Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #birthanniversary, aggregated by home.social.
She became known as “The Jersey Lily” thanks to a portrait of her by Sir John Everett Millais, which he titled A Jersey Lily. Millais, as it happened, also hailed from Jersey. In the painting, she is holding a flower, but it isn’t, in fact, a Jersey lily at all. There weren’t any Jersey lilies available as she was sitting for the portrait, so she’s actually holding a Guernsey lily.Ten facts about Lillie Langtry.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/10/13-october-lillie-langtry.html
"In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up."
On his birthday, 10 quotes from Neil deGrasse Tyson.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/10/5-october-neil-degrasse-tyson-quotes.html
Today is Gandhi Day – Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, in Porbandar, India on this date in 1869. 10 things you might not know about him.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/10/2-october-mahatma-gandhi.html
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
On his birthday, 10 #quotes from politician and writer Horace Walpole.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/09/24-september-horaced-walpole-quotes.html
"I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice."
10 quotes from American writer Upton Sinclair, born on this date in 1878.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/09/20-september-upton-sinclair-quotes.html
Amy Winehouse was the first British female artist to win five Grammys at one ceremony, in 2008, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist. 10 facts about her.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/09/14-september-amy-winehouse.html
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Charles Dudley Warner.
9 more quotes from American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, who was born on this date in 1829.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/09/12-september-charles-dudley-warner.html
Otis Redding's first hit was These Arms of Mine, which got to no. 20 on the R&B chart in 1963.
On his birthday, 10 things you might not know about Otis Redding.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/09/9-september-otis-redding.html
Before getting into painting, her hobby was Embroidery and quilting, making gifts for friends and family. She gave that up when arthritis made sewing too painful. Her sister suggested that painting might be easier, and the rest is history.
10 things you didn't know about Grandma Moses.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/09/7-september-grandma-moses.html
"Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before."
10 quotes from Loren Eiseley, US anthropologist, and writer, born on this date in 1907.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/09/3-september-loren-eiseley-quotes.html
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true. Herman Melville.
On his birthday, 10 quotes from the author of Moby Dick.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/1-august-herman-melville-quotes.html
"No one is ever so poor that he is not owner of the skies and stars and everything wild that is to be found on the earth." Gerard Manley Hopkins.
10 quotes on his birthday.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/28-july-gerard-manley-hopkins-quotes.html
Egon Ronay guides were produced with the help of a team of inspectors who would never accept freebies from any establishment they ate at, not even a free drink. This was to ensure their reports were impartial. 10 facts about Egon Ronay.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/24-july-egon-ronay.html
23 July is Private Eye Day, the birthday of Raymond Chandler, the creator of Philip Marlowe, who was born this day in 1888. 10 things you might not know about Raymond Chandler.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/23-july-raymond-chandler.html
Hillary was the first person ever to reach both the North and South Poles as well as the peak of Everest. This has since become known as the ‘Three Poles’ challenge. 10 facts about Sir Edmund Hillary.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/20-july-sir-edmund-hillary.html
WG Grace was six feet two inches tall and sported a flowing beard. His beard impressed the Monty Python team enough for them to use his face as the face of God in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
10 things you might not know about WG Grace.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/18-july-wg-grace.html
"If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics." Gerald Ford. 10 quotes on his birthday.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/14-july-gerald-ford-quotes.html
"To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse." 10 quotes from John Quincy Adams on his birthday.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/11-july-john-quincy-adams-quotes.html
As a schoolboy, Jon Pertwee worked as a circus performer riding the wall of death on a motorcycle with a toothless Lion in the sidecar
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/7-july-jon-pertwee.html
'Even today, we look to the Leader': Kerala CM pays homage to Karunakaran on birth anniversary https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/even-today-we-look-to-the-leader-kerala-cm-pays-homage-to-karunakaran-on-birth-anniversary-uq8uxac7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BirthAnniversary #Congress #VDSatheesan #KKarunakaran
"It takes a great man to be a good listener." 10 Calvin Coolidge #Quotes
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/07/4-july-calvin-coolidge-quotes.html
Once, Estée Lauder went to sell perfume to a Department store, but they turned it down. She went out into the shop and smashed a bottle of that perfume on the floor. When customers asked what that fragrance was, the store had to change their minds and place an order. 10 Estée facts.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/06/1-july-estee-lauder.html
Louis Mountbatten was born on this date in Frogmore House, in the grounds of Windsor Castle, the son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse. He was Elizabeth II’s second cousin, and Prince Philip’s Uncle. Ten facts about him.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/06/25-june-louis-mountbatten.html
Today's birth annivrsary: ten facts about Blaise Pascal. Home schooled by his father, a tax collector, Pascal showed an aptitude for mathematics early and at the age of 12 had worked out Euclid’s first thirty-two geometric propositions all by himself.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/06/19-june-blaise-pascal.html
In his twenties he moved to London and worked for the architect Arthur Blomfield (famous for, among other things, the chapel at Tyntesfield in Somerset).
10 things you might not know about Thomas Hardy.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/06/2-june-thomas-hardy.html
US poet Walt Whitman was a bit of a fitness freak. He advised brisk walks, frequent bathing, and growing a Beard as a barrier to germs. He was also a nudist and once said, “Nature was naked, and I was also.”
10 Walt Whitman facts.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/05/30-may-walt-whitman.html
"Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it."
10 John F Kennedy Quotes
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/05/29-may-john-f-kennedy-quotes.html
‘The NDA government in Andhra Pradesh, under the leadership of Chandrababu Naidu, is committed to advancing the aspirations that NTR cherished for the people,’ Modi said. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/pm-modi-pays-homage-nt-rama-rao-103rd-birth-anniversary-tpw263lm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NTRamaRao #BirthAnniversary #NarendraModi #TDP #AndhraNews
Birth Anniversary: Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who established conventions for the naming of living organisms that became universally accepted in the scientific world. 10 little known facts.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/05/23-may-carl-linnaeus.html
President Ho Chi Minh’s birth anniversary commemorated in Greece https://www.byteseu.com/2042195/ #BirthAnniversary #Greece #HoChiMinh #PresidentHoChiMinh
"There is no sorrow that love does not precede."
10 quotes from Harold Robbins, US writer, who was born on this date in 1912.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/05/21-may-harold-robbins-quotes.html
Ian Dury lived in Switzerland for a while as a child when his father was working as a chauffeur for a millionaire. 10 facts you might not know about the Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll star.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/05/12-may-ian-dury.html
This date in 1888 saw the birth of Irving Berlin, US composer who is famous for writing classic American songs like White Christmas, God Bless America, Puttin' on the Ritz, and There’s No Business Like Show Business. 10 facts about him.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/05/11-may-irving-berlin.html