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August 17th 1945: On this day, George Orwell's Animal Farm was published. The book was delayed by the WWII paper shortage!
now I just read Balzac died from caffeine poisoning from over consumption of black coffee! is this possible? I guess so!
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1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
Leading eventually to..... The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Does that count, or do we need to stick to purely literary events?
Pip wrote: "August 19th (here in Europe, anyway!):
1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being con..."
I changed the top description to literary or any other kind of event.
But I love how you tied that in so nicely to literature anyway! well done, Pippa. :D
1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being con..."
I changed the top description to literary or any other kind of event.
But I love how you tied that in so nicely to literature anyway! well done, Pippa. :D
from todayinliterature.com:
August 20th, On this day in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was entered in the Stationers' Register. The fifty-eight-year-old Milton was totally blind, probably from glaucoma, throughout the decade it took to write Paradise Lost; his habit was to compose at night and then present himself to a scribe each morning to be, as he put it, "milked."
August 20th, On this day in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was entered in the Stationers' Register. The fifty-eight-year-old Milton was totally blind, probably from glaucoma, throughout the decade it took to write Paradise Lost; his habit was to compose at night and then present himself to a scribe each morning to be, as he put it, "milked."
Today is the birthday of Christopher Robin Milne August 21 1920 to April 20 1996.
He is AA Milne's son, the author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and was his inspiration of the character in the stories, Christopher Robin.
He is AA Milne's son, the author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and was his inspiration of the character in the stories, Christopher Robin.
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Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
Postscript
And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightening of flock of swans,
Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white,
Their fully-grown headstrong-looking heads
Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.
Useless to think you'll park or capture it
More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open
September 1, 1972 - America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Jen ƸӜƷ wrote: "9-1-1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America."
Good one jen!
Good one jen!
from today in literature.com
September 3, On this day in 1802 William Wordsworth completed "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge," one of his best known short poems. Wordsworth was crossing Westminster on his way to France in order to see for the first time his nine-year-old daughter, Caroline, and her mother, Annette Vallon, with whom he had had an affair in 1791.
September 3, On this day in 1802 William Wordsworth completed "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge," one of his best known short poems. Wordsworth was crossing Westminster on his way to France in order to see for the first time his nine-year-old daughter, Caroline, and her mother, Annette Vallon, with whom he had had an affair in 1791.
September 7 1813, the United States gets its nickname, Uncle Sam. The name is linked to Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army during the War of 1812.
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Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa, 1911"
Non!!! Ce n'est pas possible!!! What a brilliant factoid!
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True that! Got my fantasy football league ready to go. >>
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I am a big football fan. I can't give you random knowledge about it but I love to watch it. :D
September 9, 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
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sept 14, 1890 Agatha Christie was born. Her novels have sold 4 billion copies and she's the 2nd bestselling author (after Shakespeare)
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The first edition of The New York Daily Times, which later became The New York Times, was published.
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Started in 1995
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September 22, 1598 "playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, killed an actor in a duel. He was charged with manslaughter."
"Sep.22,1862: Lincoln issues the prelim. Emancipation Proclamation See the 1862 NY Times story http://t.co/PZOwFkc4vx"
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