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Clint Eastwood as the "Man with No Name" in The Good,
the Bad and the Ugly, the last film in Sergio
Leone's Dollars Trilogy of "Spaghetti Westerns" |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Cicero (106 BCE; died December 7, 43 BCE) Roman orator, author, and letter-writer who wrote these orations:
In Verrem (
Against Verres;
In Catilinam (
Catiline Orations)
I-IV;
Philippicae (
Philippics); and philosophical works:
De Oratore (
On the Orator);
De Re Publica (
On the Commonwealth);
De Legibus (
On the Laws);
De Finibus (
On the Ends of Good and Evil);
De Natura Deorum (
On the Nature of the Gods);
De Officiis (
On Obligations)
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892; died September 2, 1973) English author of
The Lord of the Rings and
The Hobbit
Sergio Leone (1929; died April 30, 1989) Italian filmmaker; the
Dollars trilogy (
A Fistful of Dollars;
For a Few Dollars More;
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly);
Once Upon a Time in the West;
Once Upon a Time in America
Bonus Classic
Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-c. 1328) German theologian, philosopher and mystic; sermons and other theological writings
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