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Events of the day 13 March

624:

Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad's army : the new followers of Islam and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.

874:

The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.

1138:

Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.

1567:

The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War, commences.

A1937:

Was born Altay Kerim.

Mircea Eliade1907:

Was born Mircea Eliade.

Anton S. Makarenko1888:

Was born Anton S. Makarenko.

F1891:

Was born Felix Aderca.

Clarence Darrow1938:

Died Clarence Darrow.

Nicolas Boileau1711:

Died Nicolas Boileau.

Hans-Georg Gadamer2002:

Died Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Theodore de Banville1891:

Died Theodore de Banville.

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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

Spring harbingers

From sunny countries and skies blue
From which last automn-tide you flew,
Return, dear birds, where you belong,
Most welcome, you!
The woods, bereft of leaf and song,
Weep for they have missed you too long.

In the eternal dome of...

George CoșbucPoems by George Coșbuc about contentment, home, joy, country, pleasure, flowers, nature, salary, poetry, thinking

The hieroglyph

What loneliness
to find no meaning
when there is a meaning

And what loneliness
to be blind in the full light of day,
and deaf, what loneliness,
amidst the swelling of a song

But not to understand
when there is no meaning,
and...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about solitude, blind, silence, night, light, day

Unwords

He offered me a leaf like a hand with fingers.
I offered him a hand like a leaf with teeth.
He offered me a branch like an arm.
I offered him my arm like a branch.
He tipped his trunk towards me
like a shoulder.
I tipped my shoulder to...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about salary, blood, man

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Tastes are not argued.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about hate, contentment

The glow soon becomes ashes.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about weather

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...

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...

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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