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ON THIS DAY: J.R.R. Tolkien, father of modern fantasy, died (1973)

On this Day September 2, 2026 at 15:29

September 2 marks the anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien, the British author whose extraordinary imagination gave the world Middle-earth, hobbits, elves and...

ON THIS DAY: J.R.R. Tolkien is born (1892)

On this Day January 3, 2025 at 10:00

On 3 January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J.R.R. Tolkien, was born in Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State, a former...

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Cyprus October 8, 2026 at 16:05

The American Chamber of Commerce in Cyprus (AmCham Cyprus)...

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Cyprus October 8, 2026 at 15:46

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