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| Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Elias Lonnrot (1802; died March 19, 1884) Finnish folklorist who compiled
Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, from national folk tales he had gathered; and
Kanteletar, a collection of Finnish folk poetry
Charles Baudelaire (1821; died August 31, 1867) French poet;
Les Fleurs du mal (
The Flowers of Evil)
Died on this day:
Francois Rabelais (1553; born February 4, 1494) French writer;
Gargantua and Pantagruel, especially
Book I: The Abbey of Theleme
Francis Bacon (1626; born January 22, 1561) English scientist and philosopher;
New Atlantis;
Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral;
Novum Organum (
New Scientific Method)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882; born May 12, 1828) English poet and painter;
The Blessed Damozel;
The House of Life
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1945; born February 4, 1906) German pastor and theologian;
The Cost of Discipleship;
Letters and Papers from Prison
Frank Lloyd Wright (1959; born June 8, 1867) American architect; Fallingwater; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Taliesin; Taliesin West; Ennis House
Bonus Classic:
Lady Nijo (1258-after 1307) Japanese imperial concubine, then Buddhist nun;
Towazugatari (
An Unasked-For Tale, also called
The Confessions of Lady Nijo)
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