June 18

Events:

July 18, Danvers, MA     2012 New England Authors Expo ;New England authors, illustrators and associated businesses; 10am to 4pm there will an amazing networking opportunity for the attending authors, illustrators, publishers, writers groups, schools, businesses and sponsors. at the Danversport Yacht Club in Danvers, MA from 4pm to 9pm.   http://peartreepublishing.net/events/2012authorsexpo.php

July 18, Concord, NH, Eleanor Corliss and Eric Marsh will feature at Gibson’s Bookstore, 27 south Main Street . The reading starts at 7pm. An open mic will follow. This event is free and open to the public, all are welcome, newcomers are encouraged.  Gibson’s Bookstore, 27 South Main Street (next door to the Red River Cinema) Parking is free after 5pm at the the parking garage right behind the bookstore and cinema.  Contact Don Kimball at prisdon.comcast.net

Born:

07/18

Robert Hooke  1635- 1703  Scientist

http://www.science-of-aging.com/timelines/hooke-history-cell-discovery.php

Gilbert   White   ( 1720- June 26, 1793)  English  Georgian Poet , Curate, &   Naturalist

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/white-gilbert

William Makepeace Thackeray  (1811 – 12/23/1863)  India-born English writer

http://www.online-literature.com/thackeray/

Hendrik Lorentz  (1853 – 4 February 1928)  Dutch physicist ;shared t 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11335/11335-h/11335-h.htm

Molly Brown  (1867- 26-Oct-1932  ) Activist ,writer

https://classes.lt.unt.edu/Summer_10W_2011/LTEC_3260_020/lnb0066/assign5/timeline.html

Charles E. Wilson  (1890 – 09/26/1961)  US corporate president (General Motors)

http://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/Wilson,_Charles_E.

Nathalie Sarraute  1900-October 19, 1999, French novelist and literary critic, Portrait of a Man Unknown
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2341/the-art-of-fiction-no-115-nathalie-sarraute

Jessamyn West  (1902 – 02/23/1984) US writer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922143/

Victor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum^[1] (1903 - February 14, 1980), Austrian-American architect - pioneer in the design of shopping malls in the United States

https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/136/

Chill Wills  (1903- 78  ) actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932629/

Sam I. Hayakawa  (1906 – 02/27/1992)  Canadian-US semanticist, senator (CA)

http://www.conservapedia.com/S._I._Hayakawa

Clifford Odets  (1906 – 08/18/1963)  US writer Sweet Smell of Success

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644048/

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

Lupe Velez  (07/18/1908 – 12/14/1944)  Mexican actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0892473/
Harriet Hilliard 1909-94   Ozzie & Harriet

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384948/

Hume Cronyn  (1911 – 06/15/2003)  Canadian actor

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002025/

Red Skelton  (1913 – 09/17/1997)  US comic, actor, painter ,

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0804026/

Nelson Mandela (1918 – )  African statesman

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-bio.html/

John Glenn (07/18/1921 – )  US astronaut, senator (OH)

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/glenn-j.html

Margaret Laurence  (1926 – 01/05/1987) Canadian writer

http://www.mts.net/~mlhome/bio.htm

Elizabeth Jennings (1926 – 25 October 2001) English poet. Song for a Birth or a Death
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=6383

http://www.elizabethjennings.org/index.php

Yevgeny Yevtushenko  (1933 – 03/05/1992)  Russian poet  Babi Yar

People

No people are uninteresting.
Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.

Nothing in them is not particular,
and planet is dissimilar from planet.

And if a man lived in obscurity
making his friends in that obscurity
obscurity is not uninteresting.

To each his world is private,
and in that world one excellent minute.

And in that world one tragic minute.
These are private.

In any man who dies there dies with him
his first snow and kiss and fight.
It goes with him.

There are left books and bridges
and painted canvas and machinery.
Whose fate is to survive.

But what has gone is also not nothing:
by the rule of the game something has gone.
Not people die but worlds die in them.

http://readalittlepoetry.wordpress.com/2006/06/21/people-by-yevgeny-yevtushenko/

Hunter S. Thompson (1939 – 02/20/2005)  US "gonzo" journalist

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860219/

Steve Forbes  1947-  Owner and publisher of Forbes magazine

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/bios/steveforbes.html

Passed:

07/18

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio  (29 September 1571 –1610) Italian artist  

http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Caravage/E/

John Paul Jones (07/06/1747 –1792) US naval officer
http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/jp_jones.html

Jane Austen  (12/16/1775 –1817) English writer

http://www.todayinliterature.com/

Carl van Doren  (09/10/1885 –1950)  U.S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. The American Novel

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12563/pg12563.html

Nico Christa Päffgen October 16, 1938 -1988   German actor/musician/model 

The Velvet Underground and Nico

Facing the Wind

It's holding me against my will
And doesn't leave me still
Amazons are riding out
To find a meaning for
The name, my name
In the rain
My spinning on my name
In the rain, in the rain

When did it begin ?
When did it begin ?
Why am I not facing the wind ?

My mother and my brother
Are facing the wind.
Why are they facing the wind ?
Why are they facing the wind ?

There's nothing more to sing about
Not now or when they carry me away
In the rain
My spinning on my name in the rain
My spinning on my name in the rain
In the rain.

When did it begin ?
When did it begin ?
Why are they facing the wind ?

http://smironne.free.fr/NICO/LYRICS/mar05.html

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nico-mn0000868306

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0630113/

Dr. Karl A. Menninger  (07/23/1893 –1990)  US scientist, psychologist The Human Mind

http://mysite.verizon.net/michael6076/id9.html

Jean Negulesco       1900 -J1993 film director  Three Coins in the Fountain

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624535/

James Goldsmith (02/26/1933 –1997)   French financier

http://sirjamesgoldsmith.com/

General William Westmoreland  (03/26/1914 –2005)  US military

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

Sites:

http://robertfrostfarm.org/hyla.html

http://www.meandollies.com/

http://shadysperspective.blogspot.com/

http://www.albany.edu/offcourse/issue41/cigale_translations6.html#v_ivanov

http://www.limerock.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=273&Itemid=141

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2309.html

http://www.bakerlegacy.com/bakerlegacy.com/Welcome.html

History:

07/18

1588		Admiral Howard beats Spanish Armada
		http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUDarmada.htm

1666   Bradstreet, Anne (1612 - 1672) writes  Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 18th, 1666

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/verses-upon-burning-our-house-july-18th-1666

1870		Pontifical infalliability proclaimed http://www.theanglocatholic.com/2010/06/exploring-doctrine-papal-infallibility/ http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/papaldogma.aspx
1925		Hitler publishes Mein Kampf http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERmein.htm
1942		Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
		http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=108
1992		Singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown marry

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/gty_bobby_brown_whitney_houston_2_jt_120212_wg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/whitney-houston-goody-shoes-bobby-brown/story?id%3D15567273&h=360&w=640&sz=65&tbnid=TmNAK4WxxMBOOM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=160&zoom=1&usg=__DFt247eY7BcKYTEayPzJk7Z8CiQ=&docid=Utxgmf3YE9_dQM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KtIFUL7DLKSP6wGcvrHQCA&ved=0CF8Q9QEwCg&dur=1963Top of Form

1994		Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons

Bonus Poem:

3. TIME AND LOVE.

     When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced

     The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age;

     When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed,

     And brass eternal slave to mortal rage.

     When I have seen the hungry ocean gain

     Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,

     And the firm soil win of the watery main,

     Increasing store with loss, and loss with store.

     When I have seen such interchange of state,

     Or state itself confounded to decay,

     Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate—

     That Time will come and take my Love away.

     —This thought is as a death, which cannot choose

     But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

                   -W. SHAKESPEARE.