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Events:

Washington Feb. 1  2012   Poetry Event  Poets Delores Kendrick And Evie Shockley Celebrate The Birthday Of American Poet Langston Hughes By Reading Selections From His Work And Discussing His Influence On Their Own Writing At Noon In The Whittall Pavilion. Contact: 707-5394.

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Born:

December 24

Click here (1698 – Click here/1779) English bishop, literary critic

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Benjamin Rush (1745 - 1813) American physician/general (Continental Army, signed Declaration of Independence)

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George Crabbe (1754-3 February,1832 English Romantic poet and curate  (Everlasting Mercy)

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Click here (1798-1855) Polish playwright, political activist, & national poet (Pan Tadeusz)

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Christopher "Kit" Carson 1809 -68  US Union Brigadier-General/Indian fighter

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James Prescott Joule 1818 –Oct 11,1889, Brit physicist (discovered conservation of energy)

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Click here (1818-1889  ) Eng  Victorian poet

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Click here (1822- April 15, 1888) English  Victorian poet and critic  (Dover Beach)

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Click here (1838 – Click here/1923) English historian

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Tevfik Fikret 1867 - August 19, 1915) Mehmed Tevfik/ Servet-i Fünun, Sis), ) Click here poet considered the founder of the modern school of Click here   

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Juan Ramón Jiménez 1881- February 6, 1985.), Spain, Ex-pat poet and journalist (Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956)

The Final Journey

.... and I will go away.

And the birds will stay, singing

And my garden will stay

With its green tree

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And every afternoon the sky will be blue and peaceful

And the pealing of bells will be like this afternoon’s

Peal of the bell of the high campanile.

They will die, all those who loved me

And every year the town will be revived, again

And in my circle of green white-limed flowering garden

My spirit will dwell nostalgic from tree to well.

And I will go away

And I will be lonely without my home

And without my tree with its green foliage

Without my white water well

Without the blue peaceful sky

And the birds will stay

Singing

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Click here  (1898 – Click here/1962)   US film director

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 Howard Hughes  (1905 – Click here/1976) reclusive US billionaire (Hughes Aircraft)/inventor

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Click here / René Brabazon Raymond (1906-1985) Eng. thrillers and gangster stories

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I[sidore] F[einstein] Stone (1907-Click here/1989) US writer /journalist (IF Stone's Weekly, Columbia Award 1971)

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Fritz [Reuter] Leiber Jr  (1910-92) US, sci-fi author/ fantasy writer (Bazaar of the Bizarre)

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Click here (1927/29-  ) NY mystery writer(A Cry in the Night, Stillwatch)

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Anwar El Sadat (1918 - Click here-Click here) Egypt, President of Egypt (1970-81)

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Dave Bartholomew 1920- Louisiana, jazz artist/songwriter (Blueberry Hill)
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Ava Gardner 1922 -Click here, Click here  US Ex-pat (Eng/ Spain)actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana)

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Robert Joffrey [Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan] (1930 –March 25,1988, US, choreographer (Joffrey Ballet)

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Nicholas Meyer (1945-  ) US director (Star Trek II Wrath of Khan)

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Passed:

December 24

Vasco da Gama (1469 -1524)  Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin India

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Joel Barlow (1754 -1812) US Poet/ Hero/diplomat

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Click here (18 July 1811-1863) Eng Victorian  Journalist, Artist, Lecturer & Poet

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Click here (Click here/1838-1914) Scottish- American naturalist and explorer

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Konstantin Dmitrieyevich Balmont  (1867–1942/3, Russian poet and translator.

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Seabury Grandin Quinn / Jerome Burke; (December 1889 - 1969) American Click here Click here, most famous for his stories of the Click here Click here, published in Click here.

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Charles Atlas [Angelo Siciliano]   Oct 30,1892 -1972 It/American body builder

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Click here (Click here/1897-1982) French writer/ poet (Pour un Réalisme Socialiste)

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Hymn

They restored man to the earth
They said you will eat
And you will eat

They cast the heavens to the earth
They said The Click here will perish
And the gods will perish

They made a building site of the earth
They said The weather will be beautiful
And the weather will be beautiful

They opened a hole on the earth
They said The flame will Click here forth
And the flame will burst forth

Speaking to the Click here the earth
They said You will give way
And you will give way

They took in their hands the earth
They said The black shall be white
And the black shall be white

Glory on the lands and the earth
To the sun of Bolshevik days
And Glory to the Bolsheviks

Louis Aragon

Source: Hourra l’Oural. 1934, Denoel, Paris;  Translated: by Click here; CopyLeft: Click here (Attribute & ShareAlike) Click here 2007

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Peter Lawford (Sept 7 ,1923 -1984) Brit/US actor (The Thin Man)
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Gardner F[rancis] Fox ( 1911-1986 ) US author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman)
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Pierre Culliford [Peyo] (  1925- 1992) Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs)

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Alexander Mackendrick ( Sept 8,1912  -1993) British/US director (Lady Killers)

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Norman Vincent Peale (May 31 1898, -1993 ) US rev (Power of Positive Thinking)

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John James Osborne ( 1929 -1994) Brit playwright- Look Back in Anger,

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Geoffrey Pinnington 21 March 1919–1995) Click here Click here.

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Anthea Joseph ( Oct 1940-1997 ) Brit music producer(Troubadour folk club )

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Bonus Poem:

Lovers

YOU were glad to-night: and now you’ve gone away.
Flushed in the dark, you put your dreams to bed;
But as you fall asleep I hear you say
Those tired sweet drowsy words we left unsaid.
Sleep well: for I can follow you, to bless		5
And Click here your distant beauty where you roam;
And with wild songs of hoarded loveliness
Recall you to these arms that were your home.                                Siegfried Sassoon    (1886–1967). Picture-Show. 1920.

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