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Sep. 9 ：Leo Tolstoy, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec，毛澤東 Mao Zedong,

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and ... Wikipedia
Born: November 24, 1864, Albi, France
Died: September 9, 1901, Saint-André-du-Bois, France
On view: National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum, MORE
Periods: Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Modern art, Impressionism, Realism
Height: 1.54 m
Resting place: Cimetière de Verdelais
Known for: Painting, printmaking, drawing, draughting, illustration

British Museum 新增了 4 張相片。
French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died #onthisday in 1901. Here are some of his colourful prints depicting the elegance, glamour and excess of France in the 1890s.



Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Wikipedia
Born: September 9, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
Died: November 20, 1910, Lev Tolstoy, Russia
Movies: Anna Karenina, L'Argent, Ivans Xtc, Two Jacks, MORE
Plays: The Power of Darkness, The Living Corpse, The Fruits of Culture: A Comedy in Four Acts, Anna Karenina
Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
If you want to be happy, be.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.



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Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary, poet, political theorist and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as the ... Wikipedia
Born: December 26, 1893, Shaoshan, China
Died: September 9, 1976, Beijing, China
Height: 1.8 m
Spouse: Jiang Qing (m. 1938–1976), He Zizhen (m. 1930–1937), Yang Kaihui (m. 1920–1930), Luo Yixiu (m. 1907–1910)
Quotes

Women hold up half the sky.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

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Sep. 24：Euripides, Horace Walpole, Pablo Neruda

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June 6th :Thomas Mann, Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, Carl Jung, Alexander Pushkin

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