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Medusa was beheaded by Perseus, who used her head(which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone) as a weapon
Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley Writing "Prometheus Unbound" in Italy.
🎨Joseph Severn, 1845
Room where Alexander Pushkin lived when he was a student, Leningrad.
📷RIA Novosti archive, image #549323-Yuriy Kaver
William Butler Yeats founded the "Rhymers' Club" poetry group with Ernest Rhys in 1890.
📷WB Yeats, 7 February 1933
The Ghosts of "all the Talents" taking their last voyage, - from the Pope's Gallery at Rome. Js. Gillray, 1807.
H. G. Wells was an incredibly prolific writer (more than 50 novels, 70 works of nonfiction & hundreds of articles)
“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. ”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
📷Andy Bagley
A blue man - medieval smurf😁- reading a book by the light of a lamp hanging from a hook',15th c
J. Paul Getty Museum
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate in 1917, was born #OnThisDay in 1857
Cannibalism in Russia and Lithuania."
📃A frightful but nevertheless truthful cruel emergency of hunger [...]. 1571