On 31 December 1995 Calvin and Hobbes’s final strip appeared.Calvin and Hobbes was an American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that ran from 1985 to 1995.That last strip showed six-year-old Calvin and his tiger friend Hobbes in a beautiful winter setting. Calvin: Wow, It really snowed last night. Isn’t it wonderful?Hobbes: Everything… Read More Calvin and Hobbes❄️
A Corenno Plinio (prov. di Lecco), un bel borgo che sorge su uno sperone roccioso sul lago di Como nel Comune di Dervio, c’è la chiesa di San Tommaso di Canterbury.L’edificio, sulla cui facciata si notano monumenti funerari in stile gotico costruiti per i conti Andreani, era una chiesa castellana a ridosso del castello-fortificazione che… Read More La chiesa di San Tommaso di Canterbury
On 29 December 1170, Thomas à Becket, archbishop of Canterbury was assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by four knights at King Henry II’ bidding. Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III and his shrine in Canterbury Cathedral became an important focus for pilgrimage.He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both… Read More Murder in the Cathedral
On 28 December 1869, William Finley Semple (1832-1923) a dentist from Ohio, filed a patent (number 98,304) on chewing gum.However, five months earlier Amos Tyler had already received a patent for a gum consisting of white rosin (pine resin) and olive oil, heated and mixed. Semple’s gum was made out of rubber dissolved in naphtha… Read More Chewing Gum
Louis Pasteur, scientifique français, pionnier de la microbiologie et connu pour avoir inventé le premier vaccin contre la rage est né le 27 décembre 1822⭕“La science n’a pas de patrie, parce que le savoir est le patrimoine de l’humanité, le flambeau qui éclaire le monde.”⭕“Savoir s’étonner à propos est le premier pas fait sur la… Read More Scienza, stupore, entusiasmo (Pasteur)
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of Rome. For men are homesick in… Read More The House of Christmas
Domani è Natale: auguro a tutti voi – e anche a me stessa – che la sua magia pervada le nostre anime e che la serenità, la gioia e l’armonia diventino lo sfondo della nostra vita.
“But habit is a great deadener” (Vladimir: Waiting for Godot) à elle l’acte calme to her the calm actthe savant pores the sex easygoingwaiting not too slow regretting not too long the absencein the service of presencea few tatters of azure in the head the points finally dead of the heartall the tardy grace of… Read More Samuel Beckett: “l’acte calme”
Samuel Beckett, who was born in 1906, died in Paris on 22 December 1989.He was an novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1969.Having spent in Paris most of his adult life, he wrote in both English and French. “Memories are killing. So you must not think… Read More Beckett and Memory
“If winter comes,Can spring be far behind?” (1)He wondered this morning at the beginning of winter. Don’t worry, I said“If we winter this one out,We can summer anywhere.” (2) Can’t you see that “Winter is on my head,But eternal spring is in my heart.” (3)? “And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land….You will… Read More Winter Has Come (Pot-Pourri)
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