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July 12：Henry David Thoreau, Josiah Wedgwood, Buckminster Fuller



Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor. Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic.Wikipedia
Born: July 12, 1895, Milton, Massachusetts, United States
Died: July 1, 1983, Los Angeles, California, United States
Spouse: Anne Fuller (m. 1917–1983)
Structures: Dymaxion house, MORE
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Love is metaphysical gravity.

Happy Birthday Buckminster Fuller! "Bucky" is known as the father of sustainability and he is most famous for popularizing the Geodesic dome.


Josiah Wedgwood - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter and entrepreneur. He founded the Wedgwood company.
‎Biography · ‎Legacy and influence · ‎Abolitionism

British potter Josiah Wedgwood was born #onthisday in 1730. This beautiful blue and white vase is a fine example of the style he perfected in the 1770s. Known as jasper ware, this unglazed, matte finish pottery is stained with colour before firing. The smooth blue background with white relief is typical of Wedgwood pottery of this era – as is the Greek-inspired scene. Wedgwood presented this vase to the Museum himself in 1786, and you can still see it on display in Room 47.http://ow.ly/jQxx30dvoap






In honor of Thoreau’s 200th birthday, hundreds of new images of his specimens, along with the data associated with them, are being posted online.


Thoreau’s 200th birthday brings gift for botanists
Harvard University Herbaria will post images of more than 800 plants the author and naturalist collected, part of a larger digitization effort.
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Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. Wikipedia
Born: July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Died: May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Influenced: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., more
Essays: Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, more
Quotes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Things do not change; we change.

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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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