Author James Jones – He Wrote About WWII and More
James Ramon Jones was born in Robinson, Illinois on November 6, 1921. He was the second son of Ramon and Ada Jones. His older brother his older brother was George W. He also had a younger sister, Mary Ann. On November 10, 1939, three days after his eighteenth birthday he enlisted in the United States [...]
First Bond Girl
It wasn’t her first film appearance, but when when she emerged from the sea in a white bikini in the 1962 James Bond Film “Dr. No”, Ursula Andress became the first and perhaps the most unforgettable Bond Girl. Ursula Andress was born on March 19, 1936 in Switzerland. It must have been for her beauty [...]
The Year of the Hobbit
Other than the possible end of the world, the Mayan Calendar 12th (and last) long count ends on December 20th, one of the highly anticipated events is the December release of the first of two movies made from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey). Beginning with January 3rd, which was the date [...]
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
A Christmas Carol by English novelist Charles Dickens was first published on December 19, 1843. It had illustrations by John Leech. The story is divided into Staves and not chapters. A stave, which is similar to a stanza, is found in music as a recurring pattern of meter and rhyme. Dickens felt this added humor [...]
Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf
On July 18, 1925 the first volume of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was published. The work is a combination autobiography and political ideas of the young Hitler. It was originally titled Four Years of Struggle against Lies Stupidity and Cowardice. The publisher, Secker and Warburg, retitled the work Mein Kampf or My Struggle. This first [...]
Stephen King’s – The Stand
In 1978 Doubleday Books publishes Stephen Kings fourth novel The Stand. King believes that this fulfills a contract obligation and believes it would be his last at the publishing house. Later Doubleday would publish Pet Sematary. Synopsis: After an accident happens at a miltary biological weapon facility a guard escapes infected with adeadly virus known [...]
Shots Fired – 4 Dead in Ohio
At 12:22 on Monday May 4, 1970, 29 members of a group of 77 National Guard troops from A Company and Troop G fired shots towards a group of students at Kent State. 13 seconds and about 67 shots later it ended. Some shots were in the air as warnings, others to induce injury and [...]
Author of the Century – The Early Years
Perhaps J.R.R. Tolkien was not the “Author of the 20th Century”, but his Lord of the Rings is considered by many as the “book of the century” and has influence many of the writers of the last half of the 20th century and into the 21st. January 3rd is his birthday. He was born in [...]
A Fellowship Published
The classic book by J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings was first published as three volumes; The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King on July 21, 1954, on November 11, 1954 and on October 20, 1955 respectively in the United Kingdom. The book was created as a [...]
He Changed What We Read
Harold Robbins with more than 20 published books in 32 different languages and selling over 750 million copies can easily be considered one of the World’s Bestselling Author. He was born on May 21, 1916 and although he often claimed to be a Jewish orphan (just like the character in his first novel Never Love [...]
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