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#OnThisDay in 1570, Guy Fawkes (also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish), English Catholic conspirator who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was born in York, England.

🎨"Journey to the moon".
French caricature depicting a man riding on a bicycle-like flying machine, 1875.

Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (author of 'Micrographia') died #OnThisDay in 1703.

#DidYouKnow?
As a young boy, Paul Verlaine had read Charles Baudelaire‘s Les fleurs du mal, inspiring him to write.

‘Miniature of a battle for a soul, with God in heaven above.'
Book of Hours. Bruges, c. 1500. British Library, King’s 9, detail of f. 212v.

Clavis Artis is an alchemical manuscript published in Germany in the late 17th or early 18th century, attributed to Zoroaster (Zarathustra).

"And, after all the Philippines are only the stepping-stone to China".
Cartoon after USA conquest of the Philippines, Judge Magazine, 1900.

Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (author of 'Micrographia') died #OnThisDay in 1703.

In the 19th century, a valentine in the post could be an acidic insult ("vinegar valentines")
📷Bishopsgate Institute.

Owl sitting on a skull in a ruined cemetery.
🎨Woodcut attributed to Hans Wechtlin, 1500-1525.