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A sports commentary item carries the headline 'My kingdom for a heel', a play on the famous line from Shakespeare's Richard III. Beyond the wordplay in the headline itself, no further details are available about the event, athlete, or competition it refers to, and no public reaction has been recorded.
- 2Remembering Sylvia Beach, founder of Paris's Shakespeare and Company●Sylvia Beach, who died OTD in 1962, founded the Shakespeare and Company book store on the Left Bank in # Paris https://
Sylvia Beach, the American bookseller who founded the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookstore on Paris's Left Bank, died on this day in 1962. Beach is remembered for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922 and for making her shop a hub of the Lost Generation writers. Anniversaries like this prompt travelers and literary fans to share her story and revisit the famous store.