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"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.

Gear for Scuba divers.
Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, 16th century. Kriegsbuch – UER MS. B 26.

#OnThisDay in 1897, the "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial was published in the New York Sun.

G Wharton James (1858-1923) was a prolific popular lecturer, photographer and journalist, writing more than 40 books

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
📷Erman Akdogan.

Katherine Anne Porter’s first collection of short stories, "Flowering Judas", was published on this day in 1930.

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

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple”
Jack Kerouac
#InternationalLiteracyDay
📷Matthias Ripp

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