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Events of the day 16 February

Stela Brie1936:

Was born Stela Brie.

Ion Pachia-Tatomirescu1947:

Was born Ion Pachia-Tatomirescu.

Ion Milos1930:

Was born Ion Milos.

Henry B. Adams1838:

Was born Henry B. Adams.

V1995:

Died Victor Kernbach.

Giosue Carducci1907:

Died Giosue Carducci.

John W. Gardner2002:

Died John W. Gardner.

Charles Cotton1687:

Died Charles Cotton.

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Emilian MarcuEmilian MarcuJosef WeinheberJosef WeinheberCostel ZăganCostel ZăganAndrei CodrescuAndrei CodrescuWalter Francis KerrWalter Francis KerrGheorghe GrigurcuGheorghe Grigurcu
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Sleepy birds

All those sleepy birds
Now tired from flight
Hide among the leaves
Good-night!

Only the spring whispers
When the wood sleeps silently;
Even flowers in the gardens
Sleep peacefully!

Swans glide to their nest
Sheltering among...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about night, good, good luck, garden, flowers, harmony, sleep, angels, dream, flight

The Lake

Water lilies load all over
The blue lake amid the woods,
That imparts, while in white circles
Startling, to a boat its moods.

And along the strands I'm passing
Listening, waiting, in unrest,
That she from the reeds may issue
And...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about water, fall, feelings, lie, moon, light

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

Sad love song

Only my life will die for me, in truth,
sometime.
Only the grass knows the taste of the earth.
In truth, only my blood misses
my heart when it leaves.
The air is tall, you are tall,
my sadness is tall.
There comes a time when horses...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu

Folklore

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The arrow that missed the head of its target will never hit the tail.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about heads

If you fall in a river hang on to a snake.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about fall, contentment

The world belongs to the phlegmatic.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about world

In the eyes of its mother every beetle is a gazelle.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about eyes, mother

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

Who came back from the grave and told the story?

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian

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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