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Jul 3, 2024 · It was not an easy birth: the end of the gold-backed Bretton Woods system can be aptly described by the famous quote from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises”, in which a character asks another how he went bankrupt, the reply being “gradually, then suddenly”.
15 hours ago · Ezra Pound. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem ...
1 hour ago · The 4.2-square-mile island embraces the philosophy of “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere” all day, every day, and is renowned for its deep affection for Ernest Hemingway and Jimmy Buffett, both of whom famously called the island home.
15 hours ago · Ernest Miller Hemingway, romancier, nuvelist și prozator, s-a născut pe 21 iulie 1899, la Oak Park, Illinois. După terminarea școlii secundare nu și-a continuat studiile, ci a plecat în Kansas City, unde s-a angajat reporter la ziarul Kansas City Star. În timpul Războiului Civil din Spania, a fost corespondent al agenției americane ...
15 hours ago · A depressziótól és függőségtől gyötört Hemingway nem talált kiutat szenvedéseiből, ezért 1961. július 2-án főbe lőtte magát ketchumi otthonában. Halálát a temetés előtt balesetnek állították be, felesége csak évekkel később vallotta be, hogy férje önkezével vetett véget életének. A világhírű író két ...
15 hours ago · History whispers from every corner of the town. It was settled by the Celts, the Romans and the Moors until Catholic Monarchs recaptured the town in 1485. In the 20 th century, writers and artists from Ernest Hemingway to Alexandre Dumas were attracted to the photogenic town with its whitewashed buildings, orange trees, olive groves and rolling ...
Jul 3, 2024 · As Pablo Picasso is to Spain, Ernest Hemingway is to the U.S., Coco Chanel is to France, so is everything that prospered around Taipei North Gate and Dadaocheng to Taiwan. Dadaocheng was the hub for local elites and artists in Taipei, who gathered in cafes and salons in 1920s style.
