Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran was born #OTD in 1883.
He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.
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Why the ‘Peanuts’ Characters Still Thrive 25 Years After the Last Original Comic Strip Was Published
In the decades since the end of the cherished newspaper strip, audiences continue to find reasons to chuckle and cheer over Charlie Brown’s gang.
By Alice George
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Russian feminist and activist Maria Trubnikova was born #OTD in 1835.
Trubnikova hosted a women-only salon which became a center of feminist activism. Alongside Anna Filosofova and Nadezhda Stasova, whom she mentored, Trubnikova was one of the earliest leaders of the Russian women's movement; the three women were referred to as the "triumvirate".
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Libro piccolo di meraviglie.
Iacopo da Sanseverino scrisse questo resoconto di viaggi nella prima metà del Quattrocento; lo si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Libro piccolo di meraviglie
il testo - redatto poco prima della metà del '400 - è riportato sul codice n. 115/Medicei Palatini, da f.128 verso a f.141 recto, conservato presso la Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana a Firenze.Liber Liber
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"He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so."
#OTD in 1855.
Anthony Trollope's novel The Warden, the first of his Chronicles of Barsetshire, is published in London by Longman as he begins to write the second, Barchester Towers.
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#OTD in 1857.
Wilkie Collins' drama The Frozen Deep is first presented in a private amateur performance featuring Charles Dickens, staged by him at his London home, Tavistock House.
Dickens added a preface, altered lines, and attended to most of the props and sets—that the principal edition of the play is entitled "Under the Management of Charles Dickens".
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"Man is not truly one, but truly two."
#OTD (and January 9) in 1886.
Robert Louis Stevenson's horror novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde appears in New York and London. Almost 40,000 copies are sold in the first six months. By 1901, it was estimated to have sold over 250,000 copies in the United States.
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There are memorable movies based on this book.
#OTD in 1895.
The première of Henry James's historical drama Guy Domville held at St James's Theatre in London is booed. This failure largely marked the end of James's attempt to conquer the theatre.
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#OTD in 1902.
The political drama Danton's Death (Dantons Tod, completed and published in 1835) by Georg Büchner (died 1837), is first performed, at the Belle-Alliance-Theater in Berlin by the Vereins Neue Freie Volksbühne.
Büchner was in constant fear of being arrested whilst writing Dantons Tod. It only reached print in 1835 after being heavily cut and having the politics softened by sexual innuendo.
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#OTD in 1905.
Baroness Emma Orczy's play The Scarlet Pimpernel, adapted by Julia Neilson and Fred Terry, who play the leads, makes its London debut at the New Theatre, followed shortly by publication of the novel.
Published after the success of the play, the novel was an immediate success, gaining Orczy a following of readers in Britain and the rest of the world.
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#OTD in 1912.
Konstantin Stanislavski and Edward Gordon Craig's seminal symbolist Moscow Art Theater production of Hamlet opens.
The most famous aspect of the production is Craig's use of a single, plain set that varied from scene to scene by means of large, abstract screens that altered the size and shape of the acting area.
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Evoluzione ed etica.
Lo scienziato e filosofo Thomas Henry Huxley tenne una conferenza nel maggio 1893, che è trascritta in questo breve saggio, dedicato al rapporto fra la teoria darwiniana e l'etica. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Evoluzione ed etica
Georges John Romanes, discepolo di Darwin e autore di studi pionieristici di psicologia comparata, istituì nel 1891 le “Conferenze Romanes” all’Università di Oxford.Liber Liber
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"Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way."
From January 4 till August 8 1868.
Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel The Moonstone: a Romance is serialised in All the Year Round (U.K.), being published in book format in July by Tinsley Brothers of London. It is seen as a precursor of full-length mystery fiction and the psychological thriller.
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English polymath Isaac Newton was born #OTD in 1642.
Newton's book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz.
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"Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."
Laws of Motion, I - Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
~Sir Isaac Newton
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Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse Enter the Public Domain
A wealth of art and literature, from the work of Robert Capa to Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, is now available for public access in the United States.
By Rhea Nayyar
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French educator Luois Braille was born #OTD in 1809. He was the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people.
At just 15 years old, Braille began refining Barbier's system, developing a code based on a six-dot cell structure that allowed for efficient representation of letters, numbers, and even musical notation.
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"Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we are not to go on being despised or patronized by condescending sighted people. We do not need pity, nor do we need to be reminded that we are vulnerable. We must be treated as equals — and communication is the way we can bring this about."
~Louis Braille (4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852)
What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
Let’s explore the composition techniques of Vincent van Gogh through an analysis of six of his artworks.
By Jina Wallwork
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"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
In January 1847.
Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society begins serial publication in Punch magazine (London) in yellow covers, with illustrations by the author, William Makepeace Thackeray, writing for the first time in his own name.
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in the small print I notice it says
"&c, &c"
which I assume means etc etc
and if so, et=& makes sense in Latin I think
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
In January 1923.
A copy of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses posted to a London bookseller by the proprietor of Davy Byrne's pub in Dublin, which features in the book, is detained as obscene by the U.K. authorities.
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#OTD in 1846.
Fyodor Dostoevsky's first original novel, Poor Folk, is published in the St. Petersburg Collection.
The first English translation was provided by Lena Milman in 1894, with an introduction by George Moore, cover art design by Aubrey Beardsley and publication by London's Mathews and Lane. It is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845.
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#OTD in 1895.
The première of Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband takes place at the Haymarket Theatre in London. In April, on the last day of the Haymarket run, Wilde was arrested for gross indecency; his name was removed from the playbills and programmes when the production transferred to the Criterion Theatre, where it ran for a further 13 performances, from 13 to 27 April.
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"Le Sacré-Cœur de Jésus est une iconographie tardive, consacrée officiellement en 1685 comme symbole de la rencontre du protestantisme et du jansénisme..."
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Faire image au XVIIe s. Recherches sur l’art du XVIIe s. Université d’été 2025 (INHA Paris)
Université d'été 2025 - Faire image au XVIIe siècle Paris, INHA (Salle Vasari), 10-11 juillet 2025 Appel à candidatures Image. f. f. Représentation d’une chose en sculpture, peinture, gravure. Les images des faux...Marc Escola (Fabula)
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Libri letti nel 2024
Continua imperterrito anche nell’anno appena trascorso l’aumento annuale di libri e fumetti letti (vista la quantità, le copertine le metto tutte in fondo al post). Alastair Smith e Bruce Bueno de …ossessioni e contaminazioni by francesco mazzetta
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Meditazioni pascaliane - Pierre Bourdieu
“Non posso giudicare della mia opera – diceva Pascal – mentre la compongo: bisogna che faccia come i pittori, e me ne allontani, ma non troppo.Mimesis Edizioni
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Posters by Georges de Feure Reveal the Beauty of Art Nouveau Lithography
By Eva Baron
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19th Century Artist Georges de Feure's Vivid Art Nouveau Posters
French artist George de Feure created striking Art Nouveau lithographs, all capturing the expressiveness and beauty of the art movement.Eva Baron (My Modern Met)
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"Nothing is stranger to man than his own image."
#OTD in 1921.
World premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti) by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové. It introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.
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the book that predicted python a century ago. fun fact: he meant android when he said 'roboti', which means he was going for replicants in todays parlance.
now we wait for someone to dissect them and retrieve the formula to make replicants from. i wonder who that will be.
#OTD in 1864 (until April 16).
James Payn publishes his most popular story, Lost Sir Massingberd, in Chambers's Journal. He follows it in the magazine (August 6 – December 24) by Married Beneath Him. Lost Sir Massingberd was published as a book in two volumes in 1864.
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![Title page of Lost Sir Massingberd.
The book is in two volumes, with this being Volume I.
Published in London by Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, located at 14, Ludgate Hill, in 1864.
It includes the note: "[The Right of Translation is Reserved.]".](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/30315401 "Title page of Lost Sir Massingberd.
The book is in two volumes, with this being Volume I.
Published in London by Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, located at 14, Ludgate Hill, in 1864.
It includes the note: \"[The Right of Translation is Reserved.]\".")
Lost Sir Massingberd: A Romance of Real Life. v. 1/2 by James Payn
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Ogni anno al 1. gennaio si "liberano" le opere per cui è scaduto il copyright. Un breve elenco di autori (e di traduttori) qui di seguito:
Alberto ALBERTINI, Bruno ARZENI, Jacinto BENAVENTE, Vitaliano BRANCATI, Pietro CASU, Decio CINTI, COLETTE, Enrico FERMI, Anna FRANCHI, Ferenc HERCZEG, Gino LORIA, Nino MAZZONI, Edoardo NICOLARDI, Amelia PINCHERLE ROSSELLI, Emilio SETTIMELLI, ...
Se ne amate altri, scriveteci, faremo il possibile!
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#OTD in 1818.
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus first appears anonymously in London.
Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.
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“Chemical Eye 👁️ on Synthetic #Biology “ 👉 corpse.org/index.php?option=co…
Exquisite Corpse - Journal of Letters and Life - Chemical Eye On
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HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!
Books which will enter the US public domain:
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in Black Mask magazine)
John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold (Steinbeck's first novel)
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Patrick Hamilton, Rope
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Yay! 🎉
Any chance each item could be prefixed with a hyphen or separated by a blank line in these posts?
The items all run together and can be difficult to determine where one ends and another begins.
Except in Canada, where copyright was extended from death +50 to death +70 in 2022… Canada, where public domain day has been cancelled for 20 years, where children will grow to adulthood without seeing a single new public domain work. 😞
I miserabili.
Uno dei romanzi più celebri del XIX secolo, scritto da Victor Hugo, è reso disponibile gratis, in formato pdf ed epub, al link più sotto. E se volete sostenere LiberLiber, potete anche acquistare l'epub per pochi euro ❤️
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I miserabili
La voce dell'invito alla lettura è di Mauro Leuce, http://mauroleuce.altervista.org/. La musica di sottofondo è: "Vltava (Moldava)", da "Má vlast" (La mia patria) di Bedřich Smetana.Liber Liber
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Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer Horacio Quiroga was born #OTD in 1878.
He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states.
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in reply to Project Gutenberg • • •"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."
The Prophet (1923)
~Khalil Gibran (6 January 1883 – 10 April 1931)
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