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The new Monopoly ‘celebrates women trailblazers.’ But the game’s female inventor still isn’t getting credit.
Antonia Noori Farzan • Article
You must go down into the world of mortals like a ray of light, like a shower of refreshing rain; you must illuminate it like Apollo, shake it to its depths and give it a new life like Zeus, otherwise you are not worthy of your heaven.
Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
Hölderlin, Held.
Relatable Bach. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweigt_stille,_plaudert_nicht,_BWV_211
Ashurbanipal's intense interest in collecting divination texts was one of his driving motivations in collecting works for his library. His original motive may have been to "gain possession of rituals and incantations that were vital to maintain his royal power."
Library of Ashurbanipal
I. TIME in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things, and drowns them in the depths of obscurity, no matter if they be quite unworthy of mention, or most noteworthy and important, and thus, as the tragedian says, "he brings from the darkness all things to the birth, and all things born envelops in the night."... See more
Anna Comnena: • Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook
Ashmole was born on 23 May 1617
Elias Ashmole
My birthday buddy.
“Many variations of wording can be found in both versions of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ as they have been set down over the years. In fact, surviving manuscript copies in Burns’s own hand are not identically worded.”