Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer’s day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land Now I understand What you tried… Read More “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)” – 1.Lyrics & Translation
VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) Vincent van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert in the southern Netherlands, into a religious upper middle-class family. He was deeply religious as a young man and aspired to be a pastor, like his father. He was very emotional and he did not have a great deal… Read More Vincent van Gogh
Towards the end of July 1890, suffering from depression, Vincent van Gogh attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest. There were no witnesses and the gun was never found. He committed the act either in the wheat field he had been painting or in a barn. Holding his stomach, he was able to arrive… Read More ❓❔ Van Gogh’s Suicide ❔❓
Today, 29 July 2019 is Earth Overshoot Day (EOD), previously known as Ecological Debt Day, the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year will exceed what the Earth can regenerate. By midnight, humanity’s allotment of natural resources for 2019 will be all used up. Each year, the human population grows and we keep… Read More Earth Overshoot Day 🌍
Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 –1943) – English writer and illustrator, best known for her children’s books (such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.) 🐿️ “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” 🐿️ “Thank God I have the seeing eye, that… Read More Beatrix Potter 🐿
Il 27 luglio del 1929 Alberto Pincherle, in arte Alberto Moravia, pubblica, a soli ventidue anni, “Gli indifferenti”, suo romanzo d’esordio. Si tratta di un’opera di formazione in cui l’autore descrive con grande realismo l’esistenza passiva e priva di qualsiasi emozione di due giovani fratelli, Michele e Carla, indifferenti alle meschinità e ai tradimenti… Read More “Gli indifferenti” e la fede
“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species… Read More Kubrick & the Indifference of the Universe
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 25 July 1834) – English poet, literary critic, philosopher and co- founder of the Romantic Movement in England. Here are the opening stanzas of his masterpiece: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” PART I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. ‘By thy long grey… Read More S.T. Coleridge
Il pomeriggio di venerdì 24 luglio 1908, si corse a Londra la maratona delle quarte Olimpiadi moderne: l’italiano Dorando Pietri (1885 –1942) fu il primo a tagliare il traguardo, ma purtroppo non poté essere dichiarato vincitore. L’atleta era giunto quasi al termine della gara disidratato e stremato dalla fatica e quando era entrato nello… Read More La maratona di Pietri
On 23 July 1829 William A. Burt (1792 –1858) received a patent on a typographer signed personally by President Andrew Jackson. It was a predecessor to the modern-day typewriter, therefore Burt is referred to as the “father of the typewriter”. United States Patent Office documents describe this machine as “the actual construction of a type… Read More The Father of the Typewriter
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