Reader’s Almanac: 4/10
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
B orn today: Hugo Grotius, scholar, jurist, Delft, Netherlands, 1583; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, poet, wit, Ditchley Manor House, Oxfordshire, 1647; William Hazlitt, essayist, critic, Maidstone, Kent, 1778; Lew Wallace, novelist, poet, general, Brookville, Ind., 1827; Joseph Pulitzer, editor, publisher, Budapest, Hungary, 1847; "A.E." (ps. George William Russell), poet, journalist, Lurgan, Ireland,...
