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“The fear o’ hell’s a hangman’s whip
To haud the wretch in order;
But where ye feel your honour grip,
Let that aye be your border.”

Robert Burns died #OTD in 1796. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots language” of English, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. via @wikipedia

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"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

Ernest Hemingway was born #OTD in 1899. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works were published posthumously. via @wikipedia

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Title page of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67138

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"L'amour-propre est un si étrange conseiller qu'il nous arrive cent fois par jour d'être, grâce à lui, en pleine contradiction avec nous-mêmes."
Lavinia , 1833

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil died #OTD in 1876.

Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, alongside her 70 novels. via @wikipedia

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Couverture d'une édition parue chez Calmann-Lévy. Indiana is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63445

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"Cette main, sur mes traits qu'elle rêve effleurer
Distraitement docile à quelque fin profonde,
Attend de ma faiblesse une larme qui fonde."

Paul Valéry died #OTD in 1945. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years. via @wikipedia

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Title page of Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci by Paul Valéry which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57547 The Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci is one of Paul Valéry's first prose writings. "I have to combine the following standards, painting, architecture, mathematics, mechanics, physics and mechanism," he asserted as he wrote it.

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"Man dwells apart, though not alone,
He walks among his peers unread;
The best of thoughts which he hath known
For lack of listeners are not said."

Jean Ingelow died #OTD in 1897. She was an English poet and novelist, who gained sudden fame in 1863. She also wrote several stories for children. via @wikipedia

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Title page of Mopsa the Fairy by Jean Ingelow which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67087 A fantasy by Jean Ingelow. A boy, Jack, discovers a nest of fairies in an old thorn tree and is taken off to fairyland on the back of an albatross. On the way he visits a country where the inhabitants are clockwork and frees the Fairy Queen from an enchantment.

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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

Jane Austen died #OTD in 1817. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing & economic security. Her deft use of social commentary, realism & biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

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Portrait of Jane Austen, from A Memoir of Jane Austen (1871) written by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh (1798-1874). All other portraits of Austen are generally based on this, which is itself based on a sketch by Cassandra Austen. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, on 16 December 1775 in a harsh winter. Her father wrote of her arrival in a letter that her mother "certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago". He added that the newborn infant was "a present plaything for Cassy and a future companion". The winter of 1776 was particularly harsh and it was not until 5 April that she was baptised at the local church with the single name Jane. George Austen (1731–1805), served as the rector of the Anglican parishes of Steventon and Deane. The Reverend Austen came from an old and wealthy family of wool merchants. As each generation of eldest sons received inheritances, the wealth was divided, and George's branch of the family fell into poverty. He and his two sisters were orphaned as children, and had to be taken in by relatives. In 1745, at the age of fifteen, George Austen's sister Philadelphia was apprenticed to a milliner in Covent Garden. At the age of sixteen, George entered St John's College, Oxford, where he most likely met Cassandra Leigh (1739–1827). She came from the prominent Leigh family; her father was rector at All Souls College, Oxford, where she grew up among the gentry.

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Edward Charles Pickering was born #OTD in 1846.

In 1882, Pickering developed a method to photograph the spectra of multiple stars simultaneously by putting a large prism in front of the photographic plate. Using this method, Pickering and his team at Harvard College Observatory, captured images of over 220,000 stars. via @wikipedia

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Pickering's Triangle. The filaments are also known as Williamina Fleming's Triangular Wisp. Here is a supernova remnant known as the Veil Nebula. A section called Pickering's Triangle. "It was discovered photographically in 1904 by Williamina Fleming (after the New General Catalogue was published), but credit went to Edward Charles Pickering, the director of her observatory, as was the custom of the day."

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"Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live."
Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio, 1373

Francesco Petrarca died #OTD in 1374. Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance & became a model for lyrical poetry. He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages". via @wikipedia

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Francesco Petrarch, Rime, membranous codex ms. I 12, c. 1r. preserved at the Museo Petrarchesco Piccolomineo, Trieste, dating from the late 15th, early 16th centuries. The detail shows the first sonnet of the Canzoniere.

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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh was published #OTD in 1957.

It is Waugh's penultimate full-length work of fiction, which the author called his "mad book"—a largely autobiographical account of a period of hallucinations caused by bromide intoxication that he experienced in the early months of 1954, recounted through his protagonist Gilbert Pinfold. via @wikipedia

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"The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages."

Horatio Alger died #OTD in 1899. He was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. via @wikipedia

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Cover of the 1895 Henry T. Coates and Company edition of "Ragged Dick". Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a Bildungsroman by Horatio Alger Jr., which was serialized in The Student and Schoolmate in 1867 and expanded for publication as a full-length novel in May 1868 by the publisher A. K. Loring. It was the first volume in the six-volume Ragged Dick Series and became Alger's best-selling work. The tale follows a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability in 19th-century New York City. It had a favorable reception. Student and Schoolmate reported their readers were delighted with the first installment, and Putnam's Magazine thought boys would love the novel. The plot and theme were repeated in Alger's subsequent novels and became the subject of parodies and satires. Ragged Dick and Alger's Silas Snobden's Office Boy inspired the musical comedy Shine! in 1982. https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/5348

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"Briefly, everything occurs as if the Earth were at rest."

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was born #OTD in 1853. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He derived the Lorentz transformation of the special theory of relativity, as well as the Lorentz force. He was also responsible for the Lorentz oscillator model. via @wikipedia

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His published university lectures in theoretical physics. Part 1. Stralingstheorie (1910-1911, Radiation theory) in Dutch, edited by his student A. D. Fokker, 1919.

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"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

William Makepeace Thackeray was born #OTD in 1811. Thackeray began as a satirist & parodist, gaining popularity through works that showcased his fondness for roguish characters. His later novels reflected a mellowing in his tone, focusing on the coming of age of characters & critical portrayals of society. @wikipedia

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Title page from Vanity Fair: a novel without a hero, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial (the last containing Parts 19 and 20) from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, which reflects both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.

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"Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality."

Adam Smith died #OTD in 1790. Simth wrote two classic works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The latter is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work that treats economics as a comprehensive system and as an academic discipline. via @wikipedia

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The first page of The Wealth of Nations, 1776 London edition which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300 First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first connected accounts of what builds nations' wealth, and has become a fundamental work in classical economics. Reflecting upon economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Smith addresses topics such as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets. The Wealth of Nations was published in two volumes on 9 March 1776 (with books I–III included in the first volume and books IV and V included in the second), during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution. It influenced several authors and economists, such as Karl Marx, as well as governments and organizations, setting the terms for economic debate and discussion for the next century and a half.[4] For example, Alexander Hamilton was influenced in part by The Wealth of Nations to write his Report on Manufactures, in which he argued against many of Smith's policies. Hamilton based much of this report on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and it was, in part, Colbert's ideas that Smith responded to, and criticised, with The Wealth of Nations.

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"We are desert leagues apart;
Time is misty ages now
Since the warmth of heart to heart
Chased the shadows from my brow."

George William Russell (aka Æ ) died #OTD in 1935. He was a writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism, and a central figure in the group of devotees of theosophy which met in Dublin for many years. via @wikipedia

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Title page of Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8105

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“Douter de tout ou tout croire sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l’une et l’autre nous dispensent de réfléchir.”

Jules Henri Poincaré died #OTD in 1912. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. He is also considered to be one of the founders of the field of topology. via @wikipedia

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Title page to a 1905 copy of Henri Poincaré's "Science and hypothesis," with a preface by Joseph Larmor. Copy located in the Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, in College Park, Maryland. Aimed at a non-specialist readership, it deals with mathematics, space, physics and nature. It puts forward the theses that absolute truth in science is unattainable, and that many commonly held beliefs of scientists are held as convenient conventions rather than because they are more valid than the alternatives. In this book, Poincaré describes open scientific questions regarding the photo-electric effect, Brownian motion, and the relativity of physical laws in space. Reading this book inspired Albert Einstein's subsequent Annus Mirabilis papers published in 1905.

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"Lumière, où donc es-tu? Peut-être dans la mort."

Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle died #OTD in 1894. As a writer he is most famous for his three collections of poetry: Poèmes antiques (1852), Poèmes barbares (1862), Poèmes tragiques (1884). He is also known for his translations of Ancient Greek tragedians and poets, such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Horace. via @wikipedia

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Astrophotography began in 1840 when John William Draper took an image of the Moon using the daguerreotype process.

#OTD in 1850, Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed, when it was imaged by William Bond and John Adams Whipple at the Harvard College Observatory, also with a daguerreotype. via @wikipedia

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner #OTD, 1890, and was first collected in Bierce's book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891).

The story, which is set during the American Civil War, is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. via @wikipedia

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