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Many Happy Returns: February 27th

Posted by Sherry on 2/27/2010 in --February, Birthdays, General, Poets and poetry

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, b. 1807 (only five years after Victor Hugo). It Is Not Always May: [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: February 16th

Posted by Sherry on 2/16/2010 in --February, Birthdays, General, Television

Henry Adams, b. 1838. He was the grandson of one president and the great-grandson of another. Numbered among his many friends were Lincoln’s private secretary John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, geologist Clarence King, Senators Lucius Lamar and James Cameron, artist John La Farge, and writer Edith Wharton. His most famous work was an [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: February 13th

Posted by Sherry on 2/13/2010 in --February, Birthdays, General

Eleanor Farjeon, b. 1881. Click on her name to read a little more about her life and her poetry. Grant Wood, b. 1892. American artist born near Anamosa, Iowa. Georges Simenon,, b. 1903. He was a Belgian-born author of detective fiction. Many of his books feature the Parisian detective, Inspector Maigret. Has anyone read these [...]

 
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President’s Day for Kids

Posted by Sherry on 2/12/2010 in --February, 2010 Projects, Birthdays, Booklists, Education and Homeschool, General, Nonfiction, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

Monday, February 15th is Presidents’ Day, so I thought I’d re-run this list with a few additions. Have a happy holiday! Leetla Giorgio Washeenton by Thomas Augustine Daly. More Washington Poetry. O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman. White House site with mini-biographies of all 44 U.S. Presidents. More information on the Presidents for President’s [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: February 9th

Posted by Sherry on 2/9/2010 in --February, Birthdays, Children's Fiction, General

Hilda Gerarda van Stockum was born in Rotterdam in 1908. She grew up in Ireland and in the Netherlands. Her brother, Willem van Stockum, was a mathematician and disciple of Albert Einstein. He was “the first to notice the possibility of closed timelike curves, one of the strangest and most disconcerting phenomena in general relativity.” [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: February 8th

Posted by Sherry on 2/8/2010 in --February, Birthdays

On February 8, 1577, English scholar Robert Burton, was born in Leicestershire. He spent most of his life at Oxford University, first as a student, then as vicar of St. Thomas Church in Oxford. Burton was a mathematician who had an interest in astrology, and he suffered from depression, or melancholy as it was called [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: February 7th

Posted by Sherry on 2/7/2010 in --February, Birthdays, General

Born on this date in 1812, Mr. Dickens has been delighting readers for over 150 years. Dickens Novels I’ve Read: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend DIckens Novels I Have Yet to Enjoy: Hard Times, Dombey and Son, Bleak House, [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: Poetry Friday with Marlowe and Raleigh

Posted by Sherry on 2/5/2010 in --February, Birthdays, Poets and poetry

Tomorrow, February 6th, is the birthday of poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe. COME live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, [...]

 
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President’s Day in Poetry and Prose

Posted by Sherry on 2/16/2009 in --February, Birthdays, Booklists, Celebrations, General

Leetla Giorgio Washeenton by Thomas Augustine Daly. More Washington Poetry. O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman. White House site with mini-biographies of all 44 U.S. Presidents. More information on the Presidents for President’s Day. Recommended Children’s Books about the Presidents: The Buck Stops Here by Alice Provensen. So You Want to be President? by [...]

 
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Dickensian Birthday Celebration

Posted by Sherry on 2/7/2009 in --February, Adult Fiction, Birthdays, Blogamundi (Links), Celebrations, General

Happy Birthday, Mr. DIckens! Born on this date in 1812, Mr. Dickens has been delighting readers for over 150 years. Dickens Novels I’ve Read: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend DIckens Novels I Have Yet to Enjoy: Hard Times, Dombey [...]

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