June 8


Amber pages



Robert Schumann, German composer, born today in 1810 



Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, born today in 1867. That's his Fallingwater on the right; his 
Guggenheim helter-skelter can be found on Oct 21


Marguerite Yourcenar, French authoress, born today in 1903 - click here for my piece about her in "Private Collection"


Francis Crick, British geneticist, "co-discoverer" of the DNA "double helix", born today in 1916 (I have placed "co-discoverer" in quotation marks; you will have to ask Rosie Franklin why. Try here)



And at the entropic end of the genome:


George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin Dudevant), French novelist, died today in 1876






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