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Illustration from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf, who was born in 1858 and in 1909 became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize. Read Jenny Watson on the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales: https://t.co/QSVOZsRbmk

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Suddenly 1887 Jnr, supporter of cremation, found in the billiard room at Heart failure aged 44. Laid to rest in

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19 November 1600, birth of Charles I of England.

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Stephen King's IT premiered on ABC in 1990. The miniseries aired November 18th and 20th attracting 30 million viewers.

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OTD in 1916, Private Robert Haywood Jones from Armley was killed at The Somme. His body was never found but he is remembered at Bramley War Memorial. A century later, millions of people worldwide mourned the death of his grandson, David Robert Jones, better known as David Bowie

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17 Nov 1680: In the Lords, the Earl of Shaftesbury introduces a bill for the divorce of Charles II & Catherine of Braganza - against the king’s wishes (GAC/NPG)

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Rachel McAdams, Irene Adler in the Robert Downey, Jr., films, born https://t.co/Rr8kTcShSf

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W H Preece, the telegraph, telephone and wireless radio pioneer, a great Welsh scientist, was appointed GPO Engineer-in-Chief and Electrician 1892. He was an early mentor of Marconi https://t.co/EPMgWM9q9j

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Sofonisba Anguissola died in 1625. To find out about her long life of art and adventure, we can soon read Lady in Ermine: The Story of the Woman Who Painted the Renaissance by .

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No getting away from it now. Christmas is coming & that shopping won't do itself. Front cover of The Sketch Christmas Shopping Number, published in 1955

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Henry III died in 1272 at Westminster. On the throne for 56 years here he is with a representation of the west front of Westminster and two church bells. And below a genealogical tree of his children. Image – Royal MS 20 A II https://t.co/HkccQQLnK7

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11/15/1918 - Submarine USS H-4 in Drydock 1 at Bremerton's Puget Sound Navy Yard (). 3 weeks after commissioning. One of a handful of subs built here in era

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11/15/1918 - Submarine USS H-4 in Drydock 1 at Bremerton's Puget Sound Navy Yard (). 2 weeks after commissioning. One of a handful of subs built here in era.

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in 1948, William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada after more than two decades of service—a British Commonwealth record. https://t.co/Kk8qNLOTU3

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1688 William of Orange invades with his army, landing in Devon. His secretary Huygens wrote: ‘We landed at a village called Braxton [Brixham]. It is very simple. Its few decayed houses are built of stone ... We dined this evening on very tough fricassé of lamb.’

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in 1929 Constance Spry unveiled her first floral shop window display, shocking London by using hedgerow flowers. Considered a trailblazer, she set up her own Flower School and during WWII gave lectures encouraging people to grow their own food. https://t.co/2Pd41KvbmW

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to HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, born 1948 at Buckingham Palace. Here is a taster of some of the hundreds of pictures we have

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Lass deine Taten sein wie deine Worte. Und deine Worte wie dein Herz.

Ludwig Uhland



* 26.4.1787; † 13.11.1862

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I used to dream of living an adventurous life, and it may be that these youthful dreams more or less shape one's later life.
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in 1963, Canaveral Press reprinted fourth Amtor novel, with Sam Sigaloff cover art from the John Coleman Burroughs original.

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