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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)

These authors were born on the 23rd of April:
Halston (23 April 1932-)
Blair Brown (23 April 1946-)
James Buchanan (23 April 1791-1 June 1868)
John Cena (23 April 1977-)
Gene Collins (23 April 1932-)
Harry Crane (23 April 1914-)
Tamara Czartoryski-Borbon (23 April 1978-)
Judy Davis (23 April 1955-)
Chauncey Depew (23 April 1834-5 April 1928)
Bernadette Devlin (23 April 1947-)
Joyce DeWitt (23 April 1949-)
J. P. Donleavy (23 April 1926-)
James Anthony Froude (23 April 1818-24 October 1894)
Victoria Glendinning (23 April 1937-)
Daniela Hantuchova (23 April 1983-)
Art Hoppe (23 April 1925-1 February 2000)
Patricia Manterola (23 April 1972-)
Edwin Markham (23 April 1852-7 March 1940)
Michael Moore (23 April 1954-)
Roy Orbison (23 April 1936-6 December 1988)
Lester Bowles Pearson (23 April 1897-27 December 1972)
Lester B. Pearson (23 April 1897-27 December 1972)
Max Planck (23 April 1858-4 October 1947)
Sergei Prokofiev (23 April 1891-)
Calum Ross (23 April 1973-)
Captain Sensible (23 April 1955-)
Sonya Smith (23 April 1972-)
Warren Spahn (23 April 1921-)
George Steiner (23 April 1929-)
Black Shirley Temple (23 April 1928-)
Bud Wilkinson (23 April 1916-9 February 1994)

These authors died on the 23rd of April:
Rupert Brooke (August 3rd 1887-23 April 1915)
Howard Cosell (March 21st 1918-23 April 1995)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29th 1547-23 April 1616)
Sam Ervin (September 27th 1896-23 April 1985)
Toyohiko Kagawa (July 10th 1888-23 April 1960)
Otto Preminger (December 5th 1906-23 April 1986)
William Shakespeare (April 26th 1564-23 April 1616)
William Wordsworth (April 7th 1770-23 April 1850)

Idag firar vi Georg Göran!

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Here you'll find proverbs in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian and a little happiness without soft-ice - in a collection that has been ongoing since the year 1990. It has been printed on paper four times, in the shape of the book "Språkets Kryddor". This book is now really sold out, and it won't be printed again.

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