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Enid Mary Blyton was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Wikipedia Born :  August 11, 1897,  East Dulwich, London, United Kingdom Died :  November 28, 1968,  Hampstead, United Kingdom Children :  Gillian Baverstock ,  Imogen Mary Smallwood 伊妮德·布萊頓 （1897年8月11日－1968年11月28日），筆名是 瑪麗·波洛克 （ Mary Pollock），她是 英國 1940年代的著名 兒童文學 家，她所著的《 諾弟 》( Noddy )系列及透過一位叫Noddy的虛構人物為兒童介紹世界各國的新奇事物的系列，在世界都很受歡迎，亦曾成為各地的課室指定讀物。這系列的中譯本都由 基督教文藝出版社 出版。 她的作品以 奇幻 冒險類型為主，知名的還包括《五小冒險系列》（The Famous Five，僅部份有中譯本，由 水牛出版社 出版），與尚未授權中文版的《Five Find─Outers》系列、《The Secret Seven》系列、《Malory Towers》系列等等。 外部連結 [ 編輯 ] The Enid Blyton Society EnidBlyton.net Heather's Blyton Pages Enid Blyton Collectors' and Enthusiasts' Guide to First Editions Enid Blyton—the creator of the “Famous Five” and the “Secret Seven”—was born on August 11th 1897. Her 762 books hav...

The German-born doctor and nun gave "hundreds of thousands of people a life of dignity". 翻譯年糕 Ruth Pfau: Pakistan's 'Mother Teresa' dies aged 87 BBC.CO.UK | 作者： BBC NEWS Sister Dr Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau [1]  (9 September 1929 – 10 August 2017) was a  German - Pakistani [2]   physician  and  nun  of the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary. She devoted nearly 50 years of her life to fighting  leprosy  in  Pakistan . Contents    [ hide ]  1 Early life 2 Life in Pakistan 3 Death 3.1 Reaction 4 Awards and recognition 5 Honours 6 Bibliography 7 References 8 Further reading

朝日新聞（The Asahi Shimbun） 長崎への原爆投下から１年経った１９４６年８月９日、犠牲者の墓碑を前に祈りを捧げる遺族たち。今日９日、投下から７２年目の夏を迎えた。photo 朝日新聞社（朝日新聞映像報道部インスタグラムの写真を紹介しています） Brunette Coleman was a pseudonym used by the poet and writer Philip Larkin. In 1943, towards the end of his time as an undergraduate at St John's College, Oxford, he wrote several works of fiction, verse and critical commentary under that name.  Wikipedia Born :  August 9, 1922,  Radford, Coventry, United Kingdom Died :  December 2, 1985,  Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom Poems :  This Be The Verse ,  MCMXIV ,  Mr Bleaney ,  An Arundel Tomb ,  Days Parents :  Sydney Larkin ,  Eva Emily Day Quotes They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get o...

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...