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#1561 · October 29, 2024, 2:14 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1618 aristocrat, writer, poet (The Lie, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd), soldier, courtier, spy, explorer, Sir Walter Raleigh; beheaded for treason at Whitehall in London, aged 66. Anglican church of St. Margaret’s, Westminster in London thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/29/day
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#1562 · October 29, 2024, 2:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1911 politician, newspaper publisher (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World), founder of the Pulitzer Prize, Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, South Carolina aboard his yacht Liberty aged 64. Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/29/day
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#1563 · October 29, 2024, 2:15 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1995 novelist (Candy, The Magic Christian), screenwriter (Dr. Strangelove, The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid, Easy Rider), Terry Southern died; respiratory failure St. Luke's Hospital New York City aged 71. Cremated remains scattered Canaan CT thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/29/day
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#1564 · October 30, 2024, 1:40 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1919 author, poet (Poems of Passion, "Solitude" (Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone)), Ella Wheeler Wilcox died of cancer in Short Beach, Connecticut, aged 68. Wilcox Estate Burial Site, Short Beach CT thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/30/day
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#1565 · November 1, 2024, 1:45 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1972 poet (Ripostes, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, The Cantos) Ezra Pound died in the Civil Hospital of Venice at the age of 87 with his long-time mistress Olga Rudge at his side. Cemetery of Isola di San Michele thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/01/day
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#1566 · November 1, 2024, 1:52 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2006, US Marine Corp veteran, novelist (Lie Down in Darkness, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice, Darkness Visible), essayist, William Styron died in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, aged 81. West Chop Cemetery in Tisbury, Mass thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/01/day
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#1567 · November 2, 2024, 2:00 pm
2 November 1903. The Daily Mirror was launched. It was described as “a newspaper for women, run by women”. It was the only major British daily newspaper to be aimed specifically at women, but it failed to attract enough readers and was relaunched as a popular tabloid.
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#1568 · November 2, 2024, 2:01 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1950, playwright (Man and Superman, Pygmalion, Saint Joan), Nobel and Academy Award winner, George Bernard Shaw died at his home, Shaw’s Corner, in Hertfordshire, England at the age of 94. Cremated remains scattered in the garden at his home thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/02/day
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#1569 · November 2, 2024, 2:02 pm
2 November 1960. Penguin publishers were cleared of obscenity for printing the DH Lawrence novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. After just 3 hours of deliberation the jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty.
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#1570 · November 2, 2024, 2:03 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1975 poet, filmmaker (Mamma Roma), writer, journalist, novelist (Ragazzi di vita), playwright, artist, actor Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered, run over by his car, on the beach at Ostia, Italy. Cimitero di Casarsa Della Delizia thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/02/day
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#1571 · November 3, 2024, 2:04 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1793 during la Terreur, playwright, abolitionist, and feminist (Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne) Olympe de Gouges mounted a Paris scaffold to the guillotine, at the age of 45. Catacombes de Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/03/day
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#1572 · November 4, 2024, 1:53 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1918, poet ("Dulce et Decorum est") and soldier Wilfred Owen was killed in World War I action, during the crossing of the Sambre–Oise Canal, exactly one week before the signing of the Armistice, aged 25. Communal Cemetery in Ors, France thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/04/day
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#1573 · November 4, 2024, 1:55 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2008, author (The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, Timeline), screenwriter, film director and producer Michael Crichton died from lymphoma in Los Angeles at the age of 66. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/04/day
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#1574 · November 8, 2024, 1:27 pm
8 November 1342. Julian of Norwich was born. Her book, Revelations of Divine Love is the 1st known book written by a woman in English. Julian was largely unknown until 1670 when her writings were 1st published.
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#1575 · November 8, 2024, 1:27 pm
8 November 1602. The Bodleian Library at Oxford University was opened to the public. It incorporates an earlier library built in the 15th century to house books donated by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, and is still used by students and scholars from all over the world.
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#1576 · November 8, 2024, 1:28 pm
8 November 1674. English poet John Milton died (aged 65). He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem, Paradise Lost (1667), which is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.
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#1577 · November 9, 2024, 1:06 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1918, poet, playwright (Les mamelles de Tiresias), short story writer, and novelist, Guillaume Apollinaire died in Paris during the Spanish flu pandemic at the age of 38. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/09/day
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#1578 · November 9, 2024, 1:07 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1953, poet ("Do not go gentle into that good night", "And death shall have no dominion"), writer, Dylan Thomas died in St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village from pneumonia, aged 39. Saint Martin’s Churchyard in Laugharne, Wales thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/09/day
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#1579 · November 9, 2024, 1:09 pm
9 November 1967. The 1st issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published. It featured John Lennon’s appearance in the film, How I Won The War. The founder of the magazine, Jann Wenner, wrote that Rolling Stone was intended to be a combination of a newspaper and a magazine.
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#1580 · November 9, 2024, 1:10 pm
#RIP #OTD in 2004, journalist, writer (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) Stieg Larsson died from a heart attack in Stockholm, at the age of 50. Högalid Church cemetery, Stockholm thefinalfootprint.com/2024/11/09/day
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