美國時間：每日珠璣 (By Hanching Chung)

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Thākura, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Wikipedia Born :  May 7, 1861,  Kolkata, India Died :  August 7, 1941,  Kolkata, India Plays :  Chitra ,  Raja Awards :  Nobel Prize in Literature Quotes Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Lucas van Leyden - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_van_Leyden Lucas van Leyden  (1494 – 8 August 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Dutch eng...

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. 72 years later, and even after the end of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation remains as big a threat as it ever was.  http://p.dw.com/p/2hl7V ***** Howard Hodgkin British painter Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.  Wikipedia Born :  August 6, 1932,  Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom Died :  March 9, 2017,  London, United Kingdom Artworks :  Girl on a Sofa ,  Girl at Night ,  Venice, Afternoon ,  MORE Spouse :  Julia Lane  (m. 1955) Children :  Louis Hodgkin ,  Sam Hodgkin   15:42 147 紀念Howard Hodgkin 漢清講堂 2017-03-18 22 views 4 months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iV0DSTw584&t=4s A tribute to the late Howard Hodgkin, who was born on this day in 1932  htt...

Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial, reflecting his lost belief in Christianity. Wikipedia Born :  August 4, 1839,  Stepney, London, United Kingdom Died :  July 30, 1894,  Oxford, United Kingdom Education :  The Queen's College, Oxford ,  University of Oxford ,  Brasenose College, Oxford Influenced by :  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ,  Novalis ,  Heraclitus Quotes To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. # OnThisDay  in 1839 Walter Pater was born in London. Pater's infamous 'Conclusion' to his book, Studies in the History of the Renaissan...

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Wikipedia Born :  April 2, 1805,  Odense, Denmark Died :  August 4, 1875,  Østerbro, Denmark Movies :  Frozen ,  Thumbelina ,  The Little Mermaid ,  MORE Short stories :  The Emperor's New Clothes ,  The Snowman ,  MORE Quotes Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Where words fail, music speaks. Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. “His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.”  ―from "The Ugly Duckling" ---- Marilyn Monroe was an Amer...