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Rouen Cathedral, Full
Sunlight, from Claude Monet's
Rouen Cathedral series |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Aaron Copland (1900; died December 2, 1990) American composer;
Appalachian Spring;
Fanfare for the Common Man;
Lincoln Portrait
Charles Lyell (1797; died February 22, 1875) English geologist;
Principles of Geology;
Elements of Geology;
Antiquity of Man
Claude Monet (1840; died December 5, 1926) French painter;
Impression, Sunrise;
Rouen Cathedral series;
London Parliament series;
Water Lilies;
Poplars;
The Bridge at Argenteull;
Haystacks
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861; died March 14, 1932) American historian;
The Frontier in American History
Karen Armstrong (1944) British religion writer;
A History of God;
The Battle for God;
The Case for God
Died on this day:
Booker T. Washington (1915; born April 5, 1856) American educator and author;
The Story of My Life and Work;
Up From Slavery
Robert E. Sherwood (1955; born April 4, 1896) American playwright and screenwriter;
Waterloo Bridge;
Idiot's Delight;
Abe Lincoln in Illinois;
Rebecca;
There Shall Be No Night;
The Best Years of Our Lives;
The Bishop's Wife;
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1936, 1939, 1941); Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1947); Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1948)
Idwal Jones (1964; born December 8, 1887 or 1888) American novelist and non-fiction writer;
The Vineyard;
Ark of Empire: San Francisco’s Montgomery Block
Saki (1916; born December 18, 1870), pen name of H. H. Munro, a British short story writer; also playwright, and novelist; "The Storyteller"; "The Open Window"; "The East Wing";
The Westminster Alice;
The Chronicles of Clovis
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1831; born August 27, 1770) German philosopher;
The Phenomenology of Mind; lectures
Bonus Classic:
Shudraka (3rd century CE) Indian king and playwright; most famous for
Mrichchhakatika (
The Little Clay Cart); also
Vinavasavadatta and
Padmaprabhritaka
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