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May 26: Bede, Isadora Duncan





Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan portrait.jpg
BornAngela Isadora Duncan
May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878[1]
San Francisco, California, United States
DiedSeptember 14, 1927 (aged 49 or 50)[1]
Nice, France
NationalityAmerican, Russian
Known forDance and choreography
MovementModern/contemporary dance


ペール・ラシェーズ墓地 (ペール・ラシェーズぼち、Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) は、フランスのパリ東部にある墓地。




BBC - History - The Venerable Bede

www.bbc.com/history/historic_figures/bede_st.shtml

Bede was probably born in Monkton, Durham. Nothing is known of his family background. At the age of seven he was entrusted to the care of Benedict Biscop, who is 674 AD had founded the monastery of St Peter at Wearmouth.

Bede, also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable, was an English monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles. Wikipedia
Born: 672 AD, Jarrow, United Kingdom
Died: May 26, 735 AD, Jarrow, United Kingdom

"If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good."
-The Venerable Bede, an English historian and monk of Jarrow, died #OTD 735 AD. One of the great doctors of the Western Church, Bede lived an uneventful life as a monk and scholar at Wearmouth-Jarrow, to which he was delivered as an oblate in c.681 and where he remained until his death.


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