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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 19, 2013
Today is day 172 of 2012
June 19, Day 171 of 2012
Today is day 172 of 2012
Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of Earth in 240BC. Since he had no access to higher mathematics or computers he did it with two sticks.
Laura Z. Hobson, the American novelist was born on this day in 1900. Her first work, Gentleman's Agreementreached #1 on The New York Times best-sellers’ list and sold over 1.6 million copies. A later novel, Consenting Adult, about a mother dealing with her son’s ...more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 18, 2013
June 18, Day 170 of 2012
June 18, Day 170 of 2012
Today is day 170 of 2012
Ivan Goncharov, the Russian writer, author of Oblomov, was born on this day in 1812.
Also on this day in 1937, the writer Gail Godwin was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She wrote her first novel, The Perfectionists, as her thesis. She followed with ten novels, three of which were nominated for the...more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 17, 2013
June 17, Day 169 of 2012
June 17, Day 169 of 2012
Today is day 169 of 2012
James Weldon Johnson was born on this day in 1871. The African-American poet and novelist was the author of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
John Hersey, the novelist and journalist, author of Men of Bataan and Hiroshima,...more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 16, 2013
June 16, Day 168 of 2012
Today is day 168 of 2012
June 16, Day 168 of 2012
Today is day 168 of 2012
Aspiring writer James Joyce met his future wife, Nora, a lively, uneducated woman with little interest in literature, on this day in 1904. Joyce will immortalize this day in his masterpiece Ulysses, whose narrative unfolds entirely on June 16, 1904.
On this day in 1992, Andrew Morton, a British writer, published...more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 15, 2013
June 15, Day 167 of 2012
June 15, Day 167 of 2012
Today is day 167 of 2012
On this day in 1300 Dante Alighieri became one of six priors of Florence. Dante's political activities lead to his exile from Florence, his native city. He wrote his great work, The Divine Comedy, as a wanderer, seeking protection for his family in town after town....more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 14, 2013
June 14, Day 166 of 2012
June 14, Day 166 of 2012
Today is day 166 of 2012
“Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation,” said John Adams on this day in 1777 at a meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, PA. And so, the first Flag Day was...more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 13, 2013
Today is day 165 of 2012
June 13, Day 165 of 2012
Today is day 165 of 2012
On June 13, 1865, William Butler Yeats, the Irish Nobel Prize-winning writer and poet was born.
Mystery writer Dorothy Sayers, creator of detective Lord Peter Wimsey, was born on this day in Oxford, England, in 1893. Her first novel, Whose Body?, was published in 1923.She followed...more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 12, 2013
June 12, Day 164 of 2012
Today is day 164 of 2012
On this day in 1942, Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday. In 1944, the Franks were taken to Auschwitz, where Anne's mother died. Friends in Amsterdam searched the rooms and found Anne's diary hidden away....more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 11, 2013
June 11, Day 163 of 2012
June 11, Day 163 of 2012
Today is day 163 of 2012
David Herbert Lawrence (DH) was born on this day in 1885, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. He would gift us with an unforgettable Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel-Prize winning novelist was born in 1899, sharing his birthday with William Styron, author of The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice and other...more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: June 10, 2013
June 10, Day 162 of 2012
June 10, Day 162 of 2012
Today is day 162 of 2012
Bridget Bishop was hanged in Salem, Massachusetts, on charges of witchcraft in 1692.
On this day in 1881, Count Leo Tolstoy set off on a pilgrimage to a monastery disguised as a peasant. The Russian nobleman felt torn between his responsibility to improve the lot of the people, and his desire to give up his property and wander the land ...more
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