughout History will focus on a man whose accomplishments as a football coach have made him something of a ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Arthur C. Clarke

Posted January 29, 2013

A decent amount of TSB’s Awesome Men Throughout History have been writers (to my eternal shame), but their accomplishments are usually limited to the immediate impact of thei ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Haruki Murakami

Posted January 22, 2013

Writers can be a frustrating lot. Granted, writing is a frustrating job, but a lot of writers seem to constantly be on the lookout for a persona to graft onto themselves, which mak ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Akira Kurosawa

Posted January 8, 2013

Akira Kurosawa is a name that we all hear a lot, usually without much in the way of context. For a lot of people, I think he’s just someone who their friends suddenly canR ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Henry Rollins

Posted December 27, 2012

Henry Rollins’ recent pro-gay rights statements alerted me to two things; the first is that Henry just gets cooler and more civic-minded as the years go by, and the second is ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Charles Addams

Posted December 12, 2012

People my age have fond memories of weird/smart comic strips like The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes, as well they should, but the work of Charles Addams puts just about everyone ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Daniel Sickles

Posted December 4, 2012

You know, for all the talk I’ve heard about how coarse and degenerate modern society is, we don’t produce guys like Daniel Sickles anymore. Sickles was a New York polit ...