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J.M. Barrie died on June 19th 1937. Best known for his Peter Pan stories, their themes of innocence, societal constraint and exile are present throughout his work 18則留言 1,085則分享 3,746 3,746 William Golding ( 1911-1993；1983年諾貝爾文學獎) 1967作品 The Pyramid 引用（《金字塔》李國慶譯，上海譯文，2000，p.15），不過注不詳盡。 我從這小說的題詞：「治民之道，以愛為本；心有愛則生，無愛則死。」（古埃及箴言）學到哲理。 想起上周聽他諾貝爾文學獎受講演說詞最後的一可愛（可….）英國警察之故事： The very day after I learned that I was the laureate for literature for 1983 I drove into a country town and parked my car where I should not. I only left the car for a few minutes but when I came back there was a ticket taped to the window. A traffic warden, a lady of a minatory aspect, stood by the car. She pointed to a notice on the wall. "Can't you read?" she said. Sheepishly I got into my car and drove very slowly round the corner. There on the pavement I saw two county policemen. http://hcbooks.blogspot.tw/…/william-golding-author-of-...

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.  Wikipedia Born :  June 17, 1882,  Lomonosov, Russia Died :  April 6, 1971,  New York City, New York, United States Full name :  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky Spouse :  Vera de Bosset  (m. 1940–1971),  Yekaterina Gabrielovna Nossenko  (m. 1906–1939) BBC Radio 4 Igor Stravinsky on the importance of touch and vibration in music - speaking to BBC's Monitor in 1958. M. C. Escher Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher, or commonly M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.  Wikipedia Born :  June 17, 1898,  Leeuwarden, Net...

The battle of Waterloo was fought on June 18th 1815. The scale of the slaughter and suffering remains shocking: when darkness finally fell, up to 50,000 men were lying dead or seriously wounded and 10,000 horses were dead or dying The battle of Waterloo was one of the defining events of European history The profound consequences of the battle of Waterloo, fought on this day in… ECONOMIST.COM Battle of Waterloo - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo The  Battle of Waterloo  was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day .....  He  had earlier written to Blücher confirming that  he  would give battle at Mont-Saint-Jean if Blücher could provide him with at least one corps; ... The Battle of Waterloo took place  # onthisday  in 1815. An especially bloody engagement on a small battlefield in modern-day Belgium, the aftermath of the battle i...