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On this date in 1920 Christopher Robin Milne, the model for his father A.A. Milne's tales of Winnie the Pooh, was born. And yesterday was the date in 1667 when John Milton's Paradise Lost was entered in the Stationers' Register. I know all this because I subscribe to Today in Literature. It only costs $20 a year and is a wonderful way of putting the world of literature into temporal perspective. Check it out.