to me!

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to me!

Happy Birthday!! well as A wiseman once told me you have only one Birthday the rest are anniversaries. :o)

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to me!

Well fantastic then. Happy birthday to you Misfit!

Judith Martin: "Miss Manners" (1938)
Martin is an American journalist, novelist, and etiquette authority. Since 1978, she has written an advice column that is distributed three times a week by United Features Syndicate and carried in more than 200 newspapers worldwide. Using the pseudonym Miss Manners, she answers etiquette questions contributed by her readers and clarifies the essential qualities of politeness.

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Born in 1849 Ivan Pavlov
was a Russian physiologist, psychologist, physician, and Nobel Prize recipient. He was investigating the gastric function of dogs when he noticed that some of the animals began salivating before actually receiving their food. He made this phenomenon the focus of his research, thereby discovering the conditioned reflex, which has greatly influenced both science and popular culture.

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

Born in 1850 Francisco de Quevedo
Quevedo was a Spanish satirist and novelist and one of the great writers of the Spanish Golden Age. A determined opponent of culteranismo—a writing movement of the Baroque period characterized by the use of as many words as possible to convey little meaning or to conceal meaning—Quevedo championed conceptismo, a movement that aimed to convey multiple meanings in as few words as possible

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Born in 1850 Francisco de Quevedo
Quevedo was a Spanish satirist and novelist and one of the great writers of the Spanish Golden Age. A determined opponent of culteranismo—a writing movement of the Baroque period characterized by the use of as many words as possible to convey little meaning or to conceal meaning—Quevedo championed conceptismo, a movement that aimed to convey multiple meanings in as few words as possible

1580-1645 (Siglo de Oro)
Tullio

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Born in 1850 Francisco de Quevedo
Quevedo was a Spanish satirist and novelist and one of the great writers of the Spanish Golden Age. A determined opponent of culteranismo—a writing movement of the Baroque period characterized by the use of as many words as possible to convey little meaning or to conceal meaning—Quevedo championed conceptismo, a movement that aimed to convey multiple meanings in as few words as possible

1580-1645 (Siglo de Oro)
Tullio

That´s correct. I did not realize it before....good observer!
The date of birth, if you give Wikipedia credit, was September 14th---->Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas

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Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes---->at the third line on the second page it says September 17th

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Mika Waltari (1908)
Waltari was a prolific Finnish author, best known for the 1945 historical novel The Egyptian, which chronicles the rise and fall of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and was hailed by Egyptologists for its historical accuracy. Its theme of corruption of humanist values in a materialist world was curiously topical in the aftermath of World War II, and the book became an international bestseller, serving as the basis for the 1954 Hollywood movie of the same name

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Ben Chifley born in >>(1885)

Chifley was the 16th prime Minister of Australia and one of its most influential leaders. His career in politics began with his participation in the founding of the Australian engine drivers' union and his active membership in the Labor Party. Throughout the Great Depression and WWII, he oversaw numerous reforms in the fields of immigration, citizenship, social security, and intelligence gathering.

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Today's Birthdays: Actor Mickey Rooney is 88

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Miguel de Cervantes (1547)
Cervantes was a Spanish author best known for Don Quixote de la Mancha, his novel about an aging "knight." A superb burlesque of the popular romances of chivalry, the work was an enormous success and has had an indelible effect on the development of the European novel. Cervantes himself led an eventful life: he was imprisoned several times, captured by pirates, and sold as a slave.

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The one the only

Jimmy Carter (1924)
Carter served as US President from 1977 to 1981. His foreign policy met with some success—he mediated the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt and signed an arms treaty with the USSR—but his domestic policy was less effective. His administration was unable to control oil-related inflation or reduce unemployment, factors that weakened his second presidential bid. Since leaving office, Carter has been active in a number of human-rights causes

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Stevie Ray Vaughan was born on 1954.
Vaughan was one of America's most influential electric blues guitarists. His unique sound was created with the use of heavy strings, and his style drew frequent comparisons to that of Jimi Hendrix. Vaughan's 1989 album In Step won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album, and in 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him the seventh greatest guitarist of all time. His career was tragically cut short when he died in a helicopter crash in 1990.

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

Chuck Berry (1926)
Berry was one of the most innovative musicians of the 1950s, and his distinctive blues-derived guitar style and witty lyrics helped define the rock music genre. His signature crouching and gliding "duck walk" has been imitated by several rock guitarists, including Angus Young of AC/DC. One of the first musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after it was founded in the 1980s, Berry also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000

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Béla Lugosi born in >>(1882)

Lugosi, a Hungarian-born US actor, is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in the Broadway stage production and subsequent film of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story. He appeared in the 1931 film version wearing minimal makeup and using his natural, heavily accented voice. Following this memorable performance, Lugosi found himself frequently typecast as a horror film villain. When Lugosi died in 1956,

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Theodore Roosevelt (1858)
A hero of the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt served as governor of New York and, later, as vice president under William McKinley. After McKinley's assassination, he became the 26th president of the US. His administration was marked by the regulation of trusts, the building of the Panama Canal, and a foreign policy based on the motto "Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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Marie Antoinette (1755)
Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI of France. Their marriage was designed to ally France with its long-time enemy, Austria. Marie was initially popular, but her devotion to Austrian interests and her reputation for heedless extravagance hastened the public's disillusionment with the monarchy and helped to provoke the French Revolution. She was executed by guillotine in 1793, along with her husband and thousands of others

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Leon Trotsky (1879)
Trotsky was a Marxist intellectual whose ideas form the basis of Trotskyism, a Communist ideology based on the theory of worldwide revolution. He was a crucial figure in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and organized the Red Army in the civil war that followed. After a power struggle with Joseph Stalin in the 1920s, Trotsky was exiled from the USSR. In 1940, he was assassinated in Mexico by an alleged Soviet agent with ties to Stalin.

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