Prof. Frank McDonoughさんのイラストまとめ

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A vision of the future from a German Magazine (1930).

31 July 1917. The 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) in WW1 began in Belgium as British forces attacked the German Army.

28 July 1866. Beatrix Potter was born in London. She wrote thirty books, with the best known bring her twenty-three children’s tales, most notably, The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

26 July 1745. The first recorded women’s cricket match took place on Gosden Common, near Guildford in Surrey. The event was reported in the Reading Mercury. The paper described it as “the greatest cricket match that was played in this part of England.”

One of Peter Sellers' best films is Being There. He plays a gardener called Chance who derives all his knowledge from TV.

22 July 1298. Edward I’s archers, using longbows for the first time, defeated William Wallace and his Scottish forces at the Battle of Falkirk. Shortly after the battle Wallace resigned as Guardian of Scotland.

21 July 1403. At the Battle of Shrewsbury the Lancastrian King Henry IV (depicted, right) defeated a rebel army led by Henry “Harry Hotspur” Percy from Northumberland, who was killed. The battle reaffirmed the effectiveness of the longbow in battle.

17 July 1717. George I sailed down the River Thames with musical composer Frideric Handel (left) and 50 musicians who publicly performed the composer’s Water Music for the first time.

17 July 1453. French forces under Jean Bureau defeated the English led by the Earl of Shrewsbury at the Battle of Castillon. It’s considered the last major battle of the Hundred Years’ War. As a result, the English lost all landholdings in France, except Calais.

14 July 1862. Leading artist Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, Austrian Empire. He is noted for his paintings, murals, and sketches, primarily of the female body.