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LIT BITS CALENDAR V1 #259

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Excerpted-from: LITERARY CALENDAR V1 #259
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LITERARY CALENDAR     Wednesday, October 28 1998     Volume 01 : Number 259

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Today is Wednesday, 28 October 1998; on this day,

294 years ago (1704),

	Empirical philosopher John Locke, 72, dies at Oates, the home of
   Sir Francis Masham in High Laver, Essex, his last words--"Cease
   now"--addressed to Lady Masham, who sits at his bedside reading the
   Psalms aloud.

46 years ago (1952),

	e. e. cummings, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, gives the
   first of six "non lectures" at Harvard.

© 1998 Peter Langston