10 November The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?
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Published on this day
- 1988 Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
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- Amy Levy: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Tim Rice: Thecharmschool, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Neil Gaiman: Kyle Cassidy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Michael Wodhull: Engraver Edward Harding, after William Nelson Gardiner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Charlotte Despard: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Ferdinand Gottschalk: film screenshot (Monogram Pictures Corporation), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Bessie Marchant: unknown but 1941, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- George Essex Evans: anonymous, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized