May 20

Events:

May 19th –20th Kingston NH The New Hampshire Renaissance Faire  At Three Maples Farm ; from 10 to 5 PM each day. A portion of the proceeds raised is donated to charity.   Tickets for this event are: $12.50 for adults and $8.00 for kids from ages 5 -12.  Kids age 4 and under will be free.  3 Maples Renaissance Corporation   44 Tucker Road   Kingston, NH 03834   Click here   Click here

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Born:

May 20

William Thornton, 1759 - March 28, 1828 architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)

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Click here  (1768 – Click here/1849)  US first lady (4)

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William Congreve 1772 – 16 May 1828) Click here Click here and Click here pioneer

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-08/18/1850) French writer -novels and short stories

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John Stuart Mill (1806 – 05/08/1873) English philosopher, economist

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Frédéric Passy 1822-1922- French economist/pacifist; co-winner of 1st Nobel Peace Prize (1901)

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell 1825-1921  clergy (1st ordained US female minister)

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James William Reilly 1828 -1905 Brigadier General (Union volunteers),

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Sigrid Undset   (1882-1949), Norwegian novelist Nobel Prize for Literature1928

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Margery Allingham (1889 or 1904 – 06/30/1966) English writer

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Click here  (1894 – Click here/1988)  US journalist

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Click here  (1908 – Click here/1997)  US actor

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Gardner F[rancis] Fox, 1911 - December 24, 1986 US, sci-fi author (best known for creating numerous Click here characters for Click here

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Click here  (1919 – Click here/1991)  US comedian

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Click hereilyn Sarkisian LaPiere  (1946 – )  Armenian/part Cherokee and French.-US singer, actor

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William Michaelian, 1956- American novelist and poet

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Behind the Building

We hid. Talked. Laughed. Smoked cigarettes.

Drank rum and coke. Made promises.

Kept each other warm. Lied. Tried. Cried.

Said good-bye. Came back a thousand times.

Then one day the building was gone.

And everyone in town could see us there.

It was cruel. That’s what it was. Some froze.

Others ran. A few held up our hands.

Now we’re gone too. Scattered to corners.

Crevices. Behind the baseboards. Under the sink.

Bars. Offices. Stores. Mental wards. Cemeteries.

Wherever people go when light shines hard upon them.

To hide while their shells harden. Or to sing.

William Michaelian

[From Songs and Letters, first published September 11, 2007.]     posted at Click here

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Click here   (1958 – )  US singer (Go-Gos)

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Anthony Wayne Tony Stewart, 1971 - American race car driver

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What is it to believe? Being a carer

A cradle rockin

Passed:

May 20

Click here   (Click here/1451 –1506)   Italian explorer

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Thomas  Sprat  Sept 20, 1635  -1713  Click here Click here  Click here Click here Click here Scholar/poet  - Click here

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Alexander Ross (c. 1590–1654) Click here writer Poet and controversialist.

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Click here the younger (Jan. 9, 1728-1790) Eng. Click here from 1785 and author of the first history of English poetry,

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Click here  (Click here/1757 – 05/20/1834) French soldier, statesman

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Joseph Blanco White  07/ 11/ 1775   - 1841   Click here /Spanish   Click here Man of letters theologian and poet

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Mary Ann Lamb (3 December 1764 –1847), Click here writer, the sister and collaborator of Click here.

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John Clare   July 13, 1793 1864  English Click here  writer  / Poet

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Waldo Williams, 1904-71 Welsh poet

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Click here for Silence

Heal my noise, O God.
Drown the bayonet-
Fit tides of volume
Rising within the
Skull from chin to crown.

Silence my violence,
O God, within the
Gnarly thorns of your
Bloody shalom. Find
Me in paradise.

Be still all my wars,
Lion of Judah.
By an outstretched arm,
Sullied by nail's round
Socket, wash me clean.

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Alan Dunn (08,11,1900–1974) was a cartoonist known for his work in Click here.

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Source: Poetry (April Stephen Jay Gould, 1941- 2002 American paleontologist

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History:

May 20

1927, the "Lone Eagle,"Charles A(gustus) Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis took off alone from muddy Roosevelt Field on Long Island.

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1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic

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1937 W. H. Auden's Spain was published

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Bonus Poem:

Night among the Thousand Islands

Click hereMysterious falls the moon's transforming light

2 On lichen-covered rock and granite wall,

3Comes piercing through the hollows of the night

4 The loon's weird, plaintive call.

5Like some great regiment upon the shore

6 The stalwart pines go trooping up the hill,

7And faintly in the distance o'er and o'er

8 Echoes the whip-poor-will.

9Like silhouettes the dreaming islands keep

10 Their silent watches, mirrored in the tide,

11While in their labyrinthine aisles some deep,

12 Still mystery seems to hide.

13From out the shadows dim against the sky

14 Come stealing shadow-ships not made of men,

15Faint phantom-barques that slowly drifting by

16 Are swallowed up again.

17While silently beneath, the river flows,

18 Unfathomed, dark, a great resistless tide,

19Within its bosom deep the virgin snows

20 From many a mountain-side.

21And, drifting with the current, how we feel

22 The haunting witchery of Beauty's spell!

23The world we left behind seems all unreal.

24 Where such enchantments dwell.

25The vexing cares that overfill our days

26 Slip stealthily away, and we are wooed

27Back to the healing, half-forgotten ways

28 Of peace and solitude.

                                   Helena Jane Coleman (1860-1953)

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