Nov. 30：黃信介；Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill has been invoked on both sides of the Brexit debate, and has been hobbling across television and film screens more than ever

In a country led by the weak and wobbly, a towering figure from the past looms large

Churchill was born on November 30th 1874

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黃信介（1928年8月20日－1999年11月30日），本名黃金龍，臺北市大龍峒（今屬大同區）人。美麗島事件主要人物，民主進步黨第三屆及第四屆黨主席，臺灣民主運動與黨外運動先行者，對抗威權的民主運動領袖。其為台灣的社會運動參與者與政治人物連溫卿外甥。其父為黃火炎，母為連好。1954年與大稻埕張亦泰布莊千金張月卿結婚。

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18 For all his long career and prodigious energy he will always be associated with the phrase “the clash of civilisations”. How well does his argument hold up 24 years after he first penned it? Samuel Huntington was one of America's great public intellectuals The author of "The Clash of Civilisations?" was born on April 18th 1972 ECONOMIST.COM Samuel P. Huntington - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist, adviser and academic. He spent more than half a century .. As a consultant to the U.S. Department of State , and in an influential 1968 article in Foreign Affairs , he advocated the concentration of the rural population of South Vietnam , via a strategy of carpet-bombing and defoliating the rural lands and jungles of ...

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Sep. 27: Hugh Hefner ; Zuzana Ruzickova; George Cruikshank； GOOGLE；香港雨傘運動2014；

Zuzana Růžičková In Memoriam (14. 01.1927 - 27. 09.2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXVG1CWNE0M Zuzana Ruzickova harpsichordist and Holocaust survivor, dies Ruzickova survived persecution from the Nazis and Soviet communists before becoming one of the world's most acclaimed harpsichordists. She died in a Prague hospital after battling a short illness. Zuzana Ruzickova suffered decades of persecution on her journey to becoming an award-winning musician and world-famous harpsichordist. "She was a woman with incredibly tough experiences and traumas suffered during the Holocaust," music journalist Petr Veber told the Czech CTK news agency. "Fortunately, she survived and she was able to get over it." Born on January 14, 1927, Ruzickova was expelled from school for being Jewish shortly after Nazi Germany's occupation of Czechoslovakia at the beginning of the Second World War. In 1942, she and her family were interned at the Czech conc...

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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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