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Heinrich (Harry) Heine (later forced to rename himself Christian Johann Heinrich Heine), German poet, born today in 1797 - see my piece about him in "Private Collection" by clicking here
Sir Francis Drake, English pirate and racketeer, embarked on a three year attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a stolen Spanish ship, today in 1577 (he got the knighthood when he returned from it, the Queen coming to his boat in Deptford, and staying for dinner) ; but I have written about him elsewhere (in "A Journey in Time", in "Tourism-Writing", in "The Plausible Tragedy of Roderigo Lopes", and therefore shall not follow in his wake here
New Zealand was first discovered by a European (I feel the need, once again, to add that qualifying statement; the people who had been living there for generations knew it as Aotearoa, "the land of the long white cloud"), the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman, who also changed to his name one of the islands (Lutruwita in the Palawa Kani language) off the south coast of New Holland, I mean Australia, today in 1642
Anna Mary Robertson Moses Grandma" Moses, "primitive painter?" (I feel the need to add that question mark), died today in 1961. "The Lowry of the Americas" might be a fairer epithet, though there were times when she must have thought she was imitating Brueghel. Click here for her full biography. That's her "Sugaring Off" at the top of the page
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