THE NP CHRONICLE : 6TH AUGUST

The NP Chronicle 

6th August 

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (/ˈtɛnɪsən/; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Some critics described Tennyson as overly sentimental. However, his poems proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

"Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"

"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases". This was the first antibiotic substance discovered. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".

"The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity."

-- Alexander Fleming 

Today is:

▪︎ Hiroshima Day

▪︎ Anti-Nuclear Day

▪︎ International Day of Awareness of the Special Development Needs and Challenges of Landlocked Developing Countries 

▪︎ Birth anniversary of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alexander Fleming

▪︎ Death anniversary of Pope Paul VI, Theodor W. Adorno