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2 New Books

• Aurora Floyd - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements - William Wells Brown
• Capitan Fracassa - Theophile Gauthier
• The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
• Cudjo's Cave - John Townsend Trowbridge
• Eleanor's Victory - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne
• The House by the Churchyard - Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Life of Jesus - Ernest Renan
• The Man Without a Country - Edward Everett Hale
• Marian Grey - Mary Jane Holmes
• Romola - George Eliot
• Sylvia's Lovers - Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley

3 Births

• March 12March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). There are 294 days remaining. Events 515 BC Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem. 1664 New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain. 1894 For the first time Coc - Gabriele D'AnnunzioGabriele D'Annunzio ( 12 March 1863 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil and war hero, who went on to have a controversial role in politics as a precursor of the fascist movement. Life Gabriele D'Annunzio was born in Pescara, the son of, poet
• August 7August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. There are 94 days in North Hemisphere summer, South Hemisphere winter. The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through the summer o - Gene Stratton PorterGene Stratton Porter ( August 17, 1863 December 6, 1924) was an American author, screenwriter and naturalist who wrote fanciful, romantic, well-plotted stories set in the American Midwest. Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married, American novelist and naturalist
• November 1November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. Events 1512 The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. 1521 The Strait of Mage - Arthur Morrison

4 Deaths

• September 17September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). There are 105 days remaining. Events 1176 Battle of Myriokephalon 1394 King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France 1462 Battle of Swiecin, called also Battle of Zarnowiec, - Alfred de VignyAlfred Victor de Vigny ( March 27, 1797 September 17, 1863) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist. Alfred de Vigny was born into an aristocratic military family in Loches, Indre-et-Loire, France. As a result of the French Revolution, the family's ci, author