The Yukon's Lake Laberge ("Lebarge") on the "marge" of which Sam McGee was cremated in Robert W. Service's poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Robert W. Service (1874; died September 11, 1958) British-Canadian poet known for "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Anthony Hecht (1923; died October 20, 2004) American poet who wrote The Hard Hours; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1968)
William Kennedy (1928) American author; Legs; Billy Phelan's Greatest Game; Ironweed; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1984)
Died on this day:
Edward Gibbon (1794; born April 27, 1737) English historian; The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
R. H. Tawney (1962; born November 30, 1880) English historian, critic, and educator; Religion and the Rise of Capitalism; The Acquisitive Society; Equality
Bonus Classic:
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (969-1007) Persian man of letters who wrote the Maqamat al-Hamadhani (The Maqamat of al-Hamadani), 52 stories about a rogue named Abu al-Fath al-Iskandari
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