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1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice. 1593 – London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel. Today, a lawyers’ picnic is the remedy for libel. Perhaps equally tortuous. 1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria becomes Queen…
Famed Irish playwright, author and wit Oscar Wilde died tragically of meningitis in Paris in 1900. His previously exalted and glamorous life at the peak of London chic society had come undone after his conviction for homosexuality in 1895. Despite his prison sentence and subsequent greatly reduced circumstances, he maintained his humor until the end….
