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There is no enjoyment like reading.. Jane Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published 1811*

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Georges Bizet, French 19th Century composer famous for the opera Carmen, born in 1838* Happy Birthday!

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Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso born in 1881*

Young Girl Reading a Book on the Beach*

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Jean-Antoine Watteau was born in 1684. His painting 'The Scale of Love' is on display in Lower Gallery E

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"The reader became the book." -Wallace Stevens is born in 1879*

·Patti Smith reading Wallace Stevens*

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This mezzotint after Henry Fuseli, published in 1782 "Belisane and Parcival under the Enchantment of Urma"

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―George R.R. Martin's 'A Game of Thrones' is published by Bantam Spectra/US & Voyager Books/UK*

in 1996*

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This watercolor was painted in 1803 by English landscape artist Cornelius Varley "A Wooded Lane near Ross"

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Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France, at age 37* 1890*

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Raymond Chandler, creator of detective Philip Marlowe, is born in Chicago in 1888*

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According to Sherlock Holmes' stories, Dr. Watson born 1852*

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died 1930*

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1536 Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII's second wife, was beheaded for incest and adultery.

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Happy Birthday to German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner! in 1880, here is 'Street, Berlin', 1913

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March 31,1146 - Bernard of Clairvaux preaches for the necessity of a 2nd Crusade. (Ugh)

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-1562, a public ban on kissing is proclaimed in Naples, punishable by death.

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Happy birthday to Honoré Daumier, who was born in 1808 http://t.co/M7wUz47Spb

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'Throughout American history, intelligence has helped secure our country and our freedoms.' Pres

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Happy Birthday (if still alive) to Joan of Arc. Born 1412

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