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On this day in 1517, Martin Luther posts the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.

“Know your own happiness.”
On this day in 1811 Jane Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published.

John Locke, English philosopher and physician, known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism", died on this day in 1704.

Edmund Dulac, French-born, British naturalised, book illustrator and stamp designer, was born on this day in 1882.

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
- Roald Dahl.
📷 L. Whittaker.

"From the Earth to the Moon", is a SciFi novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1865.

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

Blemmyes: mythical headless men that were rumored to inhabit remote parts of the world.Cosmographie universelle,1556

"Uranometria" (literal translation- "Measuring the Sky") is a star atlas published in Augsburg in 1603.

A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife, Henry Wigstead, 1784.
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