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| The Three Graces by Peter Paul Rubens |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Mikhail Bakunin (1814; died July 1, 1876) Russian anarchist;
God and the State;
Statism and Anarchy
Died on this day:
Christopher Marlowe (1593; born February 6, 1564) English playwright and poet;
Dr. Faustus;
Edward the Second;
Hero and Leander
Peter Paul Rubens (1640; born June 28, 1577) Flemish painter;
Samson and Delilah;
The Descent from the Cross;
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary;
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus;
Massacre of the Innocents;
Horror of War;
Susanna and the Elders;
The Three Graces; hundreds more
Alexander Pope (1744; born May 21, 1688) English poet and man of letters;
An Essay on Criticism;
The Rape of the Lock;
The Dunciad;
An Essay on Man
Voltaire (1778; born November 21, 1694) French philosopher and satirist;
Candide;
Lettres Philosophiques (
Letters Concerning the English Nation);
Micromégas; Zadig; Songe de Platon (
Plato's Dream)
Boris Pasternak (1960; born February 10, 1890) Russian poet and novelist;
My Sister;
Life;
The Second Birth;
Doctor Zhivago; Nobel Prize in Literature (1958)
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