Born on this day – John Oxenham:

John Oxenham

Writer

November 12, 1852 – January 23, 1941

Credits:

Poems:

A Little Te Deum Of The Commonplace; After Work; All’s Well!; Bed-Rock; Better And Best; Bide A Wee!; Bolt That Door!; Bring Us The Light; Burden-Bearers; Credo; Cross-Roads; Cup Of Mixture; Darkness And Light; Don’t Worry; E.A. Nov. 6, 1900; Everymaid; Faith; Flowers Of The Dust; For the Men at the Front; Free Men Of God; Freemen; Gadara, A.D. 31; Giant Circumstance; God Is Good; God’s Handwriting; Hearts In Exile; His Mercy Endureth For Ever; "I Will!"; In Christ there is No East Or West; In Narrow Ways; India; Judgment Day; Kapiolani; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity; Life’s Chequer-Board; Livingstone; Livingstone The Builder; Livingstone’s Soliloquy; Macedonia, 1903; New Year’s Day--And Every Day; Nightfall; Paul; Philosopher’s Garden; Policeman X; Processionals; Profit And Loss; Props; Quo Vadis?; Sark; Seeds; Shadows; Shut Windows; Some--And Some; Stephen—Saul; Tamate; Thank God For Peace!; The Ballad of Lost Souls; The Bells Of Stepan Iline; The Bells Of Ys; The Christ; The Clearer VisionThe Day--The Way; The Gate; The Golden Cord; The Golden Rose; The Hungry Sea; The Inn Of Life; The Iron Flail; The Little Poem Of Life; The Long Road; The Passing Of The Queen; The Pilgrim Way; The Potter; The Prince Of Life; The Pruner; The Shadow; The Vail; The Ways; The Word That Was Left Unsaid; They Come!; Treasure-Trove; Wakening; Wandered; We Thank Thee, Lord; Weavers All; What Can a Little Chap Do?; "Where Are You Going, Great-Heart?"; Whirring Wheels; Your Place.

Books:

A Maid of the Silver Sea (1910); A Mystery of the Underground (1897); A Princess of Vascovy (1899); A Saint in the Making (1931); A Weaver of Webs (1904); All’s Well (1916); Barbe of Grand Bayou (1903); Bees in Amber (1913); Bondman Free (1903); Broken Shackles (1914); Carette of Sark (1907); Christ and the Third Wise Man (1934); Cross-Roads: The Story of Four Meetings (1931); Gentlemen - the King! (1928); Giant Circumstance (1906); God’s Candle (1929); God’s Prisoner (1898); Great Heart Gillian (1909); Hearts Courageous (1919); Hearts in Exile (1904); Hearts in Exile (1930); High Altars (1918); In Christ There Is No East or West (1908); John of Gerisau (1904); My Lady of Shadows (1909); My Lady of the Moor (1916); Pearl of Pearl Island (1908); Profit and Loss (1906); The Cedar Box (1928); The Coil of Carne (1911); The Fiery Cross (1917); The Gate of the Desert (1912); The Hidden Years (1927); The King’s High-Way (1916); The Long Road (1907); The Man Who Would Save the World (1930); The Pageant of the King’s Children (1930); The Perilous Lovers (1924); The Quest of the Golden Rose (1912); The Song of Hyacinth (1908); The Splendour of the Dawn (1930); The Vision Splendid (1917); The Wonder of Lourdes: What It Is and What It Means (1924); Under the Iron Flail (1902); White Fire (1905).

Movies and television:

A Maid of the Silver Sea (1922); Hearts in Exile (1915 / 1929); The Burdened Ass (2002).

Recommended reading:

Bees in Amber:

A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse

By John Oxenham.

Published by Classical Prints.

Published 2022.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 9356646392

ISBN-13: 978-9356646391

Description:

This book was classic literature published more than two centuries ago and has been out of print for decades. We at Classical Prints have taken the initiative to preserve this book and bring it back to the shelf once again to preserve the legacy and promote this timeless classic print.

Born on this day – William Matthews:

William Matthews

Writer

November 11, 1942 – November 12, 1997

Credits:

The Parataxic Mode: Concerning Defoe's Use of Irony in Moll Flanders (1966); Broken Syllables (1969); Ruining the New Road (1970); The Cloud (1971); Matthews' Compleat Palmistry (1971); Sleek for the Long Flight: New Poems (1972); Sticks and Stones (1975); Rising and Falling (1979); Flood (1982); Good (1983); A Happy Childhood (1984); Foreseeable Futures (1987); Sleek For the Long Flight (1988); Blues if You Want (1989); Curiosities (Poets on Poetry / essays) (1989); Selected Poems and Translations 1969-1991 (1992); The Mortal City: 100 Epigrams of Martial (1995); Time & Money: New Poems (1996); After All: Last Poems (1998); The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews (2001); The Satires of Horace (2002); Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews (2004).

Born on this day – John Guillermin:

John Guillermin

Director

Writer

Producer

November 11, 1925 – September 27, 2015

Born on this day – Kurt Vonnegut:

Kurt Vonnegut

Writer

November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007

Credits:

Books:

Galápagos (1985); Bluebeard (1987); Player Piano / Utopia 14 (1952); The Sirens of Titan (1959); Cat's Cradle (1960); Mother Night (1961); Harrison Bergeron (1961); God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965); Slaughterhouse-Five (1969); Between Time and Timbuktu (1972); Breakfast of Champions (1973); Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! (1976); Jailbird (1979); Deadeye Dick (1982); Hocus Pocus (1990); Timequake (1997); The Big Trip Up Yonder (1954); 2 B R 0 2 B (1968); Who Am I This Time? For Romeos and Juliets (1970); God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999); The Honor of a Newsboy (2009); Confido (2009); Hall of Mirrors (2009); A Song for Selma (2009); Hello, Red (2009); The Good Explainer (2009); King and Queen of the Universe (2009); Little Drops of Water (2009); The Nice Little People (2009); Ed Luby's Key Club (2009); Shout about It from the Housetops (2009); FUBAR (2009); Basic Training (2012); Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut (2013); Slice of Life (2016); Canary in a Cat House (1961); 2BR02B (1962); Welcome to the Monkey House (1968); Bagombo Snuff Box (1999); Armageddon in Retrospect (2008); Look at the Birdie (2009); While Mortals Sleep (2011); Sucker's Portfolio (2012); Sinbad (2016); Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974); Palm Sunday (1981); Like Shaking Hands with God (1999); Kurt Vonnegut on Mark Twain, Lincoln, Imperialist Wars and the Weather (2004); A Man Without a Country (2005); Letters (2012); We Are What We Pretend To Be (2012); If This Isn't Nice What Is? (2013); Pity the Reader (2019); Fates Worse Than Death (1982); Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 (2020); Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970); Sun, Moon, Star (1980); Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade (2020); The Flying Sorcerers (1997); The Wizards of Odd (1997); Wizards of Odd (1997); Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview (2005); Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Last Interview (2011); Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002); Connoisseur's Science Fiction (1964); ABC of Science Fiction (1968); Best SF Vol 7 (1971); Masks (1971); Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age (1978); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981); Space Odyssey (1983); A World of Fiction (1983); Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1985); Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987); The Ultimate Frankenstein (1991); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Cybersex: Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms (1996); The Flying Sorcerers (1997); Wizards of Odd (1997); The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998); Writers on Writing (2001); Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002); Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine (2004); Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 (2010); The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (2010); Slaughterhouse-Five: Critical Insights (2010); Science Fiction Collection 002 (2011); The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012); The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction (2013); Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories (2015); Grave Predictions (2016); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020).

Awards:

1953: nominated for the International Fantasy Award for: Player Piano.

1960: won the Writers Guild of America Award for: Auf Wiedersehen.

1960: finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for: The Sirens of Titan.

1964: finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for: Cat's Cradle.

1970: nominated for the Nebula Award for: Slaughterhouse-Five.

1970: finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for: Slaughterhouse-Five.

1971: won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play for: Happy Birthday Wanda June.

1973: won the Seiun Award for foreign novel for: The Sirens of Titan.

1973: won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation winner for: Slaughterhouse-Five.

1986: won second placed for the John W. Campbell Award for: Galapagos.

2009: won the Audie Award for Short Stories / Collections for: Armageddon in Retrospect.

2015: awarded a place in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, by the Science Fiction Museum.

2019: won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award, by the Libertarian Futurist Society, for: Harrison Bergeron.

Movies and television:

1 Giant Leap (2002); 2081 (2009); 2Br02B (2016); 2BR02b (2016); 2BR02B (2017); 2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be (2016 / 2018); 60 Minutes (1970); 90 Minutes Live (1977–1978); A Curious World (2016); A Man Without a Country (2012); A Matadeira (1994); American Experience (1997); American Playhouse (1982–1985); Automatic Thirteen (2007); Back to School (1986); Between Time and Timbuktu (1972); Breakfast of Champions (1999); Brooklyn Bridge (1981); Bus Stop (1961); Charlie Rose (2007); Curious Matter Anthology (2021); Deer in the Works (1980); Epicac (2008); Film '72 (1972); First Man (2018); FUBAR (2019); Full House (1973); General Electric Theater (1955–1958); God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut (2018); Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971); Harrison Bergeron (1995 / 2006); Here After (2020); 'Hick' Town (2009); Hollywood Insider (2021); I riassuntini (2018); Karikakramäng / Segment: Promenaad (1976); Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Self-Portrait (1975); Kurt Vonnegut: Reporter on the Afterlife (2023); Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021); Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country (2018); Kurt Vonnegut's Saab Dealership (2022); Langmuir's World (1998); Long Walk to Forever (1987 / 2014); Monkey House (1991–1993); Mother Night (1996); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Moving Image Salutes James Stewart (1988); Moving Image Salutes Sidney Poitier (1989); Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All... (2015); Never Down (2007); New Nightmares (1993); Newsstand Theatre (1952); Next Door (1976); Now on PBS (2005); Poetry, Passion, the Postman: The Poetic Return of Pablo Neruda (1996); Real Time with Bill Maher (2005); Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love / Segment: Epicac (1974); Saturday Review (1986); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2024); Sicko (2007); Slapstick of Another Kind (1982); Slaughterhouse-Five (1972); Spegeln - för konst och kultur (1977); Tabu Vergeltung - Die Literaten und der Luftkrieg (2000); The ABCs of Book Banning (2023); The American Ruling Class (2005); The Big Trip Up Yonder (2014); The Civil War (1990); The Congress (1989); The Daily Show (2005); The David Frost Show (1972); The Day of Five Billion (1987); The Dick Cavett Show (1989); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Foster Portfolio (2017); The Larry Solway Show (1976); The Last Day of Charley E. Rays (2016); The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972); The Man from Bagombo (2010); The Merv Griffin Show (1969); The Painted Boy (1995); Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg (1994); Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist (2007).

Born on this day – Anna Katharine Green:

Anna Katharine Green

Writer

November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935

Credits:

The Leavenworth Case (1878); A Strange Disappearance (1880); Hand and Ring (1883); Behind Closed Doors (1888); A Matter of Millions (1891); The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock (1895); That Affair Next Door (1897); Lost Man's Lane (1898); The Circular Study (1900); One of My Sons (1901); Initials Only (1911); Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (1917); That Affair Next Door (1897); Lost Man's Lane (1898); The Circular Study (1900); Agatha Webb (1899); The Woman in the Alcove (aka A Woman of Mystery) (1906); The House of the Whispering Pines (1910); XYZ (1883); The Mill Mystery (1886); 7 to 12 (1887); The Forsaken Inn (1890); Cynthia Wakeham's Money (1892); Marked Personal (1893); Miss Hurd - An Enigma (1894); Dr. Izard (1895); The Filigree Ball (1903); The House in the Mist (1905); The Millionaire Baby (1905); The Chief Legatee (1906); The Chief Lagatee (1907); The Mayor's Wife (1907); The Sward of Damocles (1909); Three Thousand Dollars (1910); Dark Hollow (1914); The Step On the Stair (1923); The Defense of the Bride (poems) (1882); The Old Stone House (1891); A Difficult Problem (1900); The Amethyst Box (1905); Masterpieces of Mystery (1912); The Golden Slipper (1915); To the Minute, Scarlet and Black (1916); Room Number 3 (1919); The Collected Mysteries of Anna Katharine Green (2011); The Bronze Hand (1897).

Born on this day – Debra Hill:

Debra Hill

Writer

Producer

Director

November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005

Born on this day – Jack Ketchum:

Jack Ketchum

Writer

November 10, 1946 – January 24, 2018

Credits:

Off Season (1980); Offspring (1991); The Woman (2010); Laramie Plains (1974); Border Dawn (1976); Hide and Seek (1980); Dead or alive (1982); The Guns of Amarillo (1982); Winchester pass (1982); Cover (1987); She Wakes (1989); The Girl Next Door (1989); Trail to Nowhere (1991); Joyride (1994); Stranglehold (1995); Only Child (1995); Red (1996); Ladies' Night (1997); Station Two (2001); The Lost (2001); Old Flames (2008); The Secret Life of Souls (2016); The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard (1998); Right to Life (1998); Broken on the Wheel of Sex (1999); Peaceable Kingdom (2003); Closing Time and Other Stories (2007); Triptych (2012); Night Terrors III (2014); What They Wrote (2015); The Box (1994); Gone (2000); The Haunt (2001); The Crossings (2003); Weed Species (2006); Book of Souls (2008); I'm Not Sam (2012); Notes from the Cat House (2013); Gorilla In My Room (2019); Turning Japanese (2013); Writers On Writing (2015); Triage (1990); Deadly After Dark (1994); Vampire Detectives (1995); Fear the Fever (1996); Skull Full of Spurs (2000); October Dreams (2000); Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Tales from a Darker State (2003); Fear Of The Unknown (2005); Masques V (2006); Mondo Zombie (2006); The Best of Cemetery Dance II (2008); In Laymon's Terms (2008); Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead (2009); The World Is Dead (2009); A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre (2011); Slices of Flesh (2012); Horror for Good (2012); Psychos (2012); Chiral Mad (2012); Fear the Abyss (2012); Mister October, Volume II (2013); Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road (2013); Chiral Mad 2 (2013); Turn Down the Lights (2013); Piercing the Darkness (2014); Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (2014); Horror 101: The Way Forward (2014); Cemetery Dance: Issue 71 (2014); Suspended In Dusk (2014); Insidious Assassins (2015); Chiral Mad 3 (2016); Beast: Revelations - A Dark Ethology - Volume 2 (2016); Cemetery Riots (2016); Seas & Oceans (2017); Dark Places, Evil Faces (2017); Red Room Issue 1 (2017); Zippered Flesh 3 (2017); VS: X: US vs UK Extreme Horror (2017); Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations (2018); A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (2019); Freedom of Screech (2019); Dark Screams: Volume Three (2021).

Movies and television:

Beyond Blood (2018); Dark Dreamers (2011); Darlin' (2019); Header (2006); How to Score with Girls (1976); Inside the Plain Brown Wrapping (2013); Mail Order (2011); Offspring (2009); Olivia (2013); Red (2008); Sky Sharks (2020); Tales of Halloween (2015); The Cult of Ichi (2007); The Girl Next Door (2007); The Life of Death (2015); The Lost (2006); The Making of 'the Girl Next Door' (2007); The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018); The Woman (2011); XX / Segment: The Box (2017).

Born on this day – Terence Davies:

Terence Davies

Writer

Director

November 10, 1945 – October 7, 2023

Born on this day – Pippa Scott:

Pippa Scott

Actress

Director

Producer

Writer

November 10, 1935 – May 22, 2025

Credits:

A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and the Searchers (1998); Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962); American Masters (2006); Arnie (1971); As Young as We Are (1958); Auntie Mame (1958); Automotive (2013); Bad Ronald (1974); Barnaby Jones (1973); Ben Casey (1964–1965); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bus Stop (1962); Cade's County (1971); Camera Three (1956); Cannon (1974); Cold Turkey (1971); Columbo (1973); Dr. Kildare (1962); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); F Troop (1967); Family Affair (1968); Follow the Sun (1962); Footprints (2009); For Pete's Sake! (1966); Frontline (1998); General Electric Theater (1959); George Jessel Show (1959); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964); Gunsmoke (1961–1971); Gypsy (1967); Have Gun - Will Travel (1961); Hong Kong (1960); I Spy (1967); Insight (1966); Ironside (1974); Jigsaw John (1976); Judd for the Defense (1968); King Leopold's Ghost (2006); Kolchak: Demon and the Mummy (1975); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1962); Lancer (1970); Longstreet (1971); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Black Limousine (1971); Mannix (1971–1975); Matt Helm (1975); Maverick (1959); Medical Center (1971); Meet the Hollowheads (1989); Men at Law (1971); Mission: Impossible (1972); Mr. Lucky (1959–1960); My Sister Hank (1972); My Six Loves (1963); Outlaws (1960–1961); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Perry Mason (1963–1966); Petulia (1968); Popi (1976); Producers' Showcase (1957); Redigo (1963); Remington Steele (1984); Sarge (1971); Some Kind of a Nut (1969); Stagecoach West (1961); T.H.E. Cat (1967); Tarzan (1967); Terror on the 40th Floor (1974); The Alaskans (1960); The Aquanauts (1960); The Confession (1964); The Cowboys (1974); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1966); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Felony Squad (1966); The Fugitive (1964); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); The John Forsythe Show (1965); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1971); The Outcasts (1969); The Outsider (1969); The Rat Patrol (1967); The Reporter (1964); The Rogues (1965); The Rookies (1972); The Searchers (1956); The Sound of Murder (1982); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Tall Man (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); The Twilight Zone (1960); The Virginian (1962); The Waltons (1973); This Is the Life (1975); Thriller (1961); Wagon Train (1964); You Don't Say (1965); Your Play Time (1955).

Born on this day – Jacques Rozier:

Jacques Rozier

Director

Writer

November 10, 1926 – May 31, 2023

Credits:

40 x 15 (2008); Adieu Philippine (1962); Adolescence (1966); Allons au cinéma (1976); Antenne 2 Midi (1986); Au coeur de la musique (1968–1972); Biography (1992); Blue jeans (1958); Cinéastes de notre temps (1964); Cinéma (1967); Cinéma cinémas / Lettre de la Sierra Morena (1983–1986); Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête (1995); Contes modernes (1979); Dans le vent (1963); Dim Dam Dom (1965); Encounter with Fritz Lang (1964); Eugénie Grandet (1956); Fifi Martingale (2001); Frevel (1983); Grand écran (1973); Il était une fois... (2009); Joséphine en tournée (1990); La Cigarette (2011); Le cercle de minuit (1994–1996); Le Parti des choses: Bardot et Godard (1964); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Les naufragés de l'île de la Tortue (1976); Les Nuits de France Culture (1994); Les Parisiennes: C'est tout de même malheureux (1965); Maine Ocean (1986); Midi Trente (1973); Near Orouet (1971); Ni figue ni raisin (1965); Nono Nénesse (1976); Oh, oh, oh, jolie tournée! (2001); Paparazzi (1964); Portrait de Groupe (1987); Rentrée des classes (1955); Revenez plaisirs exilés! (Alceste) (1992); Roméos et jupettes (1966); Toutes les nuits (2001); Vive le cinéma! (1972).

Born on this day – Vachel Lindsay:

Vachel Lindsay

Writer

November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931

Credits:

Poems:

A Curse for Kings; A Dirge for a Righteous Kitten; A Net to Snare the Moonlight; A Prayer To All The Dead Among Mine Own People; A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign; A Sense of Humor; Above the Battle's Front; Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; Aladdin and the Jinn; Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie; An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic; An Argument; An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie; At Mass; Beyond the Moon; Blanche Sweet; Buddha; By the Spring, at Sunset; Caught in a Net; Concerning Emperors; Darling Daughter of Babylon; Drying Their Wings; Eden in Winter; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Epilogue; Epitaphs For Two Players; Euclid; Factory Windows Are Always Broken; Foreign Missions in Battle Array; Galahad, Knight Who Perished; General William Booth Enters into Heaven; Genesis; Ghosts in Love; Heart of God; Here's to the Mice!; Honor Among Scamps; How a Little Girl Danced; How a Little Girl Sang; How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven; How Samson Bore Away the Gates of GazaI Heard Immanuel Singing; I Went Down into the Desert; In Memory of a Child; In Praise of Songs that Die; Incense; King Arthur's Men Have Come Again; Lincoln; Look You, I'll Go Pray; Love and Law; Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress; Mark Twain and Joan of Arc; Michaelangelo; My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl; Niagara; On Reading Omar Khayyam; On the Building of Springfield; On the Garden Wall; On the Road to Nowhere; Our Guardian Angels and Their Children; Our Mother Pocahontas; Popcorn, Glass Balls, and Cranberries; Prologue to Rhymes to be Traded for Bread; Queen Mab in the Village; Rhymes for Gloriana; Shakespeare; Springfield Magical; St. Francis of Assisi; Star of My Heart; Sunshine; Sweet Briars of the Stairways; Sweethearts of the Year; The Alchemist's Petition; The Amaranth; The Angel and the Clown; The Bankrupt Peace-Maker; The Beggar's Valentine; The Black Hawk War of the Artists; The Booker Washington Trilogy; The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken; The Chinese Nightingale; The City That Will Not Repent; The Congo; The Cornfields; The Dandelion; The Drunkard's Funeral; The Drunkards in the Street; The Eagle That Is Forgotten; The Empty Boats; The Encyclopaedia; The Fairy Bridal-Hymn; The Firemen's Ball; The Flower of Mending; The Flower-Fed Buffaloes; The Gamblers; The Ghosts of the Buffaloes; The Haughty Snail-King; The Hearth Eternal; The Hope of the Resurrection; The Illinois Village; The Jingo and the Minstrel; The King of Yellow Butterflies; The Knight in Disguise; The Leaden-Eyed; The Light o' the Moon; The Lion; The Little Turtle; The Master of the Dance; The Merciful Hand; The Moon is a Painter; The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky; The Mysterious Cat; The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son; The Perfect Marriage; The Potatoes' Dance; The Prairie Battlements; The Proud Farmer; The Queen of Bubbles; The Raft; The Rose of Midnight; The Santa-Fe Trail (A Humoresque); The Scissors-Grinder; The Song of the Garden-Toad; The Sorceress!; The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit; The Spice-Tree; The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly; The Strength of the Lonely; The Sun Says His Prayers; The Tale Of The Tiger-Tree; The Trap; The Traveller-Heart; The Tree of Laughing Bells; The Unpardonable Sin; The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos; The Wizard in the Street; This Section is a Christmas Tree; This, My Song, Is Made For Kerensky; TitianTo Buddha; To Gloriana; To Jane Addams at the Hague; To Lady Jane; To Mary Pickford; To Reformers in Despair; To the United States Senate; Two Old Crows; Upon Returning to the Country Road; We Meet at the Judgment and I Fear It Not; What Semiramis Said; What the Coal-Heaver Said; What the Ghost of the Gambler Said; What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said; What the Miner in the Desert Said; What the Moon Saw; What the Rattlesnake Said; What the Sexton Said; When Bryan Speaks; When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich; Where Is David, the Next King of Israel?; Where Is the Real Non-Resistant; Who Knows?; Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket; With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses; Written for a Musician; Yankee Doodle; Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be.

Movie and television:

Dead Poets Society (poem The Congo quoted) (1989); The Fantasmagori (2017).

Born on this day – Carl Sagan:

Carl Sagan

Astronomer

Planetary scientist

Cosmologist

Astrophysicist

Astrobiologist

Writer

November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996

Credits:

Books:

Contact (1985); Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966); Planets (1966); The Cosmic Connection (1973); Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1974); Other Worlds (1975); Dragons of Eden (1977); Broca's Brain (1979); Cosmos (1980); Murmurs of Earth (1983); The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War (1984); Comet (1985); Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1992); Pale Blue Dot (1994); The Demon-Haunted World (1995); Billions & Billions (1997); The Varieties of Scientific Experience (2006); The New Solar System (1981); The Eloquent Essay (2000).

Movies and television:

Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020); Star Stuff: A Story of Carl Sagan (2015); Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014); FanGirl Academy: 101 (2014); Pale Blue Dot (2009); Contact (1997); The Earth Day Special (1990); Cosmos (1980); Voyager Golden Record (1977).

Recommended reading:

3 books by Carl Sagan.

Cosmos

Published 1980.

ISBN-10: 9780345539434

ISBN-13: 978-0345539434

Description:

With a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together.

The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds.

Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we might communicate with the beings of other worlds.

Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason.

Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

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Pale Blue Dot:

A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Published 1994.

ISBN-10: 0345376595

ISBN-13: 978-0345376596

Description:

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.

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Contact

Published 1985.

A science-fiction novel.

ISBN-10: 0671004107

ISBN-13: 978-0671004101

Description:

In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history.

Who – or what – is out there?

In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe.

In Contact, he predicts its future – and our own.

Born on this day – Gianni Puccini:

Gianni Puccini

Writer

Director

November 9, 1914 – December 3, 1968

Born on this day – Mabel Normand:

Mabel Normand

Actress

Writer

Director

Producer

Comedian

November 9, 1893 – February 23, 1930

Born on this day – Burton E. Stevenson:

Burton E. Stevenson

Writer

Anthologist

Librarian

November 9, 1872 – May 13, 1962

Credits:

Books:

A king in Babylon (1917); A soldier of Virginia (1901); Affairs of state (1906); American history in verse for boys and girls (1960); American men of mind (1913); At odds with the regent (1905); Cadets of Gascony (1904); Great Americans as seen by the poets (1933); Poems of American history (1922); The charm of Ireland (1914); The clue of the red carnation (1942); The Destroyer (1913); The girl from Alsace (1915); The girl with the blue sailor (1906); The gloved hand (1920); The heritage (1902); The Holladay case (1904); The home book of Bible quotations (1949); The home book of modern verse (1960); The home book of proverbs, maxims, and familiar phrases (1959); The home book of quotations (1934); The home book of verse (1912); The house next door (1932); The kingmakers (1922); The Marathon mystery (1904); The mystery of the Boule cabinet (1911); The mystery of Villa Aurelia (1932); The path of honor (1910); The quest for the rose of Sharon (1909); The red carnation (1939); The spell of Holland (1911); The young section-hand (1905); The young train dispatcher (1907); The young train master (1909); Tommy Remington's battle (1902).

Movies and television:

In the Next Room (1930); On Dangerous Ground (1917); Paying the Price (1916); The Case of the Black Parrot (1941); The Pursuing Vengeance (1916).

Born on this day – Marie Dressler:

Marie Dressler

Actress

Comedian

Writer

Director

Producer

November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934

Credits:

Christopher Bean (1933); Dinner at Eight (1933); Tugboat Annie (1933); Prosperity (1932); Emma (1932); The Christmas Party (1931); Politics (1931); Reducing (1931); Min and Bill (1930); Let Us Be Gay (1930); Caught Short (1930); One Romantic Night (1930); The Girl Said No (1930); Anna Christie (1930); Chasing Rainbows (1930); The Vagabond Lover (1929); Dangerous Females (1929); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Divine Lady (1928); Bringing Up Father (1928); The Patsy (1928); Breakfast at Sunrise (1927); The Joy Girl (1927); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); The Red Cross Nurse (1918); The Agonies of Agnes (1918); The Scrub Lady (1917); Fired (1917); Tillie Wakes Up (1917); Tillie's Tomato Surprise (1915); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914).

Born on this day – Alain Delon:

Alain Delon

Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

November 8, 1935 – August 18, 2024

Credits:

20 heures le journal (1995–2016); 2001 World Awards (2001); 300 choeurs pour + de vie (2012); 35 premis Sant Jordi de cinematografía (1991); 50 ans plus tard, dans la piscine (2019); 7 sur 7 (1988–1997); 70 Jahre Berlinale (2020); A Cop (1972); ABC’s Wide World of Sports (1973); Aktuelle Schaubude (1959); Alain Delon (1987); Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes (2018); Alain Jessua, le franc-tireur du cinéma français (2021); Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand (1995); America at the Movies (1976); An Intimate History (2011); Àngel Casas Show (1986); Annaluise & Anton (1999); Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie (2008); Antenne 2 - Le journal de 20H (1982–1991); Any Number Can Win (1963); Arena (2002); Armaguedon (1977); Assassination Attempt (1981); Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008); Astro-Show Ein Spiel mit den Sternen (1982); Attention, les enfants regardent (1978); Aurore Collective / Carnet Filmé: 15 août 1969 - 31 décembre 1977 (1977); Autrement dit (1987–1988); Be Beautiful But Shut Up (1958); Beau geste (2023–2024); Belmondo L’Incorrigible (2022); Belmondo, itinéraire... (2011); Belmondo, le magnifique (2017); Belmondo: Il était une fois le beau monde (2011); Bertrand Blier, l’iconoclaste impenitent (2022); Bitte umblättern (1978–1979); Bla, bla, bla (1982); Boomerang (1976); Borsalino (1970); Borsalino and Co. (1974); Bouillon de culture (1996); Bunu Koymasak mi? (2022); C à vous (2013); Cannes... les 400 coups (1997); Carambolages (1963); Casse sur la côte (2013); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2010); Ce soir avec Arthur (2010); Célébrités (1998); Certains Leeb Show (1985–1986); Ceská Miss 2008 (2008); Champs-Elysées (1987–2011); Charles Bronson, Hollywood’s Lone Wolf (2020); Che tempo che fa (2018); Chez F.O.G. (2007); Christine (1958); Chroniques de France / Segment: Alain Delon; Segment 4; Clément tourne (1965–1969); Cinéma (1965–1988); Cinéma cinémas (1984–1989); Cinéma et réalité (1967); Cinépanorama (1959–1962); Cinéphiles de notre temps (2012); Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret (2019); Colorspace Vol. 2 (2011); Comme au cinema (1987); Compression (2023–2024); Cops Is Cops (1972); Creezy (1974); Crepa padrone, crepa tranquillo (1970); Dalida (2016); Dancing Machine (1990); Dark Hearts (2014); Day and Night (1997); De l’autre côté du miroir (2003); De quoi j’me mêle! (2019); Deadly Games (1989); Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987); Death of a Corrupt Man (1977); Der goldene Schuß (1967); Der grosse Preis (1987); Devine qui est derrière la porte (1973); Diabolically Yours (1967); Diamond Bikini (1971); Die 1000 Tode des Yvan Chiffre (1976); Die goldene Kamera 1998 (1998); Die großen Seebäder (2012); Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995); Dim Dam Dom (1965); Directísimo (1975); Disclaimer (2019); Domicile A2 (1987); Dommage qu’elle soit une putain (1961); Donnerlittchen, Inge Meysel 90 Jahre (2000); Dream On (1998); Duels (2014); Easy Down There! (1971); Ein Leben wie im Flug (2007); El gran concurso del siglo (1999); Élection de Miss France (2000–2012); En compagnie de Mireille Darc et d’Alain Delon pour Plus de Vie (2010); Enfin pris? (2002); Entrée Libre (2016); Est-ce que ça marche? (2013); Evening Urgant (2012); Fabio Montale (2002); Famous Love Affairs / Segment: Agnès Bernauer (1961); Fan des années 80 (2010); Fantômas démasqué (2022); Farewell, Friend (1968); Filmfestspiele Cannes 1959 (1959); Filmmaking on the Riviera (1964); Fin de año con Lina (1992); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); Flic Story (1975); Formule 1 (1983); François Chalais, la vie comme un roman (1997); Frank Riva (2003–2004); Friderikusz show (1997); Furia, las peleas de Carlos Monzon (2019); Gabin intime, aristocrate et paysan (2006); Gainsbourg, l’homme qui aimait les femmes (2010); Gainsbourg, toute une vie (2021); Gala de l’Unicef (1966); Gala de l’union (1959–1974); Gilles Jacob: Citizen Cannes (2010); Godard à la télé - 1960-2000 (1999); Grand écran (1964–1965); Grand Hotel (1985–1986); Grands reportages (2016); Guinness World Records - Die größten Weltrekorde (2004); Half a Chance (1998); Heart of the Festival (2002); Ho! (1968); Hollywood Insider (2021); Ich über mich - Dokumentation über Romy Schneider (1992); If It Moves Shoot It (1970); Il était une fois (2018); Il était une fois: Le gala de l’union des artistes (1980); Im Reich der Filme (2020); Indian Summer (1972); Is Paris Burning? (1966); Jacques Deray: Le cinéma... ma vie (2005); Jane Birkin et nous (2022); Jane Birkin, simple icône (2019); Jeff (1969); Journal de France (2012); Journeys Through French Cinema (2017); Joy House (1964); Karussell (1982); Kissing (2018); Kulturplatz (2012); La boîte à questions (2006–2013); La case du siècle (2019); La gala 93 (1993); La Grande Darka! (2020); La nuit des Césars (1995–2008); La nuit des Molières (2002); La part du lion (2007); La planète des hommes (1971); La tele de tu vida (2007); L’âge d’or de la pub (2023); Le battant (1983); Le bel indifférent (1978); Le cercle de minuit (1996); Le chemin des écoliers (1959); Le chien (1962); Le choc (1982); Le club (2000); Le dernier des cinq (1973); Le gang (1977); Le Gang: variations sur un même theme (2014); Le gitan (1975); Le grand 8 (2013); Le grand échiquier (1977–1986); Le grand journal de Canal+ (2006–2013); Le jeu de la vérité (1985); Le jeune marié (1983); Le journal de 13 heures (1981); Le journal de 20 heures (1988–2013); Le journal d’un combat (1964); Le Lâcher d’Animaux (1995); Le lion (2003); Le Magnifique (1996); Le musée du cinéma Henri Langlois (1997); Le plus grand cabaret du monde (2012–2018); Le rapt (1949); Le Samouraï (1967); L’Eclisse / The Eclipse (1962); Legenden (2002); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les 40 ans de la 2 (2004); Les acteurs (2000); Les Chroniques du Mea (2018–2021); Les dossiers de l’écran (1989); Les échos du cinéma (1961–1962); Les effrontées: Le cinéma au féminin (2022); Les enfants de la télé (2008–2020); Les grands reportages (2016); Les granges brûlées (1973); Les grosses têtes (2014); Les montagnes russes (2005); Les nouveaux refus / Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent (2004); Les nouveaux rendez-vous (1980–1981); Les pros (1986); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1977–1978); Les yeux crevés (1968); L’hebdo cinéma (2009); L’heure des pros (2024); L’homme pressé (1977); L’insoumis (1964); L’invité du dimanche (1970); L’Oeil du cyclone (1997); L’ombre au tableau (2021); Lost Command (1966); Louis Malle - Un cinéaste français (2006); Love at Sea (1965); Love Letters (2008); L’uccello migratore (1972); Luchino Visconti (1999); Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion (2016); L’ultimo gattopardo: Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo (2010); Lundi en histoires (2015); Martes 13 (1995); Matin Bonheur (1987); Melville, le dernier samouraï (2020); Melville/Delon, au nom du père et du fils (2024); Melville-Delon: d’honneur et de nuit (2011); Memòries de la tele (2008–2009); Mes chers contemporains (2014); Michel Sardou: Salut! (1997); Mireille Darc, la femme libre (2018); Mon clown (2008); Monsieur Cinéma (1967–1976); Morceaux de Cannes (2021); Mr. Klein (1976); Music-hall et compagnie (2005); Mythos Amalfiküste - Liebe, Laster, Dolce Vita (2023); Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort (1988); New Wave (1990); No Way Out (1973); Noche de ronda (1995); Nulle part ailleurs (1998); Numéro un (1975–1980); Omnitel: Summer Card (1999); On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde (2003–2004); On n’est pas couché (2018); Once a Thief (1965); One Hundred and One Nights (1995); One Husband Too Many (2010); ORTF, ils ont inventé la télévision (2020); Our History (1984); Ouvrez les guillemets (1973); Palmarès (1980); Paris aktuell (1969–1970); Paris, I Love You (2006); Parole de flic (1985); Personnel et confidentiel (2007); Pierrot the Fool / Cannes Film Festival (1989–2007); Pour le cinéma (1974); Pour le plaisir (1965); Power Play (1978); Pozner (2012); Premiers pas (2005); Purple Noon (1960); Quand la femme s’en mêle (1957); Qu’avez vous fait de vos vingt ans? (1991); Querida Concha (1993); Qui veut gagner des millions? (2009–2013); Red Sun (1971); Redhead (1962); Reflets de Cannes (1959–1962); Rembob’Ina (2020–2024); Rémy Julienne: 50 ans de cascades (2013); Rencontres de cinéma (2008); Rendez-vous avec/with Alain Delon (2019); René Clément, témoin et poète (2013); Reporters (1981); Roberto Giordano: Pinamar 1997 (1997); Roberto Giordano: Punta del Este 1996 (1996); Rocco and His Brothers (1960); Rochefort, Noiret, Marielle: les copains d’abord (2021); Roger Hanin, toute une vie (2007); Romy et Alain, les éternels fiancés (2022); Romy, femme libre (2022); S Novym godom, mamy! (2012); Sacrée soirée (1987–1989); Same Old Song (1997); Samedi soir (1973); Sammy Davis Jr. in Europa (1968); Sardou fait la une (1987); Scherzi a parte (1993); Scommettiamo che...? (1991); Scorpio (1973); Seder-Masochism (2018); Semperopernball - Die große Ballnacht aus Dresden (2018); Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (1998); Show Zizi Jeanmaire (1970); Showman (1963); Sidaction 2009 (2009); Simone Signoret, figure libre (2020); Smap×Smap (2007); Soir 3 (1978); Someone Is Bleeding (1974); Sortie de secours (1970); Sous le nom de Melville (2008); Spécial cinéma (1975–1990); Spirits of the Dead / Segment: William Wilson (1968); Sport en fête (1972–1974); Stars 90 (1991); Stars’N Co (1997–1998); Stupefying! (2016–2019); Sur la route de Madison (2007); Swann in Love (1984); Téléthon (1989); Télé-Zèbre (1990); T’empêches tout le monde de dormir (2006–2008); Texas Across the River (1966); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The Assassination of Trotsky (1972); The Black Tulip (1964); The Car That Became a Star (1965); The Concorde... Airport ‘79 (1979); The Côte d’Azur: Love, Luxury, Passion (2021); The David Frost Show (1970); The Devil and the Ten Commandments / Segment: Tes père et mère honoreras (1962); The Dick Cavett Show (1970); The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968); The Joy of Living (1961); The Last Adventure (1967); The Leopard (1963); The Love Mates (1970); The Many Faces of Zorro (2000); The Medic (1979); Thé ou café (2018); The Passage (1986); The Red Circle (1970); The Return of Casanova (1992); The Sicilian Clan (1969); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Swimming Pool (1969); The Teddy Bear (1994); The Widow Couderc (1971); The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964); Three Men to Kill (1980); Three Murderesses (1959); To Kill a Cop (1981); Top, die Wette gilt! (2017); Tous à la une (1990); Traitement de choc (1973); Transit (1982); Two Men in Town (1973); Un crime (1993); Un DB de plus (1987); Un dia és un dia (1990); Un Français nommé Gabin (2017); Un jour, un destin (2010–2019); Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca (1975); Une journée ordinaire (2011); Unsere Besten (2003); Urgent ou À quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977); Variations énigmatiques (1996); Vingt-quatre heures sur la deux (1970); Vivement dimanche (1998–2012); Vivement dimanche prochain (1998–2013); Wedden, dat..? (1990); Wetten, dass..? (1983–2002); What’s the Bet? (1993–1997); Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel (2010); WWF Club (1980–1990); Zorro (1975).

Born on this day – June Havoc:

June Havoc

Actress

Dancer

Director

Writer

November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010