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Auguste Comte, French philosopher, founder of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism, died on this day in 1857.

Political cartoon showing a Standard Oil tank as an octopus with many tentacles. eppler, Udo J, 1904.

"Uranometria" (literal translation- "Measuring the Sky") is a star atlas published in Augsburg in 1603.

A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife, Henry Wigstead, 1784.
Wellcome Images.

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

On 28 December 1925, Russian Poet Yesenin was found dead in his room in the Hotel Angleterre in St Petersburg.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and statesman ("Faust"), was born on this day in 1749.

Isabel Allende begins writing each novel on the same date: January 8 (The House of the Spirits, debut, on that date)

Miniature Qur'an, Unknown, Iran, 16th Century (Iran).
The Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar

David faces Goliath in this 1888 lithograph by Osmar Schindler.
The story is told in the Bible's Books of Samuel.