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How A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh looked
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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Montesquieu (1689; died February 10, 1755) French man of letters;
Lettres Persanes (
Persian Letters);
Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains et de Leur Décadence (
Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans);
De l'Esprit des Lois (
The Spirit of the Laws)
A. A. Milne (1882; died January 31, 1956) English novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, and short-story writer, and, most notably, author of children's literature: the
Winnie-the-Pooh books
Jacob Bronowski (1908; died August 22, 1974) Polish-born British mathematician, historian of science, and poet;
The Ascent of Man
Died on this day:
Hakuin Ekaku (1768; born January 19, 1686) Japanese Zen monk;
Itsumadegusa (
Wild Ivy); commentaries, sermons, and letters
Rudyard Kipling (1936; born December 30, 1865) 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)
Robert B. Parker (2010; born September 17, 1932) American writer known for detective novels featuring Spenser, Jesse Stone, and Sunny Randall
Bonus Classic:
Juvenal (1st-2nd centuries CE) Roman satirical poet known for
Satires, especially the third one
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