What makes books and writers so dangerous that state feel the need to oppose them? There’s no such thing as a single truth but only a multitude of truths, to make the defenders of one or another truth sense danger, mortal danger — Günter Grass, 1999.
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On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy.
💥Happy World Emoji Day!
For some fun, can you guess what these emojis mean?
Hint: One refers to a historical artefact, one is an event, one is an art form/genre, and one is a historical figure.
Good luck!
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