Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s; these included seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926. His wartime experiences as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms, and he drew on his experience as a journalist in the Spanish Civil War for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway was with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1378:

Unrepresented labourers revolted and violently took over the government of the Republic of Florence (depicted), demanding that they be granted political office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciompi_Revolt

1946:

After weeks of unrest, rioters lynched Bolivian president Gualberto Villarroel, desecrating and hanging his corpse in the streets of La Paz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_La_Paz_riots

1959:

The inaugural International Mathematical Olympiad, the leading mathematical competition for pre-university students, began in Romania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Olympiad

1977:

Libyan forces carried out a raid at Sallum, sparking a four-day war with Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%E2%80%93Libyan_War

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

man in the moon: 1. An image of a man perceived in the dark maria (plains or "seas") and light highlands or other features of the Moon, originally regarded as a man with a burden on his back or accompanied by a small dog, and now more commonly as a man's face in the full moon or his profile in a crescent moon; hence, an imaginary man thought to be living on the Moon. 2. (obsolete, figurative) An imaginary person; also (UK politics, slang), an unidentified person who illegally pays for election expenditure and electors' expenses, as long as the latter vote as the person wishes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man_in_the_moon

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.   --Marshall McLuhan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan