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Li Bai's birthday
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Li Bai (Chinese: 李白, Lǐ Bái or Lǐ Bó; lived 701 – 762), also known in the West by various other transliterations, especially Li Po, is a major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period. He has been regarded as one of the greatest poets in China's Tang period, which is often called China's "golden age" of poetry. Around a thousand existing poems are attributed to him, but the authenticity of many of these is uncertain. Thirty-four of his poems are included in the popular anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. [Read more on Wikipedia]
148 Joaquin Sorolla's birthday
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the sunlight of his native land. [Read more on Wikipedia]
Platinum print of Sorolla by Gertrude Käsebier, c1908 |
100th Okamoto Taro's birthday
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Ibn Battuta's Birthday
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Hajji Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن بطوطة), or simply Ibn Battuta (February 25, 1304–1368 or 1369), was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for a period of nearly thirty years and covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance readily surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Marco Polo. With this extensive account of his journey, Ibn Battuta is often considered one of the greatest travellers ever. [Read more on Wikipedia]
Oslo Ski VM 2011
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Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011. |
Munkácsy Mihály's 167 birthday
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Munkácsy Mihály |
2011 Cricket World Cup
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Official Logo of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. |
Constantin Brâncuşi's 135 birthday
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Brâncuşi grew up in the village of Hobiţa Romania, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, near Romania's Carpathian Mountains, an area known for its rich tradition of folk crafts, particularly woodcarving. Geometric patterns of the region are seen in his later works. [Read more on Wikipedia]
Constantin Brâncuşi; Photograph taken by Edward Steichen in 1922. |
Guillermo González Camarena's birthday
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Ernest Shackleton's birthday
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