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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.
Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist (1870) |
Chris Barber, Musician (1930) |
Miguel Cabrera, Athlete (1983) |
Boomer Esiason, Athlete (1961) |
Sandra Fluke, Activist (1981) |
John Ford, Dramatist (1586) |
Jennifer Garner, Actress (1972) |
Jan Hammer, Musician (1948) |
Maynard James Keenan, Musician (1964) |
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman (1894) |
Ralph Abernathy, Activist (1990) |
Paul Getty, Businessman (2003) |
Lucy Larcom, Poet (1893) |