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Events:

November 28, 2012, Washington, DC  Noon - 1 p.m. Gallery Talk : Click here Michelle Krowl discusses the many drafts of Lincoln's speech to Congress delivered on July 4, 1861, in "The Civil War in America" exhibition. free of charge  Location: Click here, Second floor, Thomas Jefferson Building  Contact: (202) 707-9203 Click here

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Click here  (1694 – Click here/1778)  French philosopher ,writer, satirist

Philosophical Letters 1734 Candide (1766),

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Sir Samuel Cunard 1787- April 28th, 1865.Canadian  founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)

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Click hereClick here (1863 – Click here/1944) English writer

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from Twilight

                               To the Parks
     Drags the slow Ladies' School, consuming time
     In passing given points.  Here glow the lamps,
     And tea-spoons clatter to the cosy hum
     Of scientific circles.  Here resounds
     The football-field with its discordant train,
     The crowd that cheers but not discriminates,
     As ever into touch the ball returns
     And shrieks the whistle, while the game proceeds
     With fine irregularity well worth
     The paltry shilling.--
                             Draw the curtains close
     While I resume the night-cap dear to all
     Familiar with my illustrated works.

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Click here   1886 – Click here/1968)   Iran-born English writer

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Click hereClick here  (1889 – Click here/1949)  English writer

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Marthe Alperine Mollie Molly Steimer (1897 – July 23, 1980) Russian-American anarchist and activist who fought as a trade unionist, an anti-war activist and a free-speech campaigner.

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Click hereClick here  (1898 – Click here/1967)  Belgian painter

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Click here 1902– July 24, 1991) Click here Click here author noted for his Click here. He was one of the leading figures in the Click here, and received the Click here in 1978.

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Coleman Hawkins 1904-69 US  tenor saxophone for jazz, “Body and Soul.”

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Click hereClick here (1907 – Click here/1987) US writer author journalist The Day Kennedy Was Shot

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Click hereClick hereClick here 1908- July 8,2006 Indian writer of Click here and short stories The Serpent and the Rope (1960

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Click here, (1908-Nov 15,1994  ) US  children’s novelist The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958)

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Stan Musial 1920  outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ)

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Click here 1923-95 Finnish journalist and juvenile Click here Tapporahat (1959

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Click here (1924- )  England. youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien; Click here of much of his father's Click here published work.Edited/ compiled The Silmarillion in 1977.

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Click here (1929 – Click here/2009) US writer Click here and feminist scholar The Women's Room’77Her Mother's Daughter (1987), Our Father (1993), and Women's History of the World (2000).
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Dame Click here (1933-  2 July 2010) English actress, short-story writer, and novelist

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Click here Shapeshifting, Winner 2005 Click here,

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Click hereClick here  (1938 – )  US actor ("That Girl")
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Click hereClick here  Malcolm Mack  John Rebennack, Jr.  (1940 – )  US pianist, "night tripper"
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Juliet Mills 1941  London England, actress (Nanny & the Professor, QB VII)
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Sandra Kay Patterson Canfield  ,(1944- Jan 23, 2003 US Writer
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Livingston Taylor 1950-  Boston, rocker (I Will be in Love With You)
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Tina Brown 1953  journalist publisher (Tatler)

Click hereClick here  Gudmundsdottir (1965 – )  Icelandic singer, songwriter Click here, actress, The Sugarcubes,
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Passed:

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Georgius Agricola ( March 24,1490-1555)  German  Father of Minerology De Re Metallica

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Jakob Bohme 1575-1624 German philosophical mystic

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James Hogg, the "Ettrick Shepherd" (1770-1835) Scottish poet and novelist The Queen's Wake

From Dedication:

O for one kindred heart that thought

As minstrel must, and lady ought,

Click hereThat loves like thee the whispering wood,

And range of mountain solitude!

Think how more wild the greenwood scene

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If times were still as they have been;

If fairies, at the fall of even

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Down from the eye–brow of the heaven,

Or some aërial land afar,

Came on the beam of rising star

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Their lightsome gambols to renew,

From the green leaf to quaff the dew,

Or dance with such a graceful tread,

As scarce to bend the gowan’s head!

Think if thou wert, some evening still,

Within thy wood of green Bowhill

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Thy native wood!—the forest’s pride

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Lover or sister by thy side;

In converse sweet the hour to improve

Of things below and things above,

Of an existence scarce begun,

And note the stars rise one by one.
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Just then, the moon and daylight blending,

To see the fairy bands descending,

Wheeling and shivering as they came,

Like glimmering shreds of human frame;

Or sailing, ’mid the golden air,

In skiffs of yielding gossamer.

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Click here (Click here/1807 -1886)  US Representative (MA) US Ambassador to the UK, 1861-68

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Garret Augustus Hobart (June 3, 1844 –, 1899) 24th Click here (1897–1899), serving under President Click here

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Click here  (??/??/1860 –1924)  US first lady (31)

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 Click here  (Click here/1889 –1945)  US writer

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Click here  (Click here/1874 –1945)  US writer Click here–novelist In This Our Life

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Melvin Thomas Ott (March 2, 1909 –, 1958), "Master Melvin", Click here Click here

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Max Baer (February 11, 1909 –, 1959) American Click here 1959 US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934)

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Click here  ( c. 1800-1970)Polish-American  novelist Bread Givers

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Click here ( May 18, 1895-1975) Icelandic  Novelist Af Borgslaegtens Historie

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Arthur James Marshall Smith (November 8, 1902 –1980) Click here and anthologist

Political Intelligence

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Click here Sept 17,1904- 1986 radio personality Sidekick of Bob Hope

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Peter Grant   -1995, manager of Led Zeppelin

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Click here  (Click here/1910 –1997)  US businessman (ITT)

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Click hereClick here  (Denis Charles Pratt,) 25 December 1908(1908-12-25) –1999(1999-11-21)), English writer and  Click here. The Naked Civil Servant

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Click here ( (Jan 31,  1949-2010)  Norman Mailer's painter/novelist wife

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Click here  ( April1, 1926-2011) Author Pern series

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History:

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1781 Freeman's Journal publishes Philip Freneau's "To the Memory of the Brave Americans"

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1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution to become the twelfth state in the Union.

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1868   Poems, ed. Donald Smalley [1956]: publication of Click here's The Ring and the Book begins

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Bonus Poem:

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Taking my pen, with words to cast my woe,

Duly to count the sum of all my cares,

I find my griefs innumerable grow,

The reckonings rise to millions of despairs;

And thus dividing of my fatal hours,

The payments of my love I read and cross,

Subtracting, set my sweets unto my sours,

My joy's arrearage leads me to my loss;

And thus mine eye's a debtor to thine eye,

Which by extortion gaineth all their looks;

My heart hath paid such grievous usury

That all their wealth lies in thy beauty's books,

            And all is thine which hath been due to me,

                         And I a bankrupt, quite undone by thee.

From Idea by  Michael Drayton

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