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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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2014-11-08

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

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2014-11-08

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

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2014-11-04

in 1962…Baby Jane Hudson made her comeback.

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2014-11-01

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is published 1892

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2014-10-31

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

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2014-10-30

'The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.' Ezra Pound born 1885*

Ezra Pound at Shakespeare & Co*

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2014-10-30

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

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2014-10-25

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

Young Girl Reading a Book on the Beach*

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2014-10-25

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

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2014-10-24

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

-Oscar Wilde born in Dublin 1854*

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2014-10-16

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

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2014-10-10

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."-Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) died 165 years ago*

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2014-10-08

"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading." - Mahatma Gandhi born in 1869*

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2014-10-03

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

·Patti Smith reading Wallace Stevens*

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2014-10-02

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

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2014-08-13

American writer, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize (1921), died in France, 1937*

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2014-08-11