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Aug. 30：Mary Shelley, Capability Brown, Sumiteru Taniguchi (谷口 稜曄)



Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki Survivor and Nuclear Arms Foe, Dies at 88

Painfully wounded in the atomic bombing when he was 16, he went on to become a prominent campaigner for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Sumiteru Taniguchi (谷口 稜曄 Taniguchi Sumiteru, 26 January 1929 – 30 August 2017) was a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki and a prominent activist for a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, and chairman of the Nagasaki Council of A-Bomb Sufferers.






Capability Brown - Wikipedia

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Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th century artists to be accorded his due" and "England's greatest gardener".


Capability Brown (1716-1783) ，英國"最偉大"的景觀大師、企業家。
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University of Oxford
2016年8月31日 23:00
It is 300 years since the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, who designed the gardens of some of England’s most beloved country houses. Dr Oliver Cox, Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University, tells us about ‘the man behind England’s green and pleasant land’.
Dr Cox, has co-curated an exhibition on 'Capability' Brown at the Bodleian Libraries' Weston Library which is open until September 4.
In this video, he explains how Oxford is celebrating the anniversary, and what we should know about ‘Capability’ Brown, and how he got his nickname. With thanks to Blenheim Palace & Capability Brown Festival 2016.


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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.Wikipedia
Born: August 30, 1797, Somers Town, London, United Kingdom
Died: February 1, 1851, Chester Square
Spouse: Percy Bysshe Shelley (m. 1816–1822)
Parents: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
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The beginning is always today.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley was born #onthisday in 1797.
Do you know of the rather bizarre circumstances that gave rise to her novel, ‘Frankenstein’? They read like something from a Gothic story in themselves. #DiscoveringLiterature explores http://bit.ly/2wnfjbN

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The White House has declared a state of emergency after a cyber attack forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline.

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4月26：Marcus Aurelius, Eugène Delacroix, Ludwig Wittgenstein, I. M. Pei, Guernica

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