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Kit and Port Moresby (Debra Winger and John Malkovich)
in the 1990 film version of The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Theodor Fontane (1819; died September 20, 1898) German novelist and poet best remembered for his novels
Trials and Tribulations,
Frau Jenny Treibel, and
Effi Briest
Rudyard Kipling (1865; died January 18, 1936) English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist;
The Jungle Book;
Just So Stories;
Kim;
Captains Courageous; "If—"; "Gunga Din"; "The White Man's Burden";; Nobel Prize in Literature (1907)
Paul Bowles (1910; died November 18, 1999) American author;
The Sheltering Sky;
The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
Died on this day:
Jose Rizal (1896; born June 19, 1861) Filipino activist and polymath;
Noli Me Tángere;
El Filibusterismo; "Mi último adios"
Romain Rolland (1944; born January 29, 1866) French playwright, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic;
Jean-Christophe (10 volumes);
Colas Breugnon;
Clérambault;
Pierre et Luce;
L'âme enchantée (7 volumes); biographical essays including those of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda; Nobel Prize in Literature (1915)
Alfred North Whitehead (1947; born February 15, 1861) British mathematician and philosopher;
A Treatise on Universal Algebra;
Principia Mathematica;
An Introduction to Mathematics;
Science and the Modern World;
Process and Reality
Yokomitsu Riichi (1947; born March 17, 1898) Japanese writer;
The Sun;
Machine;
Shanghai; memoir "Haru wa basha ni note" ("Spring Riding in a Carriage") and other stories
Huston Smith (2016; born May 31, 1919) American religious studies scholar;
The World's Religions;
Why Religion Matters;
The Wisdom of Faith with Bill Moyers
Bonus Classic:
Zhang Dai (1597-1689) Chinese writer of essays, history, and biography;
Tao An Meng Yi (
Reminiscences in Dreams of Tao An);
Xi Hu Meng Xun
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