Aug 21, 1762 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu(孟塔古夫人), the English aristocrat,medical pioneer, writer, and poet, died at 73. Aside from her writing, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is also known for introducing and advocatingsmallpox inoculation(接种天花疫苗)in Br...
Today - Aug 29 皮爷 Aug 29, 2007 Alfred Peet, the Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea, died at 87. Reference https://www.peets.com/blogs/peets/the-history-of-peets-coffee 第943期:Coffee, Starbucks, and Culture Quote for...
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Aug 22, 1958 Roger Martin du Gard, the French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature, died at 77. Reference https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1937/gard/facts/ Quote for Today “I always have a pad of paper and a pencil ...
Today is Hip-Hop Day (in the U.S.) Read a very old article I wrote about Hip-Hop: *第102期:Rap Aug 11, 2014 Robin Williams, the American actor and comedian, died at age 63. *第1164期:The King of Comedy - 献给我心目中的...
Aug 28, 1965 The Sandwich chainSubwaywas founded by17-year-old Fred DeLuca, funded by Peter Buck,in Bridgeport, Connecticut, US. Did you know why it was named “Subway?” It has nothing to do with the subway train. The brand ...
Today - Aug 21 只要你愿意,每个人都是诗人。 Aug 21, 1969 Donald and Doris Fisheropened the first Gap store in San Francisco. Today is Poet’s Day Whether you are a reader or writer of poetry, or neither, you can read...
Aug 7, 1941 Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter, the first Asian winner of Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) died at age 80. A...