Lana Turner
Actress
February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Born on this day – Ralph Steiner:
Ralph
Steiner
Photographer
Filmmaker
February 8, 1899 – July 13, 1986
Credits:
Look Park (1974); This
Is Tomorrow (1943); The City (1939); People of the Cumberland (1937); The River
(1938); Pie in the Sky (1935); Cafe Universal (1934); Hands (1934); Panther
Woman of the Needle Trades, or the Lovely Life of Little Lisa (1931); Surf and
Seaweed (1931); Mechanical Principles (1931); H2O (1929).
Born on this day – Lonnie Johnson:
Lonnie Johnson
Blues singer
Guitarist
Violinist
Songwriter
February 8, 1899 –
June 16, 1970
Born on this day – Jules Verne:
Jules Verne
Writer
February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905
Credits:
20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea (1869); A Fantasy of Dr. Ox (1872); A Floating City (1871); Adrift in the
Pacific (1888); Among the Cannibals (1867); Around the World in Eighty Days (1873);
Beach Books Anthology (2023); Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep (2018); Caesar
Cascabel (1890); Captain Antifer (1894); Captain Grant's Children (1867); Carpathian
Castle (2018); Child of the Cavern (1877); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Claudius
Bombarnac (1892); Clovis Dardentor (1896); Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen (1878);
Doctor Ox And Other Stories (1874); Drama In Livonia (1904); Eight Hundred
Leagues On The Amazon (1881); Facing The Flag (1896); Family Without A Name (1889);
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863); Foundling Mick (1893); From the Earth to the
Moon (1865); Godfrey Morgan (1882); In Search Of The Castaways (1867); In the
Year 2889 (1889); Invasion of the Sea (1905); Journey to the Center of the
Earth (1864); Jules Verne Collection, 33 Works (2004); Keraban the Inflexible (1883);
Master of the World (1904); Mathias Sandorf (1885); Mistress Branican (1891); Mysterious
Document (1867); North Against South (1887); Off On A Comet (1877); On the
Track (1867); Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863); Propeller Island (1895); Robur
the Conqueror (1886); Round The Moon (1869); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Sea
Serpent (1901); Second Year Ashore (1940); Tales of the Restless Sea -
Adventure Anthology (2023); The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864); The
Archipelago On Fire (1884); The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on
the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007); The Begum's Fortune (1879); The Castaways
of the Flag (1900); The Castaways of the Flag (1900); The Castle of the
Carpathians (1892); The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908); The City in the
Sahara (1905); The Demon of Cawnpore (2008); The Desert of Ice (1866); The
English at the North Pole (1866); The Exploration of the World (1879); The
Flight To France (1887); The Fur Country (1873); The Great Sea Adventure (2019);
The Green Ray (1882); The Kip Brothers (1902); The Lighthouse at the End of the
World (1905); The Lottery Ticket (1885); The Mighty Orinoco (1898); The
Mysterious Island (1874); The Mysterious Island (1874); The Purchase of the
North Pole: Topsy-Turvy (1889); The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1910); The
Sphinx of the Ice / An Antarctic Mystery (1897); The Steam House (1880); The
Survivors of the Chancellor (1875); The Survivors of the Jonathan (1897); The
Tribulations of a Chinaman (1879); The Vanished Diamond: The Star of the South (1884);
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); Their Island Home (1924); Tigers
and Traitors (1976); Travel Scholarships (1903); Two Years' Vacation (1888); Underground
City (1877); Village in the Treetops (1901); Will Of An Eccentric (1899); Yesterday
And Tomorrow (1910).
Rachel Carson, on writing:
Writing is largely a matter of application and hard work,
or writing endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible.
For me, that usually means many, many revisions.
- Rachel Carson.
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