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Great radio interview with one our own here on RallyPoint Writer/Author SFC William Stephens!

 

Check it Out! Thank you, COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs

 

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As an expert in the professional written use of standard American English, I have been writing articles and editing both books and articles for several years.

 

 

I love writing! It is deeply satisfying...
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I'm a writer, and a very good one. People pay me lawyer money for writer work.

 

To be that good, I have to have a niche. I can't write that well and that quickly about just anything.

 

My niche is Op-eds...
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Jack Tempchin, one of the earliest songwriters for the Eagles goes live almost every night with something new on Facebook.
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A combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Sterner has a favorite subject: military heroes who went above and beyond in service to their country. FOX31 first met him two ...
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Erma Bombeck. I met her and her husband Bill. They were very active with the American Red Cross in Phoenix AZ Disaster Services. When I was younger I read all her ...
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Vox video clip about streaming format role in 2023 protest. Previous format of network television show consisting of a season of episodes with commercial breaks meant more creativity and paid time alo...
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"David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., was paid $498,915,318 between 2018 and 2022, according to a Times analysis of executive compensation at 10 publicly held media and entertainment comp...
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A man should learn a trade to fulfill his role in the world, preferably before he becomes a man.

 

My father dabbled in a variety of trades but taught me none of them as I grew. We share the fault for that.

 

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Korby Lenker Molly Tuttle Discovered Korby during quarantine. S

 

Maj Marty Hogan Amn Dale Preisach SPC Robert Coventry CDR Andrew McMenamin, PhD SSG Loran Osborne CPT Jerry Lucas ...
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Nouns can be modified by more than one adjective. A specific order is followed for multiple adjectives. Review the following list to determine the correct order.

 

 

Opinion — delicious, friendly, smart

 

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My interview with author Sherwood Steele. He talks about his new book, "Lured Down The Garden Path". Good book.
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There are so many folks at RP who write, and have published books. Thought you all might enjoy this lovely sentiment about writers that a friend posted today. We have been acquainted since shortly ...
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I work at The Moscow Times, an independent newspaper founded in 1992 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union that publishes online in both English and Russian. As the paper’s arts editor, I was plan...
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J.K. Rowling Blisters Suggestion She Cave to Save Her Reputation

 

 

Rowling was considered of the left until the trans community insisted a man who says he’s a woman is, in fact, a woman. So recently a...
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I am an essay writer who is also experienced in article writing. I have done work for many reputable firms, including ones that are domestic and international leaders of their industry!
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I have been an essay writer for the past five years. I also have four years of freelancing experience. To Write my essay , I have expertise in thesis writing, research papers writing and editing, assi...
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Sex and the City Creator Admits Regret for Choosing Career Over Having Children

 

 

Candace Bushnell is now 60 and feels “truly alone.”

 

Daily Mail

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7295837/Se...
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http://Her expose about an 1892 lynching enraged locals, who burned her press and drove her from Memphis. After a few months, the threats became so bad she was forced to move to Chicago, Illinois. In...
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On October 25 1962, American author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Work
Conditions for migrants and seasonal workers became a recurring theme ...
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On October 25, 1902, Maxim Gorky's play "The Lower Depths" premiered in Moscow. An excerpt from the article:

 

"In April 1901 Gorky was detained in Nizhniy Novgorod for having taken part in student unre...
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On October 20, 1839, Margaret Fuller was appointed editor of the new Transcendental Magazine "The Dial". An excerpt from the article:

 

"The American author, editor, and reformer Margaret Fuller holds a...
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On October 7, 1993, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to American writer Toni Morrison. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Toni Morrison was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. A...
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On October 2, 1902, Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London. An excerpt from the article:

 

"On October 2, 1902, Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter ...
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On October 1, 1868, "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott was published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Becoming a Writer
She published her first novel, Moods, in ...
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On September 28, 1973, W H Auden, British/American poet and writer, died at the age of 66. An excerpt from the article:

 

"W.H. Auden was a British poet, author and playwright best known as a leading li...
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On September 28, 1970, John Dos Passos, American writer, died at the age of 74. An excerpt from the article:

 

"John Roderigo Madison was born on January 14, 1896, in a Chicago, Illinois, hotel room, th...
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On September 28, 1966, André Breton, French writer and poet and one of the founders of Surrealism, died at the age of 70. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Andre Breton was a distinguished writer and poet...
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On September 28, 1902, Emile Zola, French novelist and critic, died at the age of 62. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola was a notable French writer of the nineteenth ce...
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On September 28, 1891, Herman Melville, novelist and poet, died at the age of 72. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Celebrated American author Herman Melville wrote 'Moby-Dick' and several other sea-adven...
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On September 26, 1952, George Santayana, philosopher and poet, died at the age of 88. An excerpt from the article:

 

"George Santayana was an influential 20th century American thinker whose philosophy c...
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On September 26, 1940, Walter Benjamin, writer, philosopher, and critic, died at the age of 48. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was one of the seminal critics of modern cultu...
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On September 25, 1970, Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist and author of All Quiet on the Western Front, died at the age of 72. His books were among the first burned by the Nazis due to his anti-war...
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1973 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Nobel laureate died at the age of 69. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Who Was Pablo Neruda?
Poet Pablo Neruda stirred controversy with his affiliation with the Communi...
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On September 22, 1773, Benjamin Franklin published two satires, “Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One” and "An Edict by the King of Prussia" in the Public Advertiser criticizin...
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On September 22, 1598, playwright and poet Ben Jonson was indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Jonson joined the theatrical company of Philip Henslowe in L...
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On September 21, 1860, Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, died at the age of 72. I particularly like his Parerga and Paralipomena (Essays and Aphorisms). An excerpt from the article:

 

"Arthur Sch...
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On September 21, 1832, Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet (The Lady of the Lake, Ivanhoe), died at the age of 61. From the article:

 

"Born in Edinburgh in 1771, Sir Walter Scott w...
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On September 21, 19 BC, Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], Roman poet of the Augustan period who wrote the Aeneid, died at the age of 50. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Although Virgil was not pleased w...
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On September 21, 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' was published by George Allen and Unwin in London. An excerpt from the article:

 

""The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again" was written by J.R.R. Tol...
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On September 20, 1863, Jacob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist, and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", died at the age of 78.
An excerpt from the article:

 

"Besides the well-known Kinder-und Hausmärch...
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On September 18, 1939, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer, died at the age of 54. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, aka Witkacy, was born on...
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On September 18, 1830, William Hazlitt, English critic and essayist, died at the age of 52. From the article:

 

"Although he successfully completed several literary projects, by the end of 1811 Hazlitt ...
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On September 18, 1895, Booker T. Washington delivered his speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. It became known as the'Atlanta Compromise'. Welcomed by many Southern Wh...
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On September 18, 1846, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning exchange their last letters before they move to Italy. An excerpt from the article:

 

"After reading her poems for the first time, Robert wro...
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On September 16, 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the poem "Old Ironsides" as tribute to the 18th-century ship the USS Constitution. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Holmes was educated at Phillips Acad...
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On September 16, 1847 the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust bought the bard's birthplace. An excerpt from the article:

 

"A House Divided
By the 1840s the Shakespeare property on Henley Street had been split ...
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On September 15, 1989, Robert Penn Warren, American poet and novelist, died at the age of 84. A short excerpt from the article:

 

"A distinguished poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Robert Penn Warren...
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On September 15, 1938 Thomas Wolfe, American novelist, died of tuberculosis at the age of 37. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Thomas Wolfe was a notable American novelist from the early 20th century. He...
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On September 15, 1795, the "Lyrical Ballads" was published by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. It was the first work and the beginning of the English Romantic movement. From the article:

 

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On September 14, 1851, James Fenimore Cooper, American author, died at the age of 61. An excerpt from the article:

 

"It was a wager placed by his wife that had him writing his first novel, Precaution. ...
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On September 14, 1321, Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and author of the Divine Comedy, died at the age of 56. From the article:

 

"Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet and politician most famo...
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On September 13, 1928, Italo Svevo, writer, died at the age of 59.

 

From the article:

 

"Svevo’s literary efforts were recognized for the first time when he met James Joyce, a writer. Svevo had started l...
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On September 13, 1592, Michel de Montaigne, French writer, died at the age of 59. From the introduction to the article:

 

"Michel de Montaigne is widely appreciated as one of the most important figures...
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On September 12, 1789, Jean-Paul Marat published the first issue of his radical newspaper Le Publiciste parisien, later called L'Ami du peuple (The Friend of the People) in Paris. An excerpt from the article:

 

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On September 9, 1981, Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist, died at the age of 80. From the article:

 

"Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan was born in Paris on April 13 1901 to a family of solid C...
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On September 9, 1898, Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet, died at the age of 56. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Stéphane Mallarmé was recognized as one of France’s four major poets of the second half of th...
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On September 9, 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his influential essay "Nature" in the US, outlining his beliefs in transcendentalism. An excerpt from the article:

 

"The following year, Emerson sail...
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On September 8, 1952, Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea" was published. An excerpt from the article:

 

"In January 1951, Hemingway began writing a book that would become one of his most ...
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On September 5, 1958, "Doctor Zhivago", the novel by Boris Pasternak, was published in the United States.

 

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On September 5, 1957, "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac was published by Viking Press in New York. From the article:

 

"On September 5, 1957, New York Times writer Gilbert Millstein gives a rave review to “...
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On September 3, 1962, E.E. Cummings, American poet, died at the age of 67. From the article:

 

"Writings
His next book, Tulips and Chimneys (1923), was a collection of poems. He published a few more vol...
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On September 3, 1883, Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, and playwright (Fathers & Sons), died at the age of 64. From the article:

 

"Ivan Turgenev was a novelist, poet and playwright, known for his...
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On September 3, 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped slavery disguised as a sailor. From the article:

 

"Douglass looked back on September 3, 1838 as the day when his “free life began,” but he encountered s...
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On September 2, 1973, J. R. R. Tolkien, British author, who wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, died at the age of 81. From the article:

 

"World War I
Tolkien enlisted as a lieutenant in the Lan...
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On August 31, 1867, Charles Baudelaire, French poet, critic, and translator, died at the age of 46. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Charles Baudelaire is one of the most compelling poets of the 19th cen...
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On August 31, 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave his famous "The American Scholar" speech to Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard. In his speech he declared American literary independence from Europe. An exc...
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On August 30, 2013, Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, died at the age of 74. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Heaney’s poems first came to p...
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On August 30, 1791 Thomas Jefferson responded to Benjamin Banneker's letter on the issue of slavery. It was short and polite. An excerpt from the article:

 

"THOMAS JEFFERSON’S RESPONSE
“Sir,
I thank you...
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1950 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer, died at the age of 41. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Cesare Pavese is widely regarded as one of the foremost men of letters in twentieth-century Italian cultural hi...
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On August 24, 1943, Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist, died at the age of 34. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Simone Weil (1909–1943) philosophized on thresholds and across borders. H...
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On August 18 or 19, 1936 Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet and composer, was murdered at the age of 37 or 38. An excerpt from the article:

 

"On the afternoon of August 16th, just hours after Lorca le...
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On August 19, 1662, Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and Christian philosopher, died of a malignant stomach tumor at the age of 39. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Pascal, a complex perso...
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On August 18, 1850, Honoré de Balzac, French novelist, died at the age of 51. An excerpt from the article:

 

"The novels in this series were notable for their realism, particularly when it came to their...
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On August 18, 1958, the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov was published in the United States. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Vladimir Nabokov (April 22, 1899—July 2, 1977) was a prolific, trilingual ...
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On August 17, 1946, George Orwell published "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom. An excerpt from the article:

 

"George Orwell's Animal Farm is a political allegory about revolution and power. Through t...
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On August 16, 1678 Andrew Marvell, English poet died at the age of 57.

 

To His Coy Mistress

 

Had we but world enough and time,

 

This coyness, lady, were no crime.

 

We would sit down, and think which way

 

...
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On August 14, 2004, Czesław Miłosz, Polish-American writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980, died at the age of 93. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Czeslaw Milosz ranks among the most resp...
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On August 14, 1994, Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, died at the age of 89. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Elias Canetti was born on July 25, 1905, in Rustschuck (present-day Rousse) ...
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On August 12, 1964, Ian Fleming, English author of the James Bond novels, died at the age of 56. An excerpt from the article:

 

"A ‘world-famous secret agent’: it seems a contradiction in terms. Yet how...
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On August 9, 1962, Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss novelist and poet (Nobel Prize for Literature 1946), died at the age of 85. An excerpt from the article:

 

"I was born in Calw in the Black Forest on July ...
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On August 9, 1854, American writer Henry David Thoreau published 'Walden'." An excerpt from the article:

 

"Legacy
Thoreau did not see the huge successes in his lifetime that Emerson saw in his. If he w...
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On August 4, 1772, English poet and artist William Blake aged 14 was first apprenticed to engraver James Basire in London. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Themes and Literary Style

 

Blake's style is easy...
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On August 3, 2008, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature winner (1970), died at the age of 89. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literat...
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On August 3, 1924, Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer of the Heart of Darkness, died at the age of at 66. Apocalypse Now was based on the Heart of Darkness but set in Vietnam.

 

Joseph Conrad was an...
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On August 1, 1944, Anne Frank wrote her last diary entryHer family was arrested three days later. An excerpt from the article:

 

"The Frank family went into hiding on June 12, 1942 and Anne began writin...
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On July 31, 1784, Denis Diderot, French writer and philosopher, died at the age of 70. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Denis Diderot was the most prominent of the French Encyclopedists. He was educated ...
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On July 31, 1786, "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect" by Robert Burns was published by John Wilson in Kilmarnock, Scotland. An excerpt from the article:

 

"The Life of a Lover and Writer
In the year...
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On July 27, 1841, Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and writer, died at the age of 26. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Lermontov is the author of the narrative poems The Corsair (1828), The Angel (1831), ...
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On July 25, 1897, writer Jack London saild to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he would write his first successful stories. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Because he was only 21, it’s easy to assume t...
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From Sean [of the South] Dietrich on Facebook. It’s worth reading. Dietrich’s writing is reminiscent of Lewis Grizzard.

 

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On July 18, 1817, Jane Austen, English novelist, died at the age of 41. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Jane Austen was a Georgian era author, best known for her social commentary in novels including 'S...
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On July 18/19, 1374, Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet, died at the age of 69. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Petrarch (1304-1374 CE), full name Francesco Petrarca, was an Italian scholar and poet who i...
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On July 16, 1951, the novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger was published by Little Brown and Company. An excerpt from the article:

 

"After leaving Ursinus, he enrolled in a short-story writing cour...
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On July 10, 1873, French poet Paul Verlaine wounded Arthur Rimbaud with pistol. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Rimbaud began writing prolifically in 1870. That same year, his school shut down during th...
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On July 6, 1962, William Faulkner, American author, died at the age of 64. An excerpt from the website:

 

"William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississi...
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On July 6, 1893, Guy de Maupassant, French author, died at the age of 42. An excerpt from the article:

 

"From 1870-71, Guy de Maupassant served in the French Army. He then became a government clerk.

 

He...
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On July 6, 1535, Sir Thomas More, philosopher, author (Utopia), and statesman was executed for treason at the age of 57. An excerpt from the article:

 

"At Odds With Henry & Subsequent Beheading
More's f...
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On July 2, 2016, Elie Wiesel, Jewish Auschwitz survivor, author, and Nobel Prize winner in 1986, died at the age of 87. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Who Was Elie Wiesel?
Born on September 30, 1928, i...
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1977 Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist and lepidopterist (he discovered a new species of butterfly which was named for him), died at the age of 78. His book "Speak Memory" is one of the best...
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On July 2, 1778, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, political theorist, and writer died at the age of 66. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a noted Swiss-born philosoph...
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On June 30, 1984, Lillian Hellman, American playwright, died at the age of 79. An excerpt from the article:

 

"She became a writer at a time when writers were celebrities and their recklessness was admi...
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On June 30, 1956, Vladimir Lenin's politics testament (1923) was published in Moscow. An excerpt from the article:

 

"I think that fundamental in the question of stability from this point of view are su...
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On June 30, 1936, Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" was published. An excerpt from the article:

 

"'Gone With the Wind' went on bookstands on June 30, 1936. Mitchell had hoped that her 1,03...
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On June 25, 1947, the first version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" (The Secret Annex) was published in the Netherlands. From the text:

 

"Publishers were initially reluctant to publish the teena...
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On June 23, 1944, Thomas Mann became a United States citizen. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Biographical note on Thomas Mann

 

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) moved to Switzerland in 1933 shortly after the Nazi...
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On June 21, 1527, Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman, philosopher, and author, died at the age of 57. From the article:

 

"Italian diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli is best known for writing The Princ...
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On June 18, 1936, Maxim Gorky, Russian writer, died at the age of 68. An excerpt from the article:

 

"As the 1930s drew on, Gorky’s position within Soviet society became more conflicted. He led the prop...
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On June 17, 1958, the novel "Things Fall Apart" by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was published by Heinemann.
It is considered the most widely read book in African literature. An excerpt from the article:

 

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On June 14, 1986, Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author, died in Geneva at the age of 86. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Jorge Luís Borges was an Argentine writer who specialized in short stories, poems...
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On June 14, 1920, Max Weber, German sociologist, economist, and historian, died at the age of 56. From the article:

 

"Who Was Max Weber?
Max Weber was a precocious child. He went to university and becam...
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On June 12, 1936, Karl Kraus, Austrian satirical writer, died at the age of 62. An excerpt from the article:

 

"1920-1936

 

During January 1924, Kraus started a fight against Imre Békessy, publisher of th...
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On June 12, 1878, William Cullen Bryant, American poet, died at the age of 83. From the article:

 

"Poet and editor William Cullen Bryant stood among the most celebrated figures in the frieze of 19th-ce...
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On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank received her diary as a birthday present. An excerpt from the article:

 

"What happens when Anne has filled up the diary she had been given?
Anne took her diary with her when...
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On June 11, 1930, Henry Clay Folger, American CEO of Standard Oil and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library, died at the age of 72. From the article:

 

"The Folger Shakespeare Library
Henry and Emily...
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On June 9, 1870, Charles Dickens, English writer (Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol), died of a stroke at the age of 58. From the article:

 

"Charles Dickens...
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On June 8, 1876, George Sand (Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant), French author, died at the age of 71. From the article:

 

"George Sand (born Armandine Aurore Lucille Dupin, July 1, 1804 — June 9, 1876) ...
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On June 8, 1809, Thomas Paine, English American writer of the Age of Reason and Common Sense, died at the age of 72. From the article:

 

"Final Years

 

Paine returned to the United States in 1802 or 1803...
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On June 5, 1851, the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe was first published in serial form in "The National Era". From the article:

 

"Harriet Beecher Stowe was a world-reno...
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On June 3, 1924, Franz Kafka, Czech writer (The Trial, Amerika, The Metamorphosis), died at the age of 40. From the article:

 

"Author Franz Kafka explored the human struggle for understanding and secur...
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On June 3, 1888, the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published by the San Francisco Examiner. The poem is in the public domain. Here it is in its entirety:

 

"Casey at the Bat

 

Ernest Lawrence...
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On June 1, 1857, Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) was published. From the article:

 

"Charles Baudelaire was a French poet best known for his controversial volume of poems, ...
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On May 30, 1960, Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and Nobel Prize winner, died at the age of 70. While primarily known as a novelist in the West, he is more widely known in Russia as a poet. A...
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On May 30 1951, Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist (The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil), died at the age of 64. An excerpt from the article:

 

"Broch was arrested by the Nazis on the day of the Ger...
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On May 30, 1778, Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), French writer, philosopher, and playwright, died at the age of 83. From the article:

 

"Voltaire established himself as one of the leading writers of t...
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On May 30, 1744, Alexander Pope, English poet, died at the age of 56.
From the article:

 

"Final Years and Legacy
After 1738, Pope mostly stopped producing new work. He began working on additions and revi...
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On May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet, was stabbed to death in a pub brawl in Deptford at about the age of 29. An excerpt from the article:

 

"'Doctor Faustus'

 

Marlowe's most ...
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On May 28, 2014, Maya Angelou, American author, poet, and actress, died at the age of 86. From the introduction:

 

"Maya Angelou was an African-American author, playwright, poet, dancer, actress, and si...
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On May 27, 1994, writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile. From the article:

 

"In May 1994, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to his native Russia via the Pacific port of ...
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On May 27, 1873, Heinrich Schliemann discovered "Priam's Treasure" a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia. He excavated the site and found the cache of artifacts, but it was ...
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On May 26, 1703, Samuel Pepys, English navy administrator and Member of Parliament famous for his Diary during the English Restoration period, died at the age of 70. A short excerpt:

 

" entered Trinity...
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On May 26, 735, Bede, English historian and monk, died. From the article:

 

"The Venerable Bede was a British monk whose works in theology, history, chronology, poetry, and biography have led him to be ...
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On May 25, 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency. From the article:

 

On May 25, 1895, Oscar Wilde was taken to prison. He spent the first several months at London’...
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On May 25,1816, a collection of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was published by John Murray in London, including "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel". Kubla Khan had been written twenty years earlier. It ...
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On May 22, 1967, Langston Hughes, American poet, died at the age of 65. From the article:

 

"Langston Hughes was a singular voice in American poetry, writing with vivid imagery and jazz-influenced rhyth...
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On May 22, 1885, Victor Hugo, French author of the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables, died at the age of 83. A short introduction from the text book:

 

"Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22...
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On May 20, 2005, Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher, died at the age of 92.

 

"Paul Ricoeur was among the most impressive philosophers of the 20th century continental philosophers, both in the unusual br...
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On May 20, 1609, Shakespeare's Sonnets were published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe. A short excerpt:

 

"Although written in the 1590s, it wasn’t until 1609 that the Shake...
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On May 19, 1795, James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson and diarist, died at the age of at 54.

 

"James Boswell lived from 29 October 1740 to 19 May 1795. He was a lawyer, a diarist, and ...
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On May 18, 1897, "Dracula" by Irish author Bram Stoker was published by Archibald Constable and Company in London. From the introduction to the article:

 

"Bram Stoker's Dracula is a classic vampire tal...
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On May 17, 1900, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was first published by L. Frank Baum with illustrations by William Wallace Denslow in Chicago. A short excerpt from the article:

 

"2. The author and his “...
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On May 17, 1824, the diaries of Lord Byron were burned by six of the poet's friends at the office of John Murray in London in what has been described as “the greatest crime in literary history”.
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On May 17, 1824, the memoirs of Lord Byron were burned by six of the poet's friends at the office of John Murray in London. It is often described as “the greatest crime in literary history”. Here is...
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On May 16, 1532, Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England. A short excerpt:

 

"Eventually, in May 1532 he resigned as Chancellor, sensing he could no longer continue in his role.

 

A year l...
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On May 15, 1711, Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" was published anonymously. Written when he was a mere 23, it is renown for its quotable phrases such as:

 

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”

 

...
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On May 14, 1925, Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs Dalloway" was published by The Hogarth Press.
From the introduction:

 

"Mrs. Dalloway is a complex and compelling modernist novel by Virginia Woolf. It is a...
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On May 12 1970, Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German Swedish poet and playwright who was the first German speaking woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, died at the age of 78. A short excerpt:

 

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On May 12, 1925, Amy Lowell, American Imagist poet, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 51. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. A short excerpt:

 

"Lowell, a vivacious a...
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On May 11, 1942, William Faulkner's collections of short stories, "Go Down, Moses", was published. One of the most famous of the seven short stories in the volume is "The Bear".
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On May 11, 1924, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Robert Frost for his book of poetry "New Hampshire". It was the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, a record. The book featured the poem "Stopp...
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On May 5, 1840, Thomas Carlyle began his famous lecture series "The Hero as Divinity" which later was collected in his book "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History". A short excerpt from the article:

 

...
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On May 3, 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a unified Italy, Machiavelli became one of the fathers of modern political theory.

 

...
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On April 30, 1859, Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" was first published in the literary periodical "All the Year Round" in weekly installments until Nov 26. A short excerpt from the article:

 

"w...
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On April 27, 1695, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican philosopher and poet, died at the age of 44.
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On April 27, 1667, both blind and impoverished, English poet John Milton sold the copyright of "Paradise Lost" for £10. A short excerpt from the article:

 

"Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse ...
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On April 26, 1938, Edmund Husserl, German philosopher and founder of the School of Phenomenology, died at the age of 79.
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On April 23, 1850, William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet (The Prelude), died at the age of 80. I believe I shared 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' not long ago.
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On April 23, 1616, William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, died on his birthday at the age of 52.
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On April 23, 1849, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and members of the Petrashevsky Circle were arrested in St. Petersburg. Dostoyevsky was sentenced to death and was subjected to a staged execution ...
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On April 21, 1930, the film "All Quiet on the Western Front" based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Lewis Milestone, and starring Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres, premiered in Los Angeles...
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On April 20, 1799, Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod" premiered in Weimar. From the article:

 

"Who was Friedrich Schiller?
Voted by a Franco-German TV network as ‘the second most important play...
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On April 20, 1611, the first known performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London took place. It was recorded by Simon Forman. From the article:

 

"First performance
Richard B...
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On April 17, 1986, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove". The miniseries is still among my favorite Westerns. “I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet,...
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On April 17, 1534, Sir Thomas More was confined in the Tower of London. A man of principle, he was later executed for refusing to swear the oath to the Act of Succession. He is quoted as saying:

 

“Afte...
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On April 17, 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer told his "Canterbury Tales" for the first time at the court of English King Richard II. Each pilgrim is engaged in a storytelling contest while they travel together...
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On April 15, 1980 Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel Prize for Literature 1964), died in Paris at the age of 74.
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On April 15, 1888, Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic, died at the age of 65. One of my favorite poems is Dover Beach.

 

Dover Beach

 

Matthew Arnold - 1822-1888

 

The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is ...
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On April 15, 1862, American poet Emily Dickinson first corresponds with author and future literary mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a relationship that lasts the rest of her life.
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On April 15, 1802, William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy saw a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring Wordsworth to pen his poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

 

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

 

I wander...
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On April 15, 1755, Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" was published in London. Many of his entries were quite funny and witty. One of my favorites was his definition of oats.

 

"oat...
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On April 14, 1828, the first American Dictionary by author Noah Webster was registered for copyright.
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On April 13, 2015, Günter Grass, German writer (The Tin Drum) and Nobel Prize laureate (1999), died at the age of 87. His reputation was sullied later by the fact that he served in the SS and made ant...
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On April 13, 1945, Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher and educator (Essay on Man), died at the age of 70. He was the last neo-Kantian of the 20th century.

 

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On April 13, 1794, Nicolas Chamfort, French writer, died at the age of 53. Here are a few of his aphorisms:

 

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

 

“Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”

 

“If...
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On April 13, 1668, John Dryden was appointed the first English poet laureate by Charles II. From the article:

 

"John Dryden (1631-1700)

 

John Dryden was born at the vicarage of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshi...
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On April 12, 65, Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, died. From the article:

 

"Seneca

 

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger, l. 4 BCE - 65 CE) was a Roman author, playwright,...
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On April 12, 1857, Gustave Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary" was published. From the article:

 

"French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) studied law, but he was born to be a novelist. A diagnosis of...
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On April 11, 2007, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, American author, died from head trauma at the age of 84. From the article:

 

"Kurt Vonnegut

 

Biography
(1922–2007)

 

Kurt Vonnegut was an American author best known for ...
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On April 11, 1987, Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (If This Is a Man often translated as Survival in Auschwitz, The Periodic Table, and The Drowned and the Saved), died at the age of 67. His H...
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On April 10, 1931, Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter, died. From the article:

 

"Lebanon-born writer and artist Kahlil Gibran became known for his mystical Arabic and English works, earning fame ...
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On April 10, 1925, Scribners published "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald. From the article:

 

"Why was "The Great Gatsby" Banned?

 

The Controversial Content That Has Led to Backlash From Religious Groups

 

...
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On April 10, 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge recited his poem "Kubla Khan" to fellow poet Lord Byron, who persuaded him to publish it immediately. From the article:

 

"Dreaming of Xanadu: Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”

 

...
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On April 9, 1882, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter, died at the age of 53. From the article:

 

"Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in London. His works include Sir Hugh the Heron: A Legenda...
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On April 9, 1626, Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, died from pneumonia at the age of 65. From the article:

 

"Francis Bacon was an English Renaissance statesman and philosopher, best kn...
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On April 9, 1553, Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua, Pantagruel), died at the age of 49. From the article:

 

"Who was François Rabelais?

 

Francois Rabelais was a 16th-century French writer, sch...
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On April 6, 1992, Isaac Asimov, Russian scientist and sci-fi writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy), died from kidney failure at the age of 72. From the article:

 

"Scholar Isaac Asimov was one of the 20...
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On April 6, 1843, William Wordsworth was appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria. From the article:

 

"William Wordsworth - Historic UK

 

by Jessica Brain

 

One of England’s most beloved poets and...
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On April 6, 1327, Italian poet Petrarch first set eyes on his beloved Laura. From the article:

 

"Petrarch was a poet and scholar whose humanist philosophy set the stage for the Renaissance. He is also ...
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On April 5, 2005, Saul Bellow, Canadian-American author (Nobel 1976), died at the age of 89. From the article:

 

"Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was raised i...
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On April 3, 1895, the Oscar Wilde libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry who accused him of homosexual practices began. From the article:

 

"Oscar Wilde Trial

 

Oscar Wilde was a playwright, nove...
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On April 5, 1815, Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies had its first violent eruption after several centuries of dormancy. From the article:

 

"Three years of darkness and cold spawned crime, poverty,...
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On March 31, 1855, Charlotte Brontë, English novelist (Jane Eyre), died at the age of 38. From the article:

 

"Charlotte Brontë

 

Charlotte Brontë was an English 19th-century writer whose novel 'Jane Eyre...
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On March 31, 1631, John Donne, Metaphysical poet, died. From the article:

 

"John Donne

 

John Donne, leading English poet of the Metaphysical school, is often considered the greatest loved poet in the English language.

...
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On March 30, 1778, playwright Voltaire was crowned with a laurel wreath. From the article:

 

"Author of the satirical novella 'Candide,' Voltaire is widely considered one of France's greatest Enlightenment writers.
...
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