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#OnThisDay in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.

"To define is to limit."
📖Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde On Film: Ivan Albright painting The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

#OnThisDay in 1570, Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was born

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T. E. Lawrence lost the manuscript of "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" at Reading railway station.

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Vladimir Nabokov ("Lolita") was a lepidopterist (a specialist in butterflies).
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Harvey Ball, American illustrator, recognized as the earliest known designer of the smiley, died #OnThisDay in 2001.

"The patient cuckolded woman" (woman who married a much younger husband), anon., 17th century. Harry Ransom Center.

Naraka s a term in Buddhist cosmology similar to the Christian Hell or purgatory.
🎨Burmese representation, 19th c.

“The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
– Aldous Huxley.

#OnThisDAy in 1520, Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, dies on his 37th birthday.