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T.H. White, author of The Once and Future King is born in India on this day in 1906.

Funny!: Movie posters in Middle Ages: Star Wars & Spiderman.
More here: http://t.co/m8Eh5SOhuS

The death warrant of King Charles I and the wax seals of the 59 Commissioners, including Oliver Cromwell, 1649.

#OnThisDay in 1711, Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously (one of his first major poems).

Destruction of Jerusalem under the Babylonian rule.
Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493.

"Are you a victim to optimism?".
The Wipers Times, a satirical magazine written by frontline soldiers in WWI

"Beasts on a tree.
"Speculum humanae salvationis, France 15th c.
Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 89, fol. 24v

#OnThisDay in 1910, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], dies at 74.
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company".

Honore de Balzac adored coffee, keeping himself awake with frequent cups of strong coffee. (50 cups a day!)😱

Illustrations of Japanese victories in the Russo-Japanese war by Kobayashi Kiyochika.
Hurrah for Japan!, 19th century