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La saga dei mondi - I. Fuoco e polvere (Trailer)

Io sono il fuoco che brucia incessante la terra,
una notte oscura profonda di sangue stellato
e una grotta che s’apre famelica all’uomo.
Sono la ronda di morte di un corvo nel cielo,
la fine di un’era,
ascolta il mio nome…

Si ringrazia per la musica "Epic Trailer Music Redemption (Download and Royalty FREE)" e per i video...
@libri@feddit.it @libri @libri@poliverso.org

In dystopian fiction, the future can look bleak.
But when is that future actually? ⏱️

From 1980's Mad Max to Brave New World in 2540, I organized all these futures in a timeline to help you see the future clearer.

@bookstodon

Italian poet, writer, and philosopher Dante Alighieri died in 1321.

Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as The New Life and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri

Books by Dante Alighieri at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/507

in 1892.

The 11-year-old Virginia Stephen, the later novelist Virginia Woolf, takes a boat trip to Godrevy Lighthouse on a family holiday in Cornwall.

The happy summers spent at Talland House would later influence Woolf's novels Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse and The Waves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

Books by Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

Hey folks, next month there’s an angry & lighthearted book coming out with my name on the cover: “Standing on High Ground”. It’s an anthology of writing from people who were arrested protesting Canada’s awful “TMX” pipeline project. I’m an arrestee/ contributor & co-editor.
Here’s its official home: https://btlbooks.com/book/standing-on-high-ground
Here’s a blog piece full of background and pictures: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/08/Standing-On-High-Ground

This project means a lot to me and I’d appreciate anyone passing the word along.

"Maps are to geography what notation is to music."

British writer, geographer, historian, journalist, cartographer, and inventor John Francon Williams died in 1911.

In 1881, Williams's seminal book The Geography of the Oceans was published. This book focuses on topics such as: General Geography of the Oceans, Physical Geography of the Oceans, the Geography of Particular Oceans. It was the first book to cover with such intensity the geography of the oceans.

American educator Prudence Crandall was born in 1803.

She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School, which became the 1st school for black girls in the United States. The decision to admit Black students led to intense opposition. Local residents passed a law specifically targeting her school, known as the Black Law, which made it illegal to operate a school for Black students from out of state without local permission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_Crandall

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49765

Fragments of Previously ‘Lost’ Euripides Tragedies Have Been Translated

The discovery is among the most important in ancient Greek literature over the past 60 years.

by Richard Whiddington via @artnet

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/euripides-greek-tragedies-translated-2528715

Books by Euripides at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1680

Know what that is in that photo?
It's a dumpster full of books —mostly LGBT stuff but others too— heading to the landfill.

Know what *that* is?
It's goddamned fascism.

This is what hate looks like.
This is what hate does.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/
of tosses hundreds of , empties library

h/t to @alexwild and @futurebird