🎨 #WilhelmSchirmer, German landscape artist, #DOTD 8 June 1866. #Art #Painting

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change." 🏢 #FrankLloydWright, great American architect, was #BOTD 8 June 1867. #Art #Architecture

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.” ✒️#MargueriteYourcenar, Belgian-French novelist (Memoirs of Hadrian), was #BOTD 8 June 1903. #Literature

✒️ #BrianCoffey, Irish poet, was #BOTD 8 June 1905. #Poetry #Literature

📸 #FernandFonssagrives, French photographer, was #BOTD 8 June 1910. #Art #Photography

Language is not a perfect game, and if it were, how could we play? The world’s more than the sum of things like moon, sky, centre, body, bed, as all the singing masters know. Poems: allpoetry.com/Gwen-Harwood] ✒️ #GwenHarwood, Australian poet, was #BOTD 8 June 1920. #Poetry

🎨 #LeRoyNeiman, American painter, was #BOTD 8 June 1921. #Art #Paintinge

🎨 #HarryHoltzman, American abstract artist, was #BOTD 8 June 1912. #Art #Painting #Sculpture

“The original idea of the Web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.” 💻 Sir #TimBernersLee, English inventor (#WorldWideWeb), is 70 today. #Internet #Tech

"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace." ✒️ #ThomasPaine, English-American political writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), #DOTD 8 June 1809. #Politics #Philosophy

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." ✒️ #GeorgeSand [Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant], French author, #DOTD 8 June 1876. #Literature

“The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree." Poems: poetryfoundation.org/poets/gerard-m…] ✒️ #GerardManleyHopkins, English poet, #DOTD 8 June 1889. #Poetry #Literature

“For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.” 🗻#GeorgeMallory, English mountain climber, #DOTD 8 June 1924 in an accident on #Everest, aged 37.

🎨 #MarieLaurencin, French painter, #DOTD 8 June 1956. #Art #Painting

“#Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.” ✒️ Remembering #AnthonyBourdain, who passed away #OTD 8 June 2018.

"A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine" - "Free us from the fury of the Northmen, Lord." 🕯️#OTD in #History 8 June 793, #Vikings attacked and decimated the abbey on #Lindisfarne, a hallowed centre of learning on an island off the northeast coast of England in #Northumberland.

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” 📖#OTD in the #History of #Literature 8 June 1949, #GeorgeOrwell's dystopian classic "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was first published by Secker & Warburg in 🇬🇧

"Bright light!" 🔦#OTD in #Film #History 8 June 1984, #JoeDante's #horror #comedy "Gremlins", starring #ZachGalligan, #PhoebeCates, and #CoreyFeldman, was unleashed across 🇺🇸

"Hail, Paimon! Hail, Paimon! Hail!" 🕯️#OTD in #Film #History 8 June 2018, #AriAster's chilling #horror "Hereditary", starring #ToniCollette, #AlexWolff, #MillyShapiro, #AnnDowd, and #GabrielByrne, sent shivers through the 🇺🇸

🌊 Today, 8 June, is the day to raise awareness of the need to protect and conserve the world's oceans. 🐳 Happy #WorldOceansDay!