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June 17
1943. ...(in English, oddly enough), he declared, "England must be brought to her knees!" and on the 26th he was granted an audience with Hitler himself. The meeting, however, was a debacle. Hamsun, nearly deaf and weeping, berated Hitler for the brutality and "Prussian ways" of the German occupation of Norway. The Führer shouted in reply, "Quiet, you understand nothing of this!" and the meeting was over.
— Jun 19, 2026 05:30PM
1943. ...(in English, oddly enough), he declared, "England must be brought to her knees!" and on the 26th he was granted an audience with Hitler himself. The meeting, however, was a debacle. Hamsun, nearly deaf and weeping, berated Hitler for the brutality and "Prussian ways" of the German occupation of Norway. The Führer shouted in reply, "Quiet, you understand nothing of this!" and the meeting was over.
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Judi
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1918 ... 18, 1918, when he and a friend went dancing and met two sisters. He kissed one, and she told him and anyone else who could hear, "If I don't marry you Joe, I';; never marry another person in this world." Did they marry" No. did she marry anyone else? He doesn't say, but for her seventieth birdie—just the other day—he "called her up, wished her a happy birthday, and that's all. I could have married her, but—"
— Jun 20, 2026 09:27AM
Judi
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June 16
1904 Buck Mulligan shaves himself; Mr. Deasy tells anti-Semitic jokes; Stephen Dedalus says God is "a shout in the street," picks his nose, analyzes Hamlet, owes George William Russell money, and drinks absinthe; Leopold Bloom grills a kidney, steps over a hopscotch game, samples Sweets of Sin from a book cart, buys it for his wife, and tidies up after fireworks on the beach; Patrick Dignam is laid to ...
— Jun 19, 2026 06:27AM
1904 Buck Mulligan shaves himself; Mr. Deasy tells anti-Semitic jokes; Stephen Dedalus says God is "a shout in the street," picks his nose, analyzes Hamlet, owes George William Russell money, and drinks absinthe; Leopold Bloom grills a kidney, steps over a hopscotch game, samples Sweets of Sin from a book cart, buys it for his wife, and tidies up after fireworks on the beach; Patrick Dignam is laid to ...
Judi
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June 15
1952 Though he had been commissioned only to write a three-hundred-word review, Meyer Levin's enthusiasm for Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl convinced the editors of the New York Times Book Review to give him their entire front page on this day. His praise—"It is so wondrously alive, so near, that one feels overwhelmingly the universalities of human nature"—led the book's first edition to be sold out...
— Jun 18, 2026 04:52PM
1952 Though he had been commissioned only to write a three-hundred-word review, Meyer Levin's enthusiasm for Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl convinced the editors of the New York Times Book Review to give him their entire front page on this day. His praise—"It is so wondrously alive, so near, that one feels overwhelmingly the universalities of human nature"—led the book's first edition to be sold out...
Judi
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June 14
1949 ... shot him in the chest with a rifle. Waitkus returned to the Phillies lineup within a year, though, and was still playing in 1952 when Bernard Malamud transformed the incident into mythology in The Natural, in which Roy Hobbs, an unknown pitching prospect who has just struck out the legendary Walter "the Hammer" Whambold in a carnival dare, is shot by the mysterious Harriet Bird in her hotel room.
— Jun 16, 2026 06:40AM
1949 ... shot him in the chest with a rifle. Waitkus returned to the Phillies lineup within a year, though, and was still playing in 1952 when Bernard Malamud transformed the incident into mythology in The Natural, in which Roy Hobbs, an unknown pitching prospect who has just struck out the legendary Walter "the Hammer" Whambold in a carnival dare, is shot by the mysterious Harriet Bird in her hotel room.
Judi
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June 13
1963 Kenzaburō Ōe was already known as the precocious, rebellious voice of his post-war generation in Japan when he and his wife were presented with a grim dilemma: their son was born with a growth from his skull that their doctors said would kill him if left untouched but turn him into a vegetable if removed. The Ōes; decision to operate and, against cultural tradition, integrate Hikari, their ...
— Jun 13, 2026 04:02AM
1963 Kenzaburō Ōe was already known as the precocious, rebellious voice of his post-war generation in Japan when he and his wife were presented with a grim dilemma: their son was born with a growth from his skull that their doctors said would kill him if left untouched but turn him into a vegetable if removed. The Ōes; decision to operate and, against cultural tradition, integrate Hikari, their ...
Judi
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June 12
1963 On the day that Medgar Evers, the Mississippi field representative of the NAACP, was shot in the back outside his home in Jackson, James Baldwin was writing Blues for Mister Charlie, a play about another notorious murder of a black man in Mississippi. When he learned of Evers's death he "resolved that nothing under heaven would prevent me from getting his play done." Meanwhile, when Evers's fellow...
— Jun 12, 2026 07:32AM
1963 On the day that Medgar Evers, the Mississippi field representative of the NAACP, was shot in the back outside his home in Jackson, James Baldwin was writing Blues for Mister Charlie, a play about another notorious murder of a black man in Mississippi. When he learned of Evers's death he "resolved that nothing under heaven would prevent me from getting his play done." Meanwhile, when Evers's fellow...
Judi
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June 11
1865 Friedrich Nietzsche was hardly the only twenty-yea old to lose his faith in God, but few have done it with such eloquent finality, or such lasting influence. Having announced his apostasy to the distress of his family, he replied (in a joking and affectionate letter otherwise full of news of a music festival) to his sister's defense of the Christian faith she thought they had shared, "Is it the most...
— Jun 12, 2026 06:47AM
1865 Friedrich Nietzsche was hardly the only twenty-yea old to lose his faith in God, but few have done it with such eloquent finality, or such lasting influence. Having announced his apostasy to the distress of his family, he replied (in a joking and affectionate letter otherwise full of news of a music festival) to his sister's defense of the Christian faith she thought they had shared, "Is it the most...
Judi
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June 10
1992 When Joe Sacco first arrived in Gorzde in 1995, the Bosnian war wasn't over, but the worst days of the siege seemed to be. In a few years Gorzd, once a small Yugoslav city, had become an "enclave" of mostly Muslim Bosnians, besieged by the surrounding ethnic Serbs as the Yugoslav federation was torn apart. fWhile peace talks continued in Ohio, Sacco drank, smoked, and listened to the Bosnians—who,...
— Jun 11, 2026 02:05PM
1992 When Joe Sacco first arrived in Gorzde in 1995, the Bosnian war wasn't over, but the worst days of the siege seemed to be. In a few years Gorzd, once a small Yugoslav city, had become an "enclave" of mostly Muslim Bosnians, besieged by the surrounding ethnic Serbs as the Yugoslav federation was torn apart. fWhile peace talks continued in Ohio, Sacco drank, smoked, and listened to the Bosnians—who,...
Judi
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June 9
1941 ...never without a butterfly net, had the thrill of his lepidopteran career when on a trail just under the canyon's rim Dorothy disturbed into flight an unknown brown butterfly. Bringing two specimens back to the car, he found Vera had caught two of the same, and in a paper the following year he named the new species, the first he had identified, after their travelling companion, Neonympha dorothea.
— Jun 11, 2026 10:30AM
1941 ...never without a butterfly net, had the thrill of his lepidopteran career when on a trail just under the canyon's rim Dorothy disturbed into flight an unknown brown butterfly. Bringing two specimens back to the car, he found Vera had caught two of the same, and in a paper the following year he named the new species, the first he had identified, after their travelling companion, Neonympha dorothea.
