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Desiderata"(Latin: "things desired") is a 1927 prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann. The text was widely distributed in poster form in the 1960s and 1970s. The text was widely distributed in poster form in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ehrmann returned to his hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1898 to practice law.He was a deputy state's attorney in Vigo County, Indiana, for two years.Subsequently, he worked in his family's meatpacking business and in the overalls manufacturing industry (Ehrmann Manufacturing Co.) [5] At age 40, Ehrmann left the business to write.
Edward Heron-Allen, an English polymath, published various works including the 1883 book, Palmistry: A Manual of Cheirosophy, which is still in print. [ 9 ] [ 15 ] There were attempts at formulating some sort of scientific basis for the art, most notably in the 1900 publication The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading by William Gurney Benham .
My attempt to justify the poem in the article on both the right and left, that was reverted, was to make it as faithful as possible to the earliest published version in 1948, a photocopy of which is two-thirds down www.desiderata.com. This includes requiring each line to begin and end with the same words as those in the photocopy, as poems are ...
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The Desideratum; or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful, a book by John Wesley Desiderata Hollow, a fictional character in Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett Desiderata Street, a fictional road within Freeside, a space station in " Neuromancer " by William Gibson
This program is a fork of Bible Reader for Palm, a project started in August 2001 [1] by Poetry Poon as an open source project licensed under the GNU GPL. [2] After Poon decided to go closed source to ease support for copyrighted Bible versions, Yih-Chun Hu started work on earlier open source version.
Cheiro had a wide following of famous European and American clients during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] He read palms and told the fortunes of famous celebrities like Mark Twain, W. T. Stead, Sarah Bernhardt, Mata Hari, Oscar Wilde, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Edison, the Prince of Wales, General Kitchener, William Ewart Gladstone, and Joseph Chamberlain.