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Events:

12/22, San Frans Disco-Lourdes Figueraoa and Click here from the War Crimes Times

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Born:

December 22

Click here ( 1639-April 21,1699) Playwright, poet, master of the classical French tragedy

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James Oglethorpe 1696 –June 30,1785  England, general/author/colonizer (Georgia)

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William Ellery 1727 - February 15, 1820 signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Father Demetrius Gallitzin, 1770 -1840  a Dutch Catholic priest. Arriving in America in 1792, he spent his remaining years as a frontier missionary, building up the Catholic church in parts of PA, MD, VA and WV. Gallitzin became known as the "Apostle to the Alleghenies."

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Sara Coleridge (1802 -3 May 1852) English author and translator) only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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George Eliot 1819 - 1880 England, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede)

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Click here (1823 – Click here/1911) US writer, military, political activist

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Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), English poet and parodist

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James Scott Negley (Union volunteers Major General, 1826-1901)

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 Jose Maria de Heredia 1842- Cuba, French sonnet poet

Translation by Eli Siegel

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Click here 1855-95  ‘Charles the Kramsu  ‘, "dreary miesi", Finn Poet

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Frank Kellogg 1856 - 1921Secretary of State (1925-29), tried to outlaw war (Nobel1929)

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George [Robert] Gissing 1857 – 1903 England, novelist
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Click here  (1858 – Click here/1924)  Italian composer (La Bohème, La Tosca)

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Connie Mack (1862 -02/08/56  ) Hall of Fame baseball executive/manager (Philadelphia A's 1900-1950)

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Click here (1869 - 6 April 1935)  US Poet  The Torrent and the Night Before (1896), Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902), The Town Down the River (1910), The Man Against the Sky, Collected Poems (1921; won Pulitzer Prize), Tristram (1927; won Pulitzer Prize), and The Man Who Died Twice (1927; won Pulitzer Prize

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Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide 1869 - February 19, 1951 Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947)

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Endre Ady 1877 - January 27, 1919 Hungary, lyric poet

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H Keffer Hartline 1903 –March 17,1983 US, biophysicist (Nobel 1967)

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Click here (1905-June 6.1982 ) U.S. poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush)

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Claudia A Click here (1912 – Click here/2007)  US First Lady (36) (1963-1969)
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Click here  (1945)  US telejournalist- newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time)

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Maurice Gibb 1949 –Jan.12,2003  Manchester England, rocker/twin of Robin (Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever)

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Robin Gibb 1949 - Manchester England, rocker/twin of Maurice (Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever) Click here
Charles de Lint 1951 - Netherlands, sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow)

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Passed:

December 22

Stephen Day 1594 -1668   1st British colonial printer

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 John Newberry 1713-67  English publisher
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Click here   (Click here/1767 –1828)  US first lady (7) (Click here’s 1^st wife)

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Click here Mary Ann Evans (1819 –1880) US writer-, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede),

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Click here  (Click here/1837 –1899)  US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)

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Click here (Click here/1902 –1934) US writer

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Gertrude Click here (Click here/1886 –1939) "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer/composer,

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Nathanael West [Weinstein] (Oct.17, 1903-1940) US writer (Cool Million)

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Click here (Click here/1866 –1943) English writer

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Irna Phillips (  July1 ,1901- 1973  ) US creator of 5 TV soap operas
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Click here (Click here/1902 –1979) US film director/ producer (20th Century Fox),

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Click here (Click here/1906 –1989) Irish writer

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Butterfly McQueen Click here Click here, -1995  actress (Gone With the Wind)

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Click here  (Click here/1903 –1998)  English clergy

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Click here  John Graham Mellor ((Click here/1952-2002)), co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the British Click here band Click here .Click here in January 2003

From  London Calling

London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared, and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the Click here of that truncheon thing

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The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out, and draw another breath
London calling, and I don't wanna shout
But while we were talking, I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

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Bonus Poem:

THE MILLIONAIRES

They like to make the people think that all their piles of yellow chink, are weary burdens, to be borne, with eyes that weep and hearts that mourn; but as you jog along the road, you see no millionaires unload.

They like to talk and drone and drool, to growing youths in Sunday school, and tell them that the poor man's lot is just the thing that hits the spot; to warn them of ambition's goad—they talk, and talk, but don't unload.

They like to talk of days long gone, when life for them was at its dawn, and they were poor and bent with toil, and drew their living from the soil, and lived in some obscure abode—and so they dream, but don't unload.

They like to take a check in hand, and, headed by the village band, present it to some charity—'twould mean five cents to you or me; then they're embalmed in song and ode; they smirk and smile, but don't unload.

                                                                                                         -‘ Uncle’ Walt Mason

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Dis&dat-claimers-

#1,

The Bonus Poem is in honor of the “Eagle”, who wrote me a note saying I was getting a 3% raise for the quality of my writing and my contributions to the misinflammation/cloud-visavis StraffordNotes and AzISeeITTT.

Disclaimer #2

As I was knee-deep in the poop (read here ‘making up sitations)- it occurreddd that one of my sources for the bios was giving me erroneous stuff regarding birthdays(apparently Nov 22 kept creeping into the cornversation…)