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<p>American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1862.</p><p>In addition to "Walden," Thoreau is well-known for his essay "Civil Disobedience," which was inspired by his 1846 arrest for refusing to pay poll taxes as a protest against slavery and the Mexican-American War. His political writings later influenced many political leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.</p><p>Books by Henry David Thoreau at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/54</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau. Calvin R. Greene was a Thoreau “disciple” who lived in Rochester, Michigan, and who first began corresponding with Thoreau in January 1856. When Greene asked for a photographic image of the author, Thoreau initially replied: “You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally – the stuttering, blundering, clodhopper that I am.” Yet Greene repeated his request and sent money for the sitting. Thoreau must have kept this commitment to his fan in the back of his mind for the next several months. On June 18, 1856, during a trip to Worcester, Massachusetts, Henry Thoreau visited the Daguerrean Palace of Benjamin D. Maxham at 16 Harrington Corner and had three daguerreotypes taken for fifty cents each. He gave two of the prints to his Worcester friends and hosts, H.G.O. Blake and Theophilius Brown. The third he sent to Calvin Greene in Michigan. “While in Worcester this week I obtained the accompanying daguerreotype – which my friends think is pretty good – though better looking than I,” Thoreau wrote.

B. D. Maxham - National Portrait Gallery

Original title page of Walden, with an illustration from a drawing by Thoreau's sister Sophia.

Title page of the book "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" by Henry D. Thoreau, featuring an illustration of a small cabin surrounded by trees. The page includes a quotation and the publication details, "Boston: Ticknor and Fields. MDCCCLIV (1854)."

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1940.</p><p>John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.</p><p>The book was first published in April 14, 1939. The book won the National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize for fiction, & it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. When preparing to write the novel, Steinbeck wrote: "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression and its effects]." </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover of "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, depicting a man standing and facing a rural landscape with mountains, beside him a seated woman and two children, all next to an old car.

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<p>Very early <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance.</p><p>Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/worldwar2/" rel="tag">#WorldWar2</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight after world war two, with a toddler on her back and a baby sat before her. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 10 May 1933 German Nazis held their first book-burning. In Berlin they burned the library of the Sexology Institute, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, which supported LGBT+ rights. Joseph Goebbels declared: "No to decadence and moral corruption!" More: <a href="https://t.co/fmyF7rAItD" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>t.co/fmyF7rAItD</a> <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11315/nazi-book-burning?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11315/nazi-book-burning?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/11315/nazi-book-burning?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</span></a></p>

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<p>English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright John Dryden died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1700.</p><p>Dryden was one of the most influential literary figures of his time and is often referred to as the "Father of English Criticism." As a poet, Dryden's works ranged from satires and political verse to heroic couplets and translations. He was also a prolific playwright, producing numerous comedies, tragedies, and heroic dramas. </p><p>Books by John Dryden at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/807" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/807"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/807</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Description John Dryden (9 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was Rector of All Saints. He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet (1553-1632) and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and Parliament. He was also a second cousin once removed of Jonathan Swift.

The title page of The Hind and the Panther
John Dryden - https://archive.org/details/hindandpanther00dryduoft

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<p>Brazilian novelist & journalist Lima Barreto was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1881.</p><p>His literary career began in the early 20th century, and he is best known for novels such as "Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma" - a bitter satire of the first years of the República Velha in Brazil, was published in 1911. Despite facing difficulties & setbacks during his lifetime (alcoholism and mental health issues), he continued to write until his death.</p><p>Books by Lima Barreto at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Lima+Barreto&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Lima+Barreto&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Lima+Barreto&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Detail of Lima Barreto's first hospitalization form.

Cover page of Triste Fim de Polycarpo Quaresma by Lima Barreto

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<p>Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker Hokusai died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1849.</p><p>The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji are noteworthy not only for their beauty and technical prowess but also for the cultural significance of Mount Fuji in Japan. Hokusai's innovative use of the then-new Prussian blue pigment helped to popularize his prints during his lifetime and influenced not only Japanese art but also Western artists like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/painting/" rel="tag">#painting</a></p>

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai's most famous print, the first in the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, c. 1829–1832

Kajikazawa in Kai Province, from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Chōshi in Shimosha, from Oceans of Wisdom

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<p>American physicist Richard Feynman was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1918.</p><p>He developed the Feynman diagrams, a pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which provided a powerful tool for calculating complex interactions among particles. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga for their fundamental contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics (QED).</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a><br>1/3</p>

Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–1988)

The Nobel Foundation - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 11 May 1894 the Pullman railroad strike began in Chicago after the firing of 3 workers. The biggest strike in US history to date, it was only eventually broken by federal government troops and the killing of at least 24 strikers <a href="https://t.co/JGSt1Qbi7k" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>t.co/JGSt1Qbi7k</a> <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8336/pullman-strike-begins?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8336/pullman-strike-begins?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8336/pullman-strike-begins?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</span></a></p>

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<p>English writer of adventure fiction romances H. Rider Haggard died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1925.</p><p>Haggard's most famous work is "King Solomon's Mines," published in 1885. Haggard's other works include "Allan Quatermain" (1887), "Jess" (1887), "Nada the Lily" (1892), "The People of the Mist" (1894), and "The Brethren" (1904), among many others.</p><p>Books by H. Rider Haggard at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/365" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/365"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/365</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

English writer Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925).

Black and white photo of a man sporting a beard.

Cover of The People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard.

"The People of the Mist" is an adventure novel written by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1894. Set in the late 17th century, the novel follows the journey of Leonard Outram, a young Englishman who travels to the wilds of Africa in search of adventure and fortune.

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<p>Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1861.</p><p>Tagore wrote poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. He is best known for his poetry, and his collection "Gitanjali" is particularly renowned. This work earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. By way of translations, Tagore influenced Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, José Ortega y Gasset, Zenobia Camprubí, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.</p><p>Books by Rabindranath Tagore at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/942" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/942"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/942</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A photographic portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, date unknown.

Black and white portrait of an elderly Rabindranath Tagore with long white hair and a full beard, wearing a draped shawl. He looks off to the side with a thoughtful expression.

Title page of the 1913 Macmillan edition of Tagore's Gitanjali.

Cover of the 1913 edition of "Gitanjali" by Rabindranath Tagore, published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., featuring the title, author's name, and an introduction by W. B. Yeats.

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<p>Thread: <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless. <a href="https://t.co/oK3OfSUSWP" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>t.co/oK3OfSUSWP</a></p>

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<p>Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1840.</p><p>Some of his most famous works include the ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, & Sleeping Beauty; his operas such as Eugene Onegin & The Queen of Spades; & his symphonies, particularly the 4th, 5th, & the 6th, known as the "Pathétique". His "1812 Overture", written to commemorate Russia's defense against Napoleon's Grande Armée in 1812, is also incredibly popular.</p><p>Tchaikovsky at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Tchaikovsky&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Tchaikovsky&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Tchaikovsky&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

Cabinet card portrait of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Émile Reutlinger - NYPL Digital Gallery — Image ID: 1158492

Black and white portrait of elderly Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with white hair and a full beard, wearing a dark suit with a white handkerchief in the pocket and a neat bow tie under a stiff collar.

Book cover of "The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" by Modeste Tchaikovsky, edited from the Russian with an introduction by Rosa Newmarch, illustrated edition published by John Lane Company in 1906, featuring white and red text blocks on a decorative dark floral background.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 14 May 1938 the England football team gave a Nazi salute before a match in Berlin. They had been ordered to do so by the govt which had made a pact with Hitler when much of the ruling class supported fascism <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8604/England-football-team-Nazi-salute" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8604/England-football-team-Nazi-salute"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8604/England-football-team-Nazi-salute</span></a></p>

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<p>Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist James George Frazer died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1941.</p><p>He is best known for his influential work "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion," which explores the similarities among magical and religious beliefs across diverse cultures. Frazer proposed that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, and finally replaced by science.</p><p>Books by James George Frazer at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1241" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1241"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1241</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/anthropology/" rel="tag">#anthropology</a></p>

Black-and-white portrait of elderly James George Frazer with a full beard, looking slightly to his left with a serious expression. He is wearing a dark suit and tie.

Cover of "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion" by James George Frazer, Volume II, from 1894, displaying title and author's name on a textured grey background.

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<p>"I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in<br>anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport<br>exists between them or between them and myself. When one attains this<br>harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence — what I can<br>only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and<br>right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry."</p><p>~Georges Braque was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1882.</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/painting/" rel="tag">#painting</a> <a href="/tags/cubism/" rel="tag">#cubism</a></p>

Georges Braque.
(Cliché Kahnweiler).
Collection Kahnweiler.
L'HOMME À LA MANDOLINE (1912).

Les Peintres Cubistes: [Méditations Esthétiques] by Guillaume Apollinaire

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55638

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<p>English writer of children's stories Juliana Horatia Ewing died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1885.</p><p>Ewing's writing career began in the late 1860s, and she quickly gained recognition for her charming and insightful stories that often featured children and their adventures. Some of Ewing's most popular works include "Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances" (1869), "Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls" (1875), and "Jackanapes" (1884). </p><p>Books by Juliana Horatia Ewing at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1803" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1803"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1803</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Juliana Horatia Ewing

Portrait of a woman sitting sideways, with her hair in a bun at the back of her head, wearing a black dress with lace on the sleeves and on her sill, with a pendant around her neck and apparently writing something in her notebook.

Illustration: THREE LITTLE NEST BIRDS.

Title: Verses for Children, and Songs for Music

Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing

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<p>French chemist Antoine Lavoisier died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1794.</p><p>He is best known for his development of the law of conservation of mass, which states that mass is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions. This principle helped to debunk the phlogiston theory, which was a prevailing theory at the time that suggested substances released a material called "phlogiston" when they burned. He also made significant contributions in understanding respiration as a form of combustion.</p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/chemistry/" rel="tag">#chemistry</a></p>

Jacques-Louis David - Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier (cropped)

Portrait of an 18th-century man (Lavoisier) with powdered hair, wearing a black coat and white ruffled cravat, glancing away thoughtfully.

Hand sketch engraving made by madamme Lavoisier in the 18th century featured in "Traité élémentaire de chimie" .

Lavoisier performed his classic twelve-day experiment in 1779 which has become famous in history. First, Lavoisier heated pure mercury in a swan-necked retort over a charcoal furnace for twelve days. A red oxide of mercury was formed on the surface of the mercury in the retort. When no more red powder was formed, Lavoisier noticed that about one-fifth of the air had been used up and that the remaining gas did not support life or burning. Lavoisier called this latter gas azote. He removed the red oxide of mercury carefully and heated it in a similar retort. He obtained exactly the same volume of gas as disappeared in the last experiment. He found that the gas caused flames to burn brilliantly, and small animals were active in it as Joseph Priestley had noticed in his experiment. Finally, on mixing the two types of gas, i.e. the gas left in the first experiment, and that given out in the second experiment, he got a mixture similar to air in all respects. In his experiments Lavoisier analysed air into two constituents: the one which supports life and combustion, and is one-fifth by volume of air he called oxygen, the other four-fifths which does not he called azote. This latter gas is now called nitrogen. From the two gases he synthesised something that has the characteristics of air.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1794.</p><p>Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.</p><p>The day after Lavoisier's execution, the great mathematician Louis de Lagrange commented: "It only took them a moment to knock that head off, and perhaps a hundred years won't be enough to reproduce a similar one".</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/frenchrevolution/" rel="tag">#frenchrevolution</a></p>

The Arrest of Lavoisier, a fantastical representation created in 1876 by history painter Ludwig von Langenmantel.

Black and white historical painting depicting a group of animated colonial figures in a lively debate (The Arrest of Lavoisier), with one stately man standing reservedly at the right (Lavoisier).

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<p>“She dies from never having experienced a love of her own volition.”</p><p>German writer Margarete Böhme was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1867.</p><p>She is best known for her controversial and highly successful novel, "Tagebuch einer Verlorenen", first published in 1905. It purportedly tells the true story of Thymian, a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution. A movie was made based on this book (Tabea, stehe auf! 1922).</p><p>Books by Margarete Böhme at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margarete+B%C3%B6hme&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margarete+B%C3%B6hme&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Margarete+B%C3%B6hme&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Black and white photograph of Margarete Böhme.

Portrait of a seated woman, looking to her left, with short, curly hair, wearing a V-neck dress with short sleeves and her arms crossed at her waist.

Cover of "Tagebuch einer Verlorenen" edition 1907.

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<p>French poet, dramatist, and novelist Jean Aicard died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1921.</p><p>He was associated with the Parnassian movement, which emphasized formalism, craftsmanship, and the use of classical mythology and historical themes in poetry. He was also a prolific playwright and novelist. One of Aicard's most famous works is the novel "Le Roi de Camargue" (The King of Camargue), was published in 1872.</p><p>Books by Jean Aicard at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6209" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6209"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/6209</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

Jean Aicard (1848 - 1921), french poet from Provence c. 1880.

Book cover of Maurin des Maures by Jean Aicard

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<p>MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS debuted on the BBC <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1969. </p><p>“Literally nothing was funny," TV GUIDE’s Cleveland Amory wrote when it aired on PBS in 1975. "And the less funny something was—such as a Spanish Inquisition sketch with three cardinals—the more you saw of it."</p><p><a href="/tags/classictv/" rel="tag">#ClassicTV</a> <a href="/tags/montypython/" rel="tag">#montypython</a> <a href="/tags/britishtv/" rel="tag">#BritishTV</a></p>

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<p>“Feindre d’ignorer ce qu’on sait, de savoir tout ce que l’on ignore... voilà toute la politique.”<br>Le Mariage de Figaro (1778)</p><p>French polymath cha died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1799.</p><p>He is best known for his classic plays, particularly "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro," which form part of the Figaro trilogy. These works were adapted into famous operas by Gioachino Rossini and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart respectively.</p><p>Books by Pierre Beaumarchais at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7962" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7962"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/7962</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Depicted person: Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799), French dramatist.
Portrait by Jean-Marc Nattier

Image of a man in red jacket holding a book in a painting.

Illustratiion dans l'édition originale du Mariage de Figaro de Beaumarchais

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<p>British mathematician, logician, philosopher, & public intellectual Bertrand Russell was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1872.</p><p>One of Russell's most significant achievements is the co-authorship of "Principia Mathematica" (1910-1913) with Alfred North Whitehead. His works, such as "The Problems of Philosophy" (1912) & "Our Knowledge of the External World" (1914), explored issues related to knowledge, perception, & the scientific method.</p><p>Books by Bertrand Russell at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/355</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

52 years old Bertrand Russell in America (1924). The main purpose of his visit was to propagate the cause of socialism & world peace.

A monochrome image featuring a well-dressed man in a suit, exuding elegance and sophistication.

Cover of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy is a book (1919 first edition) by philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which the author seeks to create an accessible introduction to various topics within the foundations of mathematics. According to the preface, the book is intended for those with only limited knowledge of mathematics and no prior experience with the mathematical logic it deals with. Accordingly, it is often used in introductory philosophy of mathematics courses at institutions of higher education.

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<p>American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1864.</p><p>Hawthorne's early career was marked by relative obscurity. He self-published his first work, a novel titled "Fanshawe," in 1828, but later sought to suppress it. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, he wrote numerous short stories and sketches which were later collected in volumes such as "Twice-Told Tales" (1837, 1842).</p><p>Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/28" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/28"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/28</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Photographic portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1860s
Mathew Benjamin Brady - Library of Congress

Black and white photograph featuring a man with a well-groomed mustache.

Cover of Mosses from an old manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846.

The collection includes several previously published short stories, and was named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. The first edition was published in 1846.

Hawthorne seems to have been paid $75 for the publication.

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