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Elisabeth Moss as June Osborne/Offred, the handmaid in the TV
version of Margaret Atwood's dystopian The Handmaid's Tale |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
W. S. Gilbert (1836; died May 29, 1911) English dramatist and poet; with Arthur Sullivan,
The Mikado;
H.M.S. Pinafore;
The Pirates of Penzance
Jacques Maritain (1882; died April 28, 1973) French philosopher;
The Person and the Common Good;
The Degrees of Knowledge;
The Range of Reason
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist;
The Handmaid's Tale;
Cat's Eye;
Alias Grace;
The Blind Assassin;
Oryx and Crake;
Surfacing
Died on this day:
Marcel Proust (1922; born July 10, 1871) French novelist, critic, and essayist; best-known for
À la recherche du temps perdu, (
In Search of Lost Time or
Remembrance of Things Past)
Niels Bohr (1962; born October 7, 1885) Danish physicist known for
Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge;
Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr series; Nobel Prize in Physics (1922)
Cab Calloway (1994; born December 25, 1907) American performer; "Minnie the Moocher"; "Saint James Infirmary"; "Kicking the Gong Around"; "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2008)
Paul Bowles (1999; born December 30, 1910) American author;
The Sheltering Sky;
The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
Bonus Classic:
Bharavi (6th century) Indian poet who wrote
Kiratarjuniya in which Arjuna battles Lord Shiva in the guise of a kirata or mountain-dwelling hunter; one of the (five/six)
Mahakavya
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