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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 12, 2013
The creator of “The Saint,” the writer Leslie Charteris, was born in 1907. On this day too, Julia Peterkin won the 1929 Pulitzer prize with Scarlet Sister Mary and Marc Connelly followed suit in 1930 with Green Pastures....more
May 12, Day 133 of 2012
Today is day 133 of 2012
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was born in London, on this day in 1828. He was a much-criticized poet and a superb painter, though his female models have always struck me as horsey.
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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 11, 2013
May 11, Day 132 of 2012
Today is day 132 of 2012
Baron Munchhausen, the German storyteller was born this day in 1720. His tales became The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I recall reading in awed reverence as a young boy, how the Baron rode a cannonball and planned to emulate him when I grew up. I never did ride a projectile, but then I never grew up either. There’s time yet, I hope…....more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 10, 2013
May 10, Day 131 of 2012
Today is day 131 of 2012
The 10th volume of Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones was printed on this day in 1749. The novel, serialized in ten small volumes, told the humorous story of the attempts of the illegitimate but charming Tom Jones to win his neighbor's daughter, despite her father's objections to his uncertain parentage. ...more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 09, 2013
In 1885, James Barrie was born in Scotland. He was the creator of Peter Pan, (The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up), on this day. His first collection of sketches, Auld Licht Idylls, was published in 1888 and became a success. He followed with The Little Minister, ...more
May 9, Day 130 of 2012
Today is day 130 of 2012
Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet and author of Divina Commedia was born on this day in 1265.
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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 08, 2013
May 8, Day 129 of 2012
Today is day 129 of 2012
John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, invented Coca Cola on this day in 1886.
Sloan Wilson, the American writer, author of The man in the Gray Flannel Suit and A Summer Place was born in 1920 and Thomas Pynchon, the author of Gravity's Rainbow did likewise in. 1937....more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 07, 2013
May 7, Day 128 of 2012
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis was born today in 1856. According to Freud, girls are dismayed to discovery their genital inferiority to boys. I know most men would hotly debate such a theory, but still…. To some, he was a visionary explorer of the human mind, to others he was a creator of absurd...more
May 7, Day 128 of 2012
Today is day 128 of 2012
The poet Robert Browning was born on this day in 1812 in Camberwell, outside London. In 1868, he published a remarkable 12-volume poem called The Ring and the Book, about a real 17th century murder trial in Rome.
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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 06, 2013
This is the date in which the first edition of the New York Herald—priced at one cent—was published in 1835 andby 1845 it was the most popular daily newspaper in the United States. Although in 1966 it ceased publication, the Washington Post and the New York Times gave it a...more
May 6, Day 127 of 2012
Today is day 127 of 2012
In 1527 Spanish and German Imperial troops sacked Rome, thus ending the Renaissance period.
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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 05, 2013
Nearly a year after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, on this day in 1877, Sitting Bull abandoned his traditional homeland in Montana and led his people north across the border into Canada....more
May 5, Day 126 of 2012
Today is day 126 of 2012
The first published poem by 20-year-old John Keats appeared in The Examiner on this day in 1816.
Karl Marx, the German philosopher of Jewish ancestry, and author of The Communist Manifesto, and Das Kapital, was born on this date in 1818.
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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 04, 2013
May 4, Day 125 of 2012
May 4, Day 125 of 2012
Today is day 125 of 2012
The first edition of the London Daily Mail—selling for a penny—saw the light of day on this date in 1896.
May 4 is a wonderful day for Pulitzer prizes. Archibald Macleish won the award with Conquistador in 1933; Harold L Davis obtained the coveted prize for Honey in the Horn in 1936, and Ellen Glasgow ...more
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John Courtney
Publish Date: May 03, 2013
May 3, Day 124 of 2012
1810George Gordon, Lord Byron, swam across the Hellespont, a tumultuous strait in Turkey now called the Dardanelles, emulating Leander, the legendary Greek hero who supposedly...more
May 3, Day 124 of 2012
Today is day 124 of 2012
On this day in 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli was born. He would pen the famous and influential political treatise The Prince.
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