12       EVENTS:   January 12  Exeter   Features Chris Elliott  Tami Truax  followed by open mike (778-9731) or John Ferguson, JFerg315.aol.com).    The Water Street Bookstore  125 Water Street  Exeter  778-9731           BIRTHDAYS:   Jan 12   Andreas Alciato (1492-1550), ‘Alciati’, Italian author and jurist   http://www.mun.ca/alciato/index.html José Ribera, Spanish painter (1591 - 1652)   http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/ribera/in_ribera.htm   Charles Perrault (1628-1703), French lawyer and writer   http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11701c.htm   Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish politician, orator, philosopher, author   http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/eburke/burke.htm   John Singer Sargent, 1856 -  US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters)   http://jssgallery.org/   "Michael Field"  (1862-1913) Edith Emma Cooper, poet   http://www.sappho.com/poetry/m_field.html   Jack London (1876-1916), San Francisco writer and socialist   http://www.jack-london.org/jackbio_e.htm   http://london.sonoma.edu/   Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952) – ‘Ferenc Neumann’; Hungarian-American playwright, director, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/molnar.htm   Ray Harroun, American race car driver (1879 - 1968)   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22623   Paul Jarrico 1915-1997) - American Screenwriter-  ’Hollywood Ten” Blacklisted                   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jarrico.htm   Margaret Esse Danner (1915-1986), African-American poet   http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2452/Danner-Margaret-Esse.html   GARNISHING THE AVIARY   Our moulting days are in their twilight stage. These lengthy dreaded suns of draggling plumes. These days of moods that swiftly alternate between   the former preen and a downcast rage or crest-fallen lag, are fading out. The initial bloom; exotic, dazzling in its indigo, tangerine   splendor; this rare, conflicting coat had to be shed. Our drooping feathers turn all shades. We spew this unamicable aviary, gag upon the worm, and fling   our loosening quills. We make a riotous spread upon the dust and mire that beds us. We do not shoo so quickly; but the shades of the pinfeathers resulting   from this chaotic push, though still exotic, blend in more easily with those on the wings of the birds surrounding them; garnishing the aviary, burnishing this zoo...   http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/kentucky-world-writer-margaret-danner   Haruki Murakami (1949), Japanese novelist (born Kyoto)    http://www.salon.com/books/int/1997/12/cov_si_16int.html   Walter Mosley (1952) Amer. detective writer   http://www.waltermosley.com/ Rockne S. O'Bannon, 1955 -  American screenwriter   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639328/   Lasana M. Sekou 1959 Caribbean poet     http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sekou.htm       PASSED:       Friedrich von Schlegel   (03/10/1772 – /1829)   German writer, cultural philosopher/poet critic      http://kirjasto.sci.fi/schlegel.htm   http://books.google.com/books?id=5Wuk9aoJrdMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=friedrich+von+schlegel+poetry&source=bl&ots=SV9Fy4mC0Y&sig=zcCMWQV2Un3nndS7IRJe3gWRJ0k&hl=en&ei=yYUtTYv0JYGClAfC7NXCCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false   http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13541a.htm   Jan R T Campert, 1943 - Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead)   http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=camp014   Nevil Shute [Norway], 1960   Eng/Aust author (Town like Alice)   http://www.nevilshute.org/biblio.php   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nshute.htm   Ramon Gomez de la Serna   (07/03/1888 – /1963) Spanish writer   http://thinkexist.com/quotes/ramon_gomez_de_la_serna/   Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist 1869-1962 http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/russian/tykovacollection/tyrkovacoll.html   Lorraine Hansberry    (05/19/1930 – 1965)    US writer, playwright,   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/corhans.htm   http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/hansberry.html   Agatha Christie   (09/15/1890 – 1976)     English writer   http://www.online-literature.com/agatha_christie/   http://kirjasto.sci.fi/christie.htm   http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/agatha-christie/   Marcel Arland, 1986 French author (L'ordre, Lumière du Soir) http://livres.fluctuat.net/marcel-arland.html   http://www.tourisme-langres.com/langres-city-of-art-and-history-great-names-of-the-region-other-great-names_en_01_06_02.html   Dr. Lawrence J. Peter    (09/16/1919 – 1990)      US, writer   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1861480/bio       xxx   There's a shelf inside him this whole time. With a book on it.   That's right, Funbags. Your sorry puss is plastered on pg. 340. Chapters   titled Peachfuzz & the Debutantes, Joyride & Muddlemouth, Mr. Fingerbaker   & The Secrets to Success. Get this fantastic deal today. You won't know   it's you until you look it up.   Xxx       http://www.thepeterprinciple.org/       Walt Morey, 1992   US children's book writer (Gentle Ben)   http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/morey_walt/ Francis Lopez, 1995 International songwriter   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-francis-lopez-1611269.html   http://www.emusic.com/album/Luis-Mariano-Francis-Lopez-Le-Chanteur-de-Mexico-MP3-Download/11454874.html  Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) 1949-2003   http://oldies.about.com/library/weekly/aa011303a.htm   Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter 1955- 2004   http://noted.blogs.com/westcoastmusic/2004/01/randy_vanwarmer.html               SITES:   http://www.youtube.com/sirencio#p/u/36/7BR7A1DRsZc   http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/   http://www.pw.org/magazine   WWW.writingraw.com    http://www.birdsandblooms.com/   http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34920/34920-h/34920-h.htm   http://www.bartleby.com/               HISTORY:   1839 - Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn   http://mauchchunkhistory.com/photo.html   2010 - Earthquake occurs in Haiti killing 230,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince   http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/14/world/20100114-haiti-imagery.html               BONUS POEM:                               A Riddle - On Snow   From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin. No lady alive can show such a skin. I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather, But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together.   Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear, Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare. Though so much of Heaven appears in my make, The foulest impressions I easily take.   My parent and I produce one another, The mother the daughter, the daughter the mother.                                                                       James Parton       http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/winter/poems-rhymes/