Historical Figures ....that might be new to some of us

[Florestan]

The unknown history of microbiology and bacteriology (click on the pictures for further information)

[Florestan]

The unknown history of the fight against diabetes (click on the picture for further information)

[Florestan]

The unknown history of the fountain pen (click on the picture for further information)

[Florestan]

The unknown history of modern sculpture (click on the picture for further information)

[Florestan]

The greatest Romanian Romanticist, Romania´s most revered cultural icon:

[Florestan]

I´m sorry for this long series of posts but Scion7 really pissed me off and got on my nerves.

Despite the frequently bad press we have, we are neither savages nor ignorants nor uneducated, unwashed barbarians --- and I urge you all to come and see / judge with your own eyes and for your own.

[North Star]

Finnish architects, father and son, both designed numerous public buildings in the US. Eero Saarinen was also crucial in the selection of the design by Jørn Utzon for the Sydney Opera House commission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliel_Saarinen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_Saarinen

TWA Flight Center, JFK Airport, by Eero Saarinen


Kleinhans Music Hall, home of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, by Eliel Saarinen

[DaveF]

Dafydd ap Gwilym (c.1315-c.1350), Welsh poet and (apparently by those who can judge) regarded as one of the greatest European poets of the Middle Ages.

[Bogey]

The unknown history of modern sculpture (click on the picture for further information)

If they make a movie....

[Mister Sharpe]

From my hometown of Guelph, where apparently was once spotted the 7th Magic Dragon ...

Legend has it that said dragon was fascinated, among other things, by the two different kinds of squirrels there and watched them for hours.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL0qPw3h7C0  Also, he so loved the place that he offered to provide free home heating with his hot breath in return for lodging.  Not surprisingly, there were no takers.

[Mirror Image]

James Edward Oglethorpe (1696 - 1785)



Read all about him here: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/james-oglethorpe-1696-1785

[Mirror Image]

Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)



Flannery O'Connor only lived thirty-nine years and published a relatively small body of fiction. Though she penned only two novels and thirty-two short stories, she is considered one of America's most influential fiction writers fifty years after her death.

Mary Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah on March 25, 1925, to Regina Cline O'Connor and Edward Francis O'Connor, Jr. The O'Connor family settled at 207 Charlton Street just across Lafayette Square from the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist where Flannery was baptized and made her first communion. O'Connor was a devout Roman Catholic throughout her entire life, a fact that deeply influenced her writing.

In 1938, O'Connor moved to her mother's hometown of Milledgeville and enrolled in Peabody High School, where she wrote and drew cartoons for the school newspaper. In 1941, at age fifteen, O'Connor lost her father to lupus erythematosus, the same disease that would later take her life. She attended Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College & State University), where she served as editor for the school's literary magazine, the Corinthian, and contributed cartoons for several campus publications.

O'Connor attended the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa) in 1945 on a journalism scholarship. Paul Engle, future head of the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop accepted Flannery into the creative writing master's program. The distinguished writers and lecturers she encountered in the program shaped and guided her literary career. After graduating, O'Connor spent time at the Yaddo artists' colony in New York before moving into the Connecticut home of poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald and wife Sally Fitzgerald. The Fitzgeralds became lifelong friends and supporters of O'Connor's work.

In 1947 O'Connor won the Rinehart-Iowa Fiction award for partial submission of her novel, Wise Blood. She would also go on to write a second novel, The Violent Bear it Away, and two collections of short stories – A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge, published posthumously in 1965.

O'Connor was diagnosed with lupus in 1951, and she battled the disease until her death in 1964. Despite her debilitating illness, she devoted much of her time to writing, lecturing, and corresponding with fellow authors while living on her family's Milledgeville dairy farm Andalusia. O'Connor's Complete Stories collection was awarded the National Book Award posthumously in 1972. O'Connor is a Georgia Women of Achievement Honoree (1992), charter member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (2000), and the 2014 Georgia History Festival Featured Historical Figure.

[Article taken from Georgia History's website]

[Bogey]

Ever read her books, John?

[Mirror Image]

Ever read her books, John?

I have not unfortunately. There's just so much literature out there and not enough time. Do you know her work?

[Scion7]

I´m sorry for this long series of posts but Scion7 really pissed me off and got on my nerves.

Despite the frequently bad press we have, we are neither savages nor ignorants nor uneducated, unwashed barbarians --- and I urge you all to come and see / judge with your own eyes and for your own.

FLORESTAN - ARE YOU ON CHEAP CRACK?

I don't know what touched you off recently, but the above is total bullocks.
I've never intimated there is anything wrong with Romania - it's one of my favorite countries.
You need to try a decaf, chum.
The other day you were in an argument with Erato about some other stuff.
Either cool your jets, or push off.

[Florestan]

I've never intimated there is anything wrong with Romania - it's one of my favorite countries.

Yeah, right. And the only person from one of your favorite countries that you could think of as a historical figure worth being known by others was a serial killer. I can indeed feel the love. It's like one claiming that England is one of their favorite countries and offering as proof of this Jack the Ripper, John Christie, Harold Shipman or Steve Wright.

You know, dating Romanian babes is not quite the same as loving Romania.

Over and out. For good.

[Jo498]

Brancusi (I admittedly pronounced his name as if it was Italian until now...) is fairly well known, I'd say. I have never heard of the bacteriologists etc., though. Interesting!

I only heard of Eminescu a few weeks ago in another forum. Poets often remain mostly locally known because of the language and difficulty of translating poetry. (Same holds for the great Polish poets and probably others.)

[Florestan]

I only heard of Eminescu a few weeks ago in another forum. Poets often remain mostly locally known because of the language and difficulty of translating poetry. (Same holds for the great Polish poets and probably others.)

True.

[Scion7]

If 'Red Jack' was an UNKNOWN historical figure, he'd be of interest in THIS thread.

You're becoming paranoid.

[Sergeant Rock]

Ever read her books, John?

I've only read one short story: about a family that takes a wrong turn on the insistence of the grandmother who thinks she remembers the location of a plantation, and ends up murdered. A story so traumatizing I've never wanted to read anything else by her.

Sarge