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Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author (died 1958)

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Robert W. Service

British-Canadian poet and writer (1874–1958)

Robert William Service was an English-born Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and…
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January 16

Day of the year

January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 349 days remain until the end of the year.
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