The 10 Most Valuable Record Covers. The Beatles Butcher cover. I know some of you reading this will find it hard to believe, but once upon a time the cover of a vinyl record was a major selling point to the album. Sometimes people actually took a chance on a record because the cover was so cool, never happens today.
Marquis de Condorcet (1743). Marquis de Condorcet. It was on this date, September 17, 1743, that French mathematician and political philosopher Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, was born in Ribemont, Picardy, France.
Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan (French pronunciation: â[ÊaÊl oÊje dÉ bats dÉ kastÉlmÉÊ kÉÌt daÊtaÉ²ÉÌ]) (c. 1611 â 25 June 1673) served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War.