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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky knew a thing or two about capturing the power of the ocean - https://t.co/sfDeA54sMY
The sad story of the whaleship ‘Essex’ that inspired ‘Moby Dick’ - https://t.co/iUIsjJeOhj 🐋
‘The Man with the Moneybag and His Flatterers’
Jan Theodor de Bry after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The British Library’s Royal MS 10 E iv, aka the Smithfield Decretals, is a late fourteenth-century law book containing many illuminations, including images of rabbits trying a captured hound for crimes unspecified.
Meet Dr Sameera Moussa, the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Moussa hoped her work would one day lead to affordable medical treatments and the peaceful use of atomic energy.
At just 35, Moussa died in the US in VERY suspicious circumstances 👇
https://t.co/gJYCp6AWnb
Meet Richard Dadd, the Victorian artist who painted fairy worlds while in an asylum.
https://t.co/a0iowIuB71
Feb 17, 1904, Madama Butterfly opens at @teatroallascala in Milan and is booed off the stage.
Based on a short story by American lawyer and writer John Luther Long, the story of the Opera itself is an absolute rollercoaster.
👉https://t.co/zkw8MOw0AX
Old timey Valentines cards (WTAF!)
Murder, arson, assault; romance must've been a rollercoaster.
We all know the image, but this is the story behind Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’, in my humble opinion one of the most iconic photos in American history.
👇🏼
https://t.co/4QfhS1f4P7