Every morning is a fresh beginning/Listen my soul to the glad refrain/And, in spite of old sorrows/And older sinning/Troubles forecasted/And possible pain/Take heart with the day and begin again.
It's the birthday of Constance Garnett, born Constance Black in Brighton, England (1861). She's best known for providing the first widely available English translations of the important Russian novels of the 19th century. After marrying the literary critic Edward Garnett, she became friends with some Russian exiles and decided to learn the language
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There was a mathematicians in the mid-nineteenth century named Vronsky who practiced religious mathematics. He would go to a conference to present something like "if the bases of a vector are zero, the vector is also zero" and instead of discussing his proof, would expound on the religious significance of his findings for a few hours.
QED, moi druz'ya, QED.
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