The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest
Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel
from Paris to the Festival of Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running
of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel,
it received mixed reviews upon publication. The novel was published in
the US in 1926 and in 1927 in England with the title of Fiesta. The
basis for the novel was Hemingway's 1925 trip to Spain. The setting was
unique and memorable, showing the seedy café life in Paris and the
excitement of the Pamplona festival, with a middle section devoted to
descriptions of a fishing trip in the Pyrenees. Also unique was
Hemingway's spare writing style, combined with his restrained use of
description to convey characterizations and action, which became known
as the iceberg theory. The characters are based on real people (who are
pictured) and the action is based on real events.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
706:
In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang interred the final bodies in the
Qianling Mausoleum, which remained unopened until the 1960s.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianling_Mausoleum>
1644:
The combined forces of the Scottish Covenanters and the English
Parliamentarians defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor,
one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War, near York.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marston_Moor>
1881:
U.S. President James A. Garfield was fatally shot at the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield>
1950:
A mentally ill Buddhist monk set fire to the Golden Pavilion at
Kinkaku-ji , destroying what is now one of the most popular tourist
destinations in Japan.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkaku-ji>
2000:
In the Mexican general election, Vicente Fox was elected to be the
first President of Mexico from an opposition party in 71 years.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Fox>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Monégasque (adj):
Pertaining to Monaco or the people of Monaco
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mon%C3%A9gasque>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There
is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom
inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen
their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may
include doctors, teachers, gardeners — I could list a hundred more
professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as
they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and
setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges
from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born
from a continuous "I don't know."
--Wisława Szymborska
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