16 July The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.
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Published on this day
- 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
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- Caroline Blackwood: Bassano & Vandyk Studios, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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- Thomas More: Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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