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Sandy Kozel

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Titanic in Cork harbour, 11 April 1912

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The First Lady of Country, Loretta Lynn (née Webb) is 83 today.

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PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1939

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The book “The Grapes of Wrath” won the
National Book
Award
and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited
prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the
Nobel
Prize
in 1962.

steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was born in
Salinas, California.
(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)

Steinbeck has been called "a giant of American letters".

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Sandy Kozel

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PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1964

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In His Own Write is a book by John Lennon consisting of
short stories, poems, and surreal line drawings. The book
is notable in that it was
the first solo Beatle project in any
form. It was followed in 1965 by A Spaniard in the Works.

 

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The Beatles with the book

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Mike Gracia

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