Wikiquote - Wikiquote Wikiquote is a Wikipedia sister project using Wikiwiki technology and the Wikipedia Phase III software. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from people, books and proverbs, and to give details about them. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Logo 3.
John Lubbock - was Rede lecturer in 1886), Edinburgh, Dublin and Wurzburg; and in 1878 was appointed a trustee of the British Museum. From 1888 to 1892 he was president of the London Chamber of Commerce; from 1889 to 1890 vice-chairman and from 1890 to 1892 chairman of the London County Council. In 1890 he was appointed a privy councillor; and was chairman of the committee of design on the new coinage in 1891. In January 1900 he was raised to the peerage, under the title of Baron Avebury. References Hutchinson, H.G., 1914, Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. London. Lubbock, J., 1865, Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages. London: Williams and Norgate. Trigger, B.G., 1989, A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University.
Julius Caesar - of Caesar's distant cousin Antonius, his lieutenant Lepidus, and Caesar's grand nephew Gaius Octavius (posthumously adopted by Caesar as "Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus"). This Triumvirate deified Caesar as divus iulius and - seeing that Caesar's clemency had resulted in his murder - proscribed its enemies and conducted a second civil war against Brutus and Cassius, whom Antonius and Octavianus defeated at Philippi. A third civil war then broke out between Octavianus on one hand and Antonius and Cleopatra on the other. This final civil war, culminating in Antonius's and Cleopatra's defeat at Actium, resulted in the ascendancy of Octavianus, who became the first Roman emperor, under the name Caesar Augustus. In 42 BC, Caesar was formally deified as "the Divine Julius" (Divus Iulius), and Caesar Augustus henceforth became Divi filius ("son.
H. P. Lovecraft - Joshi's A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft is indispensable both for the analysis it provides and for the thorough bibliography appended to it. Charles P. Mitchell's The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Filmography is useful for its discussion of films containing Lovecraftian elements (see "Adaptations", below). Lovecraft's prose fiction has been published numerous times, but, even after the "corrected texts" were released by Arkham House in the 1980s, many non-definitive collections of his stories have appeared, including Ballantine Books editions and, also, three popular Del Rey editions, which nonetheless have interesting introductions. Preferable are the two collections published by Penguin, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, both of which have introductions and annotations by S.T..
Henri Poincaré - In 1893 he joined the French Bureau of Longitude which engaged him in the synchronisation of time around the world. In 1897 he backed an unsuccessful proposal for the decimalisation of circular measure and hence time and longitude. This work led him to consider how clocks moving at high speed with respect to each other could be synchronised. In 1898 in “ The Measure of Time” he formulated the principle of relativity, according to which no mechanical or electromagnetic experiment can discriminate between a state of uniform motion and a state of rest. In collaboration with the Dutch theorist Hendrik Lorenz he went on to push the physics of the time to the limit to explain the behaviour of fast moving electrons. It was Albert Einstein however, who was prepared to.
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Francis Bacon - Bacon married Alice Barnham, "the alderman's daughter, an handsome maiden, to my liking." Little or nothing is known of their married life. However, substantial evidence suggests that Bacon's emotional interests lay elsewhere. John Aubrey in his Brief Lives states that Bacon was "a pederast". Bacon's fellow parliamentary member Sir Simonds D'Ewes in his Autobiography and Correspondence writes of Bacon: "yet would he not relinquish the practice of his most horrible & secret sinne of sodomie, keeping still one Godrick, a verie effeminate faced youth, to bee his catamite and bedfellow". Bacon's mother Lady Ann Bacon expressed clear exasperation with what she believed was her son's behaviour. In a letter to her other son Anthony, she complains of another of Francis's companions "that bloody Percy" who, she writes, he kept "yea as.
E. B. White - States. He died on October 1, 1985 of Alzheimer's Disease at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine. White married Katharine Sergeant Angell in 1929, also an editor at the magazine and author (as Katharine White) of Onward and Upward in the Garden. They had a son, Joel, a boatbuilder. Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, was a fiction editor for the New Yorker, but is perhaps better known as a baseball writer. White's style was stereotypically "Yankee": wry, understated, thoughtful, and informed. He was widely regarded as a master of the English language as writer's tool, noted for clear, well-constructed, and charming prose. Bibliography Essays One Man's Meat The Second Tree from the Corner The Essays of E.B. White Letters of E.B. White Poems and Sketches of E.B..
Edsger Dijkstra - as true. (The famous title of the paper was not the work of Dijkstra, but by Niklaus Wirth, editor of Communications of the ACM at the time.) Edsger Dijkstra is frequently quoted about computer science, for example, "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim," and "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." See also Edsger Dijkstra at Wikiquote. He died on August 6, 2002 after a long struggle with cancer. See also Dining philosophers problem.
Émile Zola - stopped chimney. His enemies were blamed, but nothing was proved. His body was moved to The Panthéon in Paris on June 4, 1908, almost six years after his death. Bibliography Therese Raquin (1867) Edouard Manet (1867) 15 others Les Rougon-Macquart La Fortune des Rougon La Curée (1871) A priest falls in love Le Ventre de Paris (The Belly of Paris ) (1873) La Conquête de Plassans La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret Son Excellence Eugène Rougon L'Assommoir (The Dram-shop or The Drunkard) Une Page d'amour Nana, the story of a young prostitute who dies at 18 of smallpox Pot-Bouille Au Bonheur des Dames La Joie de vivre Germinal, about a French mining village L'Oeuvre (1886) La Terre, set in a traditional farming village Le Rêve La Bête Humaine, exploring the railways and.
David Sedaris - reading essays on radio programs such as This American Life. He is gay and lives mostly in France. His sister, Amy Sedaris, is a writer and actress. See also David Sedaris quotes on Wikiquote.
Aesop - writer, grammarian, and translator; his name means "Berechiah the Puntuator (or grammarian)", indicating his possible profession. Today he is best known for his Hebrew work, Mishlei Shualim, which appears to be derived from a collection of Aesop's fables, from the French writer Ysopet of Marie de France (c.1170). Berechiah's work adds a layer of Biblical quotations and allusions in the tales, adapting them as a way to teach Jewish ethics. Before any Greek text appeared, a Latin translation of 100 Fabulae Aesopicae by an Italian scholar named Ranuzio (Renutius) was published at Rome, 1476. About 1480 the collection of Planudes was brought out at Milan by Buono Accorso (Accursius), together with Ranuzio's translation. This edition, which contained 144 fables, was frequently reprinted and additions made from time to time from various.
Albert Einstein - and explained its implications. Bose Einstein statistics now describes any assembly of these indistinguishable particles known as bosons. Einstein also assisted Erwin Schrödinger in the development of the Quantum Boltzmann distribution, a mixed classical and quantum mechanical gas model -- although he realised that this was less significant that the Bose Einstein model, and declined to have his name included on the paper. Later years Einstein and former student Leo Szilard co-invented a unique type of refrigerator (usually called "The Einstein Refrigerator") in 1926. [1] [1] On November 11, 1930, patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard. The patent covered a thermodynamic refrigeration cycle providing cooling with no moving parts, at a constant pressure, with only heat as an input. The refrigeration cycle used ammonia, butane, and.
April 6 - War begins. 1841 - John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States. 1862 - American Civil War: In Tennessee. the Battle of Shiloh begins. 1895 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry. 1896 - Opening of the first modern Olympic Games. 1909 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole. 1917 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany (see Wikiquote). 1930 - Hostess Twinkies are invented. 1931 - Little Orphan Annie debuts on the Blue Network of NBC. 1941 - World War II: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece. 1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft. 1974 - The California Jam Rock concert begins. 1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is.
Arianna Huffington - I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger," she said. Huffington's name still appeared on the ballot and she placed 5th in a field of 135 candidates. Arianna Huffington has written several books including: The Female Woman Picasso After Reason The Fourth Instinct The Gods of Greece Maria Callas Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom (ISBN 0517396998) How to Overthrow the Government (ISBN 0060988312) Pigs at the Trough (ISBN 1400047714) See also Quotes by Arianna Huffington on Wikiquote.
Bertrand Russell - to raise vigorous protests and denunciations against him during his first visit to the United States. (Russell's private life was rather more hedonistic than his published writings revealed, but that was not yet well known at the time.) He was an early critic of the official story in the John F. Kennedy assassination; his "16 Questions on the Assassination" from 1964 is still considered a good summary of the apparent inconsistencies in that case. In matters of religion, Russell classified himself as a philosophical agnostic and a practical atheist. He wrote that his attitude towards the Christian God was the same as his attitude towards the Greek gods: strongly convinced that they don't exist, but not able to rigorously prove it. His position is explained in the essays Am I An.
Bill Shankly - winners, First division runners-up. Shankly retired at the end of the 1973-74 season and was awarded the OBE. Quotes Shankly's most famous quote is arguably "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." For more quotes, please see Wikiquote - Quotes by Bill Shankly.
The Prince - found the secular thought of the Enlightenment and thus the modern era. It thus occupies a unique place in the evolution of thought in Europe. Its most famous maxims are widely cited today, usually in criticism of political leaders, among them: "it is better to be feared than loved" although it is not better to be hated, nor to eschew virtue and justice when this poses no threat to power the "end justifies the means" Table of Contents Dedication. Chapter I. How Many Kinds Of Principalities There Are, And By What Means They Are Acquired Chapter II. Concerning Hereditary Principalities Chapter III. Concerning Mixed Principalities Chapter IV. Why The Kingdom Of Darius, Conquered By Alexander, Did Not Rebel Against The Successors Of Alexander At His Death Chapter V. Concerning The Way.
Chamfort - the consequences of this abortive suicide attempt several months later. Chamfort was elected to the Académie française in 1781 and appointed librarian of the Bibliothèque Nationale at the end of his life. Today he is only remembered for his Maximes et Pensées, Caractères et Anecdotes, a collection of maxims and epigrams published in 1795. His acute observations on morals, art and politics still provide thoroughly enjoyable reading. Links Quotes by Chamfort (WikiQuote).
