Today - Aug 15 李后主 Aug 15, 978 Li Yu, also known as Li Houzhu (李后主,literally "Last Ruler Li" or "Last Lord Li") or Last Lord of Southern Tang (南唐后主), died at 40 (or 41). Courtesy Wikipedia: Li Yu Quote for Today Payne, Robert...
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...
#时尚英文393个 #Robin Williams1个 Aug 11, 2008 airbedandbreakfast.comwas launched by its foundersBrian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk, andJoe Gebbia. The company is now known as Airbnb. Today is Hip-Hop Day (in the U.S.) Read a very old...
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 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 ...
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...