Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) was a novelist and the wife of writer F.
Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband
"the first American Flapper". After the success of his first novel This
Side of Paradise, the Fitzgeralds became celebrities. The newspapers of
New York saw them as embodiments of the Jazz Age and the Roaring
Twenties: young, rich, beautiful, and energetic. Following a whirlwind
courtship ensued, they married in 1920, and spent the early part of the
decade as literary celebrities in New York. Later in the 1920s, they
moved to Europe, recast as famous expatriates of the Lost Generation.
While Scott received acclaim for The Great Gatsby and his short
stories, their marriage was a tangle of jealousy, resentment and
acrimony. The strain of her tempestuous marriage, Scott's increasing
alcoholism, and her growing instability presaged Zelda's admittance to
a sanatorium in 1930. While in a Maryland clinic, she wrote a
semi-autobiographical novel, Save Me the Waltz, which was published in
1932. Scott was furious that she had used material from their life
together, though he had done the same, such as in Tender Is the Night,
published in 1934; the two novels provide contrasting portrayals of the
couple's failing marriage. Scott died in Hollywood in 1940, having last
seen Zelda a year and a half earlier. She spent her remaining years
working on a second novel, which she never completed, and she painted
extensively. In 1948, the hospital at which she had been a patient
caught fire, causing her death.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
American Civil War: Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman began
his "March to the Sea", inflicting significant damage to property and
infrastructure on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman>
1889:
A military coup led by Field Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca overthrew
Emperor Pedro II and declared Brazil a republic.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodoro_da_Fonseca>
1935:
The United States formalizes the establishment of the self-governing
Philippine Commonwealth, with Manuel L. Quezon as its president.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Commonwealth>
1971:
Intel released the 4004 4-bit central processing unit , the world's
first commercially available microprocessor, capable of executing
approximately 60,000 instructions per second.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004>
1985:
Northern Ireland peace process: British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher, and the Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald signed the
Anglo-Irish Agreement, giving the Irish Government an advisory role in
Northern Ireland's government.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Agreement>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cerebral (adj):
1. (anatomy) Of, or relating to the brain, especially the cerebral
cortex of the brain.
2. Intellectual rather than emotional
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cerebral>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who
can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none
else can, has genius.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater
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