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Margaret Bloy Graham, illustrator of Harry the Dirty Dog, was born in 1920

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Scourge of fake magicians & spiritualists, Harry Houdini escaped from chains, handcuffs, straitjackets under water. He died 1926 after a misplaced blow to his abdomen & was returned home in his prop coffin. His wife held séances on Halloween for a decade after his death.

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Linus Pauling was awarded the in chemistry in 1954. Learn more about his life and work: https://t.co/03PO0uUF6V

(Image: caricature of Pauling by J.C. Weller, 1931 https://t.co/veewV6JkR5)

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Part of a double feature with THE WASP WOMAN , BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE released in 1959.

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30 Oct 1657: The Battle of Ocho Rios - in which forces fail to retake from the

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Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater, now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787.

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Francis Bacon, born 1909: "I would like my picture to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence… as a snail leaves its slime."

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James Macpherson, author/translator of the “Ossian” poems—in part derived from songs & legends from oral tradition—was born 1736. The poems were a global sensation, & are the founding texts of European & of modern
(Img: Ingres, Le Songe d’Ossian)

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B otd 1782 the ultimate gothic rockstar, violin virtuoso Nicolo Paganini - who captivated not just the masses, but such as Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, etc. Also a fine, original composer (& master guitarist!) - his works perhaps underrated because of his demonic reputation.

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NFL defensive lineman turned actor John Matuszak was born in 1950.

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OTD, 1415, the Battle of
L: miniature from C15th French manuscript, shows evenly matched battle (far from truth).
R: John Gilbert’s “Morning of the Battle of Agincourt” (1884, Guildhall Art Gallery) imagines a dejected English army, knowing it is impossibly outnumbered

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During WWII, Pablo Picasso–born 1881–remained in occupied Paris & was often harassed by the Gestapo. During one search of his apartment, an officer saw a photograph of his painting Guernica. "Did you do that?" he asked. "No," Picasso replied, "you did".

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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was born 141 years ago.

One of the leading lights of Russian early-20th-century art.

He is best known for his brazen palette of primary colours, unconventional high-angle viewpoints, and his vast thematic range, from religion to bolshevism.

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🌟 on 24 Oct. 1935, the first star was installed on the Spasskaya Tower.

Almost 4m across, the stars 🇷🇺 are made of artifically grown ruby - result of an amazing chemistry breakthrough.

More facts 👇

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Artist Allen Anderson died on this date (Oct. 23) in 1995. He was 87.

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1760 Oct 23: Japanese physician Hanaoka Seishu was born https://t.co/UOAE9oTldd He used an oral general anesthetic tsusensan in 150+ breast cancer cases He died in 1835

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