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Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want
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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Felix Mendelssohn (1809; died November 4, 1847) German composer;
A Midsummer Night's Dream;
The Hebrides;
Songs Without Words; violin concerto
Horace Greeley (1811; died November 29, 1872) American newspaperman;
The American Conflict;
Glances at Europe; numerous short pieces
Gertrude Stein (1874; died July 27, 1946) American novelist, poet, and playwright;
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas;
Q.E.D.;
Fernhurst;
Three Lives;
The Making of Americans;
Tender Buttons
Norman Rockwell (1894; died November 8, 1978) American painter and illustrator;
Willie Gillis series;
Rosie the Riveter;
Four Freedoms series;
The Problem We All Live With; especially known as a cover illustrator for the
Saturday Evening Post
Lao She (1899; died August 24, 1966) Chinese novelist and dramatist;
Rickshaw Boy;
Teahouse
James Michener (1907; died October 16, 1997) American author who wrote
Tales of the South Pacific;
Hawaii;
The Drifters;
Centennial;
The Source;
The Fires of Spring;
Chesapeake;
Caribbean;
Caravans;
Alaska;
Texas;
Poland; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1948)
Simone Weil (1909; died August 24, 1943) French philosopher, mystic, and political activist who wrote
Waiting for God
Bonus Classic:
Josephus (37-c. 100) Romano-Jewish historian known for
The Jewish War;
Jewish Antiquities;
Against Apion; and his
Autobiography
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