Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.Wikipedia Born: June 6, 1875, Free City of Lübeck Died: August 12, 1955, Zürich, Switzerland Movies: Death in Venice, The Severed Heads, Buddenbrooks, MORE Children: Klaus Mann, Erika Mann, Golo Mann, Michael Mann, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Monika Mann Quotes A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. “To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”--from DEATH IN VENICE (1912) by Thomas Mann ------- Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the ...Wikipedia Born: August 12, 1887, Vienna, Austria Died: January 4, 1961, Vienna, Austria Full name: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger Spouse: Annemarie Bertel (m. 1920–1961) Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Planck Medal, Erwin Schrödinger Prize

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.Wikipedia

Born: June 6, 1875, Free City of Lübeck

Died: August 12, 1955, Zürich, Switzerland

Movies: Death in Venice, The Severed Heads, Buddenbrooks, MORE

Children: Klaus Mann, Erika Mann, Golo Mann, Michael Mann, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Monika Mann

Quotes

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

“To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
--from DEATH IN VENICE (1912) by Thomas Mann

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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the ...Wikipedia

Born: August 12, 1887, Vienna, Austria

Died: January 4, 1961, Vienna, Austria

Full name: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

Spouse: Annemarie Bertel (m. 1920–1961)

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Planck Medal, Erwin Schrödinger Prize

MIT Technology Review 和 OpenMind。

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A day like today, in 1887, a brilliant scientist was born. With Schrödinger equation, he explained quantum physics. With Schrödinger's cat, even more
well-known, he revealed its contradictions. Then he kept on thinking, and his ideas revolutionized genetics forever: (Partner content via BBVA OpenMind)

Schrödinger, a Quantum behind the Secret of Life - OpenMind

Schrödinger was a quantum physicist who intuited what then became the basis of genetics, the DNA code, which he approached in his book "What is…

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Whenever a Hollywood star of a certain vintage dies, somebody always pronounces them The Last Of The Greats—the final link to a hallowed Golden Age of American cinema. But in the case of Lauren Bacall the honorific was more appropriate than usual

Remembering Lauren Bacall

The studio-era siren died on August 12th 2014

ECONOMIST.COM

 Lauren Bacall 1924-2014

http://hcpeople.blogspot.tw/2017/08/lauren-bacall-1924-2014.html

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British Museum 新增了 3 張相片。

British poet, printmaker and artist William Blake died #onthisday in 1827. Blake developed his own style of illustrated poems – he worked at the same time as Romantic poets and painters, but his style remained distinct. Here are three examples of his powerful work completed in pen, ink and watercolour.

"The Caverns of The Grave I've Seen" by William Blake

The Caverns of the Grave I've seen,
And these I show'd to England's Queen.
But now the Caves of Hell I view,
Who shall I dare to show them to?
What mighty soul in Beauty's form
Shall dauntless view the infernal storm?
Egremont's Countess can control
The flames of Hell that round me roll;
If she refuse, I still go on
Till the Heavens and Earth are gone,
Still admir'd by noble minds,
Follow'd by Envy on the winds,
Re-engrav'd time after time,
Ever in their youthful prime,
My designs unchang'd remain.
Time may rage, but rage in vain.
For above Time's troubled fountains,
On the great Atlantic Mountains,
In my Golden House on high,
There they shine eternally.

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Wikipedia

Born: November 28, 1757, Soho, London, United Kingdom

Died: August 12, 1827, Westminster, United Kingdom

Artworks: The Ancient of Days, Nebuchadnezzar, MORE

On view: Tate Gallery, Britain, National Gallery of Art, MORE

Periods: Symbolism, Romanticism

Poems: The Tyger, London, The Lamb, The Chimney Sweeper, MORE

Quotes

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.