Nov 20

Events:

Nov 27^th Portland, Women of the World Poetry Slam Qualifier. Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street – Portland, ME – 04101  All Ages – $3 Cover 7-10pm (Slam at 8:30) This Poetry Slam Inc, certified event will qualify a local poet to compete at the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam competition in Minneapolis, MN. There will be a $10 buy-in for poets wishing to compete. Please come with three original pieces of poetry to compete. Click here

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Click here (1752 – Click here/1770) English writer / poet (Christabel)

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                 from A New Song

She's damnable ugly, my Vanity cried,
You lie, says my Conscience, you lie;
Resolving to follow the dictates of Pride,
I'd view her a hag to my eye.

But should she regain her bright lustre again,
And shine in her natural charms,
'Tis but to accept of the works of my pen,
And permit me to use my own arms.

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Oliver Wolcott 1726 -Dec. 1, 1797 (Ct-Gov), signed Declaration of Independence

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Click here 1855- Sept 14,1916  US philosopher The Religious Aspect of Philosophy

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Click here  1858 -1940  Sweden, novelist (Tales of a Manor-Nobel 1909)

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Click hereFinnish social anthropologist, philosopher, and sociologist     

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Click here (1884 – Click here/1968) US -socialist (presidential candidate 1928-48)

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Click here, 1889-1953  ), US astronomer for whom the Hubble Telescope is named.

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Click here,1900-May 11, 1985, cartoonist creator of Dick Tracy, Detroit Daily Mirror- 1931.. The comic strip also featured a “Crimestopper Notebook,” which offered tips on crime prevention.

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Click here (1908 – Click here/2004) Brit American journalist and commentator, actor (Masterpiece Theatre) Click here, which began in 1946. It was broadcast to fifty-two countries on the BBC World Service, and was the longest running radio program in history.

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Kon Ichikawa   1915 – 2008  Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks)

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Click here (1918 – Click here/1986) US artist

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Click here  (1919 – Click here/2008) US actor (married to Click here, Click here, and Click here)

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Click here (1923 – ) S. African actress/writer (Lying Days) 1991 Nobel Prize in literature.
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Click here (1925 – Click here/1968) (D-Sen-NY) AG

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John Gardner 1926- 3 August 2007. Brit. spy novelist (Bond sequels)

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Click here (1934 – Click here/2006) US journalist
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Click here (1936 – ) US writer – novelist& playwright  White Noise

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Dick Smothers 1939-  NYC, comedian (Smother Brothers' Show)/The sharper pencil

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Click here 1942- singer/ songwriter Spirit in the Sky

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Click here  (1942 – )  US Vice President (47)

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Click here, (1945-  ), US writer best known for her short story collections: Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986) and Under the 82nd Airborne (1992).

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Click here 1946- journalist PBS newscaster
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Click here (1946 – Click here/1971) US musician   (Allman Brothers-Jessica, Ramblin' Man)

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Joe Walsh 1947-   US guitarist/rocker (Eagles-Take it Easy) Life’s Been Good to me

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Click here  (/1954 – )  US actor
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Click hereClick here  (1959 – )  US actor  Blade Runner

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Click here (June 1, 1793 -1847) : Victorian Anglican Minister-Hymns & Poems

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Click here (March 7, 1837-82) Astronomer Early astral-photographer

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Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 –1910Click here) Russian writer -Click here and Click here. ; also wrote Click here and Click here. His two most famous works, the Click here Click here and Click here

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Click here  (Click here/1850 –1933)  English politician, scholar

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Click here ( feb 25, 1866- 1952) philosopher Philosophy of Spirit

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Click here  (Click here/1924 –1973)  US comic - songwriter ("Camp Granada")

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from No One’s Perfect

My Aunt Minnie bought a mini-skirt,
A mini-skirt,
A mini-skirt.
She's too skinny for a mini-skirt.
Such a skinny creature
Shouldn't feature such a feature
But my old Aunt Minnie bought a mini-skirt
And all the fellas flirt.
Everybody's wise
To my Aunt Minnie's thighs
In her crazy mini-skirt.
She's thinking young,
She's thinking young.
She's thinking younger than the youngters she's among.
She's really cool, she's hip,
A gas, a trip.
She's the inspiration
For the Pepsi generation.

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Click here  (Click here/1925 –2006)  US film director

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Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 –2006) Click here writer novelist (Matt Helm) , short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors.

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1866, ten members of the First Congregational Society of Washington, D.C., gathered in the home of Deacon Henry Brewster for a missionary meeting. While there, they resolved to establish a seminary for the training of African-American clergymen. By early 1867, the founders had broadened their mission to encompass colleges of liberal arts and medicine.

Howard UniversityClick here was incorporated on March 2, 1867, and accepted its first students the following May. Its founders envisioned the institution as a resource for educating and training black physicians, teachers, and ministers from the nearly four million recently emancipated slaves.

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1934, Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour opened on Broadway.

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1942, Click here, working closely with partners in U.S. civilian agencies and Canada officially opened the Click here.

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Bonus Poem:

Ballade Of Dead Actors

Where are the passions they essayed,
And where the tears they made to flow?
Where the wild humours they portrayed
For laughing worlds to see and know?
Othello's wrath and Juliet's woe?
Sir Peter's whims and Timon's gall?
And Millamant and Romeo?
Into the night go one and all.

Where are the braveries, fresh or frayed?
The plumes, the armours--friend and foe?
The cloth of gold, the rare brocade,
The mantles glittering to and fro?
The pomp, the pride, the royal show?
The cries of war and festival?
The youth, the grace, the charm, the glow?
Into the night go one and all.

The curtain falls, the play is played:
The Beggar packs beside the Beau;
The Monarch troops, and troops the Maid;
The Thunder huddles with the Snow.
Where are the revellers high and low?
The clashing swords? The lover's call?
The dancers gleaming row on row?
Into the night go one and all.

Envoy

Prince, in one common overthrow
The Hero tumbles with the Thrall:
As dust that drives, as straws that blow,
Into the night go one and all.

                                                        Edward John Henley (1861-1898)

 Strafford Notes, November 20, 2012