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4月21 : Max Weber, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom... British National Tea Day 2017

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BBC: On This Day

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works under the pen name Currer Bell. Wikipedia
Born: April 21, 1816, Thornton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Died: March 31, 1855, Haworth, United Kingdom
Siblings: Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Branwell Brontë, Elizabeth Brontë, Maria Brontë
Movies: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Orphan of Lowood, Sangdil, Woman and Wife
Quotes

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

‘I sat a long time by the window, looking out over the silent grounds and silvered fields, and waiting for I know not what’ – Jane Eyre
Author Charlotte Brontë was born #onthisday in 1814. Published in 1847 under the pen name ‘Currer Bell’, the novel is Brontë’s best-known work. This image shows Jane at a window in Lowood School – one of the many parts of the book that have parallels with Brontë’s own life. The print was made by Ethel Gabain in 1922: http://ow.ly/Wjlq30b1ea5


Legend has it that Romulus founded Rome #onthisday in 753 BC. Romans celebrated the founding of their city on 21 April every year in a festival called Parilia. This coin shows part of the legend – Romulus and his twin brother Remus suckling a wolf. http://ow.ly/dnEN30aZc4n


Traditionally, this day - April 21, BCE 753 - is given as the foundation date of Rome. Various legends are associated with the great city's founding, the most familiar of which is that of the twin brothers Romulus and Remus. Abandoned on the Tiber, the brothers were suckled by a she-wolf - the sculpture on this edition of Livy's EARLY HISTORY OF ROME, a much later production, depicts her - and, as young adults, set out to plan their city together.
After some disagreements, Romulus killed Remus and did the Rome thing on his own. (This is a heavily simplified synopsis. Read Livy for the full story - or at least one version of it.)







  • 1864 – Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (d. 1920)
"漢清講堂"明天請張旺山、陳忠信等來討論其學說。

 "直接支配人類行為的是(物質上及精神上的)利益，而不是理念。但是透過"理念"創造出來的"世界圖像"，經常如鐵路上的轉轍器般，規定利益推動力行駛的軌道。"






British Museum
2015年4月21日 17:12
Happy birthday to Queen Elizabeth II, who is 89 today! Here’s a photo of her visiting the Museum in 1957




  • 1910 – Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens died in Redding, Connecticut, on this day in 1910 (aged 74).
"Adam, at Eve's grave: Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden."
--from "Eve's Diary" by Mark Twain
These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a century after their author’s death.
Mark Twain’s famous novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have long been hailed as major achievements, but the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the humorous short story. All the tales he wrote over the course of his lengthy career are gathered here, including such immortal classics as “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” “The Diary of Adam and Eve,” and “The $30,000 Bequest.” Twain’s inimitable wit, his nimble plotting, and his unerring insight into human nature are on full display in these wonderfully entertaining stories. READ more here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-complete-short-sto…/





His autobiography, published 100 years after his death, reveals a man unafraid to skewer the church, Congress and any acquaintances that wronged him
Mark Twain was usually sure of the rightness of his opinions
The author died on April 21st 1910
ECONOMIST.COM

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National Tea Day 2017 - 21st April 2017

www.nationalteaday.co.uk/

NTD is all about tea, community and fun. It is an opportunity for you to try new blends which you wouldn't otherwise. Use #nationalteaday on social media.








'Some Considerations on Afternoon Tea-Drinking, and the Many Subsequent Evils Attending It'
We best put the kettle on for this one… http://bit.ly/2oRakho



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India Sturgis pairs tea and cheese with master blender, Rishi Deb Credit: Jeff .... Twinings are offering 3 for 2 teas on National Tea Day with the ...

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