Born May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets, photographed here with the first Minister of the Crown for Ontario, Canada. The first known quints to survive infancy, they became wards of the king under the Dionne Quintuplets’ Guardianship Act, 1935 for the first decade of their lives, and, somewhat bizarrely, a popular tourist attraction.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
History, Horoscope, and Hearsay
"All my griefs to this are jolly,
Naught so damned as melancholy."
-- Robert Burton
from The Anatomy of Melancholy
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