Guillaume Apollinaire was born #OTD in 1880. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and was recognized as "Fallen for France" because of his commitment during the war. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Guillaume Apollinaire at PG:

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Lee de Forest was born #OTD in 1873. He invented the first practical electronic amplifier, the three-element "Audion" triode vacuum tube in 1906. This helped start the Electronic Age, and enabled the development of the electronic oscillator. These made radio broadcasting and long distance telephone lines possible, and led to the development of talking motion pictures, among countless other applications. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #science

"There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle." The Chemical History of a Candle (1860) Michael Faraday died #OTD in 1867. English physicist and chemist whose many experiments contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism. Books by Michaeal Faraday at PG:

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«Todo lenguaje es un alfabeto de símbolos cuyo ejercicio presupone un pasado que los interlocutores comparten». El Aleph Jorge Luis Borges was born #OTD in 1899. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Published quite recently. Rights to Jorge Luis Borges’s work go to his wife’s nephews:

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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb died #OTD in 1806. He is best known for the formulation of Coulomb’s law, which states that the force between two electrical charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named in his honor in 1880. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by or about Coulomb at PG:

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"Les idées une fois jetées dans les esprits sont comme les semences, dont le produit dépend des lois de la nature, et non de la volonté de ceux qui les ont répandues." Georges Cuvier was born #OTD in 1769. He was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. via @npub1kvnp...hm73

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"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." Invictus (1875) William Ernest Henley was born #OTD in 1849. British poet, critic, and editor who in his journals introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890s. via @Britannica Books by William Ernest Henley at PG:

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"Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing." In an interview with The Idler (1896) Aubrey Beardsley was born #OTD in 1872. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by or illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley at PG:

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Augustin-Louis Cauchy was born #OTD in 1789. He was one of the first to state and rigorously prove theorems of calculus, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra of earlier authors. He single-handedly founded complex analysis and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra. He wrote approximately 800 research articles and five complete textbooks on a variety of topics in the fields of mathematics and mathematical physics. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 #books #mathematics

"Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences." Coming through the swamp Gene Stratton Porter was born #OTD in 1863. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company in 1924. Books by Gene S. Porter at PG:

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Pierre de Fermat was born #OTD in 1601. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory. He is best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica. #books #mathematics

"The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!" Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, 1957 Georgette Heyer was born #OTD in 1902. Heyer essentially invented the historical romance & created the subgenre of the Regency romance. Despite her popularity and success, Heyer was largely ignored by critics other than Dorothy L. Sayers. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Georgette Heyer at PG:

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"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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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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"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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