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A poster touting George Washington Carver as
"One of America's great scientists" during World War II
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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Xu Xiake (1587; died March 8, 1641) Chinese travel writer;
Xu Xiake Youji (
Xu Xiake's Travels)
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893; died March 7, 1952) Indian yogi;
Autobiography of a Yogi
Umberto Eco (1932; died February 19, 2016) Italian novelist, critic, and philosopher;
The Name of the Rose;
Foucault's Pendulum;
The Island of the Day Before;
The Prague Cemetery
Died on this day:
Kobayashi Issa (1828; born June 15, 1763) Japanese priest and poet; poems and
The Spring of My Life (autobiography) (one of the "Four Great Haiku Masters")
George Washington Carver (1943; born Unknown Date, early 1860s) American botanist and inventor; practical bulletins on growing and using peanuts and sweet potatoes; a brief autobiographical sketch
Bonus Classic
Huineng (638-713) Chinese monk and patriarch of Chan (Zen), wrote
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
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