美國時間：每日珠璣 (By Hanching Chung)

On this day, 73 years ago, French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea and is believed to have died at that time. On that day, Saint-Exupéry took off in an unarmed P-38 on a reconnaissance mission to collect intelligence on German troop movements in and around France’s Rhone Valley. Author of works like ‘Night Flight’, ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’, and ‘Man and his World’, Saint-Exupéry is mostly known by classic novella ‘The Little Prince’, first  published in New York in 1943. The book begins precisely with a pilot being marooned in the desert, a reference to his experience as aviator. Stranded in that desert, the pilot meets a young prince coming from a tiny asteroid where he spends most of his time cleaning volcanoes and pulling out baobab trees. 'The Little Prince' is far more than just a book for kids, it explores the boundless themes of love, loneliness and purpose through captivating and loveable characters who mirror Antoine

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing. Wikipedia Born :  July 30, 1511,  Arezzo, Italy Died :  June 27, 1574,  Florence, Italy Artworks :  The Temptation of Saint Jerome ,  Vulcan's Forge ,  MORE On view :  Palazzo Vecchio ,  J. Paul Getty Museum ,  MORE Periods :  Mannerism ,  Renaissance ,  Italian Renaissance Known for :  Painting, architecture Structures :  Uffizi Gallery ,  Palazzo Pitti ,  Vasari Corridor ,  MORE Painter, architect and historian  Giorgio Vasari  was born in Arezzo, Republic of Florence on this day in 1511. "In our time it has been seen, as I hope to show quite shortly, that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instruct