Shakespeare's
sonnets are a collection of
154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and
mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.:
Never before imprinted.
The publisher, Thomas Thorpe,
entered the book in the Stationers’ Register on the 20th
May 1609:
Tho. Thorpe. Entred for
his copie under the handes of master Wilson and master Lownes Wardenes a booke
called Shakespeares sonnettes vjd.
Whether Thorpe used an authorised
manuscript from Shakespeare or an unauthorised copy is unknown.
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| Levi Strauss |
Dry goods merchant Levi Strauss was
selling blue jeans under the "Levi's" brand to the mining communities
of California in the 1850s. One of Strauss's customers was Jacob Davis, a
tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co.
wholesale house. After one of Davis' customers kept buying cloth to reinforce
torn pants, he had an idea to use copper rivets to reinforce the points of
stress, such as on the pocket corners and at the top of the button fly. Davis
did not have the required money to purchase a patent, so he wrote to Strauss
suggesting that they both go into business together. After Strauss accepted
Davis's offer, the two men received U.S. Patent 139,121, for an
"Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings," on 20th May 1873.
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| Rockwell |
On the 20th
May 1916 the Saturday Evening Post publishes its
first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
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