Dec. 2 8

Events:

Dec. 29 ,Manchester Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features and open mike (647-9991 or bridgepoetry.gmail.com )

Dec. 31 Boston First Night Boston: Boston Poetry Slam   Saturday, Dec 31 9:00p to 9:30 Hynes Convention Center, Boston,MA  A fast-paced competition where poets have limited time to impress judges randomly selected from the audience. http://advantageboston.com/hynes.aspx  http://www.firstnight.org/

Born:

December 28

John Molson 1763- January 11, 1836)  founded Montréal brewery (Molson Canadian)

http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3567
James Barnes 1801 - February 12, 1869  Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5888311
William Booth Taliaferro 1822 -1898 Brigadier-General (Confederate Army)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7832039

Samuel A. Ward, 1847- September 28, 1903) was an American organist and composer. / music publisher. Ward composed the tune MATERNA, to which we sing today the patriotic hymn, "America, The Beautiful."

http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C202?exhibitId=202

Juan Zorrilla de San Martin 1855 – 1931, Uruguay's diplomat/poet (Tabaré)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Resumen-Del-Poema-Tabar%25C3%25A9-De-Juan/366350.html&ei=60r6Tt7ND-Tw0gGvhKS-Ag&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=10&sqi=2&ved=0CIQBEO4BMAk&prev=/search%3Fq%3Djuan%2Bzorrilla%2Bde%2Bsan%2Bmartin%2Btabare%26hl%3Den%26qscrl%3D1%26nord%3D1%26rlz%3D1T4RNUR_enUS422US456%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D710%26site%3Dwebhp%26prmd%3Dimvns

http://www.los-poetas.com/c/juan.htm

[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson  (1856 – 02/03/1924)  US President (28 President-D-1913-21, Nobel 1919)

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1919/

http://www.potus.com/wwilson.html

Sir Arthur Eddington  (1882 – 11/22/1944)  English physicist

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Eddington.html

Mortimer Adler  (1902 – 06/28/2001)  US educator, philosopher (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

http://www.thegreatideas.org/

http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/adler/

John von Neumann  (1903 – 02/08/1957)  Hungarian-American  mathematician , astronomer (Bocher Award 1938)

http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Von_Neumann.html
Earl "Fatha" Hines 1905 –April23,1983  Duquesne PA, jazz pianist (Deep Forest)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/earl-hines-p6746

Charlie Weaver - Cliff Arquette (1905 – 09/23/1974) US comedian, actor, pianist, composer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0037115/bio
Nikola J Vaptsarov 1909 -July 23,1942Bulgaria poet (Subrani Sutsjinenija)

   his last verse…

The fight is hard and pitiless
The fight is epic, as they say.
I fell. Another takes my place –
Why single out a name?

After the firing squad – the worms.
Thus does the simple logic go.
But in the storm we’ll be with you,
My people, for we loved you so.

2 p.m. – 23.vii.1942

http://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv6n1/vaptsarov.htm

Sam Levenson  (1911 – 08/27/1980)  US writer humorist (Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party)

http://www.robinsweb.com/inspiration/beauty_tips.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505273/

Vincent Hayes Gaddis (1913 – February 26, 1997) was an American author who coined the phrase "Bermuda Triangle"

http://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/BermudaTriangle/vincentgaddis.txt

Peter Finch  (1916 – 01/14/1977)  English actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002075/

Roebuck "Pops" Staples 1915 –Dec.19,2000   US gospel/singer (Staple Singers)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/roebuck-pops-staples-p34617
Stan Lee 1922 -  US comics artist/creator (Spiderman, Incredible Hulk)
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5406

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/stan-lee/

Hildegard Knef  (1925 – 02/01/2002)  German actor, singer

http://www.hildegardknef.de/home%20english.htm

Rod Serling 1924 - 75 Syracuse NY, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/rod-serling/
Martin Milner 1927 -  Detroit MI, actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590398/

Guy deBord  (1931 – 11/30/1994)  French writer

http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord.html
Manuel Puig (1932-90) Argentine writer and motion-picture scriptwriter (Kiss of the spider woman;La Traicion de Rita Hayworth, Blood of Requited Love)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mpuig.htm

Clem Schouwenaars 1932- 10 September 1993) Flemish poet/writer

http://users.telenet.be/louis.jacobs/Schouwenaars.html

Dame Maggie Smith  (1934 – )  English actor (Death on Nile, Clash of Titans)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001749/

Nichelle Nichols 1932/33/36 -  US  actress (Uhura-Star Trek)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629667/
Charles Neville 1938 -  US rock vocalist/saxophonist (Neville Brothers)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/charles-neville-p11288
Edgar Winter 1946 -  Beaumont TX, rocker (They Only Come Out at Night)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/edgar-winter-p73272

Alex Chilton  (1950 – 03/17/2010)  US rock guitarist/vocalist (Box Tops, Big Star) The Letter)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/alex-chilton-p3892

Denzel Washington  (1954 – )  US actor (Dr Chandler-St Elsewhere)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/
Chad S McQueen 1960 -  US actor (Nightforce)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574337/

Passed:

December 28

Lord Thomas Babington MacCaulay  (10/25/1800 –1859)  English historian essayist/historian/  poet

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/211.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRmacaulay.htm

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20900

Herman Melville (1891) American writer & poet

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=9

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/herman-melville/
George [Robert] Gissing ( 1857 -1903) English novelist

http://www.online-literature.com/george-gissing/

Clarence Day  (11/18/1874 –1935)  US writer (Life with Father)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=2236

(Farewell, My Friends)

Farewell, my friends -- farewell and hail!

I'm off to seek the Holy Grail.

I cannot tell you why.

Remember, please, when I am gone,

'Twas Aspiration led me on.

Tiddlely-widdley tootle-oo,

All I want is to stay with you,

But here I go. Good-bye.

                                                                  -Clarence Day

http://www.charleswelty.com/authors/day.htm

Theodore Dreiser  (08/27/1871 –1945)  US writer novelist (An American Tragedy

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/theodore-dreiser/

Abbott Joseph Liebling  (10/18/1904 –1963)  US journalist/writer

http://www.salon.com/2004/09/23/liebling/
Charles "Sonny" Liston (  1932- 1970 )US  heavyweight boxer champion (1962-64)

http://www.nndb.com/people/167/000085909/
William Demarest   1892-1983   actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218131/

Dennis Wilson   12/04/44- 1983  drummer/singer (Beach Boys)

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dennis-wilson-p138758

Sam Peckinpah  (02/21/1925 –1984)  US director

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001603/

John Dann MacDonald (07/24/16 –1986) American crime and suspense novelist and short story writer.

http://www.jdmhomepage.org/jdmhomepage.org/index.html

http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=3636
William L Shirer (February 23, 1904 -1993) American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

http://www.traces.org/obituarycontent.htm

Clayton Moore  (09/14/1914 –1999)  US actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0138194/

Susan Sontag  (01/28/1933 –2004)  US writer

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/susan-sontag/

Sites:

http://www.ericpac.com/

http://eol.org/

http://www.nhpr.org/

http://c2iadvancedtechnologies.com/index-2.html

http://artesprit.org/

http://olivereader.com/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26312/26312-h/26312-h.htm

Bonus Poem:

		The Night Cometh

Cometh the night. The wind falls low,
The trees swing slowly to and fro:
Around the church the headstones grey
Cluster, like children strayed away
But found again, and folded so.

No chiding look doth she bestow:
If she is glad, they cannot know;
If ill or well they spend their day,
Cometh the night.

Singing or sad, intent they go;
They do not see the shadows grow;
"There yet is time," they lightly say,
"Before our work aside we lay";
Their task is but half-done, and lo!
Cometh the night.


     -John McCrae