APPOINTMENTS.; Confirmations by the Senate.
Date: 28 July 1866
Beatrix Potter Γενέθλια, Ημερομηνία Γέννησης
Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter ( BEE-ə-triks), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which was her first commercially published work in 1902. Her books, including The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck and The Tale of Tom Kitten, have sold more than 250 million copies. An entrepreneur, Potter was a pioneer of character merchandising. In 1903, Peter Rabbit was the first fictional character to be made into a patented stuffed toy, making him the oldest licensed character.
Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, and North Wales (particularly Denbigh) developing a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Potter's study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Following this, Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time.
Potter wrote over sixty books, with the best known being her twenty-three children's tales. In 1905, using the proceeds from her books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in the Lake District. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape. In 1913, at the age of 47, she married William Heelis (1871–1945), a respected local solicitor with an office in Hawkshead. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation. She continued to write, illustrate, and design merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue.
Potter died of pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at the age of 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in songs, films, ballet, and animations, and her life is depicted in two films – The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1983) and Miss Potter (2006).
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28th of July 1866 News
Ειδήσεις όπως εμφανίστηκαν στην πρώτη σελίδα των New York Times στο 28 Ιουλίου 1866
WASHINGTON NEWS; Report on Davis' Alleged Complicityin the Assassination Plot. The House Votes Against the Increase of Members Salaries. The House Passes a Bill to Equalize Bounties. An Amendment Adopted Not to Deduct Local Bounties. Passage of an Air Line Railroad Bill in the House. Failure of the Appropriation for the Mississippi Levees. The Bill on the Neutrality Laws Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Resignation of Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Interior. Orville H. Browning Nominated His Successor. A New Conference Committee onthe Army Bill. Bill to Admit Nebraska Passed by Both Houses. Hurrying Up Bills to Close the Session.
Date: 28 July 1866
Special Dispatches to the New-York Times
Secretary, Hon. Orville H. Browning Nominated
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF HEALTH.; The Twelfth Ward of Brooklyn--The Injunctions--New-York to be Disinfected at Once--The Red House Seized--The Board and the Collector of the Port--Other Matters.
Date: 28 July 1866
THE COLLEGE REGATTA.; Harvard Defeats Yale--Time: Harvard, 18:43; Yale, 19:10.
Date: 28 July 1866
College Regatta, Harvard and Yale