Nov 2

Events:

Nov 2 Exeter: First Friday Coffeehouse at First Unitarian-Universalist Society. Features at 7:00 p.m., open mike at 8:15. Suggested donation, $3-5. (Bob Moore, 642-4648 or Click here

Born:

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Click here, 1734- September 26, 1820,   frontiersman

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Click here (1795 – Click here/1849) US President (11)

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[Jules] Barbey D'Aurevilly (1808-1889), French drama and literary critic, novelist, and short story writer, whose masterpiece is considered to be Les Diaboliques (1874; The She-Devils)

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Click here (1815-   ). English mathematician "The Mathematical Analysis of Logic" (1847) originated the subject of modern symbolic logic. His work produced Boolean algebra,

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Click here (/1865 – Click here/1923) US President (29)

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Daniil Leonidovich Andreyev (1906-March 30,1959); Russian poet and mystic wrote Click here while in a Stalin prison camp

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Click here (1911-March 18, 1996 ), Greek poet and 1979 Nobel prize winner THEY CAME
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Luchino Click here di Click here, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (1906 - 17 March 1976), Click here theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. Click here (1963) and Click here (1971).

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Click here, (1913-Click here, Click here ), US actor

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Click here (1938 – ) US columnist
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Michelle Cliff (1946), Jamaican-born U.S. novelist and poet whose novels are concerned with social and political issues

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Casida of the Dark Doves

On the branches of a laurel tree
I saw two dark doves.
One was the sun.
The other the moon.
'Little neighbours,' I said to them:
'Where is my grave?'
'In my tail,' said the sun.
'In my throat,' said the moon.
And I who was walking
with the earth around my waist
saw two snow-white eagles
and a naked girl.
One was the other
and the girl was neither.
'Little eagles,' I said to them:
'Where is my grave?'
'In my tail,' said the sun.
'In my throat,' said the moon.
On the branches of a laurel tree
I saw two naked doves.
One was the other
and both were neither.

                                        Federico García Lorca  (translated by Michelle Cliff)

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Click here (1951-) American novelist and critic

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Click here (11/02/1961 – ) US singer

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Passed:

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Click here (Click here/1856 –1950) Famous English author and literary smart guy

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Click here (Click here/1894 –1961) US writer

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Mississippi John Hurt ( July3,1893-1966 ) blues singer-guitarist

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Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 –1975) Click here Click here, Click here, Click here and Click here.

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                         from A Desperate Vitality

─I'm like a cat burned alive,
crushed by a truck's tires,
hanged by boys to a fig tree,

but still with at least eight
of its nine lives, like
a snake reduced to a bloody pulp,
an eel half-eaten

─sunken cheeks under dejected eyes,
hair horribly thinned on skull,
arms skinny as a child's,
─a cat that doesn't die, Belmondo
who "at the wheel of his Alfa Romeo"
within the logic of the narcissistic montage
detaches himself from time, and inserts in it
himself,
in images that have nothing to do with
the boredom of the hours in a line,
the slow splendid death of the afternoon...

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Irwin Allen (June 12, 1916 –1991) television and film director and producer nicknamed "The Master of Disaster"

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Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. (January 14, 1892 - 1992) American Click here and Click here and Click here, and Click here

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Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 –1996) Click here Click here and guitarist -interpretations of Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here, Click here and Click here classics. In 1992Click here,  Click here in 1996

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Charles Sheffield (June 25, 1935 –2002), Click here-born mathematician, physicist and Click here author

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History:

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1862, Mary Todd Lincoln corresponded with her husband advising him of popular sentiment against the cautious commanding of general of the Army of the Potomac Click here

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1889, North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted to the Union as the 39th and 40th states, respectively

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1960, a British jury acquitted Penguin books of obscenity charges for the publication of D.H. Lawrence's controversial novel, Click here.

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Bonus Poem:

     Dream-Song

Cam'st thou not nigh to me
In that one glimpse of thee
When thy lips, tremblingly,
Said: "My Beloved."
'Twas but a moment's space,
And in that crowded place
I dared not scan thy face
O! my Beloved.

Yet there may come a time
(Though loving be a crime
Only allowed in rhyme
To us, Beloved),
When safe 'neath sheltering arm
I may, without alarm,
Hear thy lips, close and warm,
Murmur: "Beloved!"

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