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2015 (Wednesday) January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 344 days remain until the end of the year (345 in leap years ).
Two printings of Holbein's Dance of Death woodcuts, from 1816 and 1898 respectively, are confirmed to be bound in human skin. Reports predating peptide mass fingerprinting state that there are six anthropodermic copies. [13] [21] Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (1891, Adolphe Belot ) John Hay Library, Brown University.
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale at Wikisource. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael 's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, at the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The 56th inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in the city, marked the commencement of the first term of Barack Obama as president ...
The Fault in Our Stars is a novel by John Green.It is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. It was published on January 10, 2012. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "Men at some time were masters of their fates, / The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are ...
Spare is a memoir by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, which was released on 10 January 2023.It was ghostwritten by J. R. Moehringer and published by Penguin Random House.It is 416 pages long and available in digital, paperback, and hardcover formats and has been translated into fifteen languages.
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by American author J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951. Originally intended for adults, it is often read by adolescents for its themes of angst and alienation, and as a critique of superficiality in society. [ 4][ 5] The novel also deals with ...