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A mouse's nest, like the one whose destruction is
described in Robert Burns's "To a Mouse, on Turning
Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Hart Crane (1899; died April 27, 1932) American poet;
White Buildings;
The Bridge
Ernest Hemingway (1899; died July 2, 1961) American novelist, short story writer, and journalist; novels
The Sun Also Rises;
A Farewell to Arms;
For Whom the Bell Tolls;
The Old Man and the Sea;
non-fiction
Death in the Afternoon;
Green Hills of Africa;
short stories "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"; "Fifty Grand"; "Hills Like White Elephants"; "The Killers"; "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953); Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
Marshall McLuhan (1911; died December 31, 1980) Canadian philosopher;
The Mechanical Bride;
The Gutenberg Galaxy;
Understanding Media;
The Medium is the Massage;
War and Peace in the Global Village; From Cliché to Archetype
Died on this day:
Peter Lombard (1160; born Unknown Date, 1100) French bishop (of Paris) and theologian;
Libri Quattuor Sententiarum (
The Four Books of Sentences)
Robert Burns (1796; born January 25, 1759) Scottish poet; "Auld Lang Syne"; "To a Mouse"; "A Man's a Man for A' That"; "Scots Wha Hae"; "Tam O'Shanter"
E. L. Doctorow (2015; born January 6, 1931) American novelist;
The Book of Daniel;
Ragtime;
World's Fair;
Billy Bathgate;
The March;
Homer & Langley
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