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The main character in Edmond
Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
William Harvey (1578; died June 3, 1657) English physician;
De Motu Cordis (
On the Circulation of Blood)
John Wilmot (1647; died July 26, 1680) English poet;
A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind; numerous "vulgar" poems
Edmond Rostand (1868; died December 2, 1918) French poet and dramatist;
Cyrano de Bergerac
Milan Kundera (1929) Czech-born French writer;
The Joke;
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting;
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Died on this day:
Scott Joplin (1917; born November 24, 1868) American ragtime composer, "Maple Leaf Rag"; "The Entertainer"; opera
Treemonisha.
Bonus Classic:
Konjaku Monogatarishu (late Heian Period, 794-1185) Japanese story anthology containing over 1,000 tales from India, China and Japan
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