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August 14, 1856, died #OTD Victorian theologian & geologist William Buckland, he described the 1st dinosaur as Megalosaurus in 1824 based on a fragmentary preserved jaw 🦖Artwork by Paleontologists and their Prehistoric Pets site https://t.co/vYucXthAtw
August 12, 1857, Victorian palaeontologists William Daniel Conybeare dies in Hampshire. In 1821 he described the marine reptile Plesiosaurus, made also important contributions on the anatomy of the Ichthyosauri and worked on the geology of the British Islands ⚒️
July 18, 1950, American geologist Mignon Talbot, the first woman to find and describe a dinosaur - a species of Coelophysis 🦖 - died #OTD https://t.co/53MDlt8scO Drawing by https://t.co/sefyGoaMln
July 1, 1867, the Dominion of #Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec 🇨🇦 - Geological map from 1864 #CanadaDay
June 14, 1900, Hawaii islands became a U.S. territory 🇺🇸 Geological maps of Maui, O'ahu & Hawai'i
June 12, 1870, birthday of German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach. Famous for the discovery of the holotype of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus 🦖 https://t.co/WS6p1E61aH 🦖🖌 https://t.co/lwAEnPuCZJ
June 9, 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti - a landscape of Tahiti with #volcano 🌋
May 21, 1799, #birthday of Mary #Anning, “the Princess of #Palaeontology”. Carpenter daughter, she founded a fossil business in Lyme Regis, Dorset, making important discoveries like complete fossils of Ichthyosaurus 🐬 & Plesiosaurus 🐉 https://t.co/xuWRaNkOh3
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May 2, 1602, birthday of German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, he imagined Earth´s section in his "Mundus Subterraneus" (1664-1665) as crossed by veins of water and fire https://t.co/vK3ih5B9Fu
May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founds the secret society of #Illuminati 👁#geology textbooks are full of secret illuminati symbols ⚒ ;)