May 23

Events:

May 23rd, Exeter, 7 PM Katherine Towler, author/ Co-author ( with Ilya Kaminsky ) of   “A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith” At Christ Church EpiscopalAdditional:  43 Pine Street Exeter New Hampshire03833-2456 Click here      Click here

Born:

 
Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 01/10/1778) Swedish botanist, zoologist
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Thomas Hood (1799 – 05/03/1845) English writer poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)

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Margaret Fuller (1810 – 07/19/1850) US writer, critic, and feminist,).,Woman In The Nineteenth Century (1845). She was a founder of the Transcendentalist journal The Dial,

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Henri-François -Alphonse Esquiros 1812 - May 1276, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles)

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James Sanks Brisbin 1837 -1892 Brevet Major General (Union volunteers),

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Charles Edmund Nash, 1844-1913  African-American politician. In 1865, battle of Fort Blakely, AL, Four years later, he was appointed night inspector in the New Orleans Custom House.  In 1874, elected to the House of representatives (the 44th Congress, serving from 1875 to March 3, 1877.

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Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, 1869-1944, African-American writer and drama instructor

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Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1875 – 02/17/1966) US businessman

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Adrian Roland Holst, 1888 -Aug 5, 1976 Dutch writer/ poet "Prince of Dutch Poets". (Raged & Tired)

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The Vagabond

They weigh the pros and cons
their money and their Click here
and are set to resist
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because my hands
and eyes are empty
carried through their
lands, and remained silent
in their differences,
and went as blind
for the solitary will
of wind and stars.

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Mary Susanne Edgar, 1889 - September 17, 1973.   Canadian YWCA leader who wrote hymns "God, Who Touchest Earth with Beauty."

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Pär Lagerkvist 1891- 1974 Swedish writer, Nobel /Lit 1951.

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Scott O’Dell, (1898- 1989  ). US writer Newberry Award winning, The Island Of The Blue Dolphin (1960)

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Walter Reisch, 1903 –March 28,1983 US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)

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Sheila Wingfield, (1906-92 ). British poet and memoirist   Beat Drum, Beat Heart(1946), is actually a single, long poem that grapples with the causes and effects of World War Two.  Real People (1952) Click here

John Bardeen, (1908- January 30, 1991). American physicist/ shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of Click here- an abbreviation of transfer and resistor. He later shared a second Nobel Prize for helping explain how any substance could achieve perfect conductivity.

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Scatman Crothers, 1910- Nov 22,1986 African-American actor and musician, “Between Heaven and Hell” (1956), “The Patsy” (1964), “The Great White Hope” (1970), “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975), “The Shinning” (1980), and “Twilight Zone: The Movie” (1983). On TV, some of his parts were in Mannix, McMillan and Wife, and Sanford and Son in 1972, and Chico and the Man in 1974
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Artie Shaw [Arthur Jacob Arshawsky] (1910 – 12/30/2004) US bandleader

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Margaret Wise Brown, 1910 -52 American author (Goodnight Moon)

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Helen O'Connell 1920- 0909/1993 US Big band vocalist

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James [Benjamin] Blish 1921 - 29 June 1975, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader)

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Click here  (1923 – Click here/2002)  US singer, actor("Come on-a My House

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Wilbur Nelson, ? 1926 – Aug.22, 2003 Christian broadcast personality /host of "The Morning Chapel Hour,"
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Joan Collins (1933 – ) English actor

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Click here, , 1934-  . Electrical engineer /creator of the Moog synthesizer,

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Jane Kenyon, 1947 - 1995 American poet  (THE BOAT OF QUIET OF HOURS; LET EVENING COME; OTHERWISE)

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Mitch Albom , 1958 - American writer

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Jewel [Kilcher] (05/23/1974 – ) US, folk/rock vocalist (Pieces of You)
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Passed:

Girolamo Savonarola 1452-98, hanged and then incinerated in the same piazza in which the citizens of Florence had earlier attended more than one “bonfire of the vanities.”

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William Kidd  c.1645 - 1701 Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock
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José Asunción Silva (November 27, 1865 i –1896 Click here poet

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Henry Blodget   -1903 American Congregational missionary  ; served 40 years in China (1854-94), translate the New Testament into the colloquial Mandarin language of Peking.
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Mary Ashton Livermore (12/19/1820 –1905) US social reformer
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Henrik Ibsen (03/20/1828 –1906) Norwegian writer

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François Edouard Joachim Coppée (26 January 1842 –1908) Click here Click here and Click here.
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October Morning

It is the exquisite and early hour,
The sudden sunrise reddens the sky.
Through the autumn mist
The garden leaves fall.

Their fall is slow. We can follow them
With our eyes and recognize
The oak by its Click here of copper,
The maple by its leaf of blood.

The last ones, the most rusty
Fall from the bare branches,
But it’s not winter yet.

A fair light sprinkles down on
Nature and in the whole rosy sky
You’d think it was snowing gold.

Translated by Monique Palomares and Lisa Yannucci.

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John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (07/08/1839 –1937) US Industrialist
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Heinrich Himmler (10/07/1900 –1945) German Gestapo head
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“C.F.” Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (September 24, 1878-1947) Swiss poet
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Lew Welch (08/16/1926 –1971) US writer Beat Poet

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Click here   (Click here/1894 –1975)  US comedienne
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Click here  (Click here/1898 –1981)  US actor

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Roberto Sosa (18 April 1930 –2011)  Honduran author ,editor,teacher,and poet -Los Pobres in 1969, Un Mundo Para Todos Dividido, published in 1971, won the Click here in Click here. By 1990, he had published six Click here, three of prose, and two anthologies of Honduran literature. In 1990, he published Obra Completa (Click here Works)^[

The Difficult Days, Poems, The Common Grief, and The Return of the River have all been translated into English.

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Sites:

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History:

1934  Outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow gunned down by a group of Texas Rangers in Plain Dealing, Louisiana.

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1939 Submarine Squalis sinks off Portsmouth NH, 26 die

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1969 Jorge Luis Borges's Click here was published

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Bonus Poem:

HUNTING SONG

Comes the deer to my singing,
Comes the deer to my song,
Comes the deer to my singing.

He, the blackbird, he am I,
Bird beloved of the wild deer,
Comes the deer to my singing.

From the Mountain Black,
From the summit,
Down the trail, coming, coming now,
Comes the deer to my singing.

Through the blossoms,
Through the flowers, coming, coming now,
Comes the deer to my singing.

Through the flower dew-drops,.
Coming, coming now,
Comes the deer to my singing.

Through the pollen, flower pollen,
Coming, coming now,
Comes the deer to my singing.

Starting with his left fore-foot,
Stamping, turns the frightened deer,
Comes the deer to my singing.

Quarry mine, blessed am I
In the luck of the chase.
Comes the deer to my singing.

Comes the deer to my singing,
Comes the deer to my song,
Comes the deer to my singing.

                                            -From the NAVAJO

The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America

Edited by George W. Cronyn [1918]

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