"Knowledge will Facilitate Work." A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

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Light flares are seen at the Monument to the Defenders of Westerplatte, during a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War in Westerplatte, Gdansk, Poland on September 1st 2016. The first shots of the Second World War were fired at the Westerplatte fortifications by German Navy destroyer "Schleswig-Holstein" at 04:45am on September 1st 1939.

Государственный Эрмитаж. The State Hermitage museum. Official page.

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Celebrated today, on 1 September, in Russia is Knowledge Day

Тарелка с надписью "Знание облегчит работу" | Государственный фарфоровый завод | Фарфор, надглазурная полихромная роспись | 1921 г.

Plate Inscribed in Russian "Knowledge will Facilate (sic, Facilitate)Work" | State Porcelain Factory | Overglaze polychrome painting | 1921

The British Library

‘I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it’.

Charles Dickens started writing A Christmas Carol in September 1843. Explore the origins of this enduring tale http://bit.ly/2ctt6Yk