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June 17: Igor Stravinsky, M. C. Escher, Watergate scandal

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Wikipedia
Born: June 17, 1882, Lomonosov, Russia
Died: April 6, 1971, New York City, New York, United States
Full name: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Spouse: Vera de Bosset (m. 1940–1971), Yekaterina Gabrielovna Nossenko (m. 1906–1939)
Igor Stravinsky on the importance of touch and vibration in music - speaking to BBC's Monitor in 1958.



M. C. Escher
Dutch artist
Maurits Cornelis Escher, or commonly M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Wikipedia
Born: June 17, 1898, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Died: March 27, 1972, Laren, North Holland, Netherlands
Periods: Op art, Surrealism, Expressionism, Realism, Cubism, Northern Renaissance, Modern art
Full name: Maurits Cornelis Escher
Series: Regular Division of the Plane
Quotes

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.


Maurits Cornelis Escher was never an outstanding student and and yet he successfully mixed mathematics and art. These are his secrets: (Partner content via BBVA OpenMind)
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The Mathematical Secrets of Escher - OpenMind
Escher's works can be read in mathematical terms. Discover how the mathematical mystery of the Print Gallery picture was solved
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Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement ...

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4月18日：George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) : Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)舌辯大師丹諾；Samuel Huntington

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Sep. 24：Euripides, Horace Walpole, Pablo Neruda

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. Wikipedia Born :  September 24, 1717,  London, United Kingdom Died :  March 2, 1797,  Berkeley Square, London, United Kingdom Movies :  Castle of Otranto Parents :  Robert Walpole ,  Catherine, Lady Walpole Quotes The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. To mark the tercentenary of the birth of Horace Walpole (1717–1797), English author, antiquarian, collector, and politician, the Lewis Walpole Library is sponsoring programs throughout the year to ...
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June 6th :Thomas Mann, Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, Carl Jung, Alexander Pushkin

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Wikipedia Born :  June 6, 1875,  Free City of Lübeck Died :  August 12, 1955,  Zürich, Switzerland Everyman's Library 12小時  ·  Paul Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck, German Empire on this day in 1875. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Writing well was almost the same  as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single word... The word was — civilization!" —from THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by  Thomas Mann With rich novel of ideas, Thoma...
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