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"Great things are done when men and mountains meet." William Blake, born 1757
The Ancient of Days, published as the frontispiece to 1794's, Europe a Prophecy, shows the biblical character Urizen crouching in the sky, his outstretched hand setting a compass to the Earth below

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in 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan entered the Pacific with three ships, following his passage through the dangerous straits below South America that now bear his name. Magellan became the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic.

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1703 “the Greatest and the Longest storm that ever the
World saw.” Daniel Defoe collects eye-witness accounts:

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Curiouser and curiouser! in 1865, the vivid and fantastic ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’ was published

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in 1809, Nova Scotian fisherman and pirate Edward Jordan was hanged for piracy in Halifax. https://t.co/ejumWtWmqi

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Born in 1616, John Wallis, British mathematician, physicist and codeifier

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Claude Lorrain died 1682. The 1st painting, The Enchanted Castle (1664), was a favorite of John Keats & may have inspired these lines from Ode to a Nightingale:

Charm’d magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

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Miguel Covarrubias, born November 22, 1904. Photograph of MC by Carl Van Vechten; Covarrubias artwork: cover of Langston Hughes' Weary Blues, caricatures of W.C. Handy and Alfred Stieglitz

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in 1898 the Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte was born https://t.co/joOWjmi9X4

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Happy Birthday François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume

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November 21, 1898: Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte was born in Lessines.

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Born 1889, American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Confirmed the existence of other galaxies and developed the red shift theory proving the universe is expanding

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Irish painter Francis Danby was born 1793. He is still considered one of the greatest British painters of the Romantic era. The first painting, “The Deluge” (1840), was quite successful and revitalized his later career

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Is it too early? The Sketch magazine Christmas shopping number, published 1955. Part of the ILN archive here at Mary Evans

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1984 8 v Turkey 0, Bryan Robson hat-trick, Tony Woodcock, Viv Anderson, John Barnes - page trom tonight's wembley programme

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1973 Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion designer, died. She founded Maison Schiaparelli in 1927 starting with knitwear, and was known for her innovative use of new textiles. Sketches from archives

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May it be known that the drawing Toilet of Helen for the erotic novella Under the Hill was completed c. 12 November 1895.

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Born 1774 in Scottish surgeon, artist and neurologist Charles Bell. In the early 19thc he produced the most influential anatomy books in Britain, you can read our digitised Bell texts online now: https://t.co/RuXeIE2OE6

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"The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." – John Milton, died OTD 1674.

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Heinrich Lefler was born 1863. The first is “Gevatter Tod” (Godfather Death, 1905)

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