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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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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

Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden*

in 1854*

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2014-08-09

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

in 1996*

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2014-08-06

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

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2014-08-04

Six year-old Sylvia Plath with her brother*

Plath’s journal entry written 1953*

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2014-07-30

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

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2014-07-29

'There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.'

-Robert Graves born 1895* (d.1985).

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2014-07-24

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

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2014-07-23

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

―Jane Austen died at age 41 1817*

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2014-07-18