6 January The literary calendar
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Now such an one for daughter Creon had As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.
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Published on this day
- 1936 The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
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- Eugene Lee-Hamilton: uncredited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Stella Benson: No figura en ninguna fuente. Anterior a 1933., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- P. J. Kavanagh: Eyerhymer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Syd Barrett: Hit Parader magazine This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original versi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- John Dennis: Jan (John) Vandergucht, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Frances Burney: Edward Francis Burney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Hartley Coleridge: day & son, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized