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Richard Francis Burton often traveled in
disguise to explore foreign lands. Here he
is a Persian, "Mirza Abdullah the Bushri." |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Thomas Hughes (1822; died March 22, 1896) English author who wrote
Tom Brown's School Days
Arthur Rimbaud (1854; died November 10, 1891) French poet who wrote
Lettres du voyant (
Letters of the Seer); "Le bateau ivre" ("The Drunken Boat");
Une Saison en Enfer (
A Season in Hell);
Soleil et chair (
Sun and Flesh)
John Dewey (1859; died June 1, 1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educator;
Democracy and Education;
The Public and its Problems;
Art as Experience;
Freedom and Culture;
Knowing and the Known
"Jelly Roll" Morton (1890; died July 10, 1941) American composer of "Jelly Roll Blues"; "King Porter Stomp"; "Wolverine Blues"; "Black Bottom Stomp"; "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say"
Daniel Nathan (Frederic Dannay) (1905; died September 3, 1982) half of a pair of cousins who together created the fictional character and equally-fictional writer "Ellery Queen." (His cousin's name was Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, pen named Manfred Bennington Lee.)
Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet and essayist who wrote
Selected Poems; Poet Laureate of the USA (1997-2000)
Died on this day:
Richard Francis Burton (1890; born March 19, 1821) British explorer and writer who made translations of
One Thousand and One Nights and
The Kama Sutra; wrote the
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah and the pseudotranslation
The Kasidah
Anthony Hecht (2004; born January 16, 1923) American poet who wrote
The Hard Hours; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1968)
Bonus Classic:
Tacitus (c. 56-c. 120) Roman historian who wrote the
History;
Annals; and
Germania
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