🎂 Poet Pablo Neruda is born (1904)
Where: Parral, Chile
📅 On This Day: July 12
July 12, 1904: Poet Pablo Neruda is born. On 12 July 1904, the poet Pablo Neruda was born in Parral, Chile. His poems about the sea, love and everyday things won him the Nobel Prize in Literature. His seaside house at Isla Negra is full of the ship figureheads, ships in bottles and shells he collected.
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🧠 Question of the day
What fills Neruda's seaside house?
- Dinosaur fossils
- Ship figureheads and shells
- Toy cars
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Answer: Ship figureheads and shells
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What happened on July 12?
July 12, 1904: Poet Pablo Neruda is born. It happened in Parral, Chile.
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