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Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona inspired a pageant
featuring a cast of approximately 375 players that
has been performed in Hemet, California, since 1923. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Virgil (70 BCE; died September 21, 19 BCE) Roman poet known for
The Aeneid;
The Eclogues;
The Georgics
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830; died August 12, 1885) American writer and activist;
Ramona;
A Century of Dishonor
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844; died August 25, 1900) German philosopher;
The Birth of Tragedy;
Thus Spoke Zarathustra;
Beyond Good and Evil;
On the Genealogy of Morality
Italo Calvino (1923; died September 19, 1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels known for
Our Ancestors (trilogy), especially
The Baron in the Trees;
Invisible Cities;
If on a winter's night a traveler; short story collection
Cosmicomics
Died on this day:
Robert Herrick (1674; born August 24, 1591) English poet and cleric; "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and hundreds more
Inazo Nitobe (1933; born September 1, 1862) Japanese author and educator;
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Cole Porter (1964; born June 9, 1891) American composer; shows
Anything Goes;
Kiss Me Kate;
Can Can;
Silk Stockings; songs "Night and Day"; "Begin the Beguine"; "I Get a Kick Out of You"; "Well, Did You Evah!"; "I've Got You Under My Skin"; "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"; "You're the Top"
Bonus Classic:
Caedmon (fl. 657-680) English poet and lay monastic herder who learned to compose in a dream; only known surviving work is "Hymn in Praise of God," commonly known as "Caedmon's Hymn."
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