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On the front page we now list significant anniversaries such as the births and deaths deaths of key figures, and the dates of publication of important books. Here is a summary of those for 2008 and 2009 (which will be completed at the beginning of next year):
Anniversaries of
Note in 2008 |
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Quartercentenary
of the Birth of John Milton
(1608-1674) |
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The following books and
authors should be remembered this year for having
reached a significant milestone:
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[See the archive of
featured authors and
featured books]
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Anniversaries of
Note in 2009 |
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Quartercentennial
of the Publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) |
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The following books and authors should
be remembered this year for having reached a significant
milestone:
- the quincentennial of the birth of John Calvin
(1509-1564)
- the quartercentennial of the publication
of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
- the tricentennial of the birth of Abbé de Mably
(1709-1785)
- the semiquincentennial of the birth of Mary
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- the semiquincentennial of the publication of
Adam Smith's
Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and
Voltaire's
Candide (1759)
- the bicentennial of the death of Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
- the sesquicentenial of the birth of Frank Taussig
(1859-1940), and the deaths of Lord Macaulay
(1800-1859) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
- the sesquicentenial of the publication of J.S.
Mill's On Liberty (1859) and Samuel
Smiles' Self-Help (1859)
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[See the archive of featured authors and
featured books]
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