@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also."
✒ #ThomasReid, Scottish mathematician and philosopher, #DOTD 7 October 1796. #Philosophy
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 Andrea del #Verrocchio, Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, and goldsmith, #DOTD 7 October 1488 (date disputed).
#LeonardoDaVinci was his star pupil. #Art #Painting #Sculpture
@mexiconews.bsky.social#BOTD #OTD #DOTD #anniversary #Hollywood #efemerides
Died Today
North by Northwestern
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924 - October 6, 2026 at 102)
@jckaelin.bsky.socialI married just such a teacher! 😍
#OTD #TDIH #October6, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: #EddieVanHalen. #Guitarists #Keyboardists #Singers #Songwriters #VanHalen #RockMusic #RockSky #MusicSky
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@chriswriter.bsky.socialBETTE DAVIS #DOTD 1989
Superb actress in a long, diverse & distinguished career, so many memorable roles, loved her in Mr. Skeffington too. compelling screen presence!
-All About Eve -What Ever Happened to Baby Jane -Jezebel
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte-Now Voyager
The Letter - Of Human Bondage
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"If I am playing any #music at all, it is #jazz music."
🥁 Remembering #GingerBaker, legendary English drummer, who #DOTD 6 October 2019.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
🌹🎭 Hollywood legend #BetteDavis #DOTD 6 October 1989. #Film
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something.'"
Poems: poets.org/poet/elizabe...
✒ #ElizabethBishop, American poet, #DOTD 6 October 1979. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever."
Poems: poetryarchive.org/poet/alfred-...
✒ Alfred, Lord #Tennyson, English poet and British Poet Laureate, #DOTD 6 October 1892. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further."
🇮🇪 #CharlesStewartParnell, Irish nationalist politician who served as an MP in the UK from 1875 to 1891, #DOTD 6 October 1891.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Traveller, let your step be light,
So that sleep these eyes may close,
For poor Scarron, till to-night,
Ne'er was able e'en to doze."
✒ #PaulScarron, French poet, dramatist, and novelist, #DOTD 6 October 1660. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialAnd wilt thou leave me thus
And have no more pity
Of him that loveth thee?
Hélas, thy cruelty!
And wilt thou leave me thus?
Say nay, say nay!
Poems: poetryarchive.org/poet/thomas-...
✒️ Sir #ThomasWyatt, English politician and poet, #DOTD 6 October 1542. #Poetry #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #HansVonBartels, German painter and educator, #DOTD 5 October 1913. #Art #Painting
