Prof. Frank McDonoughさんのイラストまとめ

13 April 1973. The classic album, Alladin Sane, by David Bowie, was released in the UK. It was the first Bowie album to reach No.1 in the UK. The album cover by Brian Duffy is regarded as one of his most iconic images of Bowie and was copied by fans who attended his concerts.

9 April 1860. On his phonautograph machine, French born, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, made the oldest known recording of a human voice. Unlike Thomas Edison's later phonograph, the phonautograph created only visual images of the sound and could not play back its recordings.

7 April 1770. Poet William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria. He was Britain’s poet laureate from 1843 until his death. He helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with his joint publication Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Coleridge.

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

Goodnight all

Born #OTD: Elvis Presley (1935), Shirley Bassey (1937), Stephen Hawking (1942) and David Bowie (1947).

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

9 October 1834. The Dublin & Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland, opened. It linked Westland Row in Dublin with Kingstown Harbour (Dún Laoghaire) in County Dublin.

@oftheVotadini I think it was something to do with painting from memory. Here is 1821 Derby.

23 September 1459. The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Blore Heath in the first major battle of Wars of the Roses. At least 2,000 Lancastrians were killed, with the Yorkists losing nearly 1,000 men.