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07 February, 2018
This Day in History poem by: T.S. Eliot
Birthday's:
Sinclair Lewis: 1885, the first American to win the nobel prize in literature.
1966: Chris Rock
In 1964 the British Invasion was on with The Beatles making their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, which the following day Steve Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen have said "We put our baseball bats down and wanted picked up guitars."
Cousin Nancy
By: T.S. Eliot
Miss Nancy Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them-
The barren New England hills-
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
Sources:
The Encyclopedia Brittanica
T.S. Eliot "Collected Poems 1909-1962"
Sinclair Lewis: 1885, the first American to win the nobel prize in literature.
1966: Chris Rock
In 1964 the British Invasion was on with The Beatles making their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, which the following day Steve Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen have said "We put our baseball bats down and wanted picked up guitars."
Cousin Nancy
By: T.S. Eliot
Miss Nancy Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them-
The barren New England hills-
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
Sources:
The Encyclopedia Brittanica
T.S. Eliot "Collected Poems 1909-1962"
02 February, 2018
This Day in History with a poem by: James Joyce
Birthday's:
1882: Irish novelist and poet James Joyce
1895: American NFL coach and american football pioneer George "Papa Bear" Halas.
1927: Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz.
1653: New Amsterdam (New York City) was incorporated as a city.
1848: The United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
1876: The National League, the oldest existing major-league professional baseball organization in the United States, began play as the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs.
1912: Frederick Rodman Law performed what was considered the first motion-picture stunt, parachuting from the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
1943: The Battle of Stalingrad in World War II ended with the surrender of German troops to the Soviets.
1971: Idi Amin declared himself president of Uganda and for the next eight years headed a regime that was noted for its brutality.
1979: Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, early proponents of British punk rock, died of a drug overdose in New York City.
1990: South African President F.W. de Klerk lifted the 30-year ban on the African National Congress, resulting in the release from prison of Nelson Mandela and marking the beginning of the end of apartheid.
2014: American Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who fully inhabited the characters he played and was renowned for his scene-stealing work in supporting roles, died of a heroin overdose in New York City.
Alone
By: James Joyce
(From the Poetry Foundation – poetryfoundation.org)
The moon’s soft golden meshes make
All night a veil;
The shore-lamps in the sleeping lake
Laburnum tendrils trail.
The sly reeds whisper in the night
A name-her name,
And all my soul is a delight,
A swoon of shame.
Sources:
Encyclopedia Brittanica
Poetry Foundation
On this day
1882: Irish novelist and poet James Joyce
1895: American NFL coach and american football pioneer George "Papa Bear" Halas.
1927: Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz.
1653: New Amsterdam (New York City) was incorporated as a city.
1848: The United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
1876: The National League, the oldest existing major-league professional baseball organization in the United States, began play as the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs.
1912: Frederick Rodman Law performed what was considered the first motion-picture stunt, parachuting from the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
1943: The Battle of Stalingrad in World War II ended with the surrender of German troops to the Soviets.
1971: Idi Amin declared himself president of Uganda and for the next eight years headed a regime that was noted for its brutality.
1979: Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, early proponents of British punk rock, died of a drug overdose in New York City.
1990: South African President F.W. de Klerk lifted the 30-year ban on the African National Congress, resulting in the release from prison of Nelson Mandela and marking the beginning of the end of apartheid.
2014: American Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who fully inhabited the characters he played and was renowned for his scene-stealing work in supporting roles, died of a heroin overdose in New York City.
Alone
By: James Joyce
(From the Poetry Foundation – poetryfoundation.org)
The moon’s soft golden meshes make
All night a veil;
The shore-lamps in the sleeping lake
Laburnum tendrils trail.
The sly reeds whisper in the night
A name-her name,
And all my soul is a delight,
A swoon of shame.
Sources:
Encyclopedia Brittanica
Poetry Foundation
On this day
01 February, 2018
This Day in History poem by Langston Hughes
Birthday's:
John Napier, Scottish mathematician/ inventor (logarithms), 1550 Edinburgh, Scotland.
1895: American director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man) John Ford, Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
1901: American actor Clark Gable
1902: American writer Langston Hughes
1918: Muriel Spark, Scottish writer (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) born Edinburgh Scotland.
1790: The first session of the Supreme Court of the United States was held, in New York City.
1820: In a battle fought in Cepeda, Argentina, federalist forces defeated unitarios, who were advocates of strong central government.
1884: The first ten volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary was published in London, the final volume being published in April 19, 1928.
1896: Giacomo Puccini premiered his opera La Boheme at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy.
1923: The private army of Blackshirts that had helped Benito Mussolini come to power in Italy was officially transformed into a national militia, the Voluntary Fascist Militia for National Security.
1960: Protesting a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, four African Americans began a sit-in; its success led to a wider sit-in movement throughout the South.
1979: The spacecraft Voyager 1 photographed Jupiter form a distance of 32.7 million km (20.3 million miles).
2003: Space shuttle Columbia was destroyed while returning to Earth.
Your number’s coming out!
Bouquets I’ll send you
And dreams I’ll send you
And horses shod with gold
On which to ride if motor cars
Would be too tame-
Triumphal entry send you-
Shouts from the Earth itself
Bare feet to beat the great drum beat
Of glory to your name and mine-
One and the same:
You barefoot, too,
In the quarter of the Negroes
Where an ancient river flows
Past huts that house a million blacks
And the white god never goes
For the moon would white his
Whiteness
Beyond its mask of whiteness
And the night might be astonished
And so lose its repose.
In a town named after Stanley
Night each night comes nightly
And the music of music’s
Borrowed for the horns
That don’t know how to play
On LPs that wonder
How they ever got that way.
What time is it, mama?
What time is it now?
Makes no difference to me-
But I’m asking, anyhow.
What time is it, mama?
What time now?
Down the long hard ro that I been
Hoeing
I thought I hear the horn of plenty
Blowing
But I got to get a new antenna, Lord-
My TV keeps on snowing.
John Napier, Scottish mathematician/ inventor (logarithms), 1550 Edinburgh, Scotland.
1895: American director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man) John Ford, Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
1901: American actor Clark Gable
1902: American writer Langston Hughes
1918: Muriel Spark, Scottish writer (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) born Edinburgh Scotland.
1790: The first session of the Supreme Court of the United States was held, in New York City.
1820: In a battle fought in Cepeda, Argentina, federalist forces defeated unitarios, who were advocates of strong central government.
1884: The first ten volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary was published in London, the final volume being published in April 19, 1928.
1896: Giacomo Puccini premiered his opera La Boheme at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy.
1923: The private army of Blackshirts that had helped Benito Mussolini come to power in Italy was officially transformed into a national militia, the Voluntary Fascist Militia for National Security.
1960: Protesting a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, four African Americans began a sit-in; its success led to a wider sit-in movement throughout the South.
1979: The spacecraft Voyager 1 photographed Jupiter form a distance of 32.7 million km (20.3 million miles).
2003: Space shuttle Columbia was destroyed while returning to Earth.
Blues in Stereo
By: Langston Hughes
Your number’s coming out!
Bouquets I’ll send you
And dreams I’ll send you
And horses shod with gold
On which to ride if motor cars
Would be too tame-
Triumphal entry send you-
Shouts from the Earth itself
Bare feet to beat the great drum beat
Of glory to your name and mine-
One and the same:
You barefoot, too,
In the quarter of the Negroes
Where an ancient river flows
Past huts that house a million blacks
And the white god never goes
For the moon would white his
Whiteness
Beyond its mask of whiteness
And the night might be astonished
And so lose its repose.
In a town named after Stanley
Night each night comes nightly
And the music of music’s
Borrowed for the horns
That don’t know how to play
On LPs that wonder
How they ever got that way.
What time is it, mama?
What time is it now?
Makes no difference to me-
But I’m asking, anyhow.
What time is it, mama?
What time now?
Down the long hard ro that I been
Hoeing
I thought I hear the horn of plenty
Blowing
But I got to get a new antenna, Lord-
My TV keeps on snowing.
31 January, 2018
This Day in History: Poem by John Martin
Birthday's:
Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797), lead singer of the punk band The Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten (1956), and musician Justin Timberlake (1981).
In 1919 a boy was born in Cairo, Georgia who had no idea that he would later become the First African-American to play professional baseball for the Brooklyn/ Los Angeles Dodgers. That boy was Jack "Jackie" Roosevelt Robinson.
1606: Guy Fawkes was executed in London
1943: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered to the Soviet Red Army at Stalingrad (now Volgograd), his troops surrendering tow days later.
1958: Explorer 1 was the first artificial space satellite orbited by the United States, marking the country's entry into the space race.
1966: The Soviets launched Luna 9, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon.
1977: The Pompidou Centre, a French national cultural centre named for former president Georges Pompidou, opened in Paris.
2001: Libyan national Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was convicted in the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 bombing, in which 270 people were killed; in 2009 the Scottish government released Megrahi from prison after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Bear in Mind
By John Martin
A bear is chasing me through a meadow
and I'm running as fast as I can but
he's gaining on me-it seems
he's always gaining on me.
I'm running and running but also
thinking I should just
turn around and say,
"Stop it! Stop chasing me. We both
know you aren't going to catch me.
All you can ever do is chase me. So.
think about it-why bother?"
The bear does stop,
and he sits on his haunches and thinks,
or seems to think. And then
the bear says to me,
"I have to chase you, you know
that. Or you should. And, sure,
we both know I'll never catch you.
So, why not give us both a break and
just stop thinking about me?"
But, with that said, he gets back on four feet,
sticks his long pink tongue out, licks down
both sides of his snout, Then he sighs, looks
behind himself, then at me and says, "Okay,
ready when you are."
Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797), lead singer of the punk band The Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten (1956), and musician Justin Timberlake (1981).
In 1919 a boy was born in Cairo, Georgia who had no idea that he would later become the First African-American to play professional baseball for the Brooklyn/ Los Angeles Dodgers. That boy was Jack "Jackie" Roosevelt Robinson.
1606: Guy Fawkes was executed in London
1943: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered to the Soviet Red Army at Stalingrad (now Volgograd), his troops surrendering tow days later.
1958: Explorer 1 was the first artificial space satellite orbited by the United States, marking the country's entry into the space race.
1966: The Soviets launched Luna 9, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon.
1977: The Pompidou Centre, a French national cultural centre named for former president Georges Pompidou, opened in Paris.
2001: Libyan national Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was convicted in the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 bombing, in which 270 people were killed; in 2009 the Scottish government released Megrahi from prison after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Bear in Mind
By John Martin
A bear is chasing me through a meadow
and I'm running as fast as I can but
he's gaining on me-it seems
he's always gaining on me.
I'm running and running but also
thinking I should just
turn around and say,
"Stop it! Stop chasing me. We both
know you aren't going to catch me.
All you can ever do is chase me. So.
think about it-why bother?"
The bear does stop,
and he sits on his haunches and thinks,
or seems to think. And then
the bear says to me,
"I have to chase you, you know
that. Or you should. And, sure,
we both know I'll never catch you.
So, why not give us both a break and
just stop thinking about me?"
But, with that said, he gets back on four feet,
sticks his long pink tongue out, licks down
both sides of his snout, Then he sighs, looks
behind himself, then at me and says, "Okay,
ready when you are."
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