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Franklin bifocals Friday, November 5, 2010

Painting of Guy Fawkes with House of Lords in background
[1605 - Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes & others
try to blow up the English Parliament]
(Remember, remember, the 5th of November)

Labor Pioneer Eugene V. Debs    Socialist Candidate Eugene Debs
[1855 - Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer, socialist, born in Terre Haute, Indiana]

Jounalist Ida Tarbell    Writer Ida Tarbell
[1857 - Ida Minerva Tarbell, teacher, author, editor, born in Hatch Hollow, Erie County, Pennsylvania]

Writer & Historian Will Durant    Historian Will Durant & Wife
[1885 - Will (William J.) Durant, writer, historian, born in North Adams, Massachusetts]

Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy    Designer Raymond Loewy with one of his works    loewy-raymond
[1893 - Raymond Loewy, industrial designer, inventor, engineer, born in Paris]

Actor Joel McCrea    Actor Joel McCrea
[1905 - Joel (Albert) McCrea, actor, born in South Pasadena, California]

Singing Cowboy Roy Rogers
[1911 - Roy Rogers, singing cowboy, born in
Cincinnati, Ohio]

Actress Vivien Liegh
[1913 - Vivien Leigh (Vivian Hartley), actress, born in Darjeeling, India]

Actor John McGiver    Actor John McGiver
[1913 - John McGiver, actor, born in New York City]

Sinclair Lewis    Sinclair Lewis - typing    Sinclair Lewis - typing
[1930 - Sinclair Lewis wins Nobel Prize for Literature]   (First American to win the prize)


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