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"It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress."
The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature (1963)

Paul Dirac was born in 1902. He was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Dirac is most famous for his 1928 relativistic quantum theory of the electron and his prediction of the existence of antiparticles.

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"I am the one who passed unnoticed before you,
Invisible, in a cloud of secret pain."
The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)

Conrad Aiken was born in 1889. He was honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography. via @wikipedia

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"History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another."
Judgements on History and Historians

Jacob Burckhardt died in 1897. Burckhardt's historical writings did much to establish the importance of art in the study of history; indeed, he was one of the "founding fathers of art history" but also one of the original creators of cultural history. via Wikipedia

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New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel y William Cosby, against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true in 1735, but the jury acquitted Zenger, who became a symbol for freedom of the press.

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Carl Ritter was born in 1779.

Carl Ritter's 19 part (21 volume) masterwork, "Erdkunde im Verhältnis zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen" (Geography in Relation to Nature and the History of Mankind), is one of the most extensive works of geographical literature written by a single author.

Ritter unfolded and established the treatment of geography as a study and a science. His treatment was endorsed and adopted by all geographers. via @wikipedia

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Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist, aka A. Oksanen, was born in 1826. He was a Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic. He is best remembered as the sharpest critic of writer Aleksis Kivi, who later rose to the position of the national author of Finland. via @wikipedia

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“the war game was constantly improved and elaborated, until from a few hours ‘war’ took weeks to play, and the critical operations in the attic monopolized half our thoughts.”

—from “Stevenson at Play”, by Lloyd Osbourne. Scribner’s Magazine, December 1898

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John Tyndall was born in 1802. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air, proving the connection between atmospheric CO2 ( greenhouse effect) in 1859. Moreover, he visited the Alps mountains in 1856 for scientific reasons and ended up becoming a pioneering mountain climber. @wikipedia

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"Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold."
The Dead (1914)

Rupert Chawner Brooke was born in 1887. Brooke wrote 5 poems that were published in 1914 in the autumn after the outbreak of the First World War when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division. 'The Dead' was one of his personal favourites. via @wikipedia

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“Tu es laid... sois terrible, on oubliera ta laideur. Tu es vieux... sois énergique, on oubliera ton âge.”
Les mystères de Paris

Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue died in 1857. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular & widely imitated The Mysteries of Paris, which was published in a newspaper from 1842 to 1843 and Le Juif errant (1844-1845). via @wikipedia

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"And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood."
Victoria (1898)

Knut Hamsun was born in 1859. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, works of non-fiction and some essays. He awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. via @wikipedia

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"Une absence totale d'humour rend la vie impossible."
Chambre d'hôtel (1940).

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette died in 1954. Surprised by his young wife's talent for writing, Henry Gauthier-Villars (Willy) used her as a "prête-plume" (Colette's first manuscript dates back to 1893). An unknown woman in the literary world of the time, she signed her name Colette Willy until 1923. via @wikipedia

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"I am alone, as though I stood
On the highest peak of the tired gray world…"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

Sara Teasdale was born in 1884. In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. It was "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society". Her short, personal lyrics were noted for their classical simplicity and quiet intensity.

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"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."
The Renaissance (1873)

Walter Horatio Pater was born in 1839. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance, in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto of Aestheticism. via @wikipedia

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"They are not long, the days of wine and roses;
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream."
Verses

Ernest Christopher Dowson was born in 1867. He was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer who is often associated with the Decadent movement. Arthur Symons describes him as "a man who was undoubtedly a man of genius ... There never was a poet to whom verse came more naturally...."

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"What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed."
Letter to Jean-Richard Bloch

Friedrich Engels died in 1895. He was the closest collaborator of Karl Marx in the foundation of modern communism. They coauthored The Communist Manifesto (1848), and Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx’s death.

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"I look into the faces of the people passing by,
The glad ones and the sad ones, and the lined with misery,
And I wonder why the sorrow or the twinkle in the eye;
But the pale and weary faces are the ones that trouble me."
The Path to Home (1919)

Edgar A. Guest died in 1959. He became known as the People's Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life. via @wikipedia

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Cristóbal Colón sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain in 1492.

He made landfall in the Americas on 12 October, ending the period of human habitation in the Americas now referred to as the pre-Columbian era. His landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani. via @wikipedia

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"The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck. "
Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851)

Herman Melville was born in 1819. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. via @wikipedia

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Title page of the first edition of Moby-Dick, 1851. Source: Beinecke Library
Moby Dick, as illustrated in a 1902 edition. Illustration of the final chase of Moby-Dick. I. W. Taber - Moby Dick - edition: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

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Jöns Jacob Berzelius died in 1848. Although Berzelius began his career as a physician, his enduring contributions were in the fields of electrochemistry, chemical bonding and stoichiometry. In particular, he is noted for his determination of atomic weights and his experiments that led to a more complete understanding of the principles of stoichiometry which came to be known as the "Law of Constant Proportions". via @wikipedia

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Walther Flemming died in 1905. He was one of the pioneers of cytogenetics.

He studied mitosis both in vivo and in stained preparations, using as the source of biological material the fins and gills of salamanders. On the basis of his discoveries, Flemming surmised for the first time that all cell nuclei came from another predecessor nucleus. via @wikipedia

Illustration of mitosis figures, taken from Zellsubstanz, Kern und Zelltheilung (cell substance, nucleus and cell division; 1882) by Walther Flemming (1843-1905), one of the pioneers of cytogenetics.

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Nicolas Malebranche was born in 1638.

Although better known for his philosophical work, Malebranche made some notable contributions to physics, working within a broadly Cartesian framework but nevertheless prepared to depart from Descartes where necessary. In addition, Malebranche wrote on the laws of motion, a topic he discussed extensively with Leibniz. via @wikipedia

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