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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
culture · English writer and poet (1865–1936) · writer · poet · novelist · war correspondent · children's writer · autobiographer · screenwriter · journalist · science fiction writer · prose writer · also Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Kipling
Born 30 December 1865 · Died 18 January 1936 · Q34743
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“he never knew such a fellow for ink – he simply revelled in it, filling up his pen viciously, and then throwing the contents all over the office, so that it was almost dangerous to approach him.”
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TVGuide.co.uk: Accessories by Kipling on QVC Style: full details and when it's on
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EIN Presswire: I-70 bridge repairs at Kipling and Garrison begin in early August
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dushanwegner.com: What Rudyard Kipling teaches us about risk
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elnortedecastilla.es: Rudyard Kipling acerca la aventura de agosto a la Casa Zorrilla
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Rudyard Kipling: 'We're all islands shouting lies to each other across...'- Inspiring
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Rudyard Kipling: 'We're all islands shouting lies to each other across...'- Inspiring life lessons on understanding, human relationships, empathy and ...
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Nuevo Sureste: La Comunidad de Madrid adjudica el contrato de finalización del CEIPSO Rudyard Kipling de El Cañaveral
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Moneycontrol.com: Quote of the Day by Rudyard Kipling: ''You rise and fall by your own efforts. Remember, it is a waste of...
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The Free Press Journal: Rudyard Kipling 160th Birth Anniversary: Everything To Know About Mumbai-Born Author Renowned For The Jungle Book And Captivating Tales
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The Guardian: The Jungle Book review – swinging version of Kipling’s adventure
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The Guardian: Poem of the Week: Rejection by Rudyard Kipling
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The Guardian: Jungle Book review – Kipling’s man-cub tale as you’ve never seen it before
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BBC: Rudyard Kipling poems to be read at former estate
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Artnet: Original ‘Jungle Book’ Illustration Goes on Display at Rudyard Kipling’s Historic Estate
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The Guardian: Rare Jungle Book painting to go on show at Kipling’s home
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MutualArt.com: Rudyard Kipling
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Dina Sanichar, a man raised by wolves who served as Rudyard Kipling's inspiration for the "Jungle Book" character Mowgli.” Mostly True.
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Published “The CAMS reanalysis of atmospheric composition” in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics — cited 1,066 times.
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The Commonwealth War Grave Commission confirmed that it had correctly identified the burial place of John Kipling; they recorded his date of death as 27 September 1915, and that he is buried at St Mary's A
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An extinct species of crocodile, Goniopholis kiplingi, was named in his honour "in recognition for his enthusiasm for natural sciences
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The International Astronomical Union approved the naming of a crater on the planet Mercury after Kipling – one of ten newly discovered impact craters observed by the MESSENGER spacecraft in 2008–2009
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Awarded Lektorix (2009).
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Kipling's Just So Stories featured on a series of UK postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail to mark the centenary of the publication of the book
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The following verses of the poem were quoted by the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher warning against the encroachment of the European Union on national sovereignty:
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Although that identification has been challenged
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And bequeathed her copyrights to the National Trust, which in turn donated them to the University of Sussex to ensure better public access
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Published “The inverted microscope method of estimating algal numbers and the statistical basis of estimations by counting” in Hydrobiologia — cited 1,947 times.
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Noting that although as a "jingo imperialist" Kipling was "morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting", his work had many qualities which ensured that while "every enlightened person has despised him
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After Operation Barbarossa, when Britain become a Soviet ally, but imposed again with the Cold War in 1946
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His house, Bateman's in Burwash, East Sussex, where he had lived from 1902 until 1936, was bequeathed to the National Trust
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Died 1936-01-18.
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“Żal nie może zastąpić kary!”
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“Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”
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“[W]e know nothing about their life which touches so intimately the White on the one hand and the Black on the other.... Wanted, therefore, a writer from among the Eurasians, who shall write so that men shall be pleased to read a story of Eurasian life; then outsiders will be interested in the People of India, and will admit that the race has possibilities.”
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“A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. (ang.)”
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“It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
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His ashes were interred at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey
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“Każdy pies śmiały jest na własnym śmietniku.”
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“I never made a mistake in my life at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards. (ang.)”
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“Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,Damned from here to Eternity,God ha' mercy on such as we,Baa! Yah! Bah! (ang.)”
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“love’s like line-work: you must go forward or backward; you can’t stand still. (ang.)”
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“The female of the species is more deadly than the male. (ang.)”
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“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”
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“San Francisco is a mad city—inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”
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“There are only two divisions in the world to-day — human beings and Germans. And the German knows it. Human beings have long ago sickened of him and everything connected with him, of all he does, says, thinks and believes.”
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“Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.”
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
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“Wszystko wydaje się głupstwem mieszkańcowi równi, który nie zna niczego prócz wnętrza chaty swojej.”
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“Opis: zapożyczone od Terencjusza.”
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“Take up the White Man’s burden--Send forth the best ye breed--Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild--Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and half-child. (ang.)”
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“Wielbłądom osty, wołom zaś paszę dał Sziwa,A karmiąc swe dziecię, matka czuje się szczęśliwa.”
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“Opis: Dwuwiersz z poematu „If” stanowiący motto i memento umieszczone na bramach prowadzących na kort centralny Wimbledonu i w Forest Hills.”
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Published a short story in The Strand Magazine, "Proofs of Holy Writ", postulating that William Shakespeare had helped to polish the prose of the King James Bible
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Wrote, "The Hitlerites are out for blood"
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Kipling was opposed to the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald as "Bolshevism without bullets"
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At a time when the British government and most public opinion was against the French position
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And seen as one of the finest examples of regimental history
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
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Kipling, having referred to the work of engineers in some of his poems, such as "The Sons of Martha", "Sappers" and "McAndrew's Hymn", and in other writings, including short-story anthologies such as The Day's Work, was
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Kipling became Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews, a three-year position
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1921).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1921).
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Kipling co-founded the Liberty League with Haggard and Lord Sydenham
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The "twin fortresses of European civilization"
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Believing him to be the only American politician capable of keeping the United States in the "game" of world politics
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“The Gods of the Copybook Headings”
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Kipling wrote of Soviet Russia that everything good in Russia had been destroyed by the Bolsheviks – all that was left was "the sound of weeping and the sight of burning fire, and the shadow of a people trampled into the
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That one sixth of the world had "passed bodily out of civilization"
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“There was no crime, no cruelty, no abomination that the mind of men can conceive of which the German has not perpetrated, is not perpetrating, and will not perpetrate if he is allowed to go on... Today, there are only two divisions in the world... human beings and Germans.”
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Which he saw as a deeply inhumane act, leading him to view the war as a crusade for civilisation against barbarism
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With the "lie" of the "fathers" being that the British Army was prepared for war when it was not
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“s larger economy and higher birth rate had made that country stronger than France; with much of France devastated by war and the French suffering heavy losses meant that its low birth rate would give it trouble, while Germany was mostly undamaged and still with a higher birth rate. So he reasoned that the future would bring German domination if Versailles were revised in Germany”
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Kipling was one of 53 British authors – a number that included H
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Rudyard said: "I am sending with this for your acceptance, as some little memory of my father to whom you were so kind, the original of one of the plaques that he used to make for me
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Kipling wrote the poem "The Reeds of Runnymede" that celebrated Magna Carta, and summoned up a vision of the "stubborn Englishry" determined to defend their rights
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Confirmed Kipling's prejudices
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“I am sending with this for your acceptance, as some little memory of my father to whom you were so kind, the original of one of the plaques that he used to make for me. I thought it being the Swastika would be appropriate for your Swastika. May it bring you even more good fortune.”
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The major issue in Canada was a reciprocity treaty with the United States signed by the Liberal Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and vigorously opposed by the Conservatives under Sir Robert Borden
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1907).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language recipient and, at age 41, its youngest recipient to date
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, having been nominated in that year by Charles Oman, professor at the University of Oxford
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Kipling gave permission to Elizabeth Ford Holt to borrow themes from the Jungle Books to establish Camp Mowglis, a summer camp for boys on the shores of Newfound Lake in New Hampshire, US
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Kipling bought Bateman's, a house built in 1634 and located in rural Burwash
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And Kipling was the first English-language recipient
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Awarded honorary degree.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Urging German troops being sent to China to crush the Boxer Rebellion to behave like "Huns" and take no prisoners
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Career landmark: rector.
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Studied at United Services College.
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Kipling and his daughter Josephine developed pneumonia, from which she eventually died
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Kipling moved from Torquay to Rottingdean, near Brighton, East Sussex – first to North End House and then to the Elms
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With the species Bagheera kiplingi named after Kipling himself
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The new American Secretary of State, Richard Olney, upped the ante by arguing for the American "right" to arbitrate on grounds of sovereignty on the continent (see the Olney interpretation as an extension of the Monroe D
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And the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, who brought his golf clubs, stayed for two days, and gave Kipling an extended golf lesson
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As advised by his doctors, Kipling took another sea voyage, to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and once again India
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A collection of his short stories on the British in India, Life's Handicap, was published in London
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And contained his poems "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din"
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Largely on the strength of their shared opinions, and remained lifelong friends
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Published six collections of short stories: Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White, Under the Deodars, The Phantom Rickshaw and Wee Willie Winkie
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Published his first collection of verse, Departmental Ditties
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– about 15 years after Kipling was born
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Born 1865-12-30.
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After John Lockwood had accepted the position as Professor at the School of Art
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And courted at Rudyard Lake in Rudyard, Staffordshire, England
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