Today: Gertrude Stein b. 1874; Simone Weil b.1909 1947: coldest N. Amer. Temp -81 F Yukon Territories, Canada. ~Setsubun~ - Bean-Throwing Festival - Japan
according to Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Today > From: Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, February 03, 2006 12:16 am > To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA > > > > Today > > Elliott, Ebenezer - Corn Law Rhymer: Birthday, > Deathday Elyot, Thomas - Eminent English writer: > Deathday; Emery, John - Comic actor: Deathday > Lucilio: Deathday; Vanloo, Charles Andrew - Historical painter: > Deathday; Vansittart, Nicolas - Lord Bexley, English > statesman: Birthday; Varney, > William - Poet and scholar: Birthday, Deathday; Jonson, > Ben - Dramatist: Birthday, Biography · On his > testimony to the merit of Edward Alleyn founder > Publius Ovidius - Roman poet: Birthday, Deathday; > Nauddà ¨, Gabriel - Littà ¨rateur: Necker, Jacques - > French financial minister: Birthday, Deathday > Immanuel - Philosopher: Birthday, Deathday; Kaufmann, > Maria Angelica - Portrait-painter: Deathday; > Alan Sondheim - pioneer nerd: Birthday; > Kay-Shuttleworth, James Phillips - Promoter of > Firmin - Genovese theological writer: Birthday, > Deathday; Abbott, Charles - Eminent Antoinette, > Marie - Queen of Louis XVI: Birthday, Deathday > Faber, George Stanley - Theological writer: Birthday; Fabian, > Robert - Chronicler: Deathday; Fabricius, John Albert - > Scholar and editor: Birthday > King of England: Birthday, Deathday; Henry IV - King of > England: Birthday, Deathday · Prophecies of > his death · His overthrowing of Richard II > - Political writer: Deathday; Rameau, Jean-Philippe - Writer > of operas: Birthday; Rampaine, Liveman: On St. Marks > Eve superstition of seeing > Thomas Noon - Dramatist and lawyer: Birthday, Deathday > Taylor, Brook - Algebraist: Birthday, > Deathday; Taylor, Jeremy - Bishop, birthday deathday >