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Events:

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

Born:

December 26 BOXING DAY

Click here (1716– Click here/1771) English writer ,poet  ( Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)

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Thomas Nelson , Jr. (1738 – January 4, 1789) Click here planter, soldier, and statesman from Click here. He represented Click here in the Click here and was its Governor in 1781. He is regarded as one of the Click here since he signed the Click here as a member of the Click here delegation.

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Click here (1792 – Click here/1871) English mathematician inventor (calculating machine)

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William Nelson Pendleton 1809 - January 15, 1883) Click here teacher, Click here priest, and soldier. He served as a Click here Click here during the Click here, noted for his position as Gen. Click here's chief of Click here for most of the conflict.

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Israel Bush Richardson 1815 -1862 Major General (Union volunteers)

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Dionysius Lardner Boucicault 1820 /2– 18 September 1890), Click here Click here and Click here (Rip van Winkle)

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Admiral George Dewey 1837 – Jan 16,1917 American naval hero of Manila

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Friedrich Engel (1861 -95) German mathematician (group theory)

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Click here ( 1863-94) Eng journalist

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Julien Benda ( 1867 -1956) French philosopher/writer (Dialogues à Byzance)

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Click here (1891 – Click here/1980) US writer -novelist and painter. (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus)

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Click here (1893 – Click here/1976) Chinese political leader,poet PM of China People's Republic (1949-76)

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Nathan Eugene Jean Toomer (1894-1967) US Writer

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Rosemary Woods (1917 - January 22, 2005) Click here's Click here from his days in the Congress in 1951, through his Vice Presidency, Presidency, and until the end of his Click here.

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Click here (1921 – Click here/2000) US comic, actor, composer, writer comedian/TV host (Tonight

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GRAVY WALTZ

Pretty mamma’s in the kitchen this glorious day

Smell the gravy simmerin’ nearly half a mile away

Lady morning glory, I say good morning to you

Chirpy little chickadee told me that my baby was true

Well, she really ran to get her frying pan

When she saw me coming

Gonna get a taste before it goes to waste

This honeybee’s humming

Mister Weeping Willow, I’m through with all of my faults

‘cause my baby’s ready to do the ever new gravy waltz

Well, she really ran to get her frying pan

When she saw me coming

I’m gonna get a taste before it goes to waste

This honeybee’s humming

Mister Weeping Willow, I’m through with all of my faults

‘cause my baby’s ready to do the ever new gravy waltz

Mr Weeping Willow, I’m through with all of my faults

‘cause my baby is ready to do the ever new gravy,

Mmm, nice gravy dear, waltz.

(Ray Brown / Steve Allen)

Joe Williams & Friends - 1963

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Click here (1926 – Click here/1991) US writer

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[Harvey] Click here (1940 – ) US music producer,hard-timer(Wall of Sound)

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Passed:

December 26 BOXING DAY (CANADA)

St. Dionysius    (  259/68  -0267) bishop of Rome/saint

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Click here (Click here/1715 –1771) French philosopher/ encyclopedist (L'esprit)

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Johann Gottlieb Rall (  …-1776 ) Hessian colonel/mercenary

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John Wilkes (17th October 1725 -1797) English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader

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Click here (  27 November ,1758-1800) Irish/Eng. Poet & writer

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Click here (  April 18,1809-1831) Indian poet, teacher

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Click here  (Click here/1814 –1880)  US clergyman

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Heinrich Schliemann (  Jan,6,1822 -1890) German archaeologist (Trojan War)

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Frank McKinney Click here (Click here/1868 –1930) US writer

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James Stephens (Click here/1882 –1950) Irish writer / poet (Crock of Gold),

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from  The Spring In Ireland: 1916

		I Do not forget my charge I beg of you ; That of what flow'rs you find of fairest hue And sweetest odor you do gather those Are best of all the best — a fragrant rose, A tall calm lily from the waterside, A half-blown poppy leaning at the side Its graceful head to dream among the corn, Forget-me-nots that seem as though the morn Had tumbled down and grew into the clay, And hawthorn buds that swing along the way Easing the hearts of those who pass them by Until they find contentment. — Do not cry, But gather buds, and with them greenery Of slender branches taken from a tree Well bannered by the spring that saw them fall: Then you, for you are cleverest of all Who have slim fingers and are pitiful, Brimming your lap with bloom that you may cull, Will sit apart, and weave for every head A garland of the flow'rs you gathered.

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Louise L [Lévêque] de Vilmorin (4 April 1902 -1969) French poet/ novelist, History d'aimer)  and journalist.
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Harry Truman (  May 8 ,1884-1972) 33rd US President

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Jack Benny (Click here, Click here -1974) US comedian (Jack Benny Show)
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Howard Hawks ( MAY 30,1896  -1977 )director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!)

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Dian Fossey ( JAN 16,1932  -1985 )  zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist)

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Samuel Beckett (  1906-1989) Irish novelist and playwright

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Bonus Poem:

Learning to Write a Sonnet

The sonnet form is old and full of dust
And yet I want to learn to write one well.
To learn new forms and grow is quite a must,
But I will learn it quickly, I can tell.

And so I sit, today, with pen in hand,
Composing three new quatrains with a rhyme.
The rhythm flows like wind at my command.
The A-B-A-B form consumes my time.

But I’m not done until there’s fourteen lines.
One ending couplet, after three quatrains.
I’ve tried to write this new form several times.
The effort’s huge; I have to rack my brain.

But I persist, my fourteen lines now done.
I wrote my poem; my sonnet work is won.

by Denise Rodgers


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