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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw.
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#OnThisDay in 1825, 23-year-old Alexandre Dumas fights his first duel.
His pants fall down in the fight...

Belladonna is the responsible for the myth that witches fly on brooms. They covered their broomsticks in a balm made from the plant & applied it vaginally. This caused them to hallucinate & made them believe they were flying.
🎨First known depiction of a witch on a broom, 1451.

French writer Colette died beloved by the public in 1954, and was the first woman to be given a state funeral in France.
📖"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm".

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, -invented the thermometer-, died #OnThisDay in 1736.

Marco Polo, whose travels are recorded in "The Travels of Marco Polo", was born on this day in 1254.
🎨Page from the Book "The Travels of Marco Polo" ("Il milione"), originally published during Polos lifetime 1298-1299, but frequently reprinted and translated .

#OnThisDay in 1950, writer Jack Kerouac (28) married Joan Haverty, who gave birth to his only daughter, Jan Kerouac.

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!."
#OnThisDay in 1811 Jane Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published.

📖“Every real story is a never ending story.”
― Michael Ende.
The Neverending Story was published #OnThisDay in 1979.

Polygraphiae (1518) by Johannes Trithemius, the first printed book on cryptography (secure communication).
📖https://t.co/Bpf99611lf