Happy Birthday ...

[Dave Monroe]

... Haruki Murakami, Morton Feldman, Jack London, Charles Perrault, John
Hancock, and some interesting couplets: Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh;
Sergei Korolev and Igor Kurchatov; and Alfred Rosenberg and Hermann
Goering (to whom I of course do not wish a Happy Birthday).  On Korolev
and Kurchatov, who might well be of interest here, see ...

Harford, James J.  Korolev: How One Man Masterminded
    the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon.  New York:
    John Wiley and Sons, 1997.

Holloway, David.  Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and
    Atomic Energy, 1939-1956.  New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1994.

Josephson, Paul R.  Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program
    from Stalin to Today.  New York: W.H. Freeman, 1999.

... and, hey, my copies of J. Kerry Grant's A Companion to V. (I agree,
you gotta get it, but it's a bit on the thin side) and Brooke Horvath
and Irving Malin, eds., Pynchon and Mason & Dixon (which looks really
useful, a-and, whaddaya know, does ndeed feature posts from Doug 'n'
Keith, see p. 15), as opposed to Charles Clerc, Mason & Dixon and
Pynchon, which I seem to have forgotten ...