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Javier Bardem's eerie eyes haunt the
poster for the 2007 film version of Cormac
McCarthy's No Country for Old Men |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Petrarch (1304; died July 19, 1374) Italian scholar and poet;
Canzoniere (
Songbook);
Trionfi (
Triumphs);
Secretum Meum (
My Secret Book);
De Viris Illustribus (
On Famous Men); letters
Gregor Mendel (1822; died January 6, 1884) Austro-German monk and scientist; "Experiments on Plant Hybridization"
Herbert E. Bolton (1870; died January 30, 1953) American historian;
Anza's California Expeditions
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist;
Suttree;
Blood Meridian; the
Border trilogy (
All the Pretty Horses;
The Crossing;
Cities of the Plain);
No Country for Old Men;
The Road;
The Sunset Limited; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2007)
Died on this day:
Ejima Kiseki (1735 or 1736; born Unknown Date, 1666 or 1667) Japanese writer;
Seken Musume Kataki (
Characters of Worldly Young Women)
Andrew Lang (1912; born March 31, 1844) Scottish poet, novelist, and folklorist; best-known for the "Fairy Book" series starting with
The Blue Fairy Book
Paul Valéry (1945; born October 30, 1871) French poet, essayist, and philosopher;
La Jeune Parque (
The Young Fate); "Le Cimetière marin" ("The Cemetery by the Sea"); "L'Ébauche d'un serpent" ("Silhouette of a Serpent")
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