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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Marianne Moore (1887; died February 5, 1972) American poet;
Collected Poems; "Poetry" (a poem); Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (1951)
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887; died March 6, 1986) American artist; inspired by flowers and plants:
Petunia No. 2;
Black Iris;
Oriental Poppies;
Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1;
Blue and Green Music; New York cityscapes:
City Night;
Shelton Hotel, New York No. 1;
Radiator Bldg--Night, New York; New Mexico:
Black Cross, New Mexico;
Cow's Skull: Red, White and Blue;
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills;
Summer Days
J. G. Ballard (1930; died April 19, 2009) English novelist and short story writer (including science fiction), and essayist;
The Wind from Nowhere;
The Drowned World;
Crash;
Empire of the Sun;
High-Rise
Died on this day:
Johannes Kepler (1630; born December 27, 1571) German astronomer;
Astronomia Nova (
New Astronomy);
Harmonices Mundi (
The Harmony of the World);
Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy)
Margaret Mead (1978; born December 16, 1901) American cultural anthropologist;
Coming of Age in Samoa;
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
Bonus Classic:
The Song of the Nibelungs (between 1180 and 1210) German epic poem about how Siegfried slayed a dragon, how he was murdered, and how his wife Kriemhild sought revenge
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