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June 10
1992 When Joe Sacco first arrived in Gorzde in 1995, the Bosnian war wasn't over, but the worst days of the siege seemed to be. In a few years Gorzd, once a small Yugoslav city, had become an "enclave" of mostly Muslim Bosnians, besieged by the surrounding ethnic Serbs as the Yugoslav federation was torn apart. fWhile peace talks continued in Ohio, Sacco drank, smoked, and listened to the Bosnians—who,...
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1992 When Joe Sacco first arrived in Gorzde in 1995, the Bosnian war wasn't over, but the worst days of the siege seemed to be. In a few years Gorzd, once a small Yugoslav city, had become an "enclave" of mostly Muslim Bosnians, besieged by the surrounding ethnic Serbs as the Yugoslav federation was torn apart. fWhile peace talks continued in Ohio, Sacco drank, smoked, and listened to the Bosnians—who,...
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June 14
1949 ... shot him in the chest with a rifle. Waitkus returned to the Phillies lineup within a year, though, and was still playing in 1952 when Bernard Malamud transformed the incident into mythology in The Natural, in which Roy Hobbs, an unknown pitching prospect who has just struck out the legendary Walter "the Hammer" Whambold in a carnival dare, is shot by the mysterious Harriet Bird in her hotel room.
— Jun 16, 2026 06:40AM
1949 ... shot him in the chest with a rifle. Waitkus returned to the Phillies lineup within a year, though, and was still playing in 1952 when Bernard Malamud transformed the incident into mythology in The Natural, in which Roy Hobbs, an unknown pitching prospect who has just struck out the legendary Walter "the Hammer" Whambold in a carnival dare, is shot by the mysterious Harriet Bird in her hotel room.
Judi
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June 13
1963 Kenzaburō Ōe was already known as the precocious, rebellious voice of his post-war generation in Japan when he and his wife were presented with a grim dilemma: their son was born with a growth from his skull that their doctors said would kill him if left untouched but turn him into a vegetable if removed. The Ōes; decision to operate and, against cultural tradition, integrate Hikari, their ...
— Jun 13, 2026 04:02AM
1963 Kenzaburō Ōe was already known as the precocious, rebellious voice of his post-war generation in Japan when he and his wife were presented with a grim dilemma: their son was born with a growth from his skull that their doctors said would kill him if left untouched but turn him into a vegetable if removed. The Ōes; decision to operate and, against cultural tradition, integrate Hikari, their ...
Judi
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June 12
1963 On the day that Medgar Evers, the Mississippi field representative of the NAACP, was shot in the back outside his home in Jackson, James Baldwin was writing Blues for Mister Charlie, a play about another notorious murder of a black man in Mississippi. When he learned of Evers's death he "resolved that nothing under heaven would prevent me from getting his play done." Meanwhile, when Evers's fellow...
— Jun 12, 2026 07:32AM
1963 On the day that Medgar Evers, the Mississippi field representative of the NAACP, was shot in the back outside his home in Jackson, James Baldwin was writing Blues for Mister Charlie, a play about another notorious murder of a black man in Mississippi. When he learned of Evers's death he "resolved that nothing under heaven would prevent me from getting his play done." Meanwhile, when Evers's fellow...
Judi
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June 11
1865 Friedrich Nietzsche was hardly the only twenty-yea old to lose his faith in God, but few have done it with such eloquent finality, or such lasting influence. Having announced his apostasy to the distress of his family, he replied (in a joking and affectionate letter otherwise full of news of a music festival) to his sister's defense of the Christian faith she thought they had shared, "Is it the most...
— Jun 12, 2026 06:47AM
1865 Friedrich Nietzsche was hardly the only twenty-yea old to lose his faith in God, but few have done it with such eloquent finality, or such lasting influence. Having announced his apostasy to the distress of his family, he replied (in a joking and affectionate letter otherwise full of news of a music festival) to his sister's defense of the Christian faith she thought they had shared, "Is it the most...
Judi
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June 9
1941 ...never without a butterfly net, had the thrill of his lepidopteran career when on a trail just under the canyon's rim Dorothy disturbed into flight an unknown brown butterfly. Bringing two specimens back to the car, he found Vera had caught two of the same, and in a paper the following year he named the new species, the first he had identified, after their travelling companion, Neonympha dorothea.
— Jun 11, 2026 10:30AM
1941 ...never without a butterfly net, had the thrill of his lepidopteran career when on a trail just under the canyon's rim Dorothy disturbed into flight an unknown brown butterfly. Bringing two specimens back to the car, he found Vera had caught two of the same, and in a paper the following year he named the new species, the first he had identified, after their travelling companion, Neonympha dorothea.
Judi
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June 8
1977...but she didn't entirely neglect her schoolwork, turning in a 257-page thesis on this day called "A New Look at Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II: Sources, Structure, Meaning," which can still be found in the stacks of the UW library, and which makes the rather unambitious argument, with little sign of the elegant ferocity of her later essays, that this neglected work was actually a "good, sound play."
— Jun 10, 2026 05:05PM
1977...but she didn't entirely neglect her schoolwork, turning in a 257-page thesis on this day called "A New Look at Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II: Sources, Structure, Meaning," which can still be found in the stacks of the UW library, and which makes the rather unambitious argument, with little sign of the elegant ferocity of her later essays, that this neglected work was actually a "good, sound play."
Judi
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June 7
1943 Malcolm Cowley, in the New Republic, on T. S Eliot's four Quartets: "Four Quartets is one of those rear books that can be enjoyed without being understood."
— Jun 10, 2026 09:25AM
1943 Malcolm Cowley, in the New Republic, on T. S Eliot's four Quartets: "Four Quartets is one of those rear books that can be enjoyed without being understood."
Judi
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June 6
1780 ...For days rioters pillaged the city, and on this day they marched on Newgate Prison. Blake was walking near the house of his old engraving maser when he was caught up in the front ranks of the advancing mob and carried along with it, likely against his will, to Newgate, where the crowd burned the prison and freed its inmates, and where Blake himself was fortunate to escape without injury or arrest.
— Jun 09, 2026 06:33AM
1780 ...For days rioters pillaged the city, and on this day they marched on Newgate Prison. Blake was walking near the house of his old engraving maser when he was caught up in the front ranks of the advancing mob and carried along with it, likely against his will, to Newgate, where the crowd burned the prison and freed its inmates, and where Blake himself was fortunate to escape without injury or arrest.
Judi
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June 5
1909 ... in 1909, soon after which they married. (Stevens's parents, who disapproved of their son marrying a woman who had been too poor to finish high school, did not attend.) When her husband's work began to appear in literary journals in 1914, Elsie was shocked and disappointed that he published the poems he had written for her, a skepticism toward his vocation that continued throughout their marriage.
— Jun 08, 2026 12:14PM
1909 ... in 1909, soon after which they married. (Stevens's parents, who disapproved of their son marrying a woman who had been too poor to finish high school, did not attend.) When her husband's work began to appear in literary journals in 1914, Elsie was shocked and disappointed that he published the poems he had written for her, a skepticism toward his vocation that continued throughout their marriage.
Judi
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June 4
1949 ...The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and about the danger of children getting stuck in wardrobes. "Much more serious is the undesirability of shutting oneself into a cupboard, I might add a caution—or wd. this only make things worse?" In later editions of the book, Lewis indeed added a caution, five of them throughout the story, in fact, to always leave the door open when hiding in a wardrobe.
— Jun 07, 2026 05:29AM
1949 ...The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and about the danger of children getting stuck in wardrobes. "Much more serious is the undesirability of shutting oneself into a cupboard, I might add a caution—or wd. this only make things worse?" In later editions of the book, Lewis indeed added a caution, five of them throughout the story, in fact, to always leave the door open when hiding in a wardrobe.
