Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Thoreau, Henry David

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The horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on Wall Street and stopped across the street from the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan bank. Inside the wagon 45 ks) of dynamite with 230 kgs of heavy cast-iron sash weights exploded in a timer-set detonation sending the weights tearing through the air.
(16 September 1920)

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		Writer, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau known for his book ‘Walden’ 12 July 1817 (+) is born in Concord, United States. 30 April 1844 (x) and his friend Edward Hoar accidentally set a fire that consumed 300 acres (1.2 km2) of Walden Woods in Concord, United States. 6 May 1862 (-) dies of tuberculosis in Concord, United States.
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