These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.

Today's film came out in 1997, and was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, and Mark Wahlberg.

We mark the anniversaries of the births of John Keats and Peter Jackson, and talk about Martin Luther and Halloween.

Today's image comes courtesy of Dr. Peck's office in Kennett, Missouri, circa 1981.

Today's poem is by Robert Herrick.

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These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.

Today's film came out in 1992, and was directed by Robert Redford.  It stars Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, and Tom Skerritt.

We mark the anniversaries of the births of Ezra Pound, Zoë Akins, Ruth Gordon Jones, and the anniversary of one of the worst days of pollution in American history.

Today's image is a painting by Angelica Kauffman, and is titled, "Diana and nymphs".

Today's poem is by Ezra Pound.

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Today's film came out in 1999, directed by Spike Jonze. It stars Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, John Malkovich, and John Cusak.

We mark the anniversaries of the births of Bob Ross, James Boswell, Fanny Brice, Bill Mauldin, and Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting becoming the first from a black person to be hung in the White House, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X being published just 60 years ago today.

Today's image comes courtesy of Worthpoint, and is a photo of Malcolm X taken by The Associated Press.

Today's poem is by William Ernest Henley.

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Today's film came out in 1968. It was a documentary directed by William Greaves.

We mark the anniversaries of the births of Desiderius Erasmus, Ayad Akhtar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty.

Today's image comes courtesy of The Museum of the City of New York, and is a painting commemorating the unveiling the Statue of Liberty, by Edward Moran. It is titled, "Unveiling The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World".

Today's poem is by Emma Lazarus.

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Today's film came out in 1995, and was directed by Mike Figgis.  It stars Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue.

We mark the anniversaries of the births of Roberto Benigni, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, John Cleese, Fran Lebowitz, and commemorate the hanging of Quakers just for being Quakers.

Today's image comes courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and is by Salvator Rosa. It's titled, "Human Fragility."

Today's poem is by Dylan Thomas.

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Today's film came out in 1997, and was directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, and Ethan Hawke.

Today’s image comes courtesy of George Grantham Bain News Service, via U.S. Library of Congress, and is a photograph of Annie Edson Taylor and her cat, after they became the first to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. It's titled, Queen of the Mist.

Today's poem is by Walt Whitman.

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Today's film came out in 1998, directed by Gary Ross.  It stars Tobey Maguire, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Don Knotts, and Reese Witherspoon, and Jeff Daniels.

We mark the anniversaries of the births of Ang Lee, Philip Kaufman, Michael Crichton, Robert Seymour Bridges, Johnny Carson, and “Weird Al” Yankovic.

Today's image is of “Weird Al” Yankovic, and comes courtesy of Kyle Cassidy.

Today's poem is by Robert Bridges.

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These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.

Today's film came out in 1976. It stars Franklyn Ajaye, George Carlin, Professor Irwin Corey, Antonion Fargas, Jack Hehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters, Richard Pryor, and Bill Duke.

We mark the anniversaries of the births of Spike Jonze, Jan de Bont, Robert Capa, Raghubir Singh, Swami Rama Tirtha, Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, Franz Liszt, and Sarah Bernhardt.

Today's image comes courtesy of Robert Capa, and is simply titled, "Troops landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944".

Today's poem is by Robert Frost.

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Today's film came out in 1984. It stars Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Kim Stanley, Veronica Cartwright, and Levon Helm.

We mark the anniversaries of the births of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Carrie Fisher, Domenichino, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Volker Halbach, and Magellan discovering the Strait that would bear his name, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, forever altering humankind's trajectory.

Today's image comes courtesy of Riccardo Ghilardi, and is a portrait of Carrie Fisher as a member of the 70th jury of the Venice International Film Festival.

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Today's film came out in 1986. It stars Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, and Paul Newman

We mark the anniversaries of the births of Jupiter Hammon, Arthur Miller, Michael McKean, Norm Macdonald, Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira, and Henri de Saint-Simon.

Today's poem is by Jupiter Hammon.

Today's image is by Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira, and is titled, "2 gallos, Firmado".

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