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"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."
-Arthur Conan Doyle
🎨The author poses for a bust, 1930

C J Dennis, (1876 – 1938) was an Australian poet known for his humorous poems ("The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke").

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

The sun rises from the mound of creation at the beginning of time.
The Book of the Dead of Khensumose, 10th c. BC

Writer Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, is imprisoned in the Bastille on this day in 1717.

Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. printed in China, 1602

Charles Perrault, who laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, died #OnThisDay in 1703.

Adult circumcision, drawing of a tomb painting from Sakkara, Egypt.
Oldest known illustration of circumcision

Gustave Doré's illustrations to Dante's Inferno, Plate LXV- Canto XXXI: The titans and giants.

Dickens began to write A Christmas Carol in September 1843. The book was completed in six weeks (December, 1843)