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Monet In His Studio Boat by French painter Edouard Manet in 1874 #PaintingOfTheDay
A 2000-Year-old loaf of bread was found during excavations in Herculaneum. The British museum @britishmuseum recreated the recipe
Charles IX of Sweden was actually Charles III. He chose his numeral after reading a fictitious history of Sweden #HistoryFacts
In the 15th century Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler impaled 20,000 Ottoman Turks on long, sharp poles on the banks of the Danube
#OnThisDay in 1492 Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti & the Dominican Republic)
The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait) by French painter Gustave Courbet in 1843 #HistoricalPaintings
#OnThisDay in 1791 The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was published #HistoryFacts
Emperor I Ferdinand of Austria had nearly 20 seizures per day. His only known quote was “I am the emperor, and I want dumplings!”
Girl With A White Dog by British painter Lucian Freud 1951 #PaintingOfTheDAY