Where the atomic nuclei are: Maurice Sendak, physics illustrator
The first credited work of the famed children’s book author was a set of illustrations in a 1947 popular-science book about nuclear physics.
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Where the atomic nuclei are: Maurice Sendak, physics illustrator
In this guest post, originally published in Physics Today magazine, historian Ryan Dahn highlights the story behind the first book children's author Maurice Sendak ever illustrated, 1947 popular-science book titled Atomics for the Millions by Hyman R…www.aip.org
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January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all (only in United States), as are sound recordings from 1924!
By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle
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How the mournful songs of icebergs reverberate around the world
Icebergs produce some of the loudest natural noises in the oceans. Can we learn anything about their birth, life and death by listening in?
By Richard Gray
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Caption figure below: Iceberg songs are generated by harmonic tremours that occur when icebergs rub against each other or scrape along the seafloor
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#OTD in 1782.
The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2.5 km (1.6 mi).
They invented the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique, which launched the first confirmed piloted ascent by humans in 1783, carrying Jacques-Étienne.
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"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."
Where is Science Going? The Universe in the light of modern physics.
#OTD in 1900.
Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law (quantum theory) at the Physic Society in Berlin.
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#OTD in 1847.
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey are published in a three-volume set under the pen names of Ellis and Acton Bell respectively, in London by T. C. Newby. Wuthering Heights will be Emily's only published novel, as she dies a year later, aged 30.
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#OTD in 1854.
Wilkie Collins's "The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter", published as "The Fourth Poor Traveller" in The Seven Poor Travellers – the Household Words special Christmas number – is the first non-police detective fiction published in Britain.
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La vergine ardente.
Romanzo di Rosalia Gwis Adami, scrittrice e femminista ormai ingiustamente dimenticata ed interprete di temi sociali e pacifisti. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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La vergine ardente
La Vergine ardente è un romanzo di forti passioni, sottili e pregnanti indagini psicologiche e soprattutto vibrante femminilità.Liber Liber
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Memmo; Un cane.
Due brevi e deliziosi racconti di Giovanna Gulli, calabrese, che ci parlano di due emarginati, scritti da una donna deceduta giovanissima ma già apprezzata scrittrice. Si possono scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Memmo ; Un cane
Due racconti della scrittrice calabrese Giovanna Gulli, comparsi sulla rivista “Il Convegno”, ci fanno assaggiare il suo stile originale attraverso due brevi immagini di vita contadina.Liber Liber
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In December 1896.
Frank Munsey's The Argosy publishes its first all adult fiction issue, pioneering the pulp magazine genre in the United States. The name was changed to Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1920 after the magazine merged with All-Story Weekly, another Munsey pulp, and from 1929 it became just Argosy.
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In December 1832 (or January 1833).
Richard Bentley, having purchased the remaining copyrights to all of Jane Austen's novels from her sister Cassandra, begins to return them to print (for the first time since 1820) in five illustrated volumes as part of his Standard Novels series. In October 1833, Bentley released the first collected edition of her works. Since then, Austen's novels have been continuously in print.
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Photo de Leonardo Di Caprio en costume tendant une coupe de champagne avec un sourire de winner.
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See How Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael Entered and Exited Each Other's Worlds
A new exhibition in London examines the relationship between the three Italian Renaissance artists, who came together in Florence in 1504
By Olatunji Osho-Williams
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Let’s Not Forget Charles Dickens’s Other Christmas Ghost Stories!
He loved writing these. There are very many.
By Olivia Rutigliano
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Let’s Not Forget Charles Dickens’s Other Christmas Ghost Stories!
We all know A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella about a greedy old man whose miserly ways are changed after being visited by three ghosts, on Christmas Eve. But A Christmas Caro…CrimeReads
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La svolta biopsichica: meditazioni filosofiche controcorrente
Il libro La svolta biopsichica. Quarantotto brevi meditazioni filosofiche controcorrente (pubblicato la scorsa estate da Casa Editrice Astrolabio) di Franco Fabbro mi ha intrigato per il suo porsi …ossessioni e contaminazioni by francesco mazzetta
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Discorso delle Comete.
Opera dell'astronomo Mario Guiducci, discepolo di Galileo, presenta una teoria sulle comete (errata) tentando di difendere il sistema copernicano. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Discorso delle comete
Galilei per difendere la validità del modello copernicano rispose indirettamente collaborando allo scritto Discorso delle comete di Guiducci dove si sosteneva erroneamente che le comete non fossero oggetti celesti, ma effetti ottici prodotti dalla lu…Liber Liber
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Meet the Mysterious and Brooding Norwegian Painter Responsible for 'The Scream'
Born on this day in 1863, Edvard Munch lived a life marked by mental health struggles and sought to brush themes of anxiety and dread into his art
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"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."
In his text (1889) 'Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud' - also known as 'The St. Cloud Manifesto'
~Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944)
"Since the [Cepheid] variables are probably at nearly the same distance from the Earth, their periods are apparently associated with their actual emission of light, as determined by their mass, density, and surface brightness."
Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (1912)
~Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921)
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#OTD in 1899.
Robert Browning's book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published on the same day he dies at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice. He is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
His magnum opus, The Ring and the Book (1868–1869), is a 12-volume epic poem based on a real-life Italian murder trial. He is particularly celebrated for his dramatic monologues, which reveal the inner workings of his characters' minds.
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#OTD in 1899.
Herbert Putnam is appointed Librarian of Congress in the United States, where he will introduce in practice the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) scheme.
LCC is mainly used by large research and academic libraries, while most public libraries and small academic libraries use the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
Schopenhauer argued that the world is but an intricate dream, and what he suggested lies beyond it may shock you.
By Maysara Kamal
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Un dramma nell'oceano Pacifico.
Salgari scrisse avventure esotiche ambientate un po' dappertutto, non solo Sandokan e soci. Qui c'è di mezzo un naufragio, delle tigri, degli antrpopfagi, dei cattivi e qualche "buono"... Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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“Un dramma nell’Oceano Pacifico” di Emilio Salgari
Un dramma nell'Oceano Pacifico di Emilio Salgari, è stato scritto nel 1895. La storia si svolge a bordo di una nave mercantile americana, la Nuova Georgia, che trasporta tigri indiane dall'Asia all'Australia.Liber Liber
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In December 1919.
T. E. Lawrence loses most of the manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom while changing trains at Reading in England en route from the Paris Peace Conference to Oxford.
The book had to be rewritten three times. From Seven Pillars, "... and then lost all but the Introduction and drafts of Books 9 and 10 at Reading Station, while changing trains. This was about Christmas, 1919." (p. 21)
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In December 1922
A valise containing all Ernest Hemingway's manuscripts of the past year's writing is stolen at Paris-Gare de Lyon.
His first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems, was published in Paris. All that remained after the loss of the suitcase were two of the stories the volume contained; he wrote the third story early in 1923 while in Italy. A few months later, "in our time" was produced in Paris.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The Woman Who Unraveled the Stars
By: Akshita Singh
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The Woman Who Unraveled the Stars
Her legacy was almost forgotten, but the groundbreaking research of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin revolutionized our understanding of stellar composition.Akshita Singh (Sky & Telescope)
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"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."
Swedish writer Ellen Key was born #OTD in 1849.
She on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist.
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Esclavages - Représentations visuelles et cultures matérielles - CNRS Editions
Esclavages - Représentations visuelles et cultures matérielles (EAN13 : 9782271151162) édité par CNRS Editions - Partant de sources longtemps peu mobilisées (les images, les objets, les vestiges), cet ouvrage rend compte des recherches les plus récen…Cnrs éditions
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Créateur des éditions Slatkine, Michel-Edouard est décédé (Suisse)
Michel-Édouard Slatkine, éditeur genevois, est décédé le 2 décembre 2024 à l'âge de 91 ans. Fondateur de la maison éponyme en 1964, il aura contribué à la préservation et à la diffusion du patrimoine littéraire.ActuaLitté.com
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Phèdre de Racine par Matthieu Cruciani au CDN-théâtre de l'Union à Limoges
Comment monter Phèdre de Jean Racine aujourd'hui ? Le metteur Matthieu Cruciani propose une vision renouvelée de cette œuvre majeure du répertoire. Il fait se rencontrer l'Antiquité et le monde actuel.Le Populaire du Centre
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Exposition à Grenoble: Le Musée présente un dossier sur Philippe de Champaigne
L’institution met ses tableaux en valeur avec un contrepoint contemporain de Pierre Buraglio.Etienne Dumont (Bilan)
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Bianca di Beaulieu.
Uno dei primi racconti di Alessandro Dumas, ambientato nell'epoca della Rivoluzione, in cui unisce una storia romantica con veri personaggi dell'epoca, fra cui suo padre, il generale Dumas. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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“Bianca di Beaulieu e la mano destra del sire di Giac” di Alexandre Dumas
In questa prima traduzione italiana, comparsa nel 1853, sono raccolti alcuni racconti storici giovanili, opera di Dumas padre.Liber Liber
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#OTD in 1884.
The first London publication of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn occurs.
Twain initially conceived of the work as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that would follow Huckleberry Finn through adulthood. He worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of following Huck's development into adulthood.
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American poet Emily Dickinson was born #OTD in 1830.
She was renowned for her unique, introspective, and innovative style. Though she lived a reclusive life in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson's poetry has had a profound and lasting impact on literature. She wrote nearly 1,800 poems, though only a few were published during her lifetime, often without her consent and heavily edited.
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