Classics Calendar for August 10

"Plan of the Settlement at San Bruno, 1683,"
from Eusebio Kino's Historical Memoir

Here are today's milestones:

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Born on this day:

Eusebio Kino (1645; died March 15, 1711) Italian Jesuit missionary; Spain in the West: Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta

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Witter Bynner (1881; died June 1, 1968) American poet, writer and scholar; poems, including translations from the Chinese

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