Archive for November 13th, 2015

AUTHOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1850


Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
(November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894)

Scottish born author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the classic adventure
novel Treasure Island, and the psychological thriller The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
He was a late reader, starting at about age seven
or eight, but he wrote incessantly as a child, even to the discouragement
of his father. He agreed to study law at Edinburgh University to appease
his father, but he continued to pursue a literary career during his young
adulthood.

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RECAPPING PAST NEWS EVENTS

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FILM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1940

The animated film Fantasia was produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt 
Disney Productions. It is the third feature in the Disney animated features library
and consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music with
conductor Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Fantasia is the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound. In
1998 the American Film Institute ranked it as the 58th greatest American film 
in their 100 Years…100 Movies and the fifth greatest animated film in their
10 Top 10 list. 


 

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