Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century. He was the first author to try to make a professional living as a writer.

Much of Poe’s work was inspired by the events that happened around him.

You can read his Biography at the Poe Museum, which is based in Richmond, Virginia in the USA

Trench warfare in World War I was employed primarily on the Western Front, an area of northern France and Belgium that saw combat between German troops and Allied forces from France, Great Britain and, later, the United States.

Although trenches were hardly new to combat: Prior to the advent of firearms and artillery, they were used as defenses against attack, such as moats surrounding castles. But they became a fundamental part of strategy with the influx of modern weapons of war.

Read Life in the Trenches of World War I

There are those great epics, old and new, that we all plan on getting around to at some point. Many of us have considered tackling these thousand-page Russian and French classics of literature, but often convince ourselves that it’s too much of an undertaking, timewise. Well, now is the time. Here are ten suggestions both classic and modern.

Take a look at 10 epic novels to read in self-isolation

Your LinkedIn page is often the centerpiece of your online career persona, yet most of us barely consider what we’re offering there. We serve up a motley buffet of achievements, experiences, identities, missions, and passions for readers to shovel through. Or we go the other way and set a sparse table with only the four basic food groups: name, current job, past experience, and education. The first approach overwhelms the reader — employer, investor, client, or ally — and the second leaves them starved for information and less likely to connect. The opportunity is lost and we all go hungry

Read the full article, How to Tell Your Story on LinkedIn, on Harvard Business

Darwin Online is the largest and most widely consulted edition of the writings of Charles Darwin ever published. It is probably the most extensive scholarly website devoted to any historical figure.

This website contains over 212,000 pages of searchable text and 220,000 electronic images, at least one exemplar of all known Darwin publications, reproduced to the highest scholarly standards, both as searchable text and electronic images of the originals. The majority of these have been edited and annotated here for the first time with more than 4,900 original editorial notes. The pages of documents available only as PDFs have not been counted but they amount to tens of thousands of additional pages of works by Darwin and others.

Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each year. U.S. Poet Laureate

You can sign up for a new poem in your inbox daily at poets.org

“Data science is a field of study and practice that’s focused on obtaining insights from data. Practitioners of data science use programming skills, statistics knowledge, and machine learning techniques to mine large data sets for patterns that can be used to analyze the past or even predict the future.” (Source: DataQuest)

If you work with data, these books will help you keep active and learning

Personally, I love reading, so I thought I’d recommend some books I’ve read lately that might be useful or entertaining for people who work with data. Some of them are more technical, while some are more amusing, but I’m sure you will find your cup of tea here.

Read Arthur Mello’s article, 10 books data science should read during lockdown on Towards data science

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Leonardo, Monet, Goya, van Gogh… every day you will get one new classic painting. Some of them are superfamous, other are less known but equally interesting.

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