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September 16
1704... A wealthy nobleman whose mother excused his embarrassing scholarly efforts by saying, "A professor of medicine may be rediculous, but it is not really a vice," de Jaucourt, who was born on this day, joined the Encyclopédie after his own work, a medical dictionary, was lost in a shipwreck after twenty years' labor. At his busiest, with the help of a handful of secretaries,...
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1704... A wealthy nobleman whose mother excused his embarrassing scholarly efforts by saying, "A professor of medicine may be rediculous, but it is not really a vice," de Jaucourt, who was born on this day, joined the Encyclopédie after his own work, a medical dictionary, was lost in a shipwreck after twenty years' labor. At his busiest, with the help of a handful of secretaries,...
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October 13
1926 "We have so many bedbugs," Isaac Babel wrote his mother from Moscow, "that it has b become. legend among the other dwellers in our apartment."
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1926 "We have so many bedbugs," Isaac Babel wrote his mother from Moscow, "that it has b become. legend among the other dwellers in our apartment."
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October 12
1713 ... Bay Colony Institute of Technological Arts, has been summoned back to Europe to mediate the supremely irrational dispute between the two inventors of the calculus and thereby rescue the path toward progress that Root promises, with Stephenson's usual brand of anachronistic cheek, will ultimately make Waterhouse's own institute a glorious campus dedicated to the "art of automatic computing."
— 19 hours, 36 min ago
1713 ... Bay Colony Institute of Technological Arts, has been summoned back to Europe to mediate the supremely irrational dispute between the two inventors of the calculus and thereby rescue the path toward progress that Root promises, with Stephenson's usual brand of anachronistic cheek, will ultimately make Waterhouse's own institute a glorious campus dedicated to the "art of automatic computing."
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October 11
1928 Arthur Sydney McDowell, in the TLS, on Virginia Woolf's Orlando: "It is a fantasy, impossible but delicious; existing in its own right by the colour of imagination and exuberance of life and wit."
— Oct 18, 2025 10:06AM
1928 Arthur Sydney McDowell, in the TLS, on Virginia Woolf's Orlando: "It is a fantasy, impossible but delicious; existing in its own right by the colour of imagination and exuberance of life and wit."
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October 10
19047 Fired as a publisher's assistant, William Styron reported to his father he was glad, since publishing is "only a counterfeit, a reflection, of really creative work."
— Oct 18, 2025 05:50AM
19047 Fired as a publisher's assistant, William Styron reported to his father he was glad, since publishing is "only a counterfeit, a reflection, of really creative work."
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October 9
1890 The trouble with fictional chronologies is that sometimes the math just doesn't add up. It sharpens our sense of Sherlock Holmes as a living presence to read such concrete details as the posted notice in one of his best-loved cases that "THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED, October 9, 1890." The problem, though, as generations of Holmesians have debated, is the Mr. Jabez Wilson the red-headed dupe ...
— Oct 17, 2025 08:12PM
1890 The trouble with fictional chronologies is that sometimes the math just doesn't add up. It sharpens our sense of Sherlock Holmes as a living presence to read such concrete details as the posted notice in one of his best-loved cases that "THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED, October 9, 1890." The problem, though, as generations of Holmesians have debated, is the Mr. Jabez Wilson the red-headed dupe ...
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October 8
1818 ...showed a resilient indifference in a letter to his publisher on this day. He was his now fiercest critic, after all: "My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly could possibly inflict." With his "slipshod Endymion," he added, he had :leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings,...
— Oct 17, 2025 01:50PM
1818 ...showed a resilient indifference in a letter to his publisher on this day. He was his now fiercest critic, after all: "My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly could possibly inflict." With his "slipshod Endymion," he added, he had :leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings,...
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October 7
1924 Having finally read the manuscript of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom after spending two years attempting to arrange its publication, George Bernard Shaw reprimanded the young soldier about his punctuation: "You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of metal defectiveness, probably induced by camp life."
— Oct 17, 2025 11:27AM
1924 Having finally read the manuscript of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom after spending two years attempting to arrange its publication, George Bernard Shaw reprimanded the young soldier about his punctuation: "You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of metal defectiveness, probably induced by camp life."
Judi
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October 6
1536 ...by the Holy Roman Emperor. Tradition has it that this is the day he was strangled and burned to death, with the final words "Lord, open the King of England's eyes." Not long after, Henry VIII did indeed approve an English translation of the Bible, and when King James commissioned his own version in the next century, a majority of its words were taken from Tyndale's once-heretical translation.
— Oct 17, 2025 06:28AM
1536 ...by the Holy Roman Emperor. Tradition has it that this is the day he was strangled and burned to death, with the final words "Lord, open the King of England's eyes." Not long after, Henry VIII did indeed approve an English translation of the Bible, and when King James commissioned his own version in the next century, a majority of its words were taken from Tyndale's once-heretical translation.
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October 5
1927 ... only with a change from one sex to another." She quickly gave herself up "to the pure delight of this farce," and then asked her subject's permission to write about "the lusts of your flea; and the lure of your mind." vita ws equally delighted: "What fun for you; what fun for m," she replied. "Yes, go ahead, toss up your pancake, brown it nicely on both sides, put Brandy over it, and serve hot."
— Oct 15, 2025 02:27PM
1927 ... only with a change from one sex to another." She quickly gave herself up "to the pure delight of this farce," and then asked her subject's permission to write about "the lusts of your flea; and the lure of your mind." vita ws equally delighted: "What fun for you; what fun for m," she replied. "Yes, go ahead, toss up your pancake, brown it nicely on both sides, put Brandy over it, and serve hot."
