7/04/2010

Madame Curie

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Madame Curie Memorial Day (Kyurii ki)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Summer
***** Category: Observance


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Explanation

memorial day of Madame Curie
Kyuri ki キュリー忌(きゅりーき)

Kyurii fujin sai キュリー夫人祭 (きゅりーふじんさい)
Festival of Madame Curie
Kyuurii ki キュウリー忌


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Fear Less, Know More

Nothing in life is to be feared,
it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more,
so that we may fear less.


Madame Marie Curie

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Marie Sklodowska Curie
(7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)

was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and subsequent French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes —in physics and chemistry. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris.
She married Pierre Curie.

Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term she coined, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms (cancers) using radioactive isotopes.
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キュウリー忌薊は棄教の花かとも 
Kyuurii ki azami wa kikyoo no hana ka tomo 


Maria Magudarena マリア マグダレナ
http://homepage2.nifty.com/cat-fish/9811himu.html



At the radium hot spring in Misasa, Tottori, there is a statue of Madame Curie

三朝温泉 「キュリー祭」
Curie Festival, usually held in August




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on the late-night movie
as I try to swallow oatmeal
"Madame Curie"


Anita Virgil
source : Simply Haiku, Autumn 2006





Madame Curie is a 1943 biographical film made by MGM.
It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau and Aldous Huxley (uncredited), adapted from the biography by Eve Curie.
Marie Sklodowska (Greer Garson) is a poor, idealistic student living in Paris and studying at the Sorbonne.
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with her life
she opens the door of physics
Curie memorial day


Nakamura Sakuo
Joys of Japan, August 2012



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***** . Misasa Tug-of-war (Misasa tsunahiki)  
At Misasa Onsen Hot Spring



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