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Events of the day 28 June

E1936:

Was born Eva Behring.

Elon Musk1971:

Was born Elon Musk.

Constantin Liviu Rusu1937:

Was born Constantin Liviu Rusu.

Ed Pastor1943:

Was born Ed Pastor.

Stefan Luchian1916:

Died Stefan Luchian.

Iacob Burghiu2003:

Died Iacob Burghiu.

Jean de Rotrou1650:

Died Jean de Rotrou.

Alfred Doblin1957:

Died Alfred Doblin.

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Venus and Madonna

Oh, ideal lost in night-mists of a vanished universe:
People who would think in legends - all a world who spoke in verse;
I can see and think and hear you - youthful scout which gently nods
From a sky with different starlights, other Edens,...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about contentment, woman, angels, eyes, celebrity, smile, heart, magic, spirit, god

Yesterday

What was yesterday like?
Ah, yesterday was yesterday.
I remember the order of stars:
Three were alike, three were alone
One was fostering a bigger star
With a wing flapping over the sea
Distended from another ocean.
It had no...

NPoems by Nicolae Sirius

Eve On The Hill

Dreary the horn sounds in the eve on the hill,
Sheepflocks return, stars on their way twinkle still,
Watersprings weep murmuring clear, and I see
Under a tree, love, thou art waiting for me.

Holy and pure passes the moon on the sky,...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about love, art, magic, old, olderness, celebrity, night, stars, longing, press

Distance

is the cog wheel
on the haunted axle of my hearing,
grinding fine the deadened mind
of that unborn god
waiting to be caught
by the earth's blue speed,
and carrying in a handled urn
the plucked heart - ours,
it's beating,...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about speed, memory, mind, tears, earth, god, heart, contentment

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The poor didn't have but gave to charity.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about charity

Kind words don't wear out the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word

God's a good man.

Proverbs and old sayings English about god, good, good luck, man

Drinking a little too much is drinking a great deal too much.

Proverbs and old sayings German about drinking

A mother was asked:
"Which of your children do you love the most?"
She replied:
"The sick one until they are well, the absent one until they return, the small one until they grow up, and all of them until I die."

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness

There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.

Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness, contentment

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about spirit, law, man

Traditional Irish Curse

Spells and incantations Irish

Traditional Wexford Curse

Spells and incantations British

What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

Fire.

Riddles

If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.

Proverbs and old sayings American

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Phoenix bird

Phoenix bird

Quite often we hear around us being used the expression - "Reborn from the ashes as the Phoenix bird" and perhaps many times, we fail to make the connection between the depicted situation and expression – Phoenix bird. The word originates in the...

Bovarism

Bovarism

Bovarism is the term that denotes a person's state of discontent towards its own existence, constructing a fictitious personality to match his ideals. This alter ego of the person functions as a protection from too cruel world for which is not...

A priori - a posteriori

A priori - a posteriori

A priori - the term means before any experience, independent from any experience, from the earlier. This term is in close relationship with its opposite a posteriori , from experience, from the later. Both expressions are used in Philosophy and...

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