Ambrose Bierce born (24-6-1842)

American short story writer, journalist, poet.
- Civil War veteran
- author of a very famous story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
- time and place of death unknown; last heard from in Mexico, December 1913
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge
- oh, and of course, the often-quoted _The Devil's Dictionary_ (originally called _The Cynic's Word Book_) -- cynical, sometimes amusing, definitions of ordinary words
"
LANGUAGE: the music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
DICTIONARY: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful book.
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