"The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more." Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) Thomas Edward Lawrence was born #OTD in 1888. He became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books about T.E. Lawrence at PG:

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Macbethad mac Findláech died #OTD in 1057. In Shakespeare's play, which is based mainly upon Raphael Holinshed's account and probably first performed in 1606, Macbeth is initially a valiant and loyal general to the elderly King Duncan. After being manipulated by Three Witches and his wife, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth murders Duncan and usurps the throne. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books about Macbeth at PG:

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Walter Crane was born #OTD in 1845. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation, and one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by or illustrated by Walter Crane at PG:

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"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." Giant (1952) Edna Ferber was born #OTD in 1885. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926), Cimarron (1930), Giant (1952) and Ice Palace (1958), which received a film adaptation in 1960. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 She wrote with compassion and curiosity about Midwestern American life. via @Britannica Books by Edna Ferber at PG:

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Louise Colet was born #OTD in 1810. A year after her arrival in Paris, in 1835, Louise Colet published her poems and was awarded the Académie française prize of two thousand francs. In 1846, she met Gustave Flaubert, a young unknown in the studio of painter James Pradier. He was 25, she 36. They became lovers. The affair did not last. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Boos by Louise Colet at PG:

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"Time will rust the sharpest sword, Time will consume the strongest cord; That which molders hemp and steel, Mortal arm and nerve must feel." Harold the Dauntless (1817) Walter Scott was born #OTD in 1771. His knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to establish the historical novel genre as an exemplar of European Romanticism. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Walter Scott at PG:

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"A knowledge of animals doubles the interest of an ordinary country ramble — and the more we learn their ways, the more glimpses we will likely get of them!" Life Histories of Northern Animals, 1926. Ernest Thompson Seton was born #OTD in 1860. He was the founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in 1910. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Ernest Thompson Seton at PG:

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"Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man." Barbarians Within and Without (ed. 1939) Leonard Woolf died #OTD in 1969. Together, Leonard and Virginia Woolf became influential in the Bloomsbury Group. In 1917, the Woolfs bought a small hand-operated printing press and with it they founded the Hogarth Press. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by or translated by Leonard Woolf at PG:

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"Happiness lies in breadth of heart. And breadth of heart is that inward freedom which has the power to understand, feel with, and, if need be, help others." Art and the War (1915) John Galsworthy was born #OTD in 1867. He is known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, & 2 later trilogies, A Modern Comedy & End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by John Galsworthy at PG:

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Hans Christian Ørsted was born #OTD in 1777. He discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. Oersted's law and the oersted unit (Oe) are named after him. Ørsted was a published poet and philosopher, as well as scientist. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #books #science #physics

Eugène Delacroix died #OTD in 1863. In 19th-century French painting, he is considered the leading exponent of Romanticism, whose vigor matches the scope of his career. He painted on canvas and decorated the walls and ceilings of public monuments. He also left engravings and lithographs, several articles written for magazines and a Journal published shortly after his death. @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by or illustrated by Eugène Delacroix at PG:

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"I have an epic, not a dramatic nature. My disposition and my desires call for peace to spin my thread, for a steady rhythm in life and art." Nobel Banquet Speech (10 December 1929) Thomas Mann died #OTD in 1955. German novelist and essayist whose early novels—Buddenbrooks (1900), Der Tod in Venedig (1912; Death in Venice), and Der Zauberberg (1924; The Magic Mountain)—earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Books by Thomas Mann at PG:

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Erwin Schrödinger was born #OTD in 1887. He was a Nobel Prize-winning who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for postulating the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. He wrote many works on various aspects of physics, philosophy and theoretical biology and philosophical aspects of science. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #science #physics

"The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab." My story (ed. 1931) Mary Roberts Rinehart was born #OTD in 1876. Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Mary Roberts Rinehart at PG:

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William Alfred Fowler was born #OTD in 1911. His theory of element generation, which he developed with Sir Fred Hoyle, Margaret Burbidge, and Geoffrey Burbidge in the 1950s, suggests that in stellar evolution elements are synthesized progressively from light elements to heavy ones, in nuclear reactions that also produce light and heat. via @Britannica He won the 1983 Nobel Physics Prize with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. #science #physics

"It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress." The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature (1963) Paul Dirac was born #OTD in 1902. He was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Dirac is most famous for his 1928 relativistic quantum theory of the electron and his prediction of the existence of antiparticles. #science #physics

Nicolas Malebranche was born #OTD in 1638. Although better known for his philosophical work, Malebranche made some notable contributions to physics, working within a broadly Cartesian framework but nevertheless prepared to depart from Descartes where necessary. In addition, Malebranche wrote on the laws of motion, a topic he discussed extensively with Leibniz. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #books #science

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro died #OTD in 1925. He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus which then became the "lingua franca" of the subsequent theory of Albert Einstein's general relativity, as is shown in a letter written by Albert Einstein to Ricci-Curbastro's nephew. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #science #mathematics

"Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!" A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme Ben Jonson died #OTD in 1637. Apart from two tragedies, Sejanus and Catiline, Jonson's work for the public theatres was in comedy. The comedies of his middle career are for the most part city comedy. His late plays exhibit signs of an accommodation with the romantic tendencies of Elizabethan comedy. @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Ben Jonson at PG:

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"The world was never made; It will change, but it will not fade... Nothing was born; Nothing will die; All things will change." Nothing Will Die Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was born #OTD in 1809. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He also excelled at short lyrics also wrote some notable blank verse. @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Lord Tennyson at PG:

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