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Events of the day 11 May

C1941:

Was born Crisu Dascalu.

L1931:

Was born Laurentiu Cernet.

Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici1964:

Was born Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici.

Salvador Dali1904:

Was born Salvador Dali.

Bob Marley1981:

Died Bob Marley.

Adela Xenopol1939:

Died Adela Xenopol.

Douglas Adams2001:

Died Douglas Adams.

John Herschel1871:

Died John Herschel.

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Sentimental story

Then we met more often.
I stood at one side of the hour,
you at the other,
like two handles of an amphora.
Only the words flew between us,
back and forth.
You could almost see their swirling,
and suddenly,
I would lower a knee,...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about word, contentment, things, flight

Only One!

Her hair flows down like a river’s stream,
So slender, like a wheat stalk’s gleam,
With a black apron tied at the seam,
I lose her from my sight, beloved.

And when I see her, I turn pale;
When I don’t, I grow frail,
And when others come to...

George CoșbucPoems by George Coșbuc

Knot 19

Be aware that I can kill,
that I can crush with my heel the sweet head
of the peaceful rising star,
because of this I've turned to painting houses!

Be aware that I take no pity on myself,
that I mix my blood with birch trees!
I bring...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about attention, painting, heads, blood, celebrity, contentment

Sign 12

Little by little she became a word,
bundles of soul on the wind,
a dolphin in the clutches of my eyebrows,
a stone provoking rings in water,
a star inside my knww,
a sky inside my shoulder,
and I inside I.

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about word, water, soul, celebrity, sky

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Do what you ought come what will.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about contentment

Heavy is an old man's fall.

Proverbs and old sayings about fall, man, old, olderness

Facts are stubborn things.

Proverbs and old sayings English about things

Even when many people attempt to travel the same road, there are some who walk and some who stumble.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about people

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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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...

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...

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