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Charles Bukowski, leader of the “Meat School” of tough, was born on this day in 1920 in Andernach, Germany.

“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.”
― Julian Barnes, A Life with Books.
🎨 Michael Escanuelas.

Oscar Wilde disliked idle conversation...
“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.

#WorldElephantDay
Elephant and dragon. Harley 3244, folio 39v, Bestiary (ff. 36-71v), 13th century, British Library.

Laura Bassi,the 1st woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies in Europe(indeed in any field)

Naraka s a term in Buddhist cosmology similar to the Christian Hell or purgatory.
Burmese representation, 19th c.

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

Medusa was beheaded by Perseus, who used her head(which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone) as a weapon

Rabindranath Tagore, first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, died on this day in 1941.