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39th year  -  N° 362                 Friday, 27 December 2024         Antwerpen		
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Thursday 9th of June 1870

154 years ago He Was on the Ground



Writer and social critic Charles John Huffam Dickens aka Boz dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Gads Hill Place, Higham, Kent, United Kingdom.


Dickens' last words were: "On the ground" in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.