28 May The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
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Published on this day
- 1966 The Savages by Ian Stuart Black
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- Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot: US Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Ian Fleming: Erich Hartmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Laura Dockrill: Priya S John, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- William Herbert: William_Beechey, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Frank Cowper: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Eric Morecambe: Victor Heyfron M.A., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized