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I think this is the person who has ever fascinated me the most, even though he is a great man, not a great man, the truth is that I can't understand how the hell he did everything he did.
Ashmole was born on 23 May 1617
Elias Ashmole
My birthday buddy.
Edison's Eve, Gaby Wood
On both days, the extraordinary beauty of the flame arising from the funeral pile was noticed. The weather was beautifully fine. The Mediterranean, now soft and lucid, kissed the shore as if to make peace with it. The yellow sand and blue sky intensely contrasted with one another: marble mountains touched the air with coolness, and the flame of the... See more
Clay Franklin Johnson • Gothicized, Glamourized, Mythologized: The Funeral of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Gothic Keats Press
Leigh Hunt describes P.B. Shelley’s funeral. Source: https://tinyurl.com/k3cfab6s
We also discuss, among other things: decapitated ostriches, fatal rose petals, and Mary’s robust reappraisal of Marcus Aurelius’s ‘sub-Stoic’ maundering.
Mary Beard: Emperor of Rome
The new Monopoly ‘celebrates women trailblazers.’ But the game’s female inventor still isn’t getting credit.