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Detail of Harpies in
the wood of the suicides,
an engraving by Gustave Doré,
based on Canto XIII of
Dante's Inferno |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Dante Alighieri (1265; died September 14, 1321) Italian poet;
Divina Commedia (
The Divine Comedy);
Monarchia (
On Monarchy);
La Vita Nuova La Vita Nuova (
The New Life);
Convivio (
The Banquet)
Carl von Clausewitz (1780; died November 16, 1831) Prussian general and philosopher;
Vom Kriege, (
On War)
Died on this day:
J. B. Bury (1927; born October 16, 1861) Irish historian who wrote mainly histories of the Classical period
John Dewey (1952; born October 20, 1859) American philosopher, psychologist, and educator;
Democracy and Education;
The Public and its Problems;
Art as Experience;
Freedom and Culture;
Knowing and the Known
Helen Keller (1968; born June 27, 1880) American author and activist;
The Story of My Life;
Light in My Darkness
Witter Bynner (1968; born August 10, 1881) American poet, writer and scholar; poems, including translations from the Chinese
Reinhold Niebuhr (1971; born June 21, 1892) American theologian;
Moral Man and Immoral Society;
The Nature and Destiny of Man
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