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| Dublin as James Joyce might have known it |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
James Joyce (1882; died January 13, 1941) Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet;
Ulysses;
Dubliners;
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;
Finnegans Wake
Ayn Rand (1905; died March 6, 1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, and playwright;
The Fountainhead;
Atlas Shrugged
James Dickey (1923; died January 19, 1997) American poet and novelist;
Buckdancer's Choice: Poems;
Deliverance; Poet Laureate of the USA (1966)
Died this on day:
Baldassare Castiglione (1529; born December 6, 1478) Italian courtier and author;
Il Cortegiano (
The Courtier)
Dmitri Mendeleev (1907; born February 8, 1834) Russian chemist;
The Principles of Chemistry;
An Attempt Towards a Chemical Conception of the Ether;
Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writing
Bertrand Russell (1970; born May 18, 1872) British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and activist;
Principia Mathematica (with Alfred North Whitehead); "On Denoting";
The Problems of Philosophy;
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays;
What I Believe;
Why I Am Not a Christian;
A History of Western Philosophy; Nobel Prize in Literature (1950)
Bonus Classic:
Diogenes Laertius (3rd century) Greek biographer, wrote
Lives of Eminent [Greek] Philosophers
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