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now = new Date();
day = now.getDate();
month = now.getMonth();
wordDate = new Array(11)
wordDate[0] = "January";
wordDate[1] = "February";
wordDate[2] = "March";
wordDate[3] = "April";
wordDate[4] = "May";
wordDate[5] = "June";
wordDate[6] = "July";
wordDate[7] = "August";
wordDate[8] = "September";
wordDate[9] = "October";
wordDate[10] = "November";
wordDate[11] = "December";
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document.write(day)
document.write("  ")
document.write(wordDate[month])
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if (month==0 && day==1)
{document.write("1748: Gottfried Burger was born<br>1767: Maria Edgeworth was born<br>1889: Seabury Quinn was born")}

if (month==0 && day==2)
{document.write("1934: Sabine Baring-Gould died")}

if (month==0 && day==3)
{document.write("1882: William Harrison Ainsworth died<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==4)
{document.write("1782: William Mudford was born<br>1878: A. E. Coppard was born<br>")}

if (month==0 && day==5)
{document.write("1798: David Macbeth Moir was born<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==8)
{document.write("1824: Wilkie Collins was born<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==9)
{document.write("1729: Thomas Warton was born<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==12)
{document.write("1729: Edmund Burke was born<br>1876: Jack London was born<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==13)
{document.write("1957: A. E. Coppard died<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==14)
{document.write("1832: Poe's \"Metzengerstein\" was first published<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==17)
{document.write("1771: Charles Brockden Brown was born<br>1814: Ellen Price Wood born<br>1820: Anne Bront&euml; was born<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==18)
{document.write("1873: Edward Bulwer-Lytton died<br>1936: Rudyard Kipling died<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==19)
{document.write("1809: Edgar Allan Poe was born<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==20)
{document.write("1884: Abraham Merritt born<br>1921: Mary Louisa Molesworth died<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==22)
{document.write("1788: Lord Byron was born<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==23)
{document.write("1729: Clara Reeve was born<br>1843: Friedrich de la Motte Fouque died<br>1866: Thomas Love Peacock died<br>1892: Stoker's \"The Growing Gold\" was first published<br>1927: Perceval Landon died<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==24)
{document.write("1776: E.T.A. Hoffmann was born<br>1862: Edith Wharton was born<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==25)
{document.write("1759: Robert Burns was born<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==26)
{document.write("1849: Thomas Lovell Beddoes committed suicide<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==28)
{document.write("1834: Sabine Baring-Gould was born<br>1911: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps died<br>")}


if (month==0 && day==29)
{document.write("1845: Poe's \"The Raven\" was first published<br>")}



if (month==1 && day==1)
{document.write("1851: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley died<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==4)
{document.write("1764: Robert Blair died<br>1805: William Harrison Ainsworth was born<br>1915: Mary Braddon died<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==7)
{document.write("1812: Ann Radcliffe died<br>1832: Charles Dickens was born<br>1873: J. S. LeFanu died<br>...a big day for the Gothic...<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==10)
{document.write("1887: Ellen Price Wood died<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==11)
{document.write("1763: William Shenstone died<br>1940: John Buchan died<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==12)
{document.write("1725: William Mason was born<br>1777: Friedrich de la Motte Fouque was born<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==13)
{document.write("1935: Vernon Lee died<br>")}

if (month==1 && day==15)
{document.write("1751: Gray's \"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard\" was first published<br>")}

if (month==1 && day==16)
{document.write("1839: James Boaden died<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==17)
{document.write("1796: James Macpherson died<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==21)
{document.write("1810: Charles Brockden Brown died<br>1852: Brander Matthews was born<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==22)
{document.write("1973: Elizabeth Bowen died<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==23)
{document.write("1821: John Keats died<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==24)
{document.write("1848: Grant Allen was born<br>1909: August Derleth was born<br>")}


if (month==1 && day==28)
{document.write("1916: Henry James died<br>2008: Frederick S. Frank died")}


if (month==1 && day==29)
{document.write("1940: E. F. Benson died<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==2)
{document.write("1797: Horace Walpole died<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==3)
{document.write("1756: William Godwin was born<br>1863: Arthur Machen was born<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==4)
{document.write("1887: Kipling's \"The Bisara of Pooree\" is first published<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==6)
{document.write("<table><tr><td>1888: Louisa May Alcott died<br></td><td valign=bottom><a href=http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/alcott.html target=_blank><img border=0 src=Images/alcott_thumb.jpg></a> <br></td></tr></table>")}


if (month==2 && day==9)
{document.write("1825: Anna Laetitia Barbauld died<br>")}

if (month==2 && day==10)
{document.write("1848: William Mudford died<br>")}

if (month==2 && day==11)
{document.write("1818: Mary Shelley's <i>Frankenstein</i> was first published<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==13)
{document.write("1930: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman died<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==14)
{document.write("1869: Algernon Blackwood was born<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==15)
{document.write("1937: H. P. Lovecraft died<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==19)
{document.write("1721: Tobias Smollett was born<br>1806: Elizabeth Carter died<br>1831: Sarah Wilkinson died<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==21)
{document.write("1785: Henry Kirke White was born<br>1843: Robert Southey died<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==22)
{document.write("1832: Goethe died<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==29)
{document.write("1797: Mary Wollstonecraft married William Godwin<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==30)
{document.write("1947: Arthur Machen died<br>")}


if (month==2 && day==31)
{document.write("1855: Charlotte Bront&euml; died (age 38)<br>1929: Brander Matthews died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==3)
{document.write("1783: Washington Irving was born<br>1854: John Wilson died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==4)
{document.write("1828: Margaret Oliphant was born<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==5)
{document.write("1765: Edward Young died<br>1797: William Mason died<br>1837: Charles Algernon Swinburne was born<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==6)
{document.write("1862: Fitz-James O'Brien died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==7)
{document.write("1770: William Wordsworth was born<br>1836: William Godwin died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==9)
{document.write("1821: Charles Baudelaire was born<br>1909: F. Marion Crawford died<br>1961: Oliver Onions died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==10)
{document.write("1880: Montague Summers was born<br>1909: Charles Algernon Swinburne died")}


if (month==3 && day==15)
{document.write("1843: Henry James was born<br>1892: Amelia Edwards died<br>1926: Maurice Level died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==19)
{document.write("1824: Lord Byron died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==20)
{document.write("1826: Dinah Mulock was born<br>1912: Bram Stoker died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==21)
{document.write("1759: Mary Wollstonecraft born<br>1816: Charlotte Bront&euml; was born<br>1910: Mark Twain died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==23)
{document.write("1564: William Shakespeare was born<br>1616: Shakespeare died<br>1850: William Wordsworth died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==24)
{document.write("1947: Willa Cather died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==25)
{document.write("<table><tr><td>1800: William Cowper died<br>1873: Walter de la Mare was born<br></td><td valign=top><a href=http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/cowper.html target=_blank><img border=0 src=Images/cowper_thumb.jpg></a> <br></td></tr></table><br>")}


if (month==3 && day==26)
{document.write("The Eve of St. Mark<br>1736: Daniel Defoe died<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==27)
{document.write("1759: Mary Wollstonecraft was born<br>1874: Maurice Baring was born<br>")}


if (month==3 && day==28)
{document.write("1853: Johann Ludwig Tieck died<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==1)
{document.write("1672: Joseph Addison was born<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==2)
{document.write("1844: William Beckford died<br>1859: Jerome K. Jerome was born<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==3)
{document.write("1845: Thomas Hood died<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==4)
{document.write("1749: Charlotte Smith was born<br>1924: E. Nesbit died<br>")}

if (month==4 && day==5)
{document.write("1928: Barry Pain died<br>")}

if (month==4 && day==6)
{document.write("<br>1856: Sigmund Freud was born<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==8)

{document.write("<br>1794: offical publication of Radcliffe's <i>The Mysteries of Udolpho</i>")}


if (month==4 && day==9)
{document.write("1805: Friedrich von Schiller died<br> 1816: Maturin's play <i>Bertram</i> opens a successful run at Drury Lane<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==10)
{document.write("1820: Keats' \"La belle dame sans merci\" was first published<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==12)
{document.write("1944: Arthur Quiller-Couch died")}

if (month==4 && day==13)
{document.write("1810: Thomas Peckett Prest was born (?)")}


if (month==4 && day==14)
{document.write("1818: Matthew G. Lewis died<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==16)
{document.write("1836: Poe marries his cousin, Virginia Eliza Clemm, age 13<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==18)
{document.write("1785: John Wilson was born<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==19)
{document.write("1864: Nathaniel Hawthorne died<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==21)
{document.write("1790: Thomas Warton died<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==22)
{document.write("1849: Maria Edgeworth died<br>1859: Arthur Conan Doyle was born<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==23)
{document.write("1762: James Boaden was born<br>1799: Thomas Hood was born<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==25)
{document.write("1803: Edward Bulwer-Lytton was born<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==26)
{document.write("1865: Robert W. Chambers was born<br>1897: <i>Dracula</i> was first published<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==28)
{document.write("1849: Anne Bront&euml; died<br>")}


if (month==4 && day==29)
{document.write("1839: Mary Louisa (Stewart) Molesworth was born<br>")}






if (month==4 && day==31)
{document.write("1773: Ludwig Tieck was born<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==5)
{document.write("1859: Thomas Peckett Prest died<br>1910: O. Henry died<br>1920: Rhoda Broughton died<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==6)
{document.write("1961: Carl Jung died<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==7)
{document.write("1786: Beckford's <i>Vathek</i> is first published,<br>against Beckford's wishes<br>1831: Amelia Edwards born<br>1899: Elizabeth Bowen born<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==8)
{document.write("1794: Gottfried Burger died<br>1859: Mary Cholmondeley was born<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==9)
{document.write("1870: Charles Dickens died<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==10)
{document.write("1887: Kipling's \"By Word of Mouth\" is first published<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==12)
{document.write("1759: William Collins died<br>1936: M. R. James died<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==14)
{document.write("1811:Harriet Beecher Stowe was born<br>1947: Jerome K. Jerome died<br>1948: Gertrude Atherton died<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==17)
{document.write("1719: Joseph Addison died<br>")}



if (month==5 && day==19)
{document.write("1816: possible date of the Byron-Polidori-Shelleys ghost-story challenge<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==20)
{document.write("1743: Anna Laetitia Barbauld was born<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==22)
{document.write("1956: Walter de la Mare died<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==24)
{document.write("1842: Ambrose Bierce was born<br>1909: Sarah Orne Jewett died<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==25)
{document.write("1822: E. T. A. Hoffmann died<br>1897: Margaret Oliphant died<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==27)
{document.write("1850: Lafcadio Hearn was born<br>2004: Hugh B. Cave died<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==28)
{document.write("1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born<br>")}


if (month==5 && day==30)
{document.write("1803: Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==1)
{document.write("1889: A. M. Burrage was born<br>1896: Harriet Beecher Stowe died<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==2)
{document.write("1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau died<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==3)
{document.write("1860: Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==4)
{document.write("1804: Nathaniel Hawthorne was born<br>1971: August Derleth died<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==6)
{document.write("1851: David Macbeth Moir died<br>1893: Guy de Maupassant died<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==7)
{document.write("1930: Arthur Conan Doyle died<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==8)
{document.write("1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley died<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==9)
{document.write("1764: Ann Radcliffe was born<br>and, in a wonderfully appropriate coincidence, on this day in<br>1775 Matthew Lewis was born<br>To top it off, in 1797 Edmund Burke died<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==11)
{document.write("1894: Stoker's \"A Dream of Red Hands\" was first published<br>1910: Hugh B. Cave was born<br>")}

if (month==6 && day==12)
{document.write("1849: Horace Smith died")}



if (month==6 && day==14)
{document.write("Bastille Day, Citizens!<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==15)
{document.write("1925: Mary Cholmondeley died<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==18)
{document.write("1817: Jane Austen died<br>")}

if (month==6 && day==20)
{document.write("2005: Beam me up, Scotty...")}


if (month==6 && day==21)
{document.write("1796: Robert Burns died<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==24)
{document.write("1867: E. F. Benson was born<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==25)
{document.write("<table><tr><td>1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge died<br></td><td><a href=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html target=_blank><img border=0 src=Images/stc_thumb.jpg></td></tr></table>")}


if (month==6 && day==26)
{document.write("1875: Carl Jung was born<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==30)
{document.write("1771: Thomas Gray died<br>1818: Emily Bront&euml; was born<br>")}


if (month==6 && day==31)
{document.write("1844: Poe's \"The Premature Burial\" was first published<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==1)
{document.write("1819: Herman Melville was born<br>1862: M. R. James was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==2)
{document.write("1854: F. Marion Crawford was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==4)
{document.write("1792: Percy Bysshe Shelley was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==5)
{document.write("1850: Guy de Maupassant was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==8)
{document.write("1948: Montague Summers died<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==9)
{document.write("1820: J. R. Planch&eacute;'s <i>The Vampire</i> first performed<br>1915: Richard Marsh died")}


if (month==7 && day==11)
{document.write("1937: Edith Wharton died<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==12)
{document.write("1774: Robert Southey was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==13)
{document.write("1934: Mary Austin died<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==15)
{document.write("1771: Sir Walter Scott was born<br>1785: Thomas DeQuincey was born<br>1858: E. Nesbit was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==17)
{document.write("1933: Charlotte Perkins Gilman died<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==18)
{document.write("1803: James Beattie died<br>")}

if (month==7 && day==19)
{document.write("1843: Poe's \"The Black Cat\" was first published<br>")}

if (month==7 && day==20)
{document.write("1890: H. P. Lovecraft was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==21)
{document.write("1943: Abraham Merritt died<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==24)
{document.write("1821: John Polidori died<br>1918: Arlo Bates died<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==26)
{document.write("1875: John Buchan was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==27)
{document.write("1748: James Thomson died<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==28)
{document.write("1749: Goethe was born<br>1814: J. S. LeFanu was born<br>1859: Leigh Hunt died<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==29)
{document.write("1875: Maurice Level was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==30)
{document.write("1797: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley) was born<br>1854: Bernard Capes was born<br>")}


if (month==7 && day==31)
{document.write("1844: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was born<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==1)
{document.write("1943: W. W. Jacobs died<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==3)
{document.write("1849: Sarah Orne Jewett was born<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==7)
{document.write("1795: John Polidori was born<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==8)
{document.write("1863: W. W. Jacobs was born<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==9)
{document.write("1868: Mary Austin was born<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==10)
{document.write("1797: Mary Wollstonecraft died<br>1905: George MacDonald died<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==11)
{document.write("1700: James Thomson was born<br>1862: O. Henry was born")}


if (month==8 && day==13)
{document.write("1916: Roald Dahl was born<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==21)
{document.write("1832: Sir Walter Scott died<br>1866: H. G. Wells was born<br>")}

if (month==8 && day==22)
{document.write("1942: Ralph Adams Cram died<br>")}

if (month==8 && day==23)
{document.write("1889: Wilkie Collins died<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==24)
{document.write("1717: Horace Walpole was born<br>1906: Charlotte Riddell died<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==25)
{document.write("1782: Charles Maturin was born<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==26)
{document.write("1904: Lafcadio Hearn died<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==28)
{document.write("1864: Barry Pain was born<br>1891: Herman Melville died<br>")}


if (month==8 && day==29)
{document.write("1760: William Beckford was born<br>1810: Elizabeth Gaskell was born<br>1829: Anne Bannerman died<br>1860: Mary Braddon's \"The Cold Embrace\" is first published")}


if (month==8 && day==30)
{document.write("1832: Charlotte Riddell was born<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==4)
{document.write("1835: Mary Braddon was born<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==6)
{document.write("1847: Bront&euml;'s <i>Jane Eyre</i> was first published<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==7)
{document.write("1849: Edgar Allan Poe died <a href=http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/poe/raven.html target=_blank><img border=0 src=Images/raven.gif></a><br>")}


if (month==9 && day==12)
{document.write("1887: Dinah Mulock died<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==14)
{document.write("1856: Vernon Lee was born<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==16)
{document.write("1854: Oscar Wilde was born<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==18)
{document.write("<table><tr><td>1784: Leigh Hunt was born</td><td> <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Hunt target=_blank><img border=0 src=Images/leigh_hunt_thumb.jpg></a><br></td></tr></table>")}

if (month==9 && day==19)
{document.write("1785: Thomas Love Peacock was born<br>1806: Henry Kirke White died<br>")}

if (month==9 && day==21)
{document.write("<table><tr><td>1771: Tobias Smollett died<br>1772: Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born<br></td><td valign=bottom><a href=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html target=_blank><img border=0 src=Images/stc_thumb.jpg></td></tr></table>")}


if (month==9 && day==24)
{document.write("<table><tr><td>1718: Thomas Parnell died</td><td> <a href=http://209.10.134.179/219/0615.html target=_blank><img border=0 src=Images/parnell_thumb.jpg></a><br></td></tr></table>")}


if (month==9 && day==25)
{document.write("1735: James Beattie was born<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==27)
{document.write("1736: James Macpherson was born<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==28)
{document.write("1806: Charlotte Smith died<br>1882: Richard Middleton born<br>1899: Grant Allen died<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==29)
{document.write("1886: Marjorie Bowen was born<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==30)
{document.write("1824: Charles Maturin died<br>1857: Gertrude Atherton was born<br>")}


if (month==9 && day==31)
{document.write("<table><tr><td>1765: Anne Bannerman was born<br>1795: John Keats was born<br>1852: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was born<br><font color=#F26522>HAPPY HALLOWE'EN / SAMHAIN</font></td><td valign=bottom><a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween target=_blank><img border=0 src=Images/jack_o_lantern_tiny.jpg></a> <br></td></tr></table> ")}


if (month==10 && day==1)
{document.write("All Hallows' Day<br>")}


if (month==10 && day==2)
{document.write("All Soul's Day<br>1918: Bernard Capes died<br>")}


if (month==10 && day==8)
{document.write("<table><tr><td>1847: Bram Stoker was born<br></td><td valign=bottom><a href=http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/stoker.html target=_blank><img border=0 src=Images/stoker_thumb.jpg></a> <br></td></tr></table>")}


if (month==10 && day==10)
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if (month==10 && day==11)
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if (month==10 && day==13)
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if (month==10 && day==14)
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if (month==10 && day==15)
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if (month==10 && day==22)
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if (month==10 && day==24)
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if (month==10 && day==27)
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if (month==10 && day==29)
{document.write("1840: Rhoda Broughton was born<br>")}


if (month==10 && day==30)

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if (month==11 && day==1)
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if (month==11 && day==2)
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if (month==11 && day==5)
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if (month==11 && day==6)
{document.write("1863: Ralph Adams Cram was born<br>")}

if (month==11 && day==7)
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if (month==11 && day==8)
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if (month==11 && day==10)
{document.write("1824: George MacDonald was born<br>1957: Algernon Blackwood died<br>")}


if (month==11 && day==14)
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if (month==11 && day==16)
{document.write("1717: Elizabeth Carter was born<br>1755: Jane Austen was born<br>1850: Arlo Bates was born<br>1933: Robert W. Chambers died<br>")}


if (month==11 && day==18)
{document.write("1870: Saki was born<br>1956: A. M. Burrage died<br>")}


if (month==11 && day==19)
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if (month==11 && day==22)
{document.write("1880: George Eliot died<br>")}


if (month==11 && day==23)
{document.write("1952: Marjorie Bowen died<br>")}


if (month==11 && day==24)
{document.write("1764: Walpole's <i>The Castle of Otranto</i> was first published<br>1969: Seabury Quin died")}


if (month==11 && day==25)
{document.write("<I>Happy Yule</I><br>1721: William Collins was born<br>")}


if (month==11 && day==26)
{document.write("1716: Thomas Gray was born<br>1800: Mary Robinson died")}


if (month==11 && day==29)
{document.write("1894: Christina Rossetti died<br>")}


if (month==11 && day==30)
{document.write("1816: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin married Percy Bysshe Shelley<br>1865: Rudyard Kipling was born<br>")}

if (month==11 && day==31)
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//Simba says this is a kludge, but even so, don't steal it...