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Events:

December 1, 2012 - New York City.11:00AM ,Using as a starting point her latest book A Perfect Day, which features collages that illuminate the perfect winter day, Carin Berger will help children embark on their own magical journeys through a winter’s day. Afterward, everyone will create striking white silhouette collages on black paper. Carin Berger is also the author and illustrator of Ok Go and Forever Friends. Poets House is located at Ten River Terrace (at Murray Street), New York, NY 10282
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Christmas Entertainment

Dec 1 Laconia

Click here - The Historic Belknap Mill, 25 Beacon St E Laconia, , NH
7;30 PM Tickets also available at Greenlaw's Music in Laconia and League of NH Craftsmen in Meredith.

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Born:

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 Francesco Stradivari 1671 Italian violin maker/son of Antonius

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Eggert Olafsson  1726—May 1768, Icelandic poet and antiquarian,

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Madame Marie Tussaud, (1760-1850  ). French  wax museum owner

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Click here, (1847)US poe,t a farmer’s daughter who published terrible poetry in a volume called The Sentimental Songbook (1876). She was parodied in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as the character Emmeline Grangerford.

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George Sterling (1869 – November 17, 1926) American Click here

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A Winter Sunset

There seems no wind in all the land.

    Austere against the fading light

I see a lonely cypress stand,

    As carved from steel and malachite.

Beyond, a single sea-bird flies

    To gain its far and craggy home

Below the lemon-colored skies—

    An ocean-islet ringed with foam.

In all the land there seems no stir

    Save that or pinions westward flown.

Glad weather, fellow traveler!

    To-night I also fare alone.

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Click here  (1886 – Click here/1975)  English /Click here- mystery writer (Nero Wolf)Click hereClick here

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Robert Welch 1899- – Jan 6, 1985) Click here businessman, political activist and author  -founded John Birch Society 

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Click here (1905-1984) U.S. journalist and fantasy novelist (Circus of Dr Lao)

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 Minoru Yamasaki 1912- Feb 7,1986 architect (World Trade Center, New York)

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Mary Martin 1913-Nov 3,1990  US theatrical & screen actress Larry Hagman's mom Peter Pan

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Click hereClick here  [ Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935-  ) US comic, actor, director and screenwriter

What’s New, Pussycat? Take the Money and Run.

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Lou Rawls 1935 /1936 - January 6, 2006.   US, singer (Dean Martin's Gold-diggers, Natural Man

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Click here  (1939 – )  US PGA golfer (US Open 1968, 71)

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Click hereClick here  (1940 – Click here/2005)  US comic, on television shows like the Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show, then in Las Vegas actor Stir Crazy

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John Densmore 1944 -   US , drummer (Doors-‘Light My Fire’ 'Riders On The Storm')

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Click here  (1945 – )  US singer, (Wind Beneath My Wings, Do You Want to Dance?)/actress (Beaches, First Wives Club), starred in the film 'The Rose' based on the life of Janis Joplin.

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Gilbert O'Sullivan 1946 -  Ireland, singer, songwriter, (Alone Again Naturally)

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 Jaco John Francis Anthony Pastorius 1951/ 21st September 1987  US jazz guitarist (Weather Report-Word of Mouth'Birdland'). Also worked with Joni Mitchell and Pat Metheny.

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Treat Williams 1951 -  US actor (Flashpoint, Hair)

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Passed:

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Isaac Watts   July 17, 1674-  1748 English Pastor ,Poet

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Oliver Wolcott Novr 20, 1726 –1797) a signer of the Click here Click here and also the Click here as a Click here of Click here and the fourth Click here.

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Richard Barham Middleton (28 Oct 1882 –1911) British poet, who also wrote short stories The Ghost Ship

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Aleister Edward S Crowley 1875-1947  British occultist

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Click here (Click here/1877 –1947) English mathematician

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1886 –1973)  Israeli Prime Minister/  founding father of Israel

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Eric S. Needham  1921-  1983 English SF Fan ,writer

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Variation on an Ancient Theme

John Brown's autogyro's kinda old and quaint,
It needs a modern engine and a decent coat of paint,
A body and new rotors before he becomes a saint,
But John goes rattling on!

Glory! glory! bring the glue jar!
Glory! glory! what a stooge y'are!
Glory! glory! Uncle Oojah!
John goes rattling on!

John Brown's autogyro's not the latest style -
Probably manufactured when the Pharoahs sailed the Nile,
A prehistoric relic, but it's good for many a mile,
So John goes rattling on!

Glory! glory! get some plaster!
Glory! glory! Alabaster
to mark the spot of the disaster
Where John stopped rattling on!

From SATELLITE Vol.2 No.8 August 1939

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 Philip Larkin  Aug .9, 1922 -1985 English poet  Arrival

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Click here (Click here/1931 – 12/01/1989) US writer/ choreographer

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History:

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1821 Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats Click here byThe Literaery chronicle

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1955, Click here was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man

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1957, the New York City Ballet premiered Agon, a collaboration between composer Click here (1882-1971) and choreographer George Balanchine (1904-1983). The "Pas de deux" choreographed by Balanchine to the music of Stravinsky and danced by Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell became a defining moment in ballet history.

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1957, Buddy Holly and the Crickets appeared on 'The Ed Sullivan Show', performing 'That'll Be The Day' and 'Peggy Sue'. Sam Cooke was also a guest on the same show performing 'You Send Me'.

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Bonus Poem:

From An Ode

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The Bird to whom the spacious Aire was given,
As in a smooth and trackless Path to go,
A Walk which does no Limits know
Pervious alone to Her and Heaven :
Should she her Airy Race forget,
On Earth affect to walk and sit;
Should she so high a Priviledge neglect,
As still on Earth, to walk and sit, affect,
What could she of Wrong complain,
Who thus her Birdly Kind doth stain,
If all her Feathers moulted were,
And naked she were left and bare,
The Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire?

                                     Anne Killigrew