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"They're coming to get you, Barbara, there's one of them now!"
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) - Directed by George A. Romero, this horror masterpiece was released OTD 51 years ago.

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J. Allen St. John, born in Chicago in 1872, created first-edition dust-jacket art for 4 of 11 Mars novels.
THE WARLORD OF MARS (1919)
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS (1922)
THE MASTER MIND OF MARS (1928)
SWORDS OF MARS (1936)
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1846 Sept 30: William T.G. Morton anesthetized Eben Frost & removed a tooth days ahead of Ether Day at MGH on Oct 16 https://t.co/yIAfTsNkxY

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2019-09-30

Happy birthday Cervantes, author of one of the most frequently illustrated books of all time, Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: https://t.co/LdPjxQXuTI

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Cervantes b otd 1547:

"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."

"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."

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Happy birthday Elizabeth Gaskell born 1810! We are honoured to have her lovely house to visit and enjoy as she wanted...
https://t.co/AIPGw9s3gL

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François Boucher was born in 1703. From the archive, here’s Maya Corry on the ‘charming frothiness’ of the French artist’s drawings https://t.co/YSsiBnAJvO

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The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.
THE GODS OF MARS, Ch. 7

in 1918, A. C. McClurg issued the first edition of THE GODS OF MARS, which featured dust-jacket and frontispiece art by Frank E. Schoonover.

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In 1886 public funds were used to send 5 children, all bitten by a rabid terrier, from Great Horton to They were successfully treated by Louis Pasteur, who died 1895. The disease had killed in saves lives.

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"I am fearful when I see peope substituting fear for reason." Klaatu- THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, released in 1951.

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2019-09-28

September 28, 1980, Carl Sagan's 13 part "#Cosmos" premieres on PBS✨🌌 7 years later "#StarTrek: The Next Generation" debuts on TV 🖖

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Today in History
September 28th
28 years ago -
1991 - Miles Davis dies
On September 28, 1991, jazz trumpet legend Miles Davis dies in a California hospital at the age of 65.

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28 Sept 1066: William the Conqueror's troops land at Pevensey Bay

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Alas, beloved Gerard Hoffnung - musician (tuba!), cartoonist, humorist and humanitarian - d otd 1959, at age 34. I still find his interviews with Charles Richardson impossibly hilarious: https://t.co/AYaio4ncjz
"My hair grows inwards now; it comes out on my chin every morning.'

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1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died in 1878. Two of his medical works are "Headache" & "The Colic" https://t.co/psjYlMifc4

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2019-09-27

1810 Viscount Wellington fought and won the Battle of Bussaco. It was the 1st decisive battle that included the reconstructed Portugese Army both as intergrated Brigades and a independent Division, against the devastating French invasion. 🇵🇹

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1799 Second Battle of Zurich was fought between led by André Masséna and allied forces of and Austria led by Alexander Korsakov(who was expecting aid from Suvorov). The French won forcing the Russians to withdraw from the Second Coalition.

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2019-09-26

OTD 1971 - Carlos Monzon KO 14 Emile Griffith at Estadio Luna Park, Buenos Aires. Retains Middleweight Title. Read 's acclaimed profile of middleweight legend Carlos Monzon in RINGSIDE SEAT Do you have our debut issue? Buy it here: https://t.co/aYRvHUSNPY

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2019-09-26

Lenore Tawney created delicate, poetic pieces that were often spiritual in nature, containing elusive messages about finding inner peace & the fragility of life. She continued to collect and assemble such work until her death 2007, aged 100.

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