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The Future of Radio in "Radio For All", Hugo Gernsback, 1922, illustration by Frank R. Paul.

On this day in 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway (“For Whom the Bell Tolls”, “The Old Man and the Sea”), was born.

Miniature of a group of angels singing and scattering flowers, Divina commedia, 14th c. Egerton MS 943, f. 118r

A French satirical cartoon map of Europe in 1870 (’Carte drôlatique d’Europe pour 1870‘) by Paul Hadol.

Miniature of a group of angels singing & scattering flowers, from Divina commedia, 14th c, Egerton MS 943, f. 118r

Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet, was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

J.D. Salinger’s "The Catcher in the Rye", is published on this day in 1951.
“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot”

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

A letter opener Charles Dickens made from the paw of his cat Bob. No joke. Bob was very beloved!
📷NYPL

Witchcraft: a ship being confronted by a sea-devil. Woodcut, 1720.
Wellcome Library.