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Aug. 30：Mary Shelley, Capability Brown, Sumiteru Taniguchi (谷口 稜曄)



Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki Survivor and Nuclear Arms Foe, Dies at 88

Painfully wounded in the atomic bombing when he was 16, he went on to become a prominent campaigner for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Sumiteru Taniguchi (谷口 稜曄 Taniguchi Sumiteru, 26 January 1929 – 30 August 2017) was a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki and a prominent activist for a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, and chairman of the Nagasaki Council of A-Bomb Sufferers.






Capability Brown - Wikipedia

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Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th century artists to be accorded his due" and "England's greatest gardener".


Capability Brown (1716-1783) ，英國"最偉大"的景觀大師、企業家。
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University of Oxford
2016年8月31日 23:00
It is 300 years since the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, who designed the gardens of some of England’s most beloved country houses. Dr Oliver Cox, Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University, tells us about ‘the man behind England’s green and pleasant land’.
Dr Cox, has co-curated an exhibition on 'Capability' Brown at the Bodleian Libraries' Weston Library which is open until September 4.
In this video, he explains how Oxford is celebrating the anniversary, and what we should know about ‘Capability’ Brown, and how he got his nickname. With thanks to Blenheim Palace & Capability Brown Festival 2016.


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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.Wikipedia
Born: August 30, 1797, Somers Town, London, United Kingdom
Died: February 1, 1851, Chester Square
Spouse: Percy Bysshe Shelley (m. 1816–1822)
Parents: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
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The beginning is always today.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley was born #onthisday in 1797.
Do you know of the rather bizarre circumstances that gave rise to her novel, ‘Frankenstein’? They read like something from a Gothic story in themselves. #DiscoveringLiterature explores http://bit.ly/2wnfjbN

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4月18日：George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) : Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)舌辯大師丹諾；Samuel Huntington

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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 commemorate the occasion.
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June 6th :Thomas Mann, Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, Carl Jung, Alexander Pushkin

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 Everyman's Library 12小時  ·  Paul Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck, German Empire on this day in 1875. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Writing well was almost the same  as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single word... The word was — civilization!" —from THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by  Thomas Mann With rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front
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