December  9
Events:
Washington DC Events-
Open Door Reading  Feat. Susan Bucci Mockler.  Sunday, December 9, 2012, 2 p.m.
The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda  Free -

In Your Ear Reading Series  Feat. Jen Benka & Carol Mirakove.
Sunday, December 9, 2012, 3 p.m.  DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW  $5 -

Iota Poetry Series  Sunday, December 9, 2012, 6 p.m. Iota Club & Cafe,
2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington Free -

Nine on the Ninth Poetry Series  Sunday, December 9, 2012 9 p.m.
Busboys and Poets (14th & V), 2021 14th St. NW  $5 -
http://poetryindc.blogspot.com/
Born:
1209
John Milton (1608– 11/08/1674) English writer poet/puritan & publisher
of pamphlets
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jmilton.htm
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/milton-john


J.J. Winckelmann(1717-1768) German art historian and archeologist,
Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/winck.htm


Peter Kropotkin  (1842 – 02/08/1921)  Russian writer
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/KropotkinPeter.htm
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/KropotkinCW.html

George Grossmith  (/1847 – 03/01/1912)  English comic actor
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1026/1026-h/1026-h.htm

Joel Chandler Harris (1845/8– 07/03/1908) US journalist- writer and
folklorist ("Uncle Remus")
http://www.wrensnestonline.com/

Dolores Ibarruri  (/1895 – 11/12/1989)  Spanish communist leader
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dolores_ibarruri.html

Léonie (Fuller) Adams (1899 – 27 June 1988) American poet. / seventh
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congressin
1948.Thought's End, Those Not Elect
Many Mansions

The last majority attained,
And shut from its small house of dust,
Into the heritage of air
The spirit goes because it must:
And halts before the multiple plane
To look more ways than left and right,
And weeping walks its father's house
Like something homeless in the night:
For now less largely let abroad,
Though but the world they say is mine,
I shiver as I take the road.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Adams.html

Louis Kronenberger (1904– 04/30/1980) US writer
http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org/OhioAuthors/KronenbergerLouis.aspx

Dalton Trumbo (1905– 09/10/1976) US writer – screenwriter, film
director and novelist, (Johnny Got His Gun) one of the Hollywood Ten
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/trumbo.htm

Grace Murray Hopper  (/1906 – 01/01/1992)  US programmer, inventor of COBOL
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html

"Tip" O’Neill  (1912 – 01/05/1994)  US house speaker
http://www.wgbhnews.org/post/rep-markey-tip-oneills-100th-birthday
http://www.fofweb.com/History/MainPrintPage.asp?iPin=TJCY112&DataType=AmericanHistory&WinType=Free

[text received from Barry Post Friday afternoon:  “Let’s go to Boston,
and get drunk ‘cause it’s Tip O’Neill’s Birthday!”]

Buck Henry  (1930 – )  US actor, writer (SNL)
http://www.vice.com/read/buck-henry-557-v17n10

Rick Danko 1943- Dec 10,1999  Can/ US  Singer /bassist The Band
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/rick-danko-mn0000299307

Joan Armatrading  (1950 – )  Saint Kitts singer songwriter, (1983
'Drop The Pilot').
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/joan-armatrading-mn0000133969




Passed:
1209


Sigismund  (02/15/1368 –/1437)  Germanic emperor
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Sigismund,_Holy_Roman_Emperor.html

Anthony Van Dyck ( March 22, 1599-1641 ) Flemish portraitist and
English court painter
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/dyck/


John Oldham ( Aug 9, 1653-83) Eng poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/oldham-john

Stephen Phillips (28 July 1864 –1915) English poet and dramatist,
http://archive.org/stream/poemsphillips00phil/poemsphillips00phil_djvu.txt
A Dream

MY dead love came to me, and said:   
'God gives me one hour's rest,   
To spend with thee on earth again:   
How shall we spend it best?'   
   
'Why, as of old,' I said; and so    5
We quarrelled, as of old:   
But, when I turned to make my peace,   
That one short hour was told.   

http://www.bartleby.com/103/62.html



Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche  (08/07/1904 –/1971)  )  U.S. diplomat; he
collaborated with Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal on the monumental
study of U.S. race relations published as An American Dilemma: The
Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944). The study is famous for
presenting the theory that poverty breeds poverty.a key member of the
United Nations (UN) for more than two decades, and winner of the 1950
Nobel Peace Prize
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec09.html
Mary Leakey   ( Feb 6,1913-1996  )anthropoligist uncovered Proconsul
http://leakeyfoundation.org/about-us/leakey-family/mary-leakey/

Robert Sheckley  ( July 16, 1928-2005 ) Science fiction  writer
http://www.sheckley.com/

Sites:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marcel_proust.html
http://www.rhino.com/
http://www.haikuhut.com/ahg/
http://nhwp.drupalgardens.com/content/writers-night-out-0
http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/

History:
1209
1983
Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "because
food is free and that's easier than paying for it"
http://www.shmoop.com/reagan-era/edwin-meese.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/edwin_meese.html

1975
Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=19363

1926
USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
http://www.usga.org/Content.aspx?id=24152

1793
Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
http://theforgottenfoundingfather.com/

1212
Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06255a.htm

Bonus Poem:

From last years straffNotes-

Apple Cider Dreams
Give me a tall glass
Of fresh squeezed
Apple cider
With a touch
Of apple pie spice
Poured over ice.
I will curl up
On my lawn chair
In the crisp
Fall air
With a book
Of poetry
As the fall
Colored leaves
Float around me
And I will think
I am in heaven.

                              -Susan Bergeron
September 19, 2010


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