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Frida Kahlo *VII 6 1907: The Life You Give / La Vida Que Das
See English biography below Todos sabemos que las mujeres no pasaron a la historia del arte como debían. Muy pocas están en el Olimpo de los grandes artistas, pero sin duda hay excepciones y Frida Kahlo es una de ellas. Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón fue una de las pintoras más conocidas de Mexico…
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A couple of catalpa branches with tardy tips blooming — four weeks later
Almost to the precise date, four weeks ago today I noticed the hourly speed with which a catalpa tree begins to show the berry-like tips on their branches which will become cotton-like bulbs, before turning into gentle white flowers with purple lines and yellow stains on the inner part of their petals. Their short lives…
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Leoš Janáček *VII 3 1854 / The Life You Give
Leoš Janáček, born July 3, 1854, in Hukvaldy, Moravia, Austrian Empire, is a composer who counts as one of the most important exponents of musical nationalism of the 20th century. Janáček was a choirboy at Brno and studied at the Prague, Leipzig, and Vienna conservatories. In 1881 he founded a college of organists at Brno,…
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry *VI 29 1900 / The Life You Give
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry, June 29, 1900, in Lyon, France, is the aviator and writer whose works are the unique testimony of a pilot and a warrior who looked at adventure and danger with a poet’s eyes. His fable Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) has become a modern classic. Saint-Exupéry came…
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