Nov 30

Events:

Nov 30 Evanston Il, 6:00 p.m. Brothers K Coffeehouse, 500 Main Street , Evanston, IL

RHINO Reads! presents: Open Mic & Featured Readers Maja Teref, Stefen Teref, Helen Degen Cohen
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Click here (/1554 – Click here/1586) English poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia) The Defence of Poesie

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Click here (1667 – Click here/1745) English writer /satirist Click here.

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Click here 1817- Nov 1,1903    German historian and archaeologist  Roman History Click here 1902

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Samuel Clemens Click here (1835 – Click here/1910)aka US writer / humoristThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. The Innocents Abroad (1869),The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and later, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).

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Click here (1874 – Click here/1942) Canadian writer (Anne of the Green Gables)
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Sir Click here (1874 – Click here/1965) Eng. Statesman, PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953) historian, and biographer

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Click here 1894- Aug 2,1980   US Author The Philadelphia Story

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Click here 1900-1988 - British author of thrillers Rogue Male

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Click here1906- February 27,1977) American writer of detective fiction

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Click here (11/30/1907 – ) French/ American educator writer - historian and critic Click here,

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Click here, (1915- Sept 26,2000 ).US  poet The Circus of the Sun

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THE MORNING STARS

Have you seen my circus?
Have you known such a thing?
Did you get up in the early morning and see the wagons pull into town?
Did you see them occupy the field?
Were you there when it was set up?
Did you see the cookhouse set up in dark by lantern light?
Did you see them build the fire and sit around it smoking and talking quietly?
As the first rays of dawn came, did you see them roll in blankets and go to sleep?
A little sleep until time came to
unroll the canvas, raise the tent,
draw and carry water for the men and animals;
were you there when the animals came forth,
the great lumbering elephants to drag the poles and unroll the canvas?
Were you there when the morning moved over the grasses?
Were you there when the sun looked through dark bars of clouds
at the men who slept by the cookhouse fire?
Did you see the cold morning wind nip at their blankets?
Did you see the morning star twinkle in the firmament?
Have you heard their laughter around the cookhouse fire?
When the morning stars threw down their spears and watered heaven?
Have you looked at spheres of dew on spears of grass?
Have you watched the light of a star through a world of dew?
Have you seen the morning move over the grasses?
And to each leaf the morning is present.
Were you there when we stretched out the line,
when we rolled out the sky,
when we set up the firmament?
Were you there when the morning stars
sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

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Click here (1924 – Click here/1973) US comic parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah)

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Click here (1924 – Click here/2005) D-Rep-NY), 1st black congresswoman/presidential candidate

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Click here (/1929 –   ) US ageless celebrity , host of US TV's longest running music show American Bandstand.

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Click here (1936– Click here/1989)aka Free US Yippie /activist/author writer, (Steal This Book ) 60s revolutionary
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Click here (1937 – ) English director

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Frank Ifield, 1937-  Australian singer/songwriter/yodeler 'I Remember You'

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Click here (1947 – ) US playwright - screenwriter and director American Buffalo. 1977

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Click here (1954 – ) US economist, Harvard president
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Click here (1955 – ) English singer (Generation X)

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Passed:

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William Habington(Nov 4,1605-1654)Eng  poet  Castara

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Click here (Click here/1584 –/1654) English orientalist and jurist

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Click here (Click here/1817 –1878) English Click here /philosopher
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Click here/1854 –1900) Irish author - writer and wit The Picture of Dorian Gray Chanson

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Click here (Click here/1914–1943) Dutch lawyer, writer (died at Auschwitz)
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Click here (Click here/1879–1953) French artist Cubist, Dadaist

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Patrick Kavanagh (1904- 1967 / County Monaghan / Ireland) poet

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Peace

And sometimes I am sorry when the grass
Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows
And the cocksfoot leans across the rutted cart-pass
That I am not the voice of country fellows
Who now are standing by some headland talking
Of turnips and potatoes or young corn
Of turf banks stripped for victory.
Here Peace is still hawking
His coloured combs and scarves and beads of horn.

Upon a headland by a whinny hedge
A hare sits looking down a leaf-lapped furrow
There's an old plough upside-down on a weedy ridge
And someone is shouldering home a saddle-harrow.
Out of that childhood country what fools climb
To fight with tyrants Love and Life and Time?

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Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie, (Click here/1883 –1972) English writer and a Click here.

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Charles Eric Maine David McIlwain; 21 January 1921 –1981) English science Click here

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Click here (Click here/1915–1998) US writer Jubilee

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Don 'Sugarcane' Harris   June 18,1938-1999, American guitarist and violinist was part of the 50's duo Don & Dewey. He also worked with Little Richard, John Mayall, Frank Zappa, John Lee Hooker and Johnny Otis.

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History:

1130

Click here		Britain signs agreement recognizing U.S. independence

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Click here			Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac" Click here
	Click here			Day after United Nations decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked

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Click here		1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards and the News) Click here
Click here		Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

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1982, Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' album was released. It spent 190 weeks on the UK album chart became the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales over 50 million copies.

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Click here		President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill

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Bonus Poem:

Severn Falls Asleep

Death crawls closer
on nights like these,
the chill creeps in
and hangs on the walls
like curtains.
The fire dies,
the candle is eaten
by its weak fluttering flame.
My eyes close.
I have sat up so many nights
with him
they fall together
into one long stream
of darkness that flows
through my veins,
rattles in my ears
as his breath rattles
in his chest,
like a child's toy
but darker
and more slowly.

BARBARA HAMBY

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