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Peter Viereck, American poet and academic (died 2006)
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Peter Viereck
American poet
Peter Robert Edwin Viereck was an American writer, poet, and professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for Terror and Decorum, a collection of poetry. In 1955 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florence.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 148 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)