Today is the 356th day of the year. We now have only 9 days left before 2021 concludes, and Christmas is 3 days away.
Dec 22, 1989
The Brandenburg Gate border crossing was reopened when Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor, walked through to be greeted by Hans Modrow, the East German prime minister.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate)
Photo by Abdel Rahman Abu Baker from Pexels
Dec 22, 1880
George Eliot, the English novelist and poet, died at age 61.
Best-known Works:
Adam Bede (1859)
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Middlemarch (1872)
George Eliot is one of Fuolao's favorite Victorian writers.
https://www.azquotes.com/author/4431-George_Eliot