Nicolas Flamel (1330), Michael Praetorius [Schultze] (1571), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Georges Clémenceau (1841), William S. Paley (1901), Ed Sullivan (1901), #StephenSpender (1909) & Marcello Mastraoianni (1924) were born #OnThisDay...

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"Mask" by Stephen Spender

The face of the landscape is a mask of bone and iron lines where time has plowed its character...

As man behind his mask still wears a child.