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#FeastDay - 12/26 - #StephenOfJerusalem
#Stephen was the 1st in a long line of Christian #martyrs. He looked on those who were about to kill him & asked the Lord to forgive them (Acts 7:60). His courageous nonviolence ...
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🖼️#Martyrdom of St Stephen, Bernardo Cavallino, #Art
#OTD - ‘Tis #December24, the day b4 #Christmas & all thru the land, families send excited children to bed with a reading of Clement Moore’s classic #poem, “A Visit from #StNicholas.”; AKA “The Night B4 Christmas”.
#OnThisDay #TIH #ChristmasEve
🖼️Merry Old #SantaClaus, Thomas Nast
@Philatelovely #Stamps depicting main characters of #Ukrainian animated #film "Mavka. The Forest Song"
#FDI 11/16/22, #Ukraine
(150th anniv of the birth of Ukrainian #poet & cultural figure #LesiaUkrainka)
#Philately #Philatelic #Stamp #Forest #Song #Mavka #Lukash #ZhabokytsKvus @ukrposhta
@Philatelovely #France 1,80f
Temple de Borobudur #Stamp
Java, Indonesia, SG 2305
Postes 1979
Printing: France
#Philately #Philatelic #Stamps #StampCollecting #Temple #Borobudur #Java #Indonesia #Buddhism
#CatherineBooth, co-founder of the #SalvationArmy & a passionate advocate for children, said,
“There is no improving the #future without disturbing the present.”
#Quote
🖼️The Release of the Opera in the Year 2000, Albert Robida, circa 1902.
#Art #Lithograph #Lithography
#OTD - 12/3/1967 - Christiaan #Barnard of #SouthAfrica performed the 1st human #HeartTransplant, at Groote Schuur #Hospital in #CapeTown.
#OnThisDay #TIH
📸(L) Cross Section of the #Human #Heart
(R) #ChristiaanBarnard, 1968
#OTD -11/28/1520- Portuguese navigator #Magellan achieved the 1st #circumnavigation of the #globe by reaching the #Pacific #Ocean after passing thru the #SouthAmerican strait that now bears his name.
#OnThisDay #TIH
🖼️Discovery of the Strait of Magellan, Álvaro Casanova Zenteno
GIVE US THIS DAY
Artist: Marsden Hartley
Known for: Painting
Movement: American Modernism
#Art #ArtWork #ArtTwt #Artist #Give #Day #Birds #Fish #Hartley #MarsdenHartley #Painting #American #Modernism #AmericanModernism
20th century mystic #SimoneWeil wrote,
“#Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.”
#Quote
🖼️A Domestic Affliction (also known as Annette de l), Benjamin West, 1831
#Art #Oil #Canvas #Painting #OilPainting #West #BenjaminWest