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🚗 La targa 🚗
Il 14 agosto del 1893 nacque a Parigi la targa automobilistica, quando la Polizia avvertì la necessità di regolare la crescente circolazione dei veicoli a motore e decise di introdurre l’utilizzo di una placca di riconoscimento per tutte le auto pubbliche. La seconda nazione che introdusse tale obbligo fu la Germania, tre anni dopo, nel… Read More 🚗 La targa 🚗
The Lady with the Lamp
On 13 August 1910, Florence Nightingale died at the age of 90. She was born in 1820, in Florence, Italy, the city which inspired her name. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and greatly affected 19th- and 20th-century policies around proper care, becoming an icon of Victorian culture. She gained the nickname of… Read More The Lady with the Lamp
The Womanizer Who Liberated Women
On 12 August 1851, Isaac Merritt Singer (1811 – 1875) patented the Singer Sewing Machine. He did not invent it, and never claimed to have done so, because it had already been “invented” a few times. However, his success was based on the practicality and efficiency of his machine, the ease with which it could… Read More The Womanizer Who Liberated Women
Bigger than Jesus?
On 11 August 1966, John Lennon had to apologize for his “more popular than Jesus” remark made in a magazine interview in March. The controversy had first broken out towards the end of July 1966, right before the Beatles’ fourth tour in the United States, when an American teen magazine had published parts of an… Read More Bigger than Jesus?
Van Gogh’s Severed Ear
During his stay at the Yellow House, which had been set up as a studio in the south, Van Gogh experienced a period of feverish intensity and produced a great amount of art, which represented a severe demand on his strength and resources, His love/hate relationship with Gauguin and repeated threats of Gauguin’s departure caused… Read More Van Gogh’s Severed Ear
♫♪♫ “Vincent’s Ear” ♫♪♫
How did you ever find her? She tried so hard to disappear. Somebody rang the bell and Handed her Vincent’s ear. And no one understands All the love inside he tried to give No one understands His life was hard to live No one understands In a past which he could not desert No… Read More ♫♪♫ “Vincent’s Ear” ♫♪♫
Van Gogh on poetry & love 🌸🌸🌸
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream”. In his letters to his brother Theo, Vincent van Gogh wrote: 🌸 “I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.” (1880) 🌸 “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” … Read More Van Gogh on poetry & love 🌸🌸🌸
Van Gogh and his skies⭐⭐⭐
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream”. ⭐ “At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will… Read More Van Gogh and his skies⭐⭐⭐
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton (1928 –1974) was an influential American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. She was known for her highly personal poetry, dealing primarily with her long battle with depression, suicidal tendencies and various intimate details of her private life. Though she was raised in a comfortable middle-class… Read More Anne Sexton
