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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh was published 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 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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"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 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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"Briefly, everything occurs as if the Earth were at rest."

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was born 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 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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"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 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 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 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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"Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality."

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

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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“Tout l’art du discours politique consiste à ne rien mettre dedans. C’est plus difficile qu’il n’y paraît.”

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc died in 1953. Belloc's writings encompassed religious poetry and comic verse for children. His widely sold Cautionary Tales for Children. He wrote historical biographies and numerous travel works, including The Path to Rome (1902). via @wikipedia

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Title cover of The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35215 The French Revolution (1911), by Hilaire Belloc, is a comparatively short commentary on the great revolutionary experiment between the parliamentary quarrels of 1789 to the execution of Robespierre in 1794.

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“Un livre n'est jamais un chef-d'oeuvre : il le devient.”

Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt died in 1896. He was the founder of the Académie Goncourt, which awards its namesake prize every year. Some of his work was written in collaboration with his brother, Jules de Goncourt. The works of the Goncourt brothers belong to the naturalism movement. via @wikipedia

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In 1882, the Goncourt brothers published this history of women in the century before their own. At a time when only political history counted, and when the history of mores and mentalities had not yet acquired its letters of nobility, there was little appreciation of the additional significance they brought to the understanding of this century. Free download available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46142

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"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was born in 1861. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women. via @wikipedia

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Cover of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975 On October 26, 1892, Wells began to publish her research on lynching in a pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. Having examined many accounts of lynchings due to the alleged "rape of White women", she concluded that Southerners cried rape as an excuse to hide their real reasons for lynchings: Black economic progress, which threatened White Southerners with competition, and White ideas of enforcing Black second-class status in the society. Black economic progress was a contemporary issue in the South, and in many states Whites worked to suppress Black progress. In this period at the turn of the century, Southern states, starting with Mississippi in 1890, passed laws and/or new constitutions to disenfranchise most Black people and many poor White people through use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other devices.

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"The clearing-house of the brain, the wings of the spirit, books lift us away from the petty, crowded day's smallness and entanglement."

Kathleen Thompson Norris was born in 1880. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Norris was a prolific writer who wrote 93 novels, many of which became best sellers. via @wikipedia

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J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye in 1951.

It was partially published in serial form 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951. Originally intended for adults, it is often read by adolescents for its themes of angst and alienation, and as a critique of superficiality in society. The novel also deals with complex issues of innocence, identity, belonging, loss, connection, sex, and depression. via @wikipedia

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Yes! was a brilliant author, but however excellent, it is a shame the plays get all the attention. I always thought his most impressive talents were in his stories, and particularly the ultra-short stories. His ability to set a mood and an atmosphere in 10 pages with almost entirely dialog is unparalleled in anything I have read, at least.
Pro tip: He was an immensely bored country doctor. Keep an eye out for those in his stories.
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"It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov died in 1904. Chekhov's posthumous reputation greatly exceeded his expectations. The ovations for the play The Cherry Orchard in the year of his death served to demonstrate the Russian public's acclaim for the writer, which placed him second in literary celebrity only to Tolstoy. @wikipedia

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Title page of The Black Monk, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55307 "The Black Monk" (Russian: Чёрный монах, romanized: Chyorny monakh) is a short story by Anton Chekhov, written in 1893 while Chekhov was living in the village of Melikhovo. It was first published in 1894 in The Artist, one of the leading Russian magazines on theater and music in the last quarter of the 19th century. The story tells of the last two tragic years in the life of a fictitious scholar, Andrey Vasilyevich Kovrin.

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«No subas tan alto, pensamiento loco, que el que más alto sube más hondo cae.»

María Rosalía Rita de Castro died in 1885. Through her work, she projected multiple emotions, including the yearning for the celebration of Galician identity and culture, and female empowerment. via @wikipedia

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Follas Novas: Versos en Gallego by Rosalía de Castro which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65703 Follas novas (New Leaves) is a collection of poetry by the Galician Rosalía de Castro, published in 1880. It is her second and last collection in the Galician language. The majority of the poems were written during 1869-1870, when the family lived in Simancas, but the collection also includes literary work from the 1870s, part of which had already been published in newspapers. This book is considered one of the fundamental works of Galician literature, which triggered the Galician Rexurdimento. The collection consists of five books: Vaguedás, Do íntimo, Varia, Da terra and As viuvas dos vivos e as viuvas dos mortos.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage in 1838. In his address, he not only rejected the notion of a personal God; he castigated the church’s ministers for suffocating the soul through lifeless preaching. via @wikipedia

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The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign in 1799.

It is a stele composed of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek.

Report of the arrival of the Rosetta Stone in England. Transcript: "The conquest of Egypt, independent of its political consequence, has enriched our country with a number of rare and ancient monuments, some entirely perfect, and of the highest and most undoubted antiquity. Col. Turner has brought home, in his Majesty's ship Egyptienne, a very large block of black granite, found by Menou, at Rosetta, and intended to be sent by that General, the first convenient opportunity, to France. It is charged with three inscriptions, in different languages and characters, commemorating a gift of corn from Ptomely Philadelphus to the inhabitants of that part of the country; particularly mentioning Memphis, and the month Mechir, the sixth month in the Egyptian year. The first inscription is in hieroglyphics, the second in the old Coptick, or vulgar character of the ancient Egyptians, and the left in Greek capitals. All three are tolerably perfect, and the two last but translations, it may reasonably be supported, of the first—With this was also brought a statue of Isis, of the same material, squatted, and her arms crossed over her breast; in the right hand an ear of corn; and between her knees the figure of Osiris, in his funeral chest, as she is said to have discovered him after his murder, by Typhon.—These two masses, destined for the British Museum, are at present in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, by whom it is proposed to publish facsimiles of the inscriptions."

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«El único egoísmo aceptable es el de procurar que todos estén bien para estar uno mejor.»

Jacinto Benavente died in 1954.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922 "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama". via @wikipedia

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Title page of Señora ama: Comedia en tres actos by Jacinto Benavente which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67726 Señora ama is a play by Jacinto Benavente that was premiered on February 22, 1908 at the Teatro de la Princesa, Madrid. In the season of the premiere, 43 performances were made.

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