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Showing posts with label Word of the Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Word of the Day. Show all posts
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
Word of The Week
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." –Paul Valery
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint- (Oct 30th, 1871- July 20th, 1945) Jules Valéry was born October 30th, 1871 was a French poet, writer, and philosopher. He loved art, music, history, culture and the current trends during that age. He had a broad range of interest.
Valéry was born in Sete, a small town in the Mediterranean coast, and raised in urban area of Montpellier. his father was of Corsica and he had a Genoese-Istrian mother. At a university, he studied law and later lived in Paris for the rest of his years. He was acquainted with Stephane Mallarme. He After a traditional Roman Catholic education, he studied law at university, then resided in Paris for most of the remainder of his life, where he was, for a while, part of the circle of Stéphane Mallarmé.
In 1900, he married Jeannie Gobillard Stéphane Mallarmé's friend, relative of painter Berthe Morisot. Interestingly, his wedding was a double ceremony with his wife's cousin, Julie Manet, who married painter, Ernest Rouart. Valéry and Gobillard had three children: Claude, Agathe, and François.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Proverb of the Week
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; There is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9
Monday, June 10, 2013
Word of the Week
"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can." –Robert Cushing
Monday, April 22, 2013
Word of the Week
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
Monday, April 8, 2013
Word of The Week
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
- Mark Twain
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| Credit: Matthew Brandy, "The United States Library of Congress"
Mark Twain, also known originally as Samuel Langhorne Clemen, was born on November 30th, 1835 in Hannibal, Missouri. He is better known for his works Huckle The Adventures of Berry Fin and Adventures of Tom Swayer. Twain was 11 when his father died of a pneumonia. He left Missouri to work for print in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. In 1867, a local paper sponsored Twain on a trip to the Mediterranean. He was a self-educator and joined the International Typographical Union. Twain lived in San Francisco as a journalist. In 1869, he wrote about his travels as featured in the compiled works The Innocent Abroad.
In 1867, a local newspaper funded a trip to the Mediterranean. During his tour of Europe and the Middle East, he wrote a popular collection of travel letters, which were later compiled as The Innocents Abroad in 1869. It was on this trip that he met his future brother-in-law, Charles Langdon on his venture to the Holy Land, and soon was introduced to his wife Olivia Langdon. He proposed to Olivia but didn't get engaged to her until 1868. They later moved to Buffalo New York and were together for 34 years until Olivia passed in 1904. Twain owned the stock of The Buffalo Express Newspaper and operated as Chief Editor and writer. Twain was later honored with membership in the Secret Society Scroll and Key of Yale University in 1868. Twain moved to Hartford Connecticut where he created other works of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer, including Life on the Mississippi and Prince and the Pauper.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
Word of the Week
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. –Lord Chesterfield
Monday, January 7, 2013
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Word of the Week
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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