30 May The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; No force can bend me, no persuasion move.
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Published on this day
- 1991 Regeneration by Pat Barker
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Photo credits
- Alfred Austin: Who-When-What Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Dorothy Boulger: Photographer not named., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Alexander Pope: Michael Dahl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Humphry Davy: Thomas Phillips, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- James Planché: Henry Perronet Briggs (1793–1844), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Philip Sherrard: Dimitri Papadimos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized