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From Disney's 1946 animated short of
Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Howard Pyle (1853; died November 9, 1911) American author;
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood;
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights;
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table; etc.
Frank Norris (1870; died October 25, 1902) American novelist;
McTeague;
The Octopus: A Story of California;
The Pit
Died on this day:
Correggio (1534; born August 1489) Italian painter;
Jupiter and Io;
Assumption of the Virgin;
Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine;
The Supper at Emmaus
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1827; born March 23, 1749) French astronomer and mathematician;
Celestial Mechanics
Edgar Lee Masters (1950; born August 23, 1868) American poet, biographer, and dramatist;
Spoon River Anthology and others
Sergei Prokofiev (1953; born April 23, 1891) Russian composer;
The Love for Three Oranges;
Lieutenant Kijé;
Romeo and Juliet;
Alexander Nevsky;
Piano Concerto No. 3;
Symphony No. 1 ("
Classical");
Peter and the Wolf
Bonus Classic:
Sithalai Sathanar (6th century) Tamil poet;
Manimekalai (a woman's name) in which Manimekalai, daughter of Cilappatikaram (see Silappatikaram [The Tale of an Anklet] 2nd century), renounces the world to become a Buddhist nun--includes Buddha's life, work and philosophy--one of the three surviving "Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature"
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