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Detail from Where Do We Come From? What Are We?
Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Paul Gauguin (1848; died May 8, 1903) French painter;
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?;
The Yellow Christ;
Vision After the Sermon;
Spirit of the Dead Watching;
Two Tahitian Women
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917; died December 3, 2000) American poet;
A Street in Bronzeville;
Annie Allen;
Winnie; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1950)
Died on this day:
John Aubrey (1697; born March 12, 1626) English natural philosopher (scientist);
Brief Lives;
Monumenta Britannica
E. M. Forster (1970; born January 1, 1879) English novelist, short story writer, and essayist; novels
A Passage to India;
Howards End;
A Room with a View; stories "The Machine Stops"; "The Other Side of the Hedge"; "The Life to Come"; "The Classical Annex"; "The Other Boat"
Henry Miller (1980; born December 26, 1891) American writer;
Tropic of Cancer;
Black Spring;
Tropic of Capricorn;
The Colossus of Maroussi;
The Rosy Crucifixion (
Sexus,
Plexus, and
Nexus)
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