December  2

Events

Dec 2, Dublin NH  Autumn Oracles 2012,  at  Del Rossi’s Trattoria          3 p.m. Open Reading  2:30 p.m. Social/Sign-up, 3 p.m. Open Reading   Feature:  MILTON’S 404^th BIRTHDAY, PARADISE LOST, Book IV, “Satan Enters Eden”  The Milton Ensemble  Donation   Route 137N, Dublin, N.H.    603-563-7195

Last minute remindaaa

Dec 7 Exeter  1st Fri.Coffee House, 7:30pm Monthly coffee house and open mic at FUUSE

Parish Hall ,12 Elm Street. Contact : Bob Moore

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Click here  (12/02/1859 – Click here/1891)  Click here pointillist (Grande Jatte)

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Click hereClick here  ( 12/02/1884 – Click here/1956) US, actress and monologist -lecture artist monologuist

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Click hereClick here  (12/02/1885 – Click here/1957)  Greek writer

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from A Poem

Blowing through the heaven and earth, and in our hearts and in the heart of every living thing, is a gigantic breath — a great Cry — which we call God. Plant life wished to continue its motionless sleep next to stagnant waters, but the Cry leaped up within it and violently shook its roots: ‘Away, let go of the earth, walk!’ Had the tree been able to think and judge, it would have cried, ‘I don’t want to. What are you urging me to do? You are demanding the impossible!’

But the Cry, without pity, kept shaking its roots and shouting, ‘Away! Let go of the earth, walk!’

It shouted in this way for thousands of eons; and lo, as a result of desire and struggle, life escaped the motionless tree and was liberated….

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Peter C. Goldmark, 1906/ 7th December 1977I physicist and inventor /developed color TV & LP records ; invented a tube that became the industry standard for color television sets.

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Jerry Gerald Allan Sohl Sr. (1913 - November 4, 2002) American scriptwriter for Click here (as a Click here for Click here), Click here, Click here, Click here and other shows. He also wrote novels, feature film scripts, and the nonfiction works Underhanded Chess and Underhanded Bridge in 1973.

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Click hereUS Jazz  Composer/arranger

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Click hereClick here  (12/02/1914 – Click here/2001)  US actor

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Adolph Green 1915-Oct 3,2002  songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)with Click here. They collaborated with Leonard Bernstein on the musical Wonderful Town, with Jule Styne on Peter Pan and Bells Are Ringing, and they wrote the screenplay for Singin’ in the Rain.

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Click here, (1923). US soprano

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Click hereClick here  (1924 – Click here/2010)  US secretary of state

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Jon Silkin (1930– November 25, 1997) British poet.   Caring for Animals

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Click here (1937-  ) English sci-fi author

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Click here  (1958 -  ) US short-story writer   CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996), The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (2000), and In Persuasion Nation (2006

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Click here  (1963-    ).US  novelist Bel Canto (2001), Truth and Beauty (2004), Run (2007), and most recently, State of Wonder (2011

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Click here  (12/02/1970 – )  US comic, actor born Bedford,NH

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Click hereClick here  (12/02/1981 – )  US singer  (1999 US & UK No.1 single 'Baby One More Time', 1999 album 'Baby One More Time', spent 82 weeks on the UK chart. Biggest selling teenage act in the world with album sales over 40m).

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Click here Alderson (12 November 1769 –1853), Click here author ,poet]

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Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand; 1 April 1868 –1918) French poet and Click here. Click here. Les Romanesques, was adapted to the Click here, Click here.

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Click hereClick hereClick here  (Click here/1900 –1969) English writer -scholar, critic, broadcaster and humorist

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David Blue Feb 18,1941 1982, US folk singer. Member of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue

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Philip Arthur Larkin, [hermit of Hull]  (9 August 1922 – 1985) English poet and novelist Click here, 1945, Click here (1946) Click here (1947),  Click here, 1955 Click here (1964) Click here (1974). He contributed to Click here as its Click here critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered together in All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71 (1985), and he edited Click here (1973). Click here. He was offered, but declined, the position of Click here in 1984,

Pigeons

On shallow slates the pigeons shift together,

Backing against a thin rain from the west

Blown across each sunk head and settled feather.

Huddling round the warm stack suits them best,

Till winter daylight weakens, and they grow

Hardly defined against the brickwork. Soon,

Light from a small intense lopsided moon

Shows them, black as their shadows, sleeping so.

27 December 1955  First published in Departure January 1957© The Estate of Philip Larkin

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Click hereClick here  (Click here/1900 –1990)  US composer (Fanfare for the Common Man)

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Click here[William] Click here  (Click here/1913 –1995)  Canadian writer - novelist essayist/dramatist

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History:

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1763, members of the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island witnessed the dedication of the Touro Synagogue, the first synagogue in what became the United States. Designed in the Georgian style by English architect Peter Harrison, the synagogue was named for Isaac Touro, its first officiating rabbi.

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1867 Charles Dickens gave the first reading of his American tour.

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1942, the Atomic Age began inside an enormous tent on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's Click here. There, headed by Italian scientist Click here, the first controlled nuclear fission chain reaction was engineered. The result—sustainable nuclear energy—led to creation of the atomic bomb and nuclear power plants—two of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial achievements.

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1976, The first day of the photo shoot for the forthcoming Pink Floyd Animals album cover took place at Battersea Power Station in London, England with a giant inflatable pig lashed between two of the structure's tall towers.

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Bonus Poem:

New Territory