"Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied." The Women’s Victory - and After Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett died #OTD in 1929. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by or about Millicent Garrett at PG:

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"I look into the faces of the people passing by, The glad ones and the sad ones, and the lined with misery, And I wonder why the sorrow or the twinkle in the eye; But the pale and weary faces are the ones that trouble me." The Path to Home (1919) Edgar A. Guest died #OTD in 1959. He became known as the People's Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Edgar A. Guest at PG:

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"What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed." Letter to Jean-Richard Bloch Friedrich Engels died #OTD in 1895. He was the closest collaborator of Karl Marx in the foundation of modern communism. They coauthored The Communist Manifesto (1848), and Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx’s death. Books by Friedrich Engels at PG:

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"I am the one who passed unnoticed before you, Invisible, in a cloud of secret pain." The House of Dust (1916 - 1917) Conrad Aiken was born #OTD in 1889. He was honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Conrad Aiken at PG:

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"Les grands artistes sont ceux qui imposent à l’humanité leur illusion particulière." Pierre et Jean Guy de Maupassant was born #OTD in 1850. He was a protégé of Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style & efficient, seemingly effortless dénouements. Many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futility of war & the innocent civilians who are permanently changed by their experiences. Maupassant at PG:

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New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel y William Cosby, against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true #OTD in 1735, but the jury acquitted Zenger, who became a symbol for freedom of the press. #pressfreedom

"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass." The Renaissance (1873) Walter Horatio Pater was born #OTD in 1839. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance, in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto of Aestheticism. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by Horatio Pater at PG:

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John Venn was born #OTD in 1834. He is noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science. Venn then further developed George Boole's theories in the 1881 work Symbolic Logic, where he highlighted what would become known as Venn diagrams. via @npub1kvnp...hm73 Books by or about John Venn at PG:

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