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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.
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Born 30 December 1865 · Died 18 January 1936 · Q34743
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“If any question why we died / Tell them, because our fathers lied.”
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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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Published “The CAMS reanalysis of atmospheric composition” in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics — cited 1,084 times.
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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“Quoted by: Ashwin Sanghi, 13 STEPS TO BLOODY GOOD LUCK, westland ltd, 2014”
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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“When you write `native, 'who do you mean? The Mahommedan who hates the Hindu; the Hindu who hates the Mahommedan; the Sikh who loathes both; or the semi-anglicised product of our Indian colleges who is hated and despised by Sikh, Hindu and Mahommedan.”
Published “The inverted microscope method of estimating algal numbers and the statistical basis of estimations by counting” in Hydrobiologia — cited 1,955 times.
Published “The inverted microscope method of estimating algal numbers and the statistical basis of estimations by counting” in Hydrobiologia — cited 1,947 times.
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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“Dadme los cinco primeros años de la vida de un niño y tendréis el resto.”
“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.)”
“Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. (ang.)”
His ashes were interred at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey
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“I keep six honest serving-men;(They taught me all I knew)Their names are What and Where and WhenAnd How and Where and Who. (ang.)”
“The female of the species is more deadly than the male. (ang.)”
“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. (ang.)”
“Letter to a magazine that had mistakenly published the announcement of his death.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Każdy pies śmiały jest na własnym śmietniku.”
“[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.”
“Wielbłądom osty, wołom zaś paszę dał Sziwa,A karmiąc swe dziecię, matka czuje się szczęśliwa.”
“Wszystko wydaje się głupstwem mieszkańcowi równi, który nie zna niczego prócz wnętrza chaty swojej.”
“Żal nie może zastąpić kary!”
“Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”
“Opis: zapożyczone od Terencjusza.”
“Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,Damned from here to Eternity,God ha' mercy on such as we,Baa! Yah! Bah! (ang.)”
“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.”
“Opis: Dwuwiersz z poematu „If” stanowiący motto i memento umieszczone na bramach prowadzących na kort centralny Wimbledonu i w Forest Hills.”
“A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. (ang.)”
“love’s like line-work: you must go forward or backward; you can’t stand still. (ang.)”
“San Francisco is a mad city—inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”
“I never made a mistake in my life at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards. (ang.)”
“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”
“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.”
“Abbiamo quaranta milioni di ragioni per fallire, ma non una sola scusa.”
“Al éxito y al fracaso, esos dos impostores, trátalos siempre con la misma indiferencia.”
“I've just read that I'm dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.”
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody. It saves so much trouble. (ang.)”
“Cuando la tripulación y el capitán están cordialmente compenetrados, es preciso un temporal y más que un temporal para lanzar la nave a tierra.”
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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“(Wydawnictwo Polskie, Lwów-Poznań 1923, tłum. Franciszek Mirandola)”
At a time when the British government and most public opinion was against the French position
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
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And seen as one of the finest examples of regimental history
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Career landmark: Rector of the University of St Andrews (1922–1925).
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Kipling became Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews, a three-year position
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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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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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“The Gods of the Copybook Headings”
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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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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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“Letter to L. C. Dunsterville, September 1916. Quoted in Lord Birkenhead, Rudyard Kipling. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978 (p.271).”
“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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Kipling was one of 53 British authors – a number that included H
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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 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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“A School History of England, written with C. R. L. Fletcher, London, Clarendon Press, 1911. Also quoted in Diarmaid Ferriter, A Nation And Not A Rabble, London, Profile Books, 2015.”
“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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Confirmed Kipling's prejudices
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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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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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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.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1907).
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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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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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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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During the Second Boer War, Kipling published the polemic poem The Islanders in The Times and New-York Tribune
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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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Urging German troops being sent to China to crush the Boxer Rebellion to behave like "Huns" and take no prisoners
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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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“Letters of Travel: 1892-1913. London : MacMillan and Co., 1920. Quoted in Phillip Mallett, Ruydard Kipling: A Literary Life Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003 (p. 144).”
“Go back to Earth with a lip unsealed—go back with an open eye,“And carry my word to the Sons of Men or ever ye come to die:“That the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one—“And the God that you took from a printed book be with you, Tomlinson!”
A collection of his short stories on the British in India, Life's Handicap, was published in London
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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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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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