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Birthdays occurring on January, 29
| 1927 |
Edward Abbey was born on January 29, 1927
American writer whose works, set primarily in the southwestern United States, reflect an uncompromising environmentalist philosophy. 1927-1989May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. More quotations from Edward Abbey |  |
| 1937 |
Bobby Scott was born on January 29, 1937
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. More quotations from Bobby Scott |
| 1939 |
Germaine Greer was born on January 29, 1939
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? More quotations from Germaine Greer |  |
Deaths occurring on January, 29
| 2003 |
Leslie Fiedler died on January 29, 2003
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism. More quotations from Leslie Fiedler |
| 2004 |
Janet Frame died on January 29, 2004
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. More quotations from Janet Frame |
| 2006 |
Nam June Paik died on January 29, 2006
South Korean born American Video artist, creator of the term "telecommunication superhighway" and among the first to use telecommunication satellites for artistic exchange 1932-2006I used the term (information superhighway) in a study I wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1974. I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. That's dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to happen. More quotations from Nam June Paik |
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