Saturday, February 29, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
Monday, February 17, 2020
GREAT LIVES : HENRY ADAMS
[2/17, 10:03] Sivasubramanian Sivasuriy: *Henry Brooks Adams* was an American historian and member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he was secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Yesterday was his birthday. He was born on Feb. 16, 1838.
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[2/17, 10:06] Sivasubramanian Sivasuriy: *Some of his famous Quotes*
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
*... they know enough who know how to learn* -
*....words are slippery and thought is viscous* -
*Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts - Henry Adams*
Friday, February 14, 2020
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
GREAT LIVES : ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President, was born on this day, Feb.12 in 1809.
He died in office upon his assassination. Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War.
LINCOLN :
SIGNED THE FIRST OF THE HOMESTEAD ACTS, ALLOWING POOR PEOPLE TO OBTAIN LAND and THE MORRILL LAND-GRANT ACT WHICH LED TO CREATION OF NUMEROUS UNIVERSITIES
ESTABLISHED THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE and THE US NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM.
WAS BEHIND THE PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF INCOME TAX IN US
ISSUED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WHICH LED TO ABOLISHING SLAVERY IN US
LED THE UNION TO VICTORY IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
and
LAID THE STEPPING STONE FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF U. S.
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GREAT LIVES : CHARLES DARWIN
CHARLES DARWIN'S BIRTHDAY
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS was born in this day, Feb. 12 in 1809. He was a naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science.
HIS BOOK, ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DEEPLY INFLUENCED WESTERN SOCIETY AND THOUGHT .
He us hailed as the Father of Evolutionary Biology.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
GREAT LIVES : BORIS PASTERNAK
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, was born on Feb.10, 1890.
Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language.
His most famous book, Dr.ZHIVAGO, was later made into a successful movie.
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GREAT LIVES : ARTHUR MILLER
ARTHUR MILLER, American playwright, passed away on Feb.10, 2005.
Arthur Asher Miller was also an essayist, and a controversial figure in the twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits.
His famous books:
Books: Timebends: A Life, Collected Plays, Focus.
He has won many laurels. Some of them:
1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1984 Kennedy Center Honors
2001 Praemium Imperiale
2003 Jerusalem Prize
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GREAT LIVES: RENEE DESCARTES
On this day in 1650, Father of Modern Western Philosophy, Rene Descartes passed away at the age of 54.
He was not only a philosopher but also a mathematician, and a scientist.
It is said that he greatly influenced the thoughts of other great men like Isaac Newton, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
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GREAT LIVES : THOMAS ALVA EDISON
THOMAS ALVA EDISON, THE PROLIFIC INVENTOR was bornin this day in 1847.
Edison has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
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Sunday, February 9, 2020
GREAT LIVES : J. M. COETZEE, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
PRIZE WINNER
Feb.9 is his birthday.
John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
His famous works include:
Dusklands,
In the Heart of the Country,
Waiting for the Barbarians and
Life and Times of Michael K
He wad influenced by Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Daniel Defoe.
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GREAT LIVES : ALICE WALKER
ALICE WALKER, FAMOUS AMERICAN NOVELIST, WAS BORN ON THIS DAY : FEB.9 IN 1944
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland.
She has won many laurels, some of which are: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, PEN/O. Henry Award
Her books have been made into movies. They are: The Color Purple, Howard Zinn: You Can´t Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
Grateful thanks to Wikipedia and Google.
Friday, February 7, 2020
GREAT LIVES : CHARLES DICKENS
*CHARLES DICKENS*
Feb.7th is the birthday of this great Victorian writer and social critic.
Charles John Huffam Dickens
(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)
He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.
His novels and short stories are still widely read today.
Grateful thanks to Wikipedia.
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