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Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins #OnThisDay in 1606.

#OnThisDay in 1915, Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco (First transcontinental telephone call).

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll died #OnThisDay in 1898.

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

#OnThisDay in 1825, 23-year-old Alexandre Dumas ("The Count of Monte Cristo") fights his first duel.
His pants fall down in the fight.

Samuel de Champlain ("The Father of New France"), French navigator, cartographer and chronicler. died #OnThisDay in 1635.

Muscle man illustrations. The circles on either side of the head illustrate the four supposed ventricles of the brain.
WMS 290, 15th c.WL.

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”
―Dante Alighieri
Dante's Dream on the Day of the Death of Beatrice. G Rossetti, 1880

School teacher, with poems "Maistre Bouffon" and "Les Enfans Desolez"(possibly a satire on Richelieu), 1634.

"Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1935), Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939).