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The former Harney Peak has been renamed
"Black Elk Peak" for its significance in a vision
by the Lakota Sioux medicine man Black Elk. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Samuel Richardson (1689; died July 4, 1761) English writer;
Pamela;
Clarissa;
Sir Charles Grandison
Ogden Nash (1902; died May 19, 1971) American poet; light verse such as
The Carnival of the Animals (to accompany the musical suite by Saint-Saens)
Died on this day:
Blaise Pascal (1662; born June 19, 1623) French mathematician and Christian philosopher;
Pensées (
Thoughts);
Lettres Provinciales (
The Provincial Letters)
Federico Garcia Lorca (1936; born June 5, 1898) Spanish poet and playwright;
Romancero gitano (
Gypsy Ballads); the
Rural Trilogy (
Blood Wedding;
Yerma;
The House of Bernarda Alba)
Black Elk (1950; born December 1, 1863) Native American elder and writer;
Black Elk Speaks (with John Neihardt)
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