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1776, April 18: In a letter from the Marquis de Sade to his wife:

I am in a tower closed in by nineteen iron doors, with light reaching me only through two little windows, each with a score of iron bars. He complains that in over the two months he has been in prison he has been allowed only five walks of one hour each, in a sort of tomb about fourty feet square surrounded by walls more than fifty feet high ...--source unidentified

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Philip II of Macedon[1], father of Alexander the Great (382 BC, April 18). In 350 BC he leaves on a military expedition, taking with him 800 boys to be used for the pleasure of himself and his officers. --source unidentified

Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 – April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter. He was born and died in Paris. Moreau's main focus was the illustration of ...

André Bazin André Bazin (April 18, 1918 - November 11, 1958) was a famous critic of the French New Wave (circa 1958-62) who worked closely with Jean-Luc Godard and ...

Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 in Manhattan—November 30, 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico) was an experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, ...

James Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. Born in Vernal, Utah, he grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island where he attended Pilgrim High ...

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Martin Hannett (May 1948 - April 18, 1991) was an innovative record producer, closely associated with Joy Division and Factory Records. ...

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