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Poster from a 1951 French film version of Journal d'un curé de
campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) by Georges Bernanos |
Here are today's milestones:
Born this on day:
Shiga Naoya (1883; died October 21, 1971) Japanese novelist and short story writer;
An'ya Koro (
A Dark Night's Passing);
The Paper Door and Other Stories
Ishikawa Takuboku (1886; died April 13, 1912) Japanese poet;
A Handful of Sand;
Sad Toys
Georges Bernanos (1888; died July 5, 1948) French author;
Diary of a Country Priest
Ansel Adams (1902; died April 22, 1984) American photographer; Landscape photography of the American Southwest;
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1927;
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941; created the "Zone System" of black-and-white exposure
Robert Altman (1925; died November 20, 2006) American filmmaker;
MASH;
Nashville;
The Player;
Short Cuts;
Gosford Park
Died this on day:
Frederick Douglass (1895; born c. February 1818) American writer and activist;
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave;
My Bondage and My Freedom;
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Kobayashi Takiji (1933; born October 13, 1903) Japanese novelist who wrote
Kanikosen (
Crab Cannery Ship)
Bonus Classic:
Gospel of Thomas (c. 80) Middle Eastern apocryphal New Testament book made up of sayings of Jesus, some with a decidedly Gnostic flavor
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