Legendary composer Frédéric Chopin wrote a “flood” of homoerotic love letters that were “deliberately erased from history”
Portrait of Frederic Chopin by Zelazowa Wola, 1849 |
Chopin's hand and deathmask, Hunterian museum, Scotland |
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Tammy Williams, archivist and social media coordinator at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, has published “It is history and it is fascinating”: Katherine Fite and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, 1945, on Pieces of History, the blog of the National Archives. The post reproduces the “vividly descriptive letters" Fite, a 1930 graduate of the Yale Law School and Assistant to the Legal Advisor of the State Department, wrote while serving on Robert H. Jackson’s legal staff at Nuremberg. H/t: Kasia Solon Cristobal/Michael Widener.Jackson and Fite (HST)
- Justice Stephen Breyer, Christina Ponsa-Karus, and Aziz Rana “gathered in cyberspace to honor the contributions of the late Appeals Court Judge Juan Torruella, best known for his writings about the Insular Cases” (St. John, V.I. Source).
- Lael Weinberger, the Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law at Harvard Law School, reviews John G. Turner’s They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty, in the New Rambler Review.
- The Lawbook Exchange's latest catalogue is Trial Practice.
- Over at the Legal History Miscellany: marriage and murder in 13th-c. England.
- ICYMI: Linda Kerber hailed as “Iowa's ‘Van Allen of the Humanities’” (Cedar Rapids Gazette). Eric Muller on why a president cannot "grant" him- or herself a pardon (The Atlantic). Western's notice of Rande Kostal's Reid Prize for Laying Down the Law (Western News).
The Engagement of India Hicks, Daughter of Lady Pamela Mountbatten, to Her Partner David Flint Wood
David Flint Wood and India Hicks. |
The engagement between India Amanda Caroline Hicks and David Flint Wood, both of Harbour Island, Bahamas, has been announced in The Telegraph.
The wedding of Lady Pamela Mountbatten and Mr David Hicks, 1960. |
India Hicks is the daughter of Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten (b.1929; daughter of Earl Mountbatten of Burma) and her late husband Mr David Nightingale Hicks (1929-1998). India was born on 5 September 1967 at London. She was the youngest of the three children of David and Pamela: sister Edwina and brother Ashley preceded her. In 1981, India Hicks was a bridesmaid to Lady Diana Spencer at her wedding to the Prince of Wales, who is India's godfather. Through her mother, India is a descendant of Queen Victoria.
David Charles Flint Wood was born on 3 March 1961 at London as the son of Derek Flint Wood and Alice Wendy Jackson.
David and India with their children. |
India and David have four children together: Felix (b.1997), Amory (b.1999), Conrad (b.2003), and Domino (b.2007; goddaughter of Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece). They are also the parents of Wesley.
Congratulations to India and David upon their engagement!
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Thomas Edison |
Peşpeşe deneylerin sürdüğü bir gün asistanı "Artık bu işten vazgeçsek!" deyiverdi. Edison "Niçin?" diye sordu. Asistanı; "Çünkü şu ana kadar iki bin deney yaptık ve hiçbir sonuç alamadık!" dedi. Edison hemen itiraz etti: "Bu doğru değil...Evet, amacımıza ulaşamadık ama hiçbir netice elde edemediğimiz doğru değildir.Çünkü aradığımız şeyin; yaptığımız şeyin yaptığımız bu iki bin deney içinde bulunmadığını öğrenmiş bulunuyoruz"
Asistanları sonuç ummamakla beraber hemen dediğini yaptılar. Edison’un bu fikri, bu sahadaki çalışmalarından vazgeçmeden önce başvurulacak son çare olarak görülüyordu.
4 Eylül 1882’de meşhur mucidin bir işareti üzerine akım verildiği zaman, bütün mahallenin yüzlerce binasında, binlerce elektrik ampulü yandı ve etrafa parlak, tatlı ışıklar saçılmaya başladı.
Laske's "Law, Language and Change"
Caroline Laske, a research fellow at the Ghent Legal History Institute (Belgium) and the holder of a Heinz Heinen fellowship at the Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies (Germany), has published Law, Language and Change: A Diachronic Semantic Analysis of Consideration in the Common Law (Brill, 2020):
In this monograph, Caroline Laske traces the advent of consideration in English contract law, by analysing the doctrinal development, in parallel with the corresponding terminological evolution and semantic shifts between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is an innovative, interdisciplinary study, showcasing the value of taking a diachronic corpus linguistics-based approach to the study of legal change and legal development, and the semantic shifts in the corresponding terminology. The seminal application in the legal field of these analytical methodologies borrowed from pragmatic linguistics goes beyond the content approach that legal research usually practices and it has allowed for claims of semantic change to be objectified. This ground-breaking work is pitched at scholars of legal history, law & language, and linguistics; and is of importance to scholars of private law working on promises and contract.–Dan Ernst