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#OnThisDay in 1633, Galileo is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views

#OnThisDay in 1633, Galileo is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views

The Wood of the Self-Murderers- The Harpies and the Suicides. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. by William Blake, 1824.

While in art school, Maurice Sendak was a window dresser for F.A.O. Schwarz in New York (1948).
📷Seth Anderson.

June 14, 1942: Anne Frank began to write the lines that would become her world-famous diary.

#OnThisDay in 1850, Poet laureate Alfred Tennyson (40) weds Emily Sellwood (36).

"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."
On this day in 1865, W. B. Yeats was born in Dublin.

Leo Tolstoy, In the 1906 essay "On Shakespeare and Drama", called Shakespeare’s plays “trivial and positively bad”

#OnThisDay in 1928, Maurice Sendak, illustrator & writer of children's books ("Where the Wild Things Are") was born

40-foot telescope constructed by W. Herschel. "View of Dr Herschel's forty feet telescope", 18th c., Wellcome Lib.