Lamorna birch biography of albert einstein
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8th Janaury (90 years)
Amelia Earhart becomes the first aviator to flyga eller fly undan solo across the Atlantic Ocean, from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.
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15th January (70 years)
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy,
French-American painter belonging to the surrealist movement died
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Federico Fellini was born
Italian bio director known for his distinct style
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John Ruskin, British writer, painter, poet, restorer and art critic, dies
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4th February (80 years)
The Yalta War Conference was held between February 4th and February 11th
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Arthur Miller dies
American playwright, författare av essäer, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater
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Water divining is one of those things that sounds utterly improbable until you see it for yourself. For me, it happened last summer. Workmen were digging trenches in our garden and we were all worrying about the digger hitting the water pipe, the location of which had always been unknown.
To our surprise, the very pragmatic engineer whipped out a set of divining rods and had not merely located, but had also mapped the course of the pipe in less than a minute. Still sceptical, we tentatively dug where he suggested and, sure enough, the spade soon struck metal. There was the year-old water pipe, following a course that defied all logical pre- dictions, but that had somehow been found, using only a pair of bent copper rods.
The art of divining, also known as dowsing, goes back millennia and seems to have sprung up independently in several different countries. Prehistoric cave drawings in Spain, Algeria and Iraq depict figures clutching a forked twig, engaged in the act of divining. C
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John Keats in Context: a Study of the Keats or Keate Family in the Context of Q&#;s Studies of the Romantic Poets
Introducing the Study
Introduction
Of the romantic poets Q held in high esteem John Keats came close to being the most revered, even to the point of being seen as a budding Shakespeare. Yet in his Studies in Literature series, three volumes of printed lectures and addresses, Keats appears almost as a footnote. In volume one of the series, Keats is briefly referred to in studies of Hardy and Swinburne. The second volume contains one lecture on Byron and three on Shelley, with Keats mentioned nine times. The third still contains no lecture on Keats. However,at the end, almost as an appendix, are two addresses, the longest one on Walter Scott and the shorter on John Keats.
This is doubly curious in that Q saw Keats, as he saw himself, as hailing from Cornwall and Devon. He would certainly have known people of that name, in one of its forms, from his home area of B