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David faces Goliath in this 1888 lithograph by Osmar Schindler.
The story is told in the Bible's Books of Samuel.

The Lady of the Lake offering King Arthur his sword Excalibur.
📖 Ballads of bravery, George Melville Baker, 1877.

"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child."
📖M. Tullius Cicero, Orator, 120

Neptune riding a platform drawn by sea horses calming the tempest Aeolus raised against the fleet of Aeneas. 16th c.

#OnThisDay in 1895, "The Adventure of Norwood Builder", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories, starts.

"Love is the only gold."
📖 Lord Alfred Tennyson, English Poet, In His Library With His Dog(1809-1892).

Little girl reading Alice in Wonderland while it comes alive around her.
🎨"My Books" by Honor C. Appleton, 1921.

“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.”
― Julian Barnes, A Life with Books.
🎨 Michael Escanuelas.

#WorldElephantDay
Elephant and dragon. Harley 3244, folio 39v, Bestiary (ff. 36-71v), 13th century, British Library.

Laura Bassi,the 1st woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies in Europe(indeed in any field)