- Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in Hailey, Idaho.
- He believed that poetry is the highest of arts.
- Ezra Pound was a great admirer of the poet William Butler Yeats.
- Ezra Pound became known for his role in developing Imagism.
- Ezra Pound was a noted translator of Asian literature.
- Ezra Pound is mainly responsible for bringing Vivaldi’s music back into popularity.
- Ezra Pound made anti-American radio broadcasts during World War II.
- Pound embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler.
- Pound was arrested as a traitor in 1945.
- Pound's major work was the Cantos.
- He died in November 1, 1972 in Venice.
EZRA POUND QUOTES
- Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
- Nothing written for pay is worth printing. ONLY what has been written AGAINST the market.
- Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
- The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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- Pearls are the only gems created by a living creature.
- The first recorded Chinese pearl was in 2000 BC.
- Natural pearls are composed of 100 percent calcium carbonate and conchiolin.
- It is said Cleopatra dissolved a pearl in wine and drank it to prove her love to Marc Antony.
- The Persian Gulf was one of the main sources of natural pearls for centuries.
- Pearl is the birthstone for the month of June.
- The most valuable pearls occur spontaneously in the wild, but they are extremely rare.
- Today, most pearls, both salt and freshwater, are cultured.
- The name Margarita (or Margaret) means pearls.
- Almost any shelled mollusk can, by natural processes, produce some kind of "pearl".
- Black pearls are considered to be one of the rarest gems on Earth.
- June is the 6th month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
- June is the month with the longest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Birthstones for June are the pearl, moonstone and alexandrite.
- June is also sometimes called the "Rose month."
- No other month begins on the same day of the week as June.
- The longest day of the year is 21 June or 22 June.
- The Philippines' Independence Day is on June 12.
- According to one etymology, June is named after Juno (Hera).
- Juno was the goddess of marriage and a married couple's household, so some consider it good luck to be married in this month.
- June is Black Music Month.
- Father's Day is celebrated in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland on the third Sunday in June.
- July is the 7th month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
- July is one of 7 Gregorian months with the length of 31 days.
- July is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere.
- Birthstone of the month is a red ruby.
- July is one of the winter months in the Southern Hemisphere
- July was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar.
- It still kept the name of Quintilis until the death of Julius Caesar.
- The United States celebrate Independence Day on July 4.
- July's birth flower is the Larkspur or the Water Lily.
- Zodiac sign are Cancer and Leo.
- George Harrison was born on February 24, 1943 in Liverpool, England.
- Harrison was the youngest of The Beatles.
- It was Paul McCartney who brought George into the band (The Quarrymen).
- John Lennon stated that his relationship with George was "one of young follower and older guy."
- Dark brown hair and hazel eyes.
- Height: 5'11" (1.80 m)
- Favourite color: purple.
- Favourite candy: jellybeans.
- George Harrison is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980.
- Some of his famous songs: "Something", "Here Comes the Sun", Taxman and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
- Brothers: Harry and Peter, and one sister, Louise.
- George Harrison was first married to Pattie Boyd in 1966 (divorced in 1977).
- George embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s,
- George Harrison married Olivia Arias in 1978.
- Harrison had one son named Dhani.
- George died of lung cancer in 2001.
- August is the 8th month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
- August is one of 7 Gregorian months with a length of 31 days.
- August was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the 6th month in the original 10-month Roman calendar.
- August was named after Julius Caesar’s grandnephew Augustus.
- In August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima is bombed by the United States - for the first time in history a nuclear weapon was used against people.
- In Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, the month is called agosto from the Latin Augustus.
- The famous meteor showers, the Perseids, happens in the middle of August every year.
- August's birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy.
- The birthstone of the month is the peridot or onyx.
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| actress Amanda Bearse |
- Amanda Bearse was born on August 9, 1958 in Winter Park, Florida
- Height: 1.63 m (5' 4")
- Amanda Bearse is best known for her performance as Marcy D'Arcy on Married... with Children.
- Bearse played the role until the show's end in 1997.
- Zodiac sign: Leo
- Amanda appeared in the films Here Come the Munsters and The Doom Generation.
- Amanda Bearse has been openly lesbian since 1993.
- Amanda married Carrie Schenken in 2010.
