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Felled poplar trees; a similar scene inspired
Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Binsey Poplars." |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Robert Schumann (1810; died July 29, 1856) German composer;
Carnaval;
Symphonic Studies;
Kinderszenen;
Kreisleriana; the
Fantasie in C
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867; died April 9, 1959) American architect; Fallingwater; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Taliesin; Taliesin West; Ennis House
Francis Crick (1916; died July 28, 2004) British biologist;
Of Molecules and Men;
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery;
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search For The Soul; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962)
Died on this day:
Muhammad (632; birthdate unknown) Arab messenger and prophet of Islam; received
The Quran
Thomas Paine (1809; born February 9, 1737) English-American philosopher and activist;
Common Sense;
The American Crisis;
Rights of Man;
The Age of Reason
George Sand (1876; born July 1, 1804) French novelist;
La Mare au Diable;
La Petite Fadette;
A Winter in Majorca;
Indiana;
Mauprat;
Consuelo
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1889; born July 28, 1844) English poet; "Binsey Poplars"; "Pied Beauty"; "The Windhover";
The Wreck of the Deutschland
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