#OnThisDay, 16 Jan 1970, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement.
In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil.
George MacBeth (1932–1992) was born #OTD, 19 Jan
“MacBeth’s language is beautifully melodic: the stanzas unfold like operatic arias, becoming more florid & complex in thought as the poem develops…”
—Carol Rumens on MacBeth’s “The God of Love”
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/jun/07/poem-week-god-love-macbeth
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#OTD in 1893.
Kate Chopin's short stories "Désirée's Baby" and "A Visit to Avoyelles" appear in Vogue magazine in the United States. It first appeared under the title "The Father of Désirée's Baby" in a section called "Character Studies".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e%27s_Baby
Désirée's Baby at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/160
English writer A. A. Milne was born #OTD in 1882.
He is best best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.
Watch our podcast on Winnie the Pooh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWZxwuam5Iw
A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh as an accessible eBook:
https://tilde.zone/@gluejar/113749300977151258
Books by A.A. Milne at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730
"If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think."
#OTD in 1904.
Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski.
Written in 1903, it was first published by Znaniye, and came out as a separate edition later that year in Saint Petersburg, via A.F. Marks Publishers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cherry_Orchard
Cherry Orchard at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7986
"Quero ser a pintora do meu país."
(I want to be the painter of my country)
Brazilian painter, draftswoman, and translator Tarsila do Amaral died #OTD in 1973.
As a member of the Grupo dos Cinco, Tarsila is also considered a major influence in the modern art movement in Brazil, alongside Anita Malfatti, Menotti Del Picchia, Mário de Andrade, and Oswald de Andrade. She was instrumental in the formation of the aesthetic movement, Antropofagia (1928–1929).
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born #OTD, 11 Sep. Plays on the Passions, a series of female-led comedies & tragedies, brought Baillie fame during a period when serious drama was in decline. Her 256th birthday was commemorated by a Google doodle in 2018
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https://doodles.google/doodle/joanna-baillies-256th-birthday/
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#OTD in 1812.
Lord Byron takes his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
These parlamentary experiences inspired Byron to write political poems such as Song for the Luddites (1816) and The Landlords' Interest, Canto XIV of The Age of Bronze. Examples of poems in which he attacked his political opponents include Wellington: The Best of the Cut-Throats (1819) and The Intellectual Eunuch Castlereagh (1818).
Books by Lord Byron at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1708
#OnThisDay, 26 Dec 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of radium.
In 1903, Marie, Pierre and Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radiation. Marie was the first woman to receive the award.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons
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Italian dancer, choreographer and dance theoretician Carlo Blasis died #OTD in 1878.
He published an analysis of the ballet techniques in 1820, in a work named Traité élémentaire, théorique, et pratique de l'art de la danse. He is most known for the pose "Attitude" derived from the famous statue Mercury by Giovanni da Bologna.
Norwegian folklorist, writer, and zoologist Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was born #OTD in 1812.
He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. The most famous collection, "Norske Folkeeventyr" ("Norwegian Folktales"), was co-published with Moe starting in 1841. He worked as a zoologist and forestry expert, publishing writings on nature and the environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christen_Asbj%C3%B8rnsen
Books by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34177
Swedish painter and photographer Oscar Gustave Rejlander died #OTD in 1875.
His most famous work, "The Two Ways of Life" (1857), was a large-scale composite image made from over 30 negatives, depicting a moral allegory between vice and virtue. He worked closely with other pioneers like Henry Peach Robinson and was admired by Charles Darwin, who commissioned him to create photographs for The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872).
#OTD in 1904.
J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London with Nina Boucicault in the title rôle and Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook and Mr Darling; du Maurier is the uncle of the Llewellyn Davies boys, who inspired the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan
Peter Pan at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/16
#OTD in 1853.
Charles Dickens gives the first of his public readings of his own works, in Birmingham Town Hall (England) to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people and including an adaptation of A Christmas Carol; these are very successful and Dickens continues public readings until the year of his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol
Christmas Carol at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46
"Nothing can come of nothing: speak again."
#OTD in 1838.
William Macready opens a performance of King Lear at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, restoring most of Shakespeare's original text, including the character of the Fool.
The restored character of the Fool was played by Priscilla Horton. And Helen Faucit's final appearance as Cordelia, dead in her father's arms, became one of the most iconic of Victorian images.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear
Robin Jenkins (1912–2005) – “the best-kept secret in modern British literature” & one of Scotland’s most prolific 20th-century novelists – was born #OTD, 11 Sep. Dr Linden Bicket argues that Jenkins anticipates the urban realist fictions of Galloway, Kelman & Welsh
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"Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?"
#OTD in 1605.
The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain. It was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
Don Quixote at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/996
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2000
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42524
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/35181
I saw the dead upon St Laurence Wake
Sailing in beautiful Brimvald. They were young,
Younger than death and life, with a sweet tongue
I have heard in my blood before…
—“The Vikings”, by Olive Fraser (1909–1977) – born #OTD, 20 Jan, & a poet whose work was sadly neglected in her lifetime. A 🎂 🧵
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#OTD in 1817.
English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which all feature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Haydon
Book about Benjamin Hydon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6756
Swedish mathematician Niels Fabian Helge von Koch was born #OTD in 1870.
He gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry."
Irish astronomer Agnes Mary Clerke died #OTD in 1907.
During her career she wrote reviews of many books, including some written in French, German, Greek, or Italian. In 1885, she published her best known work, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. This book became commonly used for its discussion of the spectroscope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Mary_Clerke
Books about or by Agnes Mary Clerke at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Agnes+Mary+Clerke&submit_search=Search
"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."
#OTD in 1916.
James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is first published complete in book form, in New York by B. W. Huebsch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217
#OTD in 1959.
American physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the field of nanotechnology. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms as a more robust form of synthetic chemistry than those used at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom
Austrian-born American actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr died #OTD in 2000.
Lamarr wanted to aid the Allied forces during World War II. She shared her concept for using “frequency hopping” with the U.S. Navy and codeveloped a patent with Antheil 1941. Today, her innovation helped make possible a wide range of wireless communications technologies, including Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
Below, U.S. patent 2,292,387 granted on August 11, 1942, under her legal name Hedy Kiesler Markey.
#OTD in 1789.
William Hill Brown's anonymous sentimental epistolary novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston.
The novel was first published anonymously, but was popularly attributed to poet Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton because of the resemblance between the plot and a scandal in her family; Brown was not correctly identified as the author until 1894.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy
![von Koch, Helge (1904). "Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire" [On a continuous curve without tangent, obtained by an elementary geometric construction]. Arkiv för Matematik (in French). 1: 681–704. JFM 35.0387.02.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000100114564&view=1up&seq=691](/proxy/post_attachment/592616/231c954be72a8c3fc2677e283bbeb759.jpg "von Koch, Helge (1904). \"Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire\" [On a continuous curve without tangent, obtained by an elementary geometric construction]. Arkiv för Matematik (in French). 1: 681–704. JFM 35.0387.02.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000100114564&view=1up&seq=691")
