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Der Totentanz (1911)
AKA Song of Death, The Dance to Death, The Death Song
Poster for Marmorhaus Theatre in Berlin by Josef Fenneker.
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irl bsd authors
i haven't found a list of irl bsd authors listed from oldest to most recent so i decided to do that. multiple lists for date of birth, death, and publication of the work their ability is based on (if applicable) + fun stuff at the end
birth dates (oldest to most recent)
alexander pushkin - 6 Jun 1799
nathaniel hawthorne - 4 Jul 1804
edgar allan poe - 19 Jan 1809
nikolai gogol - 1 Apr 1809
ivan gonchorav - 18 Jun 1812
herman melville - 1 Aug 1819
fyodor dostoevsky - 11 Nov 1821
jules verne - 8 Feb 1828
saigiku jōno - 24 Sep 1832
louisa may alcott - 29 Nov 1832
yukichi fukuzawa - 10 Jan 1835
mark twain - 30 Nov 1835
ōchi fukuchi - 13 May 1841
paul verlaine - 30 Mar 1844
bram stoker - 8 Nov 1847
tetchō suehiro - 15 Mar 1849
arthur rimbaud - 20 Oct 1854
ryūrō hirotsu - 15 Jul 1861
ōgai mori - 17 Feb 1862
h. g. wells - 21 Sep 1866
natsume sōseki - 9 Feb 1867
kōyō ozaki - 10 Jan 1868
andré gide - 22 Nov 1869
doppo kunikida - 30 Aug 1871
katai tayama - 22 Jan 1872
ichiyō higuchi - 2 May 1872
kyōka izumi - 4 Nov 1873
lucy maud montgomery - 30 Nov 1874
akiko yosano - 7 Dec 1878
santōka taneda - 3 Dec 1882
teruko ōkura - 12 Apr 1886
jun'ichirō tanizaki - 24 Jul 1886
yumeno kyūsaku - 4 Jan 1889
h. p. lovecraft - 20 Aug 1890
agatha christie - 15 Sep 1890
ryūnosuke akutagawa - 1 Mar 1892
ranpo edogawa - 21 Oct 1894
kenji miyazawa - 27 Aug 1896
f. scott fitzgerald - 24 Sep 1896
margaret mitchell - 8 Nov 1900
motojirō kajii - 17 Feb 1901
mushitarō oguri - 14 Mar 1901
john steinbeck - 27 Feb 1902
aya kōda - 1 Sep 1904
ango sakaguchi - 20 Oct 1906
chūya nakahara - 29 Apr 1907
atsushi nakajima - 5 May 1909
osamu dazai - 19 Jun 1909
sakunosuke oda - 26 Oct 1913
michizō tachihara - 30 Jul 1914
tatsuhiko shibusawa - 8 May 1928
(ace) alan bennett - 9 May 1934
yukito ayatsuji - 23 Dec 1960
mizuki tsujimura - 29 Feb 1980
death dates (oldest to most recent)
alexander pushkin - 10 Feb 1837
edgar allan poe - 7 Oct 1849
nikolai gogol - 4 Mar 1852
nathaniel hawthorne - 19 May 1864
fyodor dostoevsky - 9 Feb 1881
louisa may alcott - 6 Mar 1888
ivan goncharov - 27 Sep 1891
herman melville - 28 Sep 1891
arthur rimbaud - 10 Nov 1891
paul verlaine - 8 Jan 1896
tetchō suehiro - 5 Feb 1896
ichiyō higuchi - 23 Nov 1896
yukichi fukuzawa - 3 Feb 1901
saigiku jōno - 24 Jan 1904
jules verne - 24 Mar 1905
kōyō ozaki - 30 Oct 1903
ōchi fukuchi - 4 Jan 1906
doppo kunikida - 23 Jun 1908
mark twain - 21 Apr 1910
bram stoker - 20 Apr 1912
natsume sōseki - 9 Dec 1916
ōgai mori - 8 Jul 1922
ryūrō hirotsu - 25 Oct 1928
ryūnosuke akutagawa - 24 Jul 1927
katai tayama - 13 May 1930
motojirō kajii - 24 Mar 1932
kenji miyazawa - 21 Sep 1933
yumeno kyūsaku - 11 Mar 1936
h. p. lovecraft - 15 Mar 1937
chūya nakahara - 22 Oct 1937
michizō tachihara - 29 Mar 1939
kyōka izumi - 7 Sep 1939
santōka taneda - 11 Oct 1940
f. scott fitzgerald - 21 Dec 1940
lucy maud montgomery - 24 Apr 1942
mushitarō oguri - 10 Feb 1946
h. g. wells - 13 Aug 1946
akiko yosano - 29 May 1942
atsushi nakajima - 4 Dec 1942
sakunosuke oda - 10 Jan 1947
osamu dazai - 13 Jun 1948
margaret mitchell - 16 Aug 1949
andré gide - 19 Feb 1951
ango sakaguchi - 17 Feb 1955
teruko ōkura - 18 Jul 1960
ranpo edogawa - 28 Jul 1965
jun'ichirō tanizaki - 30 Jul 1965
john steinbeck - 20 Dec 1968
agatha christie - 12 Jan 1976
tatsuhiko shibusawa - 5 Aug 1987
aya kōda - 31 Oct 1990
(ace) allan bennett - still alive
yukito ayatsuji - still alive
mizuki tsujimura - still alive
work (oldest to most recent)
alexander pushkin - A Feast in Time of Plague, 1830
edgar allan poe - The Murders in Rue Morgue, 1841
nikolai gogol - The Overcoat, 1842
edgar allan poe - The Black Cat, 19 Aug 1843
nathaniel hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter, 1850
herman melville - Moby-Dick, 1851
louisa may alcott - Little Women, 1858
fyodor dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment, 1866
ivan goncharov - The Precipice, 1869
yukichi fukuzawa - An Encouragement of Learning, 1872-76
jules verne - The Mysterious Island, 1875
mark twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
mark twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884
tetchō suehiro - Plum Blossoms in the Snow, 1886
arthur rimbaud - Illuminations, 1886
saigiku jōno - Priceless Tears, 1889
ōchi fukuchi - The Mirror Lion, A Spring Diversion, Mar 1893
ryūrō hirotsu - Falling Camellia, 1894
h. g. wells - The Time Machine, 1895
kōyō ozaki - The Golden Demon, 1897
bram stoker - Dracula, 1897 (his ability has not been named, but c’mon, vampires)
akiko yosano - Thou Shall Not Die, 1903
natsume sōseki - I Am a Cat, 1905-06
katai tayama - Futon, 1907
lucy maud montgomery - Anne of Green Gables, 1908
ōgai mori - Vita Sexualis, 1909
andré gide - Strait is the Gate, 1909
kyōka izumi - Demon Pond, 1913
ryūnosuke akutagawa - Rashomon, 1915
motojirō kajii - Lemon, 1924
f. scott fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, 1925
kenji miyazawa - Be not Defeated by the Rain, 3 Nov 1931
santōka taneda - Self-Derision, 8 Jan 1932
mushitarō oguri - Perfect Crime, 1933
chūya nakahara - This Tainted Sorrow, 1934
yumeno kyūsaku - Dogra Magra, 1935
margaret mitchell - Gone With the Wind, 1936
john steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath, 1939
agatha christie - And Then There Were None, 6 Nov 1939
atsushi nakajima - The Moon Over the Mountain, Feb 1942
jun'ichirō tanizaki - The Makioka Sisters, 1943-48
ango sakaguchi - Discourse on Decadence, 1946
teruko ōkura - Gasp of the Soul, 1947
osamu dazai - No Longer Human, 1948
(ace) alan bennett - The Madness of King George III, 1995
yukito ayatsuji - Another, 2005
mizuki tsujimura - Yesterday’s Shadow Tag, 2015
can’t find dates:
michizō tachihara - Midwinter Memento
sakunosuke oda - Flawless
n/a: doppo kunikida, ranpo edogawa, ichiyō higuchi, h. p. lovecraft “Great Old Ones” (fictional ancient dieties eg. cthulhu), aya koda, paul verlaine, tatsuhiko shibusawa “Draconia” (umbrella term for shibusawa’s works/style)
bonus:
elise - The Dancing Girl (1890) by ōgai mori
shōsaku katsura - An Uncommon Common Man by doppo kunikida
Nobuko Sasaki (20 Jul 1878 - 22 Sep 1949) - doppo kunikida’s first wife
gin akutagawa - O-gin (1922) by ryūnosuke akutagawa
naomi tanizaki + kirako haruno - Naomi (1925) by jun'ichirō tanizaki
t. j. eckelburg + tom buchanan - The Great Gatsby (1925) by f. scott fitzgerald
the black lizard - Back Lizard (1895) by ryūrō hirotsu (+ The Black Lizard (1934) by ranpo edogawa)
some fun facts:
the oldest: aya koda 86, andré gide 81, h. g. wells 79, jun'ichirō tanizaki 79, ivan goncharov 79 (alan bennett is 89 but still alive)
the youngest: ichiyō higuchi 24, michizō tachihara 24, chūya nakahara 30
yukito ayatsuji’s Another is also an anime, released in 2012
both edgar allan poe and mark twain’s ability consist of two of the author’s work
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SONGS TO PLAY WHEN (almost) MY ENTIRE MUSE LIST IS BEING VECNA’D ( note : historical muses (pre 1910s) are modern au’d )
bianca macksey ––– head over heels ( tears for fears )
grace “ lambchops ” lamb ––– moby dick ( led zeppelin )
connie ripsom ––– we belong ( pat benatar )
amy march ––– a dream is a wish your heart makes ( ilene woods )
jemma simmons ––– somewhere only we know ( keane ) im sobbing bye
pearl singh ––– the ballad of lucy jordan ( marianne faithful )
sam giddings ––– she’s a rainbow ( the rolling stones )
illy hassan ––– reverie ( claude debussy )
liz thompson ––– clearly ( grace vanderwaal ) im so proud of her
nina farnham ––– moon river ( audrey hepburn )
jo sharma ––– life on mars ( david bowie ) never been an easier decision
maggie amaan ––– i hear a symphony ( cody fry )
alice cullen ––– aquarius / let the sunshine in ( the 5th dimension )
meg giry ––– le cygne ( saint-saens )
kitty bennet ––– untouched ( the veronicas ) im a kitty stan soz austen
éponine thénardier ––– common people ( pulp ) that’s my gal .
parvati patil ––– seven wonders ( fleetwood mac )
molly hooper ––– blackout ( muse ) kinda wild but appropriate
rumpleteazer ––– nobody to love ( sigma ) this is not a joke .
charity burbank ––– que sera , sera ( hidden citizens ) DONT SAVE HER .
johanna veena ––– never tear us apart ( INXS )
lacey anderson ––– heroes ( david bowie / peter gabriel )
nancy bennett ––– the white cliffs of dover ( vera lynn )
blair thorne ––– she bangs the drums ( stone roses ) modern au
florence park ––– the ballad of sir frankie crisp ( george harrison )
iris ––– have you heard ( the moody blues ) chills .
sylvia hashmi ––– piano concerto no 1. Romance. Larghetto ( chopin )
edwina sharma --- everything now ( arcade fire ) im a genius lowkey
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Twain Mark - Le Prétendant américain
Twain Mark - Le Prétendant américain: Dans leur château de Cholmondeley en Angleterre, le vieux duc de Rossmore et son fils unique, le vicomte Sellers, apprennent le décès de Simon Lathers, lord Rossmore, illustre et puissant chef de famille, dans l’état d’Arkansas en Amérique. Leur lointain cousin, le colonel Mulberry Sellers, avocat au barreau à Washington, s’estime de ce fait l’unique héritier légitime et leur réclame les titres, biens et propriétés de la famille.
Ce parcours initiatique, où l’on rencontre des personnages plus ou moins farfelus, permet au jeune homme de se rendre compte que personne ne se déposséderait volontairement de ses biens s'il en avait et qu'il y a de bonnes façons d’employer les richesses dont on dispose. Et il rencontre aussi Sally, la fille du colonel et en tombe amoureux.
Mark Twain est le nom de plume de Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), est un écrivain américains aux livres plein d’humour et de sagesse pragmatique, auteur notamment des célèbres personnages de Tom Sawyer et Huckleberry Finn. François de Gaïl (1874-1947) n’a eu une activité de traducteur que pour quelques ouvrages de Mark Twain.
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Events 11.20 (before 1960)
284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1407 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.
1441 – The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the Galeas per montes.
1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1805 – Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
1815 – The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by troops of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia for several more years.
1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this incident.)
1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
1861 – American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1873 – Garnier Expedition: French forces under Lieutenant Francis Garnier captured Hanoi from the Vietnamese.
1900 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.
1910 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
1940 – World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
1945 – Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1959 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
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Name: Ellias Ashley
Nicknames: Duckie (Stevie), Chujku (Stevie), Ell, Baby (Stevie), Cheeto (Moby)
Age: looks 19 (born in the 1910s)
Gender: Trans Male (He/Him)
Race: half-angel (fallen), half-human
Height: 5’ 5”
Powers/talents: making fantastic drinks, being fashionable, getting flustered, general cheerfulness, enhanced strength and stamina, enhanced senses, doesn’t age, aura of power (using it drains him really bad though), able to sense supernatural beings, mechanics/tinkering (magical and non magical), running from police, some illusion magic, inhuman charisma, seraph form.
Affiliation: Stevie (Best Friend/Boyfriend), Francis, T-Mobile/Celsius (Friend/Older Brother Figure)
Extra: very very gay. From New York. Was a speakeasy bartender in the 1920s and never lost the vibe. Died in the crossfire when a gunfight broke out in his speakeasy. This woke his latent heritage as a fallen angel, which then resurrected him. Never met his parents. Lives in a sentient carnivorous van. Has a drag queen persona named Clementine
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04: A memory that your character cherishes
05: A memory that your character wishes to erase
Cherishes: in the early 1910's the North American mother's day tradition began and Shuonun went ALL OUT for it because he loved the idea so much.
Erase: Shuonun desperately wished he could read Moby Dick for the first time again. He would erase the book from his memory to do so if he could.
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Holidays 10.18
Holidays
Alaska Day
Anti-Slavery Day (UK)
BBC Day
Boost Your Brain Day
Clean Water Act Day
Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day
Dia de la Raza Daay (Colombia)
Festival of Poetic Terrorism
Flora Duffy Olympic Commemoration (Bermuda)
Hard Boiled Guy and B-Girl Day
Heroes’ and Forefathers Day (British Virgin Islands)
Information Overload Awareness Day
International Legging Day
International Necktie Day
Kati Bihu (Assam, India)
King Look Under Your Mattress’s Unique Hiding Display
Mason/Dixon Line Day
Moby Dick Day
National Comic Strip Appreciation Day
National Day of Prayer (Zambia)
National Exascale Day
National Put a Shoe on Your Head Day
National Speak Up for Victims of Sexual Abuse Day
National Statistics Day (Japan)
Necktie Day (Croatia)
Newspaper Comic Strip Appreciation Day
No Beard Day
Old Farmers Day
Persons Day (Canada)
Procession of the Lord of Miracles (Peru)
Rocky Horror Picture Show Day (L.A., California)
Watch a Squirrel Day
World Menopause Day
World Vasectomy Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Chocolate Cupcake Day
Meatloaf Appreciation Day
3rd Tuesday in October
National Pharmacy Technician Day [3rd Tuesday]
Pay Back a Friend Day [3rd Tuesday]
Independence Days
Azerbaijan (from the USSR, 1991)
Feast Days
Doburoku Matsuri (Sake Festival; Shirahigetawara Shrine, Japan) [Day 2]
Irony Day (Pastafarian)
Julian Sabas (Christian; Saint)
Justus (a.k.a. Justin) of Beauvais (Christian; Saint)
Luke the Evangelist (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *
Monan (Christian; Saint)
Pandrosos (Greek all-refreshing Goddess)
Peter of Alcantara (Christian; Saint)
Richelieu Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Simhat Torah (begins at sundown; Judaism) [23 Tishrei]
Shemini Atzeret (Day 2; Judaism)
Swiss Cheese (Muppetism)
Vauvenargues (Positivist; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series; 2004)
Chet Baker Big Band, by Chet Baker (Album; 1956)
Cowboy Bebop (Japanese Anime Series; 1998)
Howard’s End, by E.M. Forster (Novel; 1910)
How I Won the War (Film; 1967)
Jojo Rabbit (Film; 2019)
La Bamba, by Ritchie Valens (Song; 1958)
Moby-Dick (Novel; 1851)
Roseanne (TV Series; 1988)
Symphony No. 3, by Aaron Copland (Symphony; 1946)
12 Years a Slave (Film; 2013)
West Side Story (Film; 1961)
What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1967)
The Yellow Kid (Comic Strip; 18896)
Zombieland: Double Tap (Film; 2019)
Today’s Name Days
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Luc (France)
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ISO: Day 2 of week 42 of 2022
Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 18 of 28]
Chinese: Month 9 (Júyuè), Day 23 (Jia-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 23 Tishri 5783
Islamic: 22 Rabi I 1444
J Cal: 21 Shù; Sixday [21 of 30]
Julian: 5 October 2022
Moon: 41%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 11 Descartes (11th Month) [Vauvenargues]
Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 8 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 26 of 90)
Zodiac: Libra (Day 24 of 30)
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SONGS TO PLAY WHEN (almost) MY ENTIRE MUSE LIST IS BEING VECNA’D | ( note : historical muses (pre 1910s) are modern au’d )
bianca macksey ––– head over heels ( tears for fears )
grace “ lambchops ” lamb ––– moby dick ( led zeppelin )
connie ripsom ––– we belong ( pat benatar )
amy march ––– a dream is a wish your heart makes ( ilene woods )
jemma simmons ––– somewhere only we know ( keane ) im sobbing bye
pearl singh ––– the ballad of lucy jordan ( marianne faithful )
sam giddings ––– she’s a rainbow ( the rolling stones )
illy hassan ––– reverie ( claude debussy )
liz thompson ––– clearly ( grace vanderwaal ) im so proud of her
nina farnham ––– moon river ( audrey hepburn )
jo sharma ––– life on mars ( david bowie ) never been an easier decision
maggie amaan ––– i hear a symphony ( cody fry )
alice cullen ––– aquarius / let the sunshine in ( the 5th dimension )
meg giry ––– le cygne ( saint-saens )
kitty bennet ––– untouched ( the veronicas ) im a kitty stan soz austen
éponine thénardier ––– common people ( pulp ) that’s my gal .
parvati patil ––– seven wonders ( fleetwood mac )
molly hooper ––– blackout ( muse ) kinda wild but appropriate
rumpleteazer ––– nobody to love ( sigma ) this is not a joke .
charity burbank ––– que sera , sera ( hidden citizens ) DONT SAVE HER .
johanna veena ––– never tear us apart ( INXS )
lacey anderson ––– heroes ( david bowie / peter gabriel )
nancy bennett ––– the white cliffs of dover ( vera lynn )
blair thorne ––– she bangs the drums ( stone roses ) modern au
florence park ––– the ballad of sir frankie crisp ( george harrison )
iris ––– have you heard ( the moody blues ) chills .
sylvia hashmi ––– piano concerto no 1. Romance. Larghetto ( chopin )
edwina sharma ––– everything now ( arcade fire )
Gigi Sinha ––– the dock of the bay ( otis redding )
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The 100 best novels written in English: the full list
After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at his list.
1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678)
A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple clarity and beauty of Bunyan’s prose make this the ultimate English classic.
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
By the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions, spin-offs and translations. Crusoe’s world-famous novel is a complex literary confection, and it’s irresistible.
3. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
A satirical masterpiece that’s never been out of print, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in English
4. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)
Clarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her unscrupulous nouveau-riche family to marry a wealthy man she detests, in the book that Samuel Johnson described as “the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human heart.”
5. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)
Tom Jones is a classic English novel that captures the spirit of its age and whose famous characters have come to represent Augustan society in all its loquacious, turbulent, comic variety.
6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759)
Laurence Sterne’s vivid novel caused delight and consternation when it first appeared and has lost little of its original bite.
7. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
Jane Austen’s Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility.
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
Mary Shelley’s first novel has been hailed as a masterpiece of horror and the macabre.
9. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock (1818)
The great pleasure of Nightmare Abbey, which was inspired by Thomas Love Peacock’s friendship with Shelley, lies in the delight the author takes in poking fun at the romantic movement.
10. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838)
Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel – a classic adventure story with supernatural elements – has fascinated and influenced generations of writers.
11. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845)
The future prime minister displayed flashes of brilliance that equalled the greatest Victorian novelists.
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Charlotte Brontë’s erotic, gothic masterpiece became the sensation of Victorian England. Its great breakthrough was its intimate dialogue with the reader.
13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
Emily Brontë’s windswept masterpiece is notable not just for its wild beauty but for its daring reinvention of the novel form itself.
14. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1848)
William Thackeray’s masterpiece, set in Regency England, is a bravura performance by a writer at the top of his game.
15. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
David Copperfield marked the point at which Dickens became the great entertainer and also laid the foundations for his later, darker masterpieces.
16. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s astounding book is full of intense symbolism and as haunting as anything by Edgar Allan Poe.
17. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Wise, funny and gripping, Melville’s epic work continues to cast a long shadow over American literature.
18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
Lewis Carroll’s brilliant nonsense tale is one of the most influential and best loved in the English canon.
19. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
Wilkie Collins’s masterpiece, hailed by many as the greatest English detective novel, is a brilliant marriage of the sensational and the realistic.
20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868-9)
Louisa May Alcott’s highly original tale aimed at a young female market has iconic status in America and never been out of print.
21. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-2)
This cathedral of words stands today as perhaps the greatest of the great Victorian fictions.
22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875)
Inspired by the author’s fury at the corrupt state of England, and dismissed by critics at the time, The Way We Live Now is recognised as Trollope’s masterpiece.
23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884/5)
Mark Twain’s tale of a rebel boy and a runaway slave seeking liberation upon the waters of the Mississippi remains a defining classic of American literature.
24. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
A thrilling adventure story, gripping history and fascinating study of the Scottish character, Kidnapped has lost none of its power.
25. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889)
Jerome K Jerome’s accidental classic about messing about on the Thames remains a comic gem.
26. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)
Sherlock Holmes’s second outing sees Conan Doyle’s brilliant sleuth – and his bluff sidekick Watson – come into their own.
27. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891)
Wilde’s brilliantly allusive moral tale of youth, beauty and corruption was greeted with howls of protest on publication.
28. New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891)
George Gissing’s portrayal of the hard facts of a literary life remains as relevant today as it was in the late 19th century.
29. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
Hardy exposed his deepest feelings in this bleak, angry novel and, stung by the hostile response, he never wrote another.
30. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)
Stephen Crane’s account of a young man’s passage to manhood through soldiery is a blueprint for the great American war novel.
31. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
Bram Stoker’s classic vampire story was very much of its time but still resonates more than a century later.
32. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece about a life-changing journey in search of Mr Kurtz has the simplicity of great myth.
33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900)
Theodore Dreiser was no stylist, but there’s a terrific momentum to his unflinching novel about a country girl’s American dream.
34. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
In Kipling’s classic boy’s own spy story, an orphan in British India must make a choice between east and west.
35. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
Jack London’s vivid adventures of a pet dog that goes back to nature reveal an extraordinary style and consummate storytelling.
36. The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904)
American literature contains nothing else quite like Henry James’s amazing, labyrinthine and claustrophobic novel.
37. Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904)
This entertaining if contrived story of a hack writer and priest who becomes pope sheds vivid light on its eccentric author – described by DH Lawrence as a “man-demon”.
38. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
The evergreen tale from the riverbank and a powerful contribution to the mythology of Edwardian England.
39. The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells (1910)
The choice is great, but Wells’s ironic portrait of a man very like himself is the novel that stands out.
40. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911)
The passage of time has conferred a dark power upon Beerbohm’s ostensibly light and witty Edwardian satire.
41. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
Ford’s masterpiece is a searing study of moral dissolution behind the facade of an English gentleman – and its stylistic influence lingers to this day.
42. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)
John Buchan’s espionage thriller, with its sparse, contemporary prose, is hard to put down.
43. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence (1915)
The Rainbow is perhaps DH Lawrence’s finest work, showing him for the radical, protean, thoroughly modern writer he was.
44. Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915)
Somerset Maugham’s semi-autobiographical novel shows the author’s savage honesty and gift for storytelling at their best.
45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
The story of a blighted New York marriage stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture.
46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
This portrait of a day in the lives of three Dubliners remains a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare.
47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)
What it lacks in structure and guile, this enthralling take on 20s America makes up for in vivid satire and characterisation.
48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924)
EM Forster’s most successful work is eerily prescient on the subject of empire.
49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925)
A guilty pleasure it may be, but it is impossible to overlook the enduring influence of a tale that helped to define the jazz age.
50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
Woolf’s great novel makes a day of party preparations the canvas for themes of lost love, life choices and mental illness.
51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Fitzgerald’s jazz age masterpiece has become a tantalising metaphor for the eternal mystery of art.
52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926)
A young woman escapes convention by becoming a witch in this original satire about England after the first world war.
53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
Hemingway’s first and best novel makes an escape to 1920s Spain to explore courage, cowardice and manly authenticity.
54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
Dashiell Hammett’s crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré.
55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)
The influence of William Faulkner’s immersive tale of raw Mississippi rural life can be felt to this day.
56. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
Aldous Huxley’s vision of a future human race controlled by global capitalism is every bit as prescient as Orwell’s more famous dystopia.
57. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932)
The book for which Gibbons is best remembered was a satire of late-Victorian pastoral fiction but went on to influence many subsequent generations.
58. Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932)
The middle volume of John Dos Passos’s USA trilogy is revolutionary in its intent, techniques and lasting impact.
59. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
The US novelist’s debut revelled in a Paris underworld of seedy sex and changed the course of the novel – though not without a fight with the censors.
60. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938)
Evelyn Waugh’s Fleet Street satire remains sharp, pertinent and memorable.
61. Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938)
Samuel Beckett’s first published novel is an absurdist masterpiece, a showcase for his uniquely comic voice.
62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled debut brings to life the seedy LA underworld – and Philip Marlowe, the archetypal fictional detective.
63. Party Going by Henry Green (1939)
Set on the eve of war, this neglected modernist masterpiece centres on a group of bright young revellers delayed by fog.
64. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939)
Labyrinthine and multilayered, Flann O’Brien’s humorous debut is both a reflection on, and an exemplar of, the Irish novel.
65. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
One of the greatest of great American novels, this study of a family torn apart by poverty and desperation in the Great Depression shocked US society.
66. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse (1946)
PG Wodehouse’s elegiac Jeeves novel, written during his disastrous years in wartime Germany, remains his masterpiece.
67. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
A compelling story of personal and political corruption, set in the 1930s in the American south.
68. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
Malcolm Lowry’s masterpiece about the last hours of an alcoholic ex-diplomat in Mexico is set to the drumbeat of coming conflict.
69. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948)
Elizabeth Bowen’s 1948 novel perfectly captures the atmosphere of London during the blitz while providing brilliant insights into the human heart.
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
George Orwell’s dystopian classic cost its author dear but is arguably the best-known novel in English of the 20th century.
71. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
Graham Greene’s moving tale of adultery and its aftermath ties together several vital strands in his work.
72. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)
JD Salinger’s study of teenage rebellion remains one of the most controversial and best-loved American novels of the 20th century.
73. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)
In the long-running hunt to identify the great American novel, Saul Bellow’s picaresque third book frequently hits the mark.
74. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
Dismissed at first as “rubbish & dull”, Golding’s brilliantly observed dystopian desert island tale has since become a classic.
75. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Nabokov’s tragicomic tour de force crosses the boundaries of good taste with glee.
76. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
The creative history of Kerouac’s beat-generation classic, fuelled by pea soup and benzedrine, has become as famous as the novel itself.
77. Voss by Patrick White (1957)
A love story set against the disappearance of an explorer in the outback, Voss paved the way for a generation of Australian writers to shrug off the colonial past.
78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
Her second novel finally arrived this summer, but Harper Lee’s first did enough alone to secure her lasting fame, and remains a truly popular classic.
79. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1960)
Short and bittersweet, Muriel Spark’s tale of the downfall of a Scottish schoolmistress is a masterpiece of narrative fiction.
80. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
This acerbic anti-war novel was slow to fire the public imagination, but is rightly regarded as a groundbreaking critique of military madness.
81. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
Hailed as one of the key texts of the women’s movement of the 1960s, this study of a divorced single mother’s search for personal and political identity remains a defiant, ambitious tour de force.
82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
Anthony Burgess’s dystopian classic still continues to startle and provoke, refusing to be outshone by Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant film adaptation.
83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)
Christopher Isherwood’s story of a gay Englishman struggling with bereavement in LA is a work of compressed brilliance.
84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)
Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel, a true story of bloody murder in rural Kansas, opens a window on the dark underbelly of postwar America.
85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966)
Sylvia Plath’s painfully graphic roman à clef, in which a woman struggles with her identity in the face of social pressure, is a key text of Anglo-American feminism.
86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)
This wickedly funny novel about a young Jewish American’s obsession with masturbation caused outrage on publication, but remains his most dazzling work.
87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971)
Elizabeth Taylor’s exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s.
88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971)
Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, Updike’s lovably mediocre alter ego, is one of America’s great literary protoganists, up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby.
89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)
The novel with which the Nobel prize-winning author established her name is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the African-American experience in the 20th century.
90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979)
VS Naipaul’s hellish vision of an African nation’s path to independence saw him accused of racism, but remains his masterpiece.
91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
The personal and the historical merge in Salman Rushdie’s dazzling, game-changing Indian English novel of a young man born at the very moment of Indian independence.
92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981)
Marilynne Robinson’s tale of orphaned sisters and their oddball aunt in a remote Idaho town is admired by everyone from Barack Obama to Bret Easton Ellis.
93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis (1984)
Martin Amis’s era-defining ode to excess unleashed one of literature’s greatest modern monsters in self-destructive antihero John Self.
94. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about a retired artist in postwar Japan, reflecting on his career during the country’s dark years, is a tour de force of unreliable narration.
95. The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald (1988)
Fitzgerald’s story, set in Russia just before the Bolshevik revolution, is her masterpiece: a brilliant miniature whose peculiar magic almost defies analysis.
96. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1988)
Anne Tyler’s portrayal of a middle-aged, mid-American marriage displays her narrative clarity, comic timing and ear for American speech to perfection.
97. Amongst Women by John McGahern (1990)
This modern Irish masterpiece is both a study of the faultlines of Irish patriarchy and an elegy for a lost world.
98. Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)
A writer of “frightening perception”, Don DeLillo guides the reader in an epic journey through America’s history and popular culture.
99. Disgrace by JM Coetzee (1999)
In his Booker-winning masterpiece, Coetzee’s intensely human vision infuses a fictional world that both invites and confounds political interpretation.
100. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2000)
Peter Carey rounds off our list of literary milestones with a Booker prize-winning tour-de-force examining the life and times of Australia’s infamous antihero, Ned Kelly.
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The next faculty member under the Spotlight is Ron Rash, a distinguished professor in the Department of English. He has been teaching for a total of about 41 years. Of that time, he has spent the last 17 years here at WCU.
In this interview, you’ll hear about his patronus, what fish he would be, some of his favorites, how he would spend $1 million, the picture on his office door, who his hero is, advice he has for students and aspiring authors, and more.
His requested use of his time in the spotlight: bragging about this semester’s class!
Below the cut is a shortened version of his answers to student questions and other information:
What do you usually get at Subway?
The largest cup of tea that they serve.
Do you believe in Bigfoot? Have you ever seen Bigfoot?
Not sober
What is your "patronus” or kindred spirit?
Speckled trout. It’s the native fish of Appalachia.
Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?
Sunsets
Would you rather drink coffee or tea?
Coffee in the morning; tea in the afternoon.
If you were a fish, what kind of fish would you be?
Speckled trout
If your personality was an ice cream flavor, what would it be?
Probable vanilla
What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Pistachio
What is your favorite place to eat in Sylva?
That’s tough. Mad Batter, certainly; Guadalupe Cafe; Lulu’s. I’d have to narrow it to those three.
What's your favorite movie?
Oh wow, that’s such a tough one. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is one of my favorites; Cool Hand Luke is one; and The Tree of Life, written and directed by Terrence Malick.
What is your favorite Star Wars movie?
Unfortunately, I do not have one. Not a big Star Wars fan.
What is your favorite time period in history?
The period of the French Revolution because I think so much of what happened since then is tied into what happened in that revolution, both the good and the bad.
What is your favorite month of the year and why?
September, particularly late September
If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
Does it have to be healthy? Fried okra.
If you could eat dinner with any 3 people you wanted, who would you choose and why?
Samuel Johnson, William Shakespeare... I would say William Faulkner, but he wouldn’t talk. Who would be a third one? There’s a writer named Jean Giono, from France, and he’s always been very interesting to me, so maybe those three.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, all expenses paid, where would you go?
Well, I’ve been there. France. I really feel a connection to the French, their literary tradition, but I’ve actually been there. I would like to go to Brazil.
If you were given $1 million, how would you spend it?
I don’t know. I’d probably just give a lot of it to a worthy cause, some kind of conservation area. Something to do with parks and buying land up for land conservation.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
I’m a very boring person. I like to listen to music, read, walk, fish. Those are the main things.
What are your top 3 favorite books?
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky because that book was the first one that made me want to be a writer, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and either Moby Dick or The Sound and the Fury.
What is your favorite book you have written?
As far as novels, I’d say Serena. As far as short story collections, I’d say Burning Bright.
Tell us about the picture on your office door!
It’s a photograph of logging in Appalachia, actually near Brevard, during the early part of the 20th century. And it’s just a reminder of how huge those trees were, and anyone who sees it recognizes that. One reason I think Serena is the book I feel best about is that people forget that if you had driven through the Smoky Mountains in, say, 1910/1920, you would’ve been surrounded by mountains that had been raised, almost as if they’d been skinned, and I think we tend to forget that. That particular photograph is a good reminder of that particular virgin forest that we lost.
Who is your hero?
Well, I’ve got a number of them. I think Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who stood up to the Nazis, is certainly a man that I view that way. I admire people who are brave when it really costs them to be. It’s easy to pretend to be brave, but those people such as that show us what we’re capable of as human beings. As far as writing, certainly Shakespeare as far as the excellence that I go back to and can’t imagine writing that way, but it’s just nice to know that a human being can do that.
Why did you decide to teach at WCU?
Well, they invited me. I certainly wanted to teach here, and for several reasons. One, because my family is so deeply rooted here, actually in this very county. I had relatives here in the 1700s. The location, the fact that it was rural. I’ve always been more comfortable in rural areas. I’ve never lived in a city, and I’d never want to. And it gave me an opportunity that I hadn’t had to do more writing.
What's your favorite thing about teaching?
I think it’s connecting with the students. The great thing is it’s allowed me to, at least on some level, believe I’m younger than I am. Just the idea that what I think is important, the aspect of literature, is something I think has a great worth for us as human beings... that I can transfer some of that, maybe some of that appreciation (I hope), to encourage my students to read and write. Teaching literature is an act of communion.
What’s the hardest part about being an author?
It never gets easier. Each time, it’s, for me, like starting over. I mean, all the doubts, all the sense that it looks hopeless, how will this thing ever cohere... going through that. You know, I just feel very fortunate that I’ve been able to do what I’ve wanted to do with my life. I’ve had some success, and I think that even if I hadn’t, I’ve gained so much from writing that I would not have regretted it, even if I never published. I think it’s a worthwhile endeavor just to understand ourselves and understand the world around us by trying to observe it.
What advice do you have for students/aspiring authors?
For any writer, if you want to be a really good writer, you have to read. I mean, you have to study people who are better than you are. I do not know a first-rate writer who is not a veracious reader. One should also read widely. Read the writers from South America, read Márquez, read Borges. Read Achebe from Africa, read Baudelaire from France, read Mo Yan from China. I think that’s really important, but also read writers from the past. Great writing remains great writing. Anyone who’s writing today is going to learn a lot about how to create a minor character from Shakespeare. I think just reading from your time period... you’re not really learning the tradition, and part of what you want to do is to break away from that tradition, to create your own way of perceiving the world, but I think it’s hugely important to learn from the past as well as the present.
Anything else you would like to share for your time in the spotlight?
Well, I’m just grateful to be here. I’ve had great students. Actually, one of the best classes I’ve ever had in my life is this semester, and that’s really nice to know that as long as I’ve been teaching, I can still go into a class and feel like I’m connecting and also being challenged because the group I’ve got this semester, they’re so smart and so talented that they keep me really pushing. I have to bring my A game with them, and that’s good for me, too.
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Events 11.14 (before 1970)
332 BC – Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.
1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.
1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1914 – The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland.
1918 – The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution.
1920 – Pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball developed by Lauri Pihkala, is played for the first time at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki.
1921 – The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1938 – The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
1940 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
1941 – World War II: German troops, aided by local auxiliaries, murder nine thousand residents of the Słonim Ghetto in a single day.
1952 – The New Musical Express publishes the first regular UK Singles Chart.
1957 – The "Apalachin meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high-level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
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Un año de informes de calentamiento global
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2020/07/15/one-year-of-global-warming-reports-by-mgjr/
Por Manuel García, Jr
Traducción: Esmeralda Loyden S.
Durante el último año, publiqué una serie de informes sobre el cambio climático relativo al calentamiento global que lo abordan de forma física cuantitativa, en lugar de ser cualitativa y sociológica. Esos informes se enumeran a continuación en orden cronológico. Mi estimación de cómo “se verá” el calentamiento global en el futuro inmediato y a largo plazo se perfeccionó en el transcurso de la producción de estos informes; pero todos son una pieza integrada sobre el tema. El primer informe se refiere principalmente a los "datos" útiles para cálculos posteriores (muy importante). Los dos informes en PDF son mis notas de física matemática en mis cálculos (el primero de ellos es el más significativo). Los otros cinco son aplicaciones de los resultados numéricos con fines descriptivos, para ayudar al lector general a comprender la magnitud y la duración del efecto del calentamiento global.
Varios de estos informes llegaron a las revistas de Internet, principalmente Counterpunch y Green Social Thought. Las versiones en mi blog han tenido errores numéricos y/o tipográficos menores corregidos (tal como los encuentro), y son seguidos por mis comentarios de pensamientos posteriores, con más física sobre ellos justo después de su publicación. Mis recomendaciones sociológicas sobre "qué hacer con el cambio climático" se resumen en un breve párrafo al final del Calentamiento de la Biosfera en Números. Mi propósito al hacer este trabajo debería ser obvio; primero, para que yo entienda, cuantitativamente, la naturaleza del calentamiento global; y, en segundo lugar, para ayudarle a "usted" a entenderlo.
Agradezco sus comentarios y preguntas sobre el tema; después de todo, fueron tales investigaciones las que me llevaron a investigar sobre este tema (científicamente) más profundamente, en primer lugar.
Tenga en cuenta también que NO cuestiono el trabajo de los científicos profesionales de geofísica/cambio climático, que trabajan en institutos de cambio climático de todo tipo en el mundo (por ejemplo, meteorología, geología, física atmosférica y química, ciencias oceanográficas, biológicas/ecológicas/evolutivas ), y que utilizan bancos de supercomputadoras para modelar las muchas complejidades del calentamiento global y el cambio climático (con numerosas complejidades aún más allá del alcance de la ciencia actual).
Ye Cannot Swerve Me: Moby-Dick and Climate Change
15 July 2019
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2019/07/15/ye-cannot-swerve-me-moby-dick-and-climate-change/
(Traducción: No me pueden burlar: Moby-Dick y cambio climático)
A Simple Model of Global Warming
26 May 2020
https://manuelgarciajr.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/global-warming-model.pdf
(Traducción: Un modelo simple de calentamiento global)
Global Warming is Nuclear War
28 May 2020
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2020/05/28/global-warming-is-nuclear-war/
(Traducción: El calentamiento global es la guerra nuclear)
Living With Global Warming
13 June 2020
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2020/06/13/living-with-global-warming/
(Traducción: Viviendo con el calentamiento global)
No emissions with exponential decay of CO2 concentration: Model
18 June 2020
https://manuelgarciajr.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/global-warming-co2-shutoff.pdf
(Traducción: Sin emisiones con disminución exponencial de la concentración de CO2: Modelo)
Global Warming and Cooling After CO2 Shutoff at +1.5°C
20 June 2020
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2020/06/20/global-warming-and-cooling-after-co2-shutoff-at-1-5c/
(Traducción: Calentamiento global y enfriamiento después del apagado de CO2 a + 1.5 ° C)
Biosphere Warming in Numbers
3 July 2020
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2020/07/03/biosphere-warming-in-numbers/
(Traducción: Calentamiento de la biosfera en números)
Carbon Dioxide Uptake by Vegetation After Emissions Shutoff “Now”
8 July 2020
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2020/07/08/carbon-dioxide-uptake-by-vegetation-after-emissions-shutoff-now/
(Traducción: Absorción de dióxido de carbono por la vegetación después del cierre de emisiones "ahora")
La temperatura global en 2020 es un grado superior a la temperatura de 1910.
Si todas las emisiones de CO2 se detuvieran de forma permanente en 2020, a la naturaleza le llevaría 1.354 años en eliminar la acumulación de CO2 de 1.090 giga toneladas (año 3.374).
En cualquier caso, la temperatura aumentaría + 3.8°C por encima de su nivel en 1910 en 300 años (año 2,320), permanecería allí durante un siglo (año 2,420), y luego se enfriaría lentamente durante 954 años (año 3,374).
En cualquier caso, la temperatura aumentaría en +3.8°C por encima de su nivel en 1910 en 300 años (año 2,320), permanecería allí durante un siglo (año 2,420) y luego se enfriaría lentamente durante 954 años (año 3,374). Por cada año adicional de retraso antes del cierre de CO2, hay que agregar 12.5 años más, necesarios para que la naturaleza lo elimine.
Cuanto más tarde se apaguen las emisiones de CO2, más caliente será el sobreimpulso de la temperatura posterior, y más largo será el periodo para finalmente "limpiar el aire" y enfriarse a la temperatura de ~1910.
La temperatura global en 2050 se estima en + 1.55grados C por encima de su nivel en 1910.
Para el cierre en 2050, la eliminación duraría 1.729 años (de 2,050 a 3,779), y el exceso alcanzaría un máximo de +4,3 grados C.
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