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Amber Blanco White Reeves was born in 1887.

H.G. Wells wrote the roman à clef Ann Veronica based on his relationship with Reeves. Wells later wrote that while the character of Ann Veronica was based on Amber, the character he believed came closest to her was Amanda in his novel The Research Magnificent.

Reeves published 4 novels and 4 non-fiction works, dealing with a variety of subjects, but all sharing a common socialist & feminist critique of capitalist society.@Wikipedia

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"George Sand was an idea. She has a unique place in our age.
Others are great men ... she was a great woman."
Victor Hugo, Les funérailles de George Sand

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil was born in 1804. 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, including tales, plays & political texts, alongside her 70 novels.

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"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting."

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in 1646. He was a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is a prominent figure in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. He wrote works on philosophy, theology, ethics, politics, law, history and philology. via @Wikipedia

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Leibniz's correspondence, papers and notes from 1669 to 1704, National Library of Poland. via @wikipedia

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Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London in 1858.

This presentation was sponsored by Joseph Hooker and Charles Lyell as neither author could be present. via @Wikipedia

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“Nul doute : l'erreur est la règle : la vérité est l'accident de l'erreur.”

Georges Duhamel was born in 1884. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven times. via @Wikipedia

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Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik in 1905.

Since Einstein published four remarkable papers, including the above mentioned paper, in a single year, 1905 is called his annus mirabilis. via @Wikipedia

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@bleistifterin Indeed, it seems there were 3 papers instead of two...

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"The face, which, duly as the sun,
Rose up for me with life begun,
To mark all bright hours of the day
With hourly love, is dimmed away —
And yet my days go on, go on."
De Profundis (1862)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in 1861. Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. via @Wikipedia

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Title page of Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56621

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George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music in 1888. via @Wikipedia

Excerpt of Israel in Egypt, earliest known music recording (that was intended as a recording) in existence.
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The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground. in 1613.

A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and stayed open until the London theatre closures of 1642. As well as plays by Shakespeare, early works by Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher were first performed here. via @Wikipedia

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Maria Goeppert Mayer was born in 1906.

She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics (1963) for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. Her Ph.D. thesis in physics explored how atoms might intereact with photons.

Scientist now use the Goeppert Mayer (GM) unit to measure two-photon absorption. via @iaeaorg

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"Nothing is more certain than that worlds on worlds, and spheres on spheres, stretch behind and beyond the actually seen."

Edward Carpenter died in 1929. He was an early activist for gay rights and prison reform. As a philosopher, he was particularly known for his publication of Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, where he described civilisation as a form of disease through which human societies pass. @Wikipedia

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Title page of The story of Eros & Psyche (retold from Apuleius) : together with some early which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70802

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Maria Mitchell died in 1889.

In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor. Mitchell was the first internationally known woman to work as both a professional astronomer and a professor of astronomy after accepting a position at Vassar College in 1865. via @Wikipedia

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"I filosofi hanno il torto di non pensare alle bestie e davanti agli occhi di una bestia crolla come un castello di carte qualunque sistema filosofico."

Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." via @Wikipedia

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Luigi Pirandello in un ritratto del 1919. via @wikipedia

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"Le plus fort n’est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maître, s’il ne transforme sa force en droit et l'obéissance en devoir. De là le droit du plus fort."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution & the development of modern political, economic, & educational thought.

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How Leonardo da Vinci Made a "Satellite" Map in 1502 (Video).

In 1502, while working as a military engineer for Cesare Borgia , Leonardo da Vinci undertook the task of creating a unique map of Imola. At the time, the prevailing maps were depicted in a birds eye or hillside view, often embellished with mythical creatures . Without access to modern satellites, Leonardo relied on his ingenuity and symbolic imagination. via @ancientorigins

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Sophie Germain died in 1831.

One of the pioneers of elasticity theory, she won the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her essay on the subject. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. Before her death, Gauss had recommended that she be awarded an honorary degree, but that never occurred. via @Wikipedia

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"The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but imagination."

Augustus De Morgan was born in 1806.

He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous. via @Wikipedia

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"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Helen Adams Keller was born in 1880. She lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. via @Wikipedia

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"Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes."

Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in 1872. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper, and served as president of his high school's literary society. via @Wikipedia

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@mutinyc Agreed!

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"The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can."

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo was born in 1850. He was a Greek-Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. via @Wikipedia

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"The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book."

Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer died in 1939. Ford wrote dozens of novels as well as essays, poetry, memoirs and literary criticism. He collaborated with Joseph Conrad on three novels, The Inheritors, Romance and The Nature of a Crime. via @Wikipedia

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