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Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat. -John Dee. Who does not understand should either be silent or learn.
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📸Girl Reading a Newspaper, by Wada Eisaku, University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan, 1897
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#OnThisDay in 1804, Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt lands at Bordeaux, completing his 5 year expedition to America.
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RT @Libroantiguo: Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend and publisher Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture in 1907. https…
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RT @LMatritenses: ‼️La @LibreriaBardon lleva cerrada desde nov. 2021 debido a la rotura de una caldera‼️ ☑️Hoy en día la #librería sigue r…
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1928: George Bernard Shaw surfing at the Muizenberg beach (South Africa) at the age of 75.
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"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words". ―Edgar Allan Poe.
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📷Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend and publisher Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture in 1907.
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#OnThisDay in 1644, John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. 📃"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties".
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#OnThisDay in 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft marries William Godwin after Wollstonecraft became pregnant with his child. "Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil." - Mary Wollstonecraft.
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#DidYouKnow George Orwell Fought In the Spanish Civil War (figure in the middle, his wife is seated to his left)
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Plan of Paris by Olivier Truschet & Germain Hoyau, circa 1550. 📷Basel University Library.
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Commentary on the Sphere of Sacrobosco, one of the most influential astronomy textbooks in history. 📷Burns Library
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“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. 📷Moyan Brenn.
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RT @alianza_ed: "Siempre hablar con la verdad, pensar antes de hablar y escribir". Lewis Carroll
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📖"All right, then, I'll go to hell." #OnThisDay in 1885, Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the United States (UK in 1884).
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Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of his friend and publisher Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture in 1907.
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