Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day Today's fact is a C19th phrase. Pick of the basket. Meaning: Best. Derived from market baskets.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day "A Golden Eve" (pictured) was painted by Benjamin Leader in 1875.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day The children's novel "The Wallypug of Why" (pictured), containing humorous nonsense, rich wordplay and absurd situations in the tradition of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," by G. E. Farrow was published in 1895.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day American statesman and official who was once a private secretary for Abraham Lincoln, John Milton Hay (pictured) was born on 8th October 1838.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day American tenor and comic actor who specialised in Irish romantic dramas, Allen Doone (pictured), was born on 3rd September 1878.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day "The Golf Players" (pictured) was painted by Pieter de Hooch in 1658. Not C19th, but I liked the picture.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day American dancer, actress and flapper Violet Romer (pictured) was born in San Francisco, California in 1886.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day "The History of a Book" (pictured) by Annie Carey, a novel that follows the experiences of a copy of "The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," was published in 1873

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day "The Connoisseur" (pictured) was painted by August Johann Holmberg in 1881. I sympathise with the gent in the painting as I have to use both reading glasses and a magnifying glass to read printed or handwritten text.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day Actor and director John Todd (pictured) was born John Frederick "Fred" McCarthy on 14th August 1876.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day Today's fact is a C19th phrase heard in the Bow Street Police Court: That won't pay the old woman her ninepence. Meaning: Condemnation of an evasive act

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day "Night" (pictured) was painted by Edward Burne-Jones in 1870.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day "Bird's-Nesters" (pictured) was painted by Jean-François Millet in 1874.

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Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day Shakespearean scholar and philologist Mary Lilian Rochfort-Smith (also known as Teena Rochfort-Smith) (pictured) was born on 22nd September 1861.

Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day "Hard Times" (pictured) by Charles Dickens was published in 1854.