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• Charles Dickens' 200th birthday

  thewall.com | 4:28 pm Feb 7, 2012

  • In the middle of Bleak House, an orphan called Esther Summerson, gets smallpox and goes blind
  • Bleak House is Dickens’ grandest achievement
  • You can leave your thoughts about Bleak House, or any of Dickens’ novels

• Dickens At 200: A Birthday You Can't 'Bah Humbug'

  npr.org | 5:54 pm Feb 7, 2012

  Part of her new attraction, Egan says, are the issues Dickens deals with — wealth and poverty, class and corruption, politicians who speak about morality but behave very differently. "The things he's interested in are still very relevant, " Egan says. "For…

• A letter to Charles Dickens on his 200th birthday

  guardian.co.uk | 4:10 pm Feb 7, 2012

  Happy 200th birthday! You yourself were not much given to celebrating anniversaries, but you did go to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1864, with Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins and John Forster, to celebrate Shakespeare's 300th, "in peace and quiet". And on…

• Letters of Note: Happy Birthday, Dickens

  lettersofnote.com | 4:10 pm Feb 7, 2012

  Image: Charles Dickens, via Lenin Imports Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of someone who, hopefully, needs no introduction: Charles Dickens — a man who wrote so many letters (some 15'000 have survived) it's a wonder he ever found time to…

• January 31, 2012

  newyorkology.com | 4:10 pm Feb 7, 2012

  To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, the Morgan Library & Museum on Feb. 7 will offer free admission to anyone who mentions the author’s bicentennial birthday. The exhibition “Charles Dickens at 200”, which features manuscripts,…

• Dickens 2012

  dickens2012.org | 5:18 pm Feb 7, 2012
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  poetrysociety.org.uk | 4:10 pm Feb 7, 2012
• The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut - NYTimes.com

  nytimes.com | 12:25 am Feb 8, 2012
• OU History of Science Collections

  ouhos.org | 10:57 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Google

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• I love this. From Charles Dickens' will, instructions for his funeral: http://t.co/bP0Arefs

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  12:04 pm Feb 7, 2012
• The Prince of Wales lays a wreath on the grave of Charles Dickens in Westminster Abbey http://t.co/2bglepsW

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  3:17 am Feb 8, 2012
• Charles Dickens turns 200 today, making him eligible to perform at next year's SuperBowl halftime. #Dickens

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  2:14 am Feb 8, 2012
• On Charles Dickens' birthday, a BBC animation about his life. http://t.co/X8G1k6XG

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  2:01 am Feb 8, 2012
• Tonight, we celebrated Charles Dickens' 200th birthday by theming our staff dinner in his honor. Here's to y http://t.co/eAzxJNtB

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  1:06 am Feb 8, 2012
• Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens

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  12:54 am Feb 8, 2012
• Happy birthday, Charles Dickens http://t.co/tvM7xQ9Y

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  11:27 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Charles Dickens would be one of the most beloved authors in N. Korea if reading wasn't punishable by death. #Dickens

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  10:57 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago today. How they're celebrating the bicentenary in London: http://t.co/PL899hxU

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  10:43 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Today in 1812, Charles Dickens was born. He wrote "A Tale of Two Cities," which is about Duluth and Fresno. Most boring book EVER.

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  10:01 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!

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  9:09 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Our @radhikajones blogged Charles Dickens' 10 best novels in honor of the writer's bicentennial | http://t.co/5Xb7y11M #longreads

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  8:40 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Charles Dickens was 1st to mention chips in a book "Husky chips of potatoes, fried"Tale of 2 Cities,1859 http://t.co/L3cQSXoO

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  8:17 pm Feb 7, 2012
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  7:51 pm Feb 7, 2012
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  7:44 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy Birthday, Boz! Charles Dickens on the Financial Crisis (of 1837) http://t.co/8nDvGCC7 #Charles Dickens

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  7:41 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Once again, on Charles Dickens' 200th birthday, let's celebrate one of his most unforgettable creations, Newt Gingrich.

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  7:28 pm Feb 7, 2012
• HISTORY IN THE HEADLINES: 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Charles Dickens http://t.co/kzji7liL

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  7:22 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Charles Dickens turns 200. Here's the 1st film adaptation of his work. (And 1st Wipe Transition) - http://t.co/fLGzj65u

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  7:07 pm Feb 7, 2012
• A Happy (albeit 140 yrs belated) Birthday to Mr. Charles Dickens, who's legacy defines the enduring artistry of the written word!

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  6:52 pm Feb 7, 2012
• "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another" - Charles Dickens

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  6:47 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th Birthday Charles Dickens

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  6:36 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Dickens! Here's the Monty Python bookshop skit: http://t.co/ogZkI3ps

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  6:21 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy birthday, Charles Dickens! No one else could describe someone eating a bowl of soup for six pages and make it completely riveting.

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  6:17 pm Feb 7, 2012
• "To a young heart everything is fun."-Charles Dickens. Happy 200th birthday!

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  6:09 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th birthday Charles Dickens!

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  6:09 pm Feb 7, 2012
• 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. "Great Expectations" is the best film based on his fiction. My Great Movies review: http://t.co/9zy9RW9a

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  6:01 pm Feb 7, 2012
• If Dickens had Twitter he would have written "It was the best of times" and skipped the rest. #Dickens #Dickens2012

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  5:51 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th birthday, Charles Dickens! #5myths about the man and his work: http://t.co/FIGuBaww

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  5:50 pm Feb 7, 2012
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  5:47 pm Feb 7, 2012
• #Gingrich Celebrates 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens: "His Work Inspired Me to Come w/My Own Plan to Employ Poor Children in Workhouses"

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  5:11 pm Feb 7, 2012
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  5:10 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Prince Charles leads Dickens 200th celebrations http://t.co/zb347VW7

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  5:02 pm Feb 7, 2012
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  4:59 pm Feb 7, 2012
• 200 years ago today Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.

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• "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." Happy Birthday Charles Dickens

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  4:19 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th Birthday Charles Dickens

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  3:58 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy birthday, Charles Dickens; renowned among conservatives for his utopian fiction.

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  3:32 pm Feb 7, 2012
• #Gingrich Celebrates 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens: "I Love All His Ideas for Putting Kids to Work" #childlabor #darksatanicmills

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  3:12 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy birthday, Charlie! Charles Dickens - friend of the Ninth Doctor and no mean writer - was born 200 years ago today http://t.co/A5fF4sPj

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  3:09 pm Feb 7, 2012
• What is Charles Dickens' best book? We picked the writer's most virtuosic achievement | http://t.co/eoAuSRGd (via @TIMECulture)

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  3:06 pm Feb 7, 2012
• In honor of Charles Dickens' bicentennial 2day: a sneak peek at MASTERPIECE's new Great Expectations - April 2012! http://t.co/jgLUV90b

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  3:03 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Dickens isn't the only one with a birthday today. Laura Ingalls Wilder is 144: http://t.co/8gWLw0SG @SmithsonianMag HT @NYDNBooks - #books

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  2:58 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th birthday Charles Dickens!

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  2:46 pm Feb 7, 2012
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  2:30 pm Feb 7, 2012
• "Of the Dickens citations in the OED, 258 citations are the earliest recorded by the dictionary for a particular word" http://t.co/N0RjEbIh

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  2:02 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th birthday Charles Dickens! Thank you for being integral to science fiction/fantasy in these 5 ways http://t.co/Wo7aE5mQ

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  2:02 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th Birthday Charles Dickens

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  1:59 pm Feb 7, 2012
• "A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self." Charles Dickens http://t.co/TiMg6iIW

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  1:59 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th birthday, Charles Dickens! Read here: http://t.co/ouqvdEcW

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  1:40 pm Feb 7, 2012
• “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” - Charles Dickens. Happy 200th birthday!

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  1:39 pm Feb 7, 2012
• It was the best of times: UK marks 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, as popular now as he was in life: http://t.co/cXPmmZic -ldh

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  1:38 pm Feb 7, 2012
• It's Charles Dickens 200th birthday. We dated briefly in high school. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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  1:37 pm Feb 7, 2012
• “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ~ Charles Dickens, born Feb. 7, 1812

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  1:30 pm Feb 7, 2012
• "Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm&live entirely surrounded by cows-and china" -DICKENS

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  1:26 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th birthday, Charles Dickens! Celebrate with his diary entry on New York in the 1800s http://t.co/8YxMQS2A

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  1:20 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Free admission all day today at @morganlibrary if you mention it's the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth http://t.co/A7B9Wg29

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  1:12 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Charles Dickens's storytelling: Different perspectives on Bleak House http://t.co/qjjNHSBY

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  1:10 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Charles Dickens would have been 200 today--and still coming up with vivid, quirky characters, compelling stories, & great names!

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  1:04 pm Feb 7, 2012
• What Charles Dickens said about money - 12 memorable quotes http://t.co/oLax7YYc

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  12:33 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Today's Google doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens http://t.co/UpZWUWSR

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  12:10 pm Feb 7, 2012
• Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Dickens!

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  11:47 am Feb 7, 2012
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  5:32 am Feb 7, 2012