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December 29 is the 363rd day of the year(364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ;two days remain until the end of the year.
April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 246 days remain until the end of the year.
February 29 is a leap day —an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the 60th day of a leap year in both Julian and Gregorian calendars, and 306 days remain until the end of the leap year. It is the last day of February in leap years, with the exception of 1712 in Sweden. It is also the last day of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the last day of meteorological summer in the Southern Hemisphere in leap years.
January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 336 days remain until the end of the year.
July 16 is the 197th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 168 days remain until the end of the year.
July 29 is the 210th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 155 days remain until the end of the year.
May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 216 days remain until the end of the year.
March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 277 days remain until the end of the year.
November 29 is the 333rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 32 days remain until the end of the year.
October 29 is the 302nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 63 days remain until the end of the year.
September 29 is the 272nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 93 days remain until the end of the year.
1521 (MDXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1521st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 521st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 16th century, and the 2nd year of the 1520s decade.
Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd, known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a British novelist of a Welsh background, who is best remembered for his 1939 novel How Green Was My Valley, which chronicles life in a coal mining village in the South Wales Valleys.
Jerome Borges Schneewind was an American scholar of the history of philosophy. Latterly he was a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, was a prolific English author, humorist and scriptwriter. After being educated at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life, he was employed by a bank, but disliked the work and wrote magazine pieces in his spare time. In 1902 he published his first novel, The Pothunters, set at the fictional public school of St. Austin's; his early stories continued the school theme. He also used the school setting in his short story collections, which started in 1903 with the publication of Tales of St. Austin's.
The Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry". Named after Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a monetary gift, initially of £1000. Receiving the Davy Medal has been identified as a potential precursor to being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with 22 scientists as of 2022 having been awarded the medal prior to becoming Nobel laureates, according to an analysis by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
David V. Erdman was an American literary critic, editor, and Professor Emeritus of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Erdman established his reputation as a William Blake scholar.
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) was a British author and scriptwriter, and "the most popular writer of children's books since Enid Blyton", according to Philip Howard, the literary editor of The Times. He was raised by his Norwegian mother, who took him on annual trips to Norway, where she told him the stories of trolls and witches present in the dark Scandinavian fables. Dahl was influenced by the stories, and returned to many of the themes in his children's books. His mother also nurtured a passion in the young Dahl for reading and literature.
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