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On this day in 1872, the Mary Celeste set sail from New York. It was discovered on December 4, 1872, sailing with no one on board.
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.
On this day in 1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay died, aged fifty-eight.
"I am, incarnate, rapture and melancholy...."
In the Heart of the Sea, film about the sinking of the whaling ship Essex in 1820. It inspired Melville's Moby Dick, published #OTD in 1851.
Euclid of Megara Dressing as a Woman to Hear Socrates Teach in Athens.
🎨Domenico Marolì, c. 1650.
E. B. White, American writer, (Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan) died on this day in 1985.