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A choir of angels in the 1936 film version of
Marc Connelly's play The Green Pastures |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Heinrich Heine (1797; died February 17, 1856) German poet;
Buch der Lieder (
Book of Songs);
Reisebilder (
Travel Pictures);
Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen (
Germany: A Winter's Tale);
Atta Troll: Ein Sommernachtstraum (
Atta Troll: A Midsummer Night's Dream);
Romanzero (a collection)
Marc Connelly (1890; died December 21, 1980) American playwright;
The Green Pastures;
Tall Story; Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1930)
Ross Macdonald (1915; died July 11, 1983) American-Canadian author of crime stories; the
Lew Archer series
Died on this day:
Maimonides (1204; born Unknown Date, 1135) medieval Jewish philosopher;
The Guide for the Perplexed; "Oath of Maimonides"
Samuel Johnson (1784; born September 18, 1709) English man of letters known for
A Dictionary of the English Language; annotated
Plays of William Shakespeare;
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia;
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland;
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Bonus Classic:
Gregory of Nyssa (335-394) Greek-speaking Cappadocian theologian and Church Father; sermons, homilies, letters;
Life of Moses
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