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Events of the day 18 March

AD 37:

The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.

633:

Ridda wars: The Arabian Peninsula is united under the central authority of Caliph Abu Bakr.

1068:

An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, leaves up to 20,000 dead.

1229:

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.

Eugen Dorcescu1942:

Was born Eugen Dorcescu.

Paul Anghel1931:

Was born Paul Anghel.

E1947:

Was born Emil Nicolae.

Nikolai Alexandrovici Berdiaev1874:

Was born Nikolai Alexandrovici Berdiaev.

Erich Fromm1980:

Died Erich Fromm.

Laurence Sterne1768:

Died Laurence Sterne.

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James Fenimore CooperJames Fenimore CooperIbn al-RumiIbn al-RumiCarol ShieldsCarol ShieldsHenry ClayHenry ClayCharles-Maurice de Talleyrand-PérigordCharles-Maurice de Talleyrand-PérigordYves Saint LaurentYves Saint Laurent
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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

Christmas Also Came Here

Christmas also came here
To soothe our pain,
White snow is falling over my life
It’s snowing over my soul,
White snow is falling
Over my life
That ends here.

The star begins to shine
On the holy manger
And once again three magi...

Tudor GheorgheSongs by Tudor Gheorghe about christmas, pain, sin, life, end, angels, tears, dream, soul, celebrity

Season's end

I was so very aware
that the afternoon was dying in the domes,
and all around me sounds froze,
turned to winding pillars.

I was so very aware
that the undulant drift of scents
was collapsing into darkness,
and it seemed I had never...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about feelings, season, contentment, end, moon, face

In the Nature of Joy, in the Geometry of Your Snowflake

Poetry and Tears

It seems a ballet of bridal cherry blossom, breezing April’s
photons, my Sweetheart: it seems to snow innocently, rustlingly,
and the chorale of brownish leaves of the secular, imperial
platans resounds, upon the pilgrimaged golden penguins...

01 feb 2010
Ion Pachia-TatomirescuPoems by Ion Pachia-Tatomirescu about joy, nature, home, language, celebrity, house, poetry, kiss, tears, stars

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Who is in the right fears, who is in the wrong hopes.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad, rightness

Revenge is a dish served cold.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about revenge

Thinking of where you are going, you forget whence you came.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thinking, contentment

To-morrow will be another day.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about day

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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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...

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...

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