10th November

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley#mediaviewer/File:Stanley_-_Comment%E2%80%A6_11.png

1871 Henry Morton Stanley finds explorer – ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?” – go off on an adventure with a homemade explorer kit!

http://makezine.com/2013/12/14/gift-idea-diy-explorer-kit/

1969 Sesame Street debuts

1989 Berlin wall starts to fall

1960 Neil Gaiman born – so read Fortunately the Milk or Coraline or Chu’s Day or, well, any of these.