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French Impressionist Painter Claude Monet born in 1840*

Claude Monet Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir*

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Today we remember artist Edward Ardizzone who died Nov 8 1979

He illustrated A Child's Christmas in Wales

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in 1847, Bram Stoker, author of the best seller novel “Dracula” is born in Dublin, Ireland (167 years ago)

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in 1605, Guy Fawkes is arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament (The Gunpowder Plot)

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in 1962…Baby Jane Hudson made her comeback.

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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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October 24th, 1901: Annie Edson Taylor: the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a Barrel

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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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August 13th 1964: Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen become the last two men to be hung in Britain.

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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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August 3rd 1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 m at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. http://t.co/krZEjSShDr

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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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July 7th 1953: Che Guevara goes on a trip from Bolivia. Which features in Motorcycle Diaries

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