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21st September – On This Day In History
Born:
1947 Stephen King (horror author – Christian, The Shining etc)
Died:
19 BC Virgil (Roman poet)
On This Day:
1937 The Hobbit is published (by JRR Tolkien)
Have a good Friday, 21st September
The Roman Road
The Roman Road runs straight and bare
As the pale parting-line in hair
Across the heath. And thoughtful men
Contrast its days of Now and Then,
And delve, and measure, and compare;
Visioning on the vacant air
Helmeted legionnaires, who proudly rear
The Eagle, as they pace again
The Roman Road.
But no tall brass-helmeted legionnaire
Haunts it for me. Uprises there
A mother’s form upon my ken,
Guiding my infant steps, as when
We walked that ancient thoroughfare,
The Roman Road.
– Thomas Hardy
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14th January – On This Day In History
Born:
83 BC Mark Anthony (Roman politician and general)
Died:
1898 Lewis Carroll (author of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland)
On This Day:
1986 Constitution of Guatemala is put into place
Have a good Saturday, 14th January
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26th April – Today In History
Born:
0121 Antonius Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome, 0161 – 0180)
Died:
1731 Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe)
On This Day:
1994 First multi-racial election in South Africa begins
Have a good Sunday, 26th April
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