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| From a cover of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
William H. Prescott (1796; died January 28, 1859) American historian;
Conquest of Mexico;
Conquest of Peru
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825; died June 29, 1895) English biologist;
Autobiography and Selected Essays;
Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays;
Science and Culture, and Other Essays;
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals;
Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
William Clifford (1845; died March 3, 1879) English mathematician and philosopher; "The Ethics of Belief";
Seeing and Thinking;
The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences
Died on this day:
E. Nesbit (1924; born August 15, 1858) English author of children's literature and poet; the
Bastable series;
The Railway Children; over a dozen more children's books, as well as stories and adult novels
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