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Some of the fine illustrations by Edward Julius Detmold featured in Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921).

More on the book here: https://t.co/fwYbcHsZYJ

#Sundayreads: @UnrealCitoyenne explores a curious recurring character in 19th-century US — the sicko doctor — and what he tells us about the era's anxieties regarding sadism, public violence, and the newly professionalized medical field: https://t.co/bA50icN2XN

Lovely scans of an 1892 edition of Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel D'histoire Naturelle over at @byrawpixel: https://t.co/rVAOQeYwmk

Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a book of traditional Japanese ghost stories compiled by the great scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn, who was born #onthisday in 1850. Read the book here: https://t.co/DrgAdVo3Vc #otd

The Triumph of Death fresco by an unknown artist, in the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, Sicily, ca. 1446.⠀
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Featured in our latest essay "Petrarch's Plague: Love, Death, and Friendship in a Time of Pandemic" by Paula Findlen — https://t.co/w5TN5lHUcl

#OnThisDay in 1928, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen disappeared with 5 crew while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic. Their bodies were never found. 17 yrs earlier he became the 1st to reach the S. Pole. See photos from that expedition here: https://t.co/NeIvHPOlvz #OTD

Under dawn's red sun, the final few demons from Kawanabe Kyōsai's marvellous Night Parade of 100 Demons (Hyakki Yagyō), his illustrative take from 1890 on a thousand-plus-year-old Japanese folkloric tradition.

The rest of the demons here: https://t.co/1EGmNqIjpy

"They were three months passing through the forest", an illustration (for Old French Fairy Tales, 1920) by Virginia Frances Sterrett who died of tuberculosis #onthisday in 1931. She was aged just 30.

More of her magical illustrations here: https://t.co/yFq610eQ2r #OTD

Today is #WorldOceansDay! Here's a great set of 19th-century illustrations (by William Saville-Kent) depicting one its finest wonders (which has lost half its coral cover since 1990): https://t.co/n8glIR0qEv

In Japanese the circular guard above the handle of a sword is known as a "tsuba", and they became important symbols for samurai in medieval and early modern Japan. Browse images of a wonderful collection from 1916 here: https://t.co/PUbDBD2LWf