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Theobald Boehm, musician and flute pioneer, was born in 1794.

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“What time is it? Half past a nun’s bum!” Keep track of time during with this Swiss pocketwatch. by Toomey & Co Auctioneers)

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Hairdresser closed for Why not try a simple new style at home?

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Baron Haussmann, architect of the Parisian renewal, was born in 1809. He wrote that his controversial and widespread building works, typified by wide streets, resulted in the "gutting of old Paris, of the quarter of riots and barricades."

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John Mudge, telescope pioneer, died in 1793. Mudge was a doctor who made telescope mirrors as a hobby and became famed for his skills.

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Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect, died in 1736. " And as his memory must always be dear to his Country, so his loss [must be] felt by those who had the pleasure of his personal acquaintance, and enjoy'd the happiness of his conversation.”

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Thomas Rowlandson’s Musical Family have got the right idea. They’re safe at home, enjoying a harmonious Sunday... or a Sunday, at least.

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Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples and Sicily, is her own walking stockpile - that frock’s full of loo roll and tinned tomatoes. from the (By Martin Van Meytens, Hofburg Palace)

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Laurence Sterne, died 1768. He relished the notoriety of Tristram Shandy: "One half of the town abuse my book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies—the best is, they abuse and buy it at such a rate that we are going on with a 2nd edition!"

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