Sharing the Spotlight on Their Wedding Day
Stephanie Morrison and Scott Platt weren’t the center of attention at their wedding. They shared the day with the bride’s aunt, who has a rare condition.
Have you read 'Lord of the Flies'? The novel, written by William Golding, was first published #OnThisDay in 1954.
Golding was awarded the #NobelPrize in Literature in 1983 "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today."
Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. He was brought up to be a scientist, but revolted. After two years at Oxford, he read English literature instead and published a volume of poems in 1935.
Apart from writing, his occupations included being a schoolmaster, a lecturer, an actor, a sailor and a musician. He taught at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury before joining the Royal Navy in 1940 and spending six years afloat, except for seven months in New York and six months helping Lord Cherwell at the Naval Research Establishment. He saw action against battleships (at the sinking of the Bismarck), submarines and aircraft. Golding finished as Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship. He was present off the French coast for the D-Day invasion, and later at the island of Walcheren. After the war he returned to teaching, and began to write again. 'Lord of the Flies', his first novel, was published in 1954.
Read more about William Golding: https://bit.ly/2LhJ6up
The 55-year-old woman was attacked in a Siberian tiger enclosure.
BBC.COM
Tiger kills Zurich zookeeper in front of visitors
China is poised to draft its biggest financial force into battle, by allowing giant state-owned commercial banks to enter investment banking
ECONOMIST.COM
China may let banks launch brokerages to fend off foreign marauders
The Hypochondriac (Le Malade imaginaire) by Honoré Daumier
Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Collection Gallery, Main Room, East Wall
https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/6987/
A biography paints Franz Kafka—who was born on July 3rd 1883—as a difficult, brilliant man. In Reiner Stach’s view, Kafka was “a neurotic, hypochondriac, fastidious individual", but one "complex and sensitive in every regard" and capable of love and lightness
A rare condition is a disease that affects fewer than 1 in 2,000 people. Rare conditions can be chronic, meaning they are long-term and often require lifelong management. Symptoms of rare conditions often start in childhood and can be managed with treatment.
enclosure
enclosure とは【意味】囲いをすること,(公有地を私有地とするための)囲い込み... 【例文】an outer enclosure...
Shoehorning in a more literal sense can express itself as pushing a number of individuals into an overfilled enclosure of space
RODEO
n., pl. -os.
- A public competition or exhibition in which skills such as riding broncos or roping calves are displayed.
- A cattle roundup.
- An enclosure for keeping cattle that have been rounded up.
paddock
noun
- a person who marauds; a raider."a band of English marauders were surprised and overcome"
Put down
. Regard, classify, as in We put her down as a hypochondriac. [Mid-1800s]
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