who wrote the passage snow day?
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The Snowy Day  (Peter #1) The Snowy Day written by Ezra Jacks Keats is an everyday tale about a young boy named Peter experiencing his first day in snow. This Caldecott award winner depicts the boys interests and discoveries as he travels and explores in this winter wonderland.
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The Polar Express For the soundtrack, see The Polar Express (soundtrack). The Polar Express is a children's book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1985. The book is now widely considered to be a classic Christmas story for young children although the point has been challenged.
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Snowbird Snowbird is a song by the Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan. Though it has been recorded by many performers including Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley, it is best known through Anne Murray's 1970 version, which launched her into a long career of international exposure. It was a #2 hit on Canada's pop chart and went to #1 on both the Canadian adult contemporary and country charts. The song reached #8 on the U.S. pop singles chart, spent six weeks atop the U.S. adult contemporary chart, and became a surprise Top 10 U.S. country hit as well.
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Richard Hakluyt Richard Hakluyt, (born c. 1552, London?—died Nov. 23, 1616, England) English geographer noted for his political influence, his voluminous writings, and his persistent promotion of Elizabethan overseas expansion, especially the colonization of North America.
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- Long Day's Journey into Night is a drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1941–42 but only published in 1956. The play is widely considered to be his masterwork and magnum opus.O'Neill posthumously received the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work.Long Day's Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of being among the finest American plays in the 20th century alongside A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman.ong Day's Journey Into Night was first performed by the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. During O'Neill's lifetime, the Swedish people had embraced his work to a far greater extent than had any other nation, including his own.
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- On December 23, 1931, Bentley died at the family farmhouse in Jericho. Because of his wonderful work with snow crystals, he became affectionately known as Snowflake Bentley. Wilson Bentley, the Snowflake Man by Blanchard, Duncan C. (1970).
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- Pygmalion, written in 1912 by George Bernard Shaw and first performed two years later, tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (speech), who bets his friend that he can pass off a poor flower girl with a Cockney accent as a duchess by teaching her to speak with an upper class accent.haw was writing about all this stuff nearly a hundred years ago, and his thoughts are still fresh. Pygmalion is so tightly constructed that he can fit all of this in to about seventy pages of text – the play runs about two hours – and tackle hard issues like poverty.
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'Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor': The Story Behind the Statue of Libertyâs Famous Immigration Poem Circa 1880, American poet and essayist Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), who wrote 'The New Colossus,' the poem later engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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- Written by Robert Balmanno, September Snow is a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future in which the Earth's climate is manipulated by nuclear-powered machines to disastrous effect. So it's fitting that the War on Terror has finally produced some dystopian, end-is-nigh science fiction.
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- In an article in Old News, David Vachon writes of John Snow's life and achievements, and concludes: For his persistent efforts to determine how cholera was spread and for the statistical mapping methods he initiated, John Snow is widely considered to be the father of [modern] epidemiology..
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Edvard Grieg In 1906 he wrote the thesis on Hungarian folk song (Strophic Construction in Hungarian Folksong). Around this time Kodaly kodály met fellow Composer Bela, béla bartok bartók whom he took under his wing and introduced to some of the methods involved in. folk song collecting
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Lovely Day (song) Lovely Day (song) Lovely Day is a song by American soul and R&B singer Bill Withers. Published in 1977 (see 1977 in music), the song was written by Withers and Skip Scarborough and appears on Withers' 1978 album Menagerie. 1 History.
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- The Seasons (Tchaikovsky) The Seasons, Op. 37a[1] (also seen as Op. 37b; Russian: времена года; published with the French title Les Saisons), is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in the northern hemisphere.
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Thomas Day Thomas Day (22 June 1748 – 28 September 1789) was a British author and abolitionist.
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Edwin Markham In 1922, Markham's poem Lincoln, the Man of the People was selected from 250 entries to be read at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. The author himself read the poem. Of it, Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton said, Edwin Markham's Lincoln is the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and the greatest that ever will be written. Later that year, Markham was filmed reciting the poem by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
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- John Snow (1813–1858) is revered as a founding father of two medical disciplines. Anesthesiologists remember him as the physician who first made anesthesia scientific by showing how the human body responded to different doses of anesthetic drugs, and how anesthesia affected the human physiology.
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- Simon-Chattanooga, Tn. Seeger wrote the refrain turn, turn, turn and the phrase that was the whole purpose of the song: I swear it's not too late.Hats off to everyone who contributed to this important work. David-Massillon, Oh. They should have written: a season for sex and a season for work or similar.
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Edgar Winter Edgar Winter. Edgar Holland Winter (born December 28, 1946) is an American rock and blues musician. He is known for being a multi-instrumentalist — keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist and percussionist — as well as a singer. His success peaked in the 1970s with his band, The Edgar Winter Group, and their popular songs Frankenstein and Free Ride.
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Robert Frost Frost was 86 when he read his well-known poem The Gift Outright at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961. He died in Boston two years later, on January 29, 1963, of complications from prostate surgery.
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"The Making of ""The Snowy Day""" Ezra Jack Keats, Crunch, crunch, crunch, his feet sank into the snow.. Final illustration for The Snowy Day, 1962. Collage and paint on board. Ezra Jack Keats Papers, de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, McCain Library and Archives, The University of Southern Mississippi. Copyright Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. As groundbreaking as Peter was, The Snowy Day also marked a major shift in Keats’s artistic style.
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The Mystery Behind the World's Most Famous Christmas Poem The Mystery Behind the World's Most Famous Christmas Poem. When it first appeared in the newspaper on December 23, 1823, there was no name attached to it. It wasn't until 13 years later that Clement Clarke Moore, a professor and poet, was named as the author.
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- The Snowy Day, a 1963 Caldecott Medal winner, is the simple tale of a boy waking up to discover that snow has fallen during the night. Keats's illustrations, using cut-outs, watercolors, and collage, are strikingly beautiful in their understated color and composition.
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Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet.His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.fter his death on May 5, 1885, the family moved across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts, under the patronage of (Robert's grandfather) William Frost, Sr., who was an overseer at a New England mill. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892.
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Lincoln's Autobiographies of 1858-60 Lincoln wrote this second autobiography for Jesse Fell, a long-time Illinois Republican friend who was a native of Pennsylvania. Fell used his influence to get the piece incorporated in an article appearing in a Pennsylvania newspaper on February 11, 1860.
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West Virginian Responsible for Classic Christmas Song, 'Frosty the Snowman' In 2011, Rollins was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. Rollins, who's also known as the real Frosty the Snowman, was born in Scottdale, Pennsylvania on September 15, 1906, but he moved to Keyser, West Virginia with his family when he was three or four years old.
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A Girl in Winter A Girl in Winter is a novel by Philip Larkin, first published in 1947 by Faber and Faber.It was published in the USA in 1962 by St Martin's Press. Girl in Winter is a novel by Philip Larkin, first published in 1947 by Faber and Faber.