Freethought Almanac

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2011-08-01
August 1: Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819) It was on this date, August 1, 1819, that the American novelist Herman Melville was born in New York, into a family of the Dutch Reformed church, the third of eight children. At age 7, scarlet fever left Melville somewhat visually impaired, and although his father died when he was 12, he […]

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July 4: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hawthorne never bothered to attend church as an adult and one biographer observes that, "His own family did not know what his opinions were."



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