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Professor Godbole (Alec Guinness), Richard Fielding
(James Fox), and Adela Quested (Judy Davis) in a
film version of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Ulrich Zwingli (1484; died October 11, 1531) Swiss Reform Theologian whose collected works are expected to fill 21 volumes; one work popular in English is
The Christian Education of Youth
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819; died November 13, 1861) English poet; the short poems "Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth"; "Through a Glass Darkly"; and "The Latest Decalogue"
James George Frazer (1854; died May 7, 1941) Scottish anthropologist; mythology and comparative religion, especially
The Golden Bough
E. M. Forster (1879; died June 7, 1970) English novelist, short story writer, and essayist; novels
A Passage to India;
Howards End;
A Room with a View; stories "The Machine Stops"; "The Other Side of the Hedge"; "The Life to Come"; "The Classical Annex"; "The Other Boat"
J. D. Salinger (1919; died January 27, 2010) American short story writer, novelist;
The Catcher in the Rye;
Nine Stories;
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction;
Franny and Zooey
Died on this day:
Basil the Great (379; born c. 330) Greek Bishop (of Caesarea) and Church Father; in the Roman era;
On the Holy Spirit; Refutation of the Apology of the Impious Eunomius
William Wycherley (1716; born Unknown Date, 1641) English playwright;
The Country Wife;
The Plain Dealer
Edward Weston (1958; born March 24, 1886) American photographer;
Nautilus; the
Pepper series;
Dunes, Oceano;
Nude, 1936;
landscapes of American West
Bonus Classic
Polycarp (69-155) Bishop of Smyrna; Church Father who wrote a
Letter to the Philippians
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