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Little Eva and Uncle Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe's
Uncle Tom's Cabin; detail of a painting by Edwin Longsden Long |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811; died July 1, 1896) American writer and activist;
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Died on this day:
Edward FitzGerald (1883; born March 31, 1809) English poet;
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Max Weber (1920; born April 21, 1864) German sociologist and philosopher;
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism;
The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism;
The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism;
Ancient Judaism;
Economy and Society
Mary Cassatt (1926; born May 22, 1844) American painter;
The Boating Party;
Two Women Throwing Flowers During Carnival;
Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla;
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair;
The Child's Bath
G. K. Chesterton (1936; born May 29, 1874) English poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, lay theologian, biographer, and critic; novels
The Napoleon of Notting Hill and
The Man Who Was Thursday;
the
Father Brown stories; theological works
Orthodoxy and
The Everlasting Man
Gertrude Atherton (1948; born October 30, 1857) American author;
Black Oxen;
The Splendid Idle Forties
Salvatore Quasimodo (1968; born August 20, 1901) Italian novelist and poet;
Ed รจ subito sera (
And Suddenly It Is Evening);
Lirici Greci (
Greek Poets);
Giorno dopo giorno (
Day After Day); Nobel Prize in Literature (1959)
Jorge Luis Borges (1986; born August 24, 1899) Argentine writer of short stories and essays, including
A Universal History of Infamy,
The Garden of Forking Paths, and
Labyrinths
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