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Owl sitting on a skull in a ruined cemetery.
🎨Woodcut attributed to Hans Wechtlin, 1500-1525.

The first draft of Jekyll and Hyde was burned by the author's wife.
The idea for the story came to Stevenson in a dream in 1886.
🎥1920.

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).

Image of the Very Famous Island of Fool’s-Head, Published anonymously in Amsterdam in 1720.

#OnThisDay in 1936 Rudyard Kipling ("The Jungle Book", "Kim") died at the age of seventy-one of a perforated duodenal ulcer.

Testa anatomica. Male human head composed of writhing, apparently tormented naked men.
Filippo Balbi, 1854. Wellcome Library.

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

"Shut your eyes and see."
On this day in 1941, James Joyce died in Zurich at the age of fifty-eight.
📷Grave of James Joyce, Lars Haefner