The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York President Abraham Lincoln protected the Yosemite Valley with the Yosemite Grant on this day in 1864. http://met.org/2u3A22R Albert Bierstadt (American 1830 - 1902) | Merced River, Yosemite Valley | 1866 On that day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill establishing Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove as protected wilderness areas. It was the first time in U.S. history that land was designated for public use and preservation, and is viewed by many as the birth of the national parks system. Jun 30, 2014 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant Act | PBS ... www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/yosemite-turns-150/ ---- Simone Veil, Ex-Minister Who Wrote France’s Abortion Law, Dies at 89 :Simone Veil (1927-2017), 時任衛生部長SimoneVeil席蒙維爾 說：「從沒想到我會引爆這麼多的恨意。多麼的虛偽。國會裡主要都是男人，有些人會私底下幫情婦或家庭成員安排墮胎。」 數個民調結果一致顯示，席蒙維爾是法國最受歡迎
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Victor Hugo's strange cure for writer's block and 8 things you didn't know about him Telegraph.co.uk · 14 mins ago Victor Hugo's frustrating, beautiful Les Misérables was completed on this date in 1862 Vox · 7 hours ago Victor Hugo: The poet, artist and activist | France Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers of all time. Wikipedia Born : February 26, 1802, Besançon, France Died : May 22, 1885, Paris, France Artworks : Gavroche a 11 ans , Lace and Ghosts , more Periods : Symbolism , Abstract expressionism Plays : Hernani , Ruy Blas , Lucrezia Borgia , Marion Delorme , more Quotes The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to
Danilo Dolci Danilo Dolci, the Gandhi of Sicily, died on December 30th, aged 73 Jan 8th 1998 THERE were few idealists in Italy after Mussolini. The nation and its church were ashamed of themselves. The few Communists with honourable war records were dragged into the mire of Stalinism. Danilo Dolci was different. His theories came from Gandhi, and he attracted from northern Europe the kind of support that Garibaldi had won a century earlier. He sought to improve morality as well as material conditions, and he listened to people instead of drowning them, Italian-style, in rhetoric. He was big and pale, not really Italian at all. His father was a railway official, and he was brought up by his Slovene mother in Trieste, a city which shared few of Italy's cultural assumptions. He qualified as an architect for the indispensable honorific dottore , then joined a community near Rome that tried to live by Christ's (rather than Christianity's) rules. It failed,