"We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves."
(Notes on the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage)
Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace!
She was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation.
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#OTD in 1896.
Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi (first published this Spring in Le Livre d'art) is premièred by the Théâtre de l'Œuvre in Paris. The opening word, "Merdre!", triggers disturbances and the play is not performed again in the author's lifetime.
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#OTD in 1905.
O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi" first appears as "Gifts of the Magi" in The New York Sunday World. It was first published in book form in the O. Henry collection The Four Million in April 1906.
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#OTD in 1901.
The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded, to French poet Sully Prudhomme.
He devoted the bulk of the money he received to the creation of a poetry prize awarded by the Société des gens de lettres. He also founded, in 1902, the Société des poètes français with Jose-Maria de Heredia and Leon Dierx.
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"Je suis citoyen du monde, en tous lieux où la vie abonde, le sol m'est doux et l'homme cher ! […] Mon compatriote, c'est l'homme."
"I am a citizen of the world, in all places where life abounds, the soil is sweet to me and man dear! [...] Man is my compatriot."
« Impressions de la guerre » (1870), dans Œuvres de Sully Prudhomme 1866-1872, Sully Prudhomme, éd. A. Lemerre, 1872, Repentir, p. 222-223
~Sully Prudhomme (16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907)
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Pubblicato lo scorso agosto, Il videogioco del mondo. Istruzioni per l’uso di Stefano Gualeni (Timeo), è uno splendido libro che spinge il lettore a riflettere filosoficamente sul videoludico e spe…ossessioni e contaminazioni by francesco mazzetta
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La tela di Penelope.
Raffaele Calzini "riscrive" la conclusione dell'Odissea: quando Ulisse torna in incognito a Itaca, cosa troverà nella sua famiglia? Un po' di ironia goliardica, e altrettanto moralismo sull'ipocrisia nei rapporti di coppia, rendono questa commedia comunque interessante. Si scarica gratis, in pdf, da:
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La tela di Penelope
Commedia in tre atti pubblicata nel 1922, come il titolo suggerisce si ispira alle pagine conclusive dell’Odissea, e precisamente ci presenta il ritorno a Itaca di Ulisse accompagnato dal fido Iro, marinaio grasso, pacifico, ed amante dei piaceri.Liber Liber
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#OTD in 1822.
French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence.
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"Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?"
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~Clarice Lispector (December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977)
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American admiral and computer scientist, (designed COBOL) Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.
She created the first compiler, the A-0 System, in 1952. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. Hopper popularized the term "debugging" in computing after discovering an actual moth causing a malfunction in the Mark II computer.
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DT #064 - Die Meilensteine der Computer-Entwicklung
In unserer 64. Folge gibt es ein Interview mit dem Kurator Dr. David Woitkowski, aus dem HNF in Paderborn, zum Thema die Meilensteiner der Computer-Entwicklung.www.trommelspeicher.de
#OTD in 1812.
Leigh Hunt is tried and convicted of libel for calling the Prince Regent "a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace" in The Examiner on March 22.
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#OTD in 1892.
George Bernard Shaw's first play Widowers' Houses has its first performance, at the Royalty Theatre in London under the auspices of the Independent Theatre Society. The author is booed.
This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. The other plays in the group are The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession.
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Storia e cultura degli arabi fino alla morte di Maometto.
Saggio di Michelangelo Guidi, che fu professore di lingua e letteratura araba all'università di Roma, e di filologia araba al Cairo.Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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In December 1914.
Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", enlists in the French Army to fight in World War I and becomes a French citizen after an August attempt at enlistment is rejected.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism.
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In December 1892.
The Irish Literary Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, T. W. Rolleston & Charles Gavan Duffy in London, and the National Literary Society by Yeats in Dublin with scholar Douglas Hyde as its first president. A Book of Irish Verse, designed to publicise the new societies, was published in 1895, edited by Yeats and dedicated "To the Members of the National Literary Society of Dublin & the Irish Literary Society of London."
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In December 1917.
The first of many editions of Robert Baden-Powell's The Wolf Cub's Handbook is published.
The Wolf Cub's Handbook, in various editions, remained The Boy Scouts Association's official handbook for Wolf Cubs until The Chief Scout's Advance Party Report of 1966 recommended that less emphasis be placed on the Jungle Book theme and renamed its Wolf Cubs program as Cubs.
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In December 1855.
Charles Dickens publishes the first instalment of Little Dorrit, which continues to appear into 1857.
Little Dorrit was published in 19 monthly instalments, each consisting of 32 pages with two illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne whose pen name was Phiz. Each instalment cost a shilling except for the last, a double issue which cost two shillings.
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"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."
In December 1869.
Publication of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace complete in book form concludes. It is printed in Moscow and sold by the author on subscription. Portions of an earlier version, titled The Year 1805, were serialized in The Russian Messenger from 1865 to 1867 before the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.
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Ancient Indian texts reveal the liberating power of metaphysics
Indian metaphysics presented a philosophical route to a higher level of existence beyond limits of space and time
by Jessica Frazier
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"More than that, it was believed that whatever fills our minds – large ideas or small – that is what we are. (..) So one Upanishad assures us that: ‘Whatever world a man ponders with his mind … that very world he wins.’"
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Storia d'Italia.
Copre gli anni 1490-1534, e l'ha scritta un protagonista dell'epoca, consigliere di tre Papi, Francesco Guicciardini. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf oppure epub, ma si può anche acquistarla donando 2 euro per la manutenzione dei server, da questo link:
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Storia d’Italia
La Storia d'Italia dal 1490 (morte di Lorenzo il Magnifico, e discesa in Italia di Carlo VIII di Francia), al 1534 (dopo il sacco di Roma da parte dei Lanzichenecchi, morte di papa Clemente VII), scritta da un protagonista "alto funzionario e consigl…Liber Liber
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As today is the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, this is a good reason to re-read Victor Hugo's masterpiece. There is also an interesting book on the restoration of Notre-Dame (1843).
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
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"Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world."
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder died #OD in 1975.
He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
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In December 1925.
W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood meet for the first time as adults in London.
Through Auden, Isherwood met the younger poet Stephen Spender, who printed Auden's first collection, Poems (1928). Upward, Isherwood, Auden, and Spender were identified as the most exciting new literary group in England in the 1930s. Auden dubbed Isherwood the novelist in what came to be known as the Auden Group or Auden Generation.
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In December 1871.
Publication of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch in eight parts commences. The publisher John Blackwood, who had made a loss on acquiring the English rights to Felix Holt, was approached by Lewes in his role as Eliot's literary agent. He suggested that the novel be brought out in eight two-monthly parts, borrowing the method used for Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables.
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In December 1876.
The first United States edition of Mark Twain's first individual extended work of fiction, the Bildungsroman The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, illustrated by True Williams, is published by the American Publishing Company. An authorised non-illustrated British edition has appeared in early June from Chatto & Windus in London (with the first review appearing on June 24 in a British magazine) and pirated editions have appeared in Canada and Germany.
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"My sleep had been embroidered with dim dreams,
My soul had been a lawn besprinkled o'er
With flowers, and stirring shades of baffled beams."
In December 1816.
John Keats composes the poem "Sleep and Poetry" while staying at the Hampstead house of his friend Leigh Hunt, who introduces him to Shelley.
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#OTD in 1891.
Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blind (written in 1890) is premièred. Les Aveugles is, along with L'Intruse, one of Maurice Maeterlinck's first two plays.
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La guerra dei pirati e la marina pontificia dal 1500 al 1560.
L'autore di questa opera è un religioso domenicano, padre Alberto Guglielmotti, figlio di un ufficiale di marina e... non solo teologo. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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English novelist, poet and musicologist Sylvia Townsend Warner was born #OTD in 1893.
Warner initially trained as a musicologist and contributed to the Oxford University Press's Dictionary of National Biography before transitioning to a literary career. Lolly Willowes (1926) it is her debut novel and one of her most celebrated works, it is a feminist tale about a spinster who finds liberation through witchcraft.
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French and American writer, journalist and pianist Ève Curie was born #OTD in 1904.
She is best known for writing a biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1937). Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF.
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American botanist Catherine Furbish died #OTD in 1931.
She collected, classified and illustrated the native flora of Maine. She devoted over 60 years of her life, traveling thousands of miles throughout her home state and creating very accurate drawings and watercolor paintings of the plants she found.
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Tolérance, soumission politique, liberté de conscienceHONORE CHAMPION
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Manetʼs Illustrations for Poeʼs "The Raven"
Artist Édouard Manet collaborated with poet Stéphane Mallarmé on an illustrated edition of the poet's translation of Edgar Allan Poeʼs The Raven in 1874 and 1875. via Treasures of the NYPL
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Le Corbeau = The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
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The odd illustrations of Charles Dickens's Christmas books
While Charles Dickens is often remembered for his love of yuletide festivities, the illustrations he commissioned for his Christmas stories may make you question such an opinion.
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With goblins and men attacking small boys, the "festive" images are more disturbing than decorative.By Tim Stokes (BBC News)
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Lovecraftiano disastro ecologico
Sono stato attirato all’acquisto e alla lettura di Una lenta marea oscura di Adam Nevill (pubblicato lo scorso 20 novembre da Zona 42) dalla trama palesemente lovecraftiana: È il 2055 e ormai è tro…ossessioni e contaminazioni by francesco mazzetta
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