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July 18: Caravaggio,Jane Austen, Nelson Mandela

Peacemaker. Activist. Revolutionary Leader. Learn how Nelson Mandela changed South Africa and the world. #NinetiesCNN Sunday at 9p.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Wikipedia
BornJuly 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
It always seems impossible until it's done.



Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Wikipedia
BornDecember 16, 1775, Steventon
DiedJuly 18, 1817, Winchester, United Kingdom

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen died 200 years ago today, and the Bank of England has launched its new £10 note in her honour. But some are surprised about the details.

Bank of England launches new £10 note featuring a line about reading said…
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Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio, died on July 18th 1610. A postmortem of bones suggested he died of sunstroke and syphilis, aggravated by lead poisoning from the paints he mixed

The artist died on this day in 1610
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