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Horace Walpole by Joshua Reynolds Robert K. Merton 1965. Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. [1] The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754.. The concept is often associated with scientific and technological breakthroughs, where accidental discoveries led to new insights or inventions.
"Old Man of the Frontier Loses Horse" (English) 夫禍富之 (also 夫禍福之) 轉而相生, Good luck and bad luck create each other 其變難見也. and it is difficult to foresee their change. 近塞上之人有善術者. A righteous man lived near the border. 馬無故亡而入胡. For no reason, his horse ran off into barbarian territory.
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Les Trois Mousquetaires was translated into three English versions by 1846. One of these, by William Barrow (1817–1877), [6] is still in print and fairly faithful to the original, available in the Oxford World's Classics 1999 edition. To conform to 19th-century English standards, all of the explicit and many of the implicit references to ...
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Night of January 16th is a play by Ayn Rand inspired by the death of Ivar Kreuger, an industrialist and accused swindler known as the Match King.The play is set in a courtroom during a murder trial and audience members are chosen to play the jury.
This English etching from 1793 shows a postillion mounted on the front left horse "My postillion has been struck by lightning", "our postillion has been struck by lightning", and other variations on the same pattern, are often given as examples of the ridiculous phrases supposed to have been found in phrase books or language instruction in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.