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#OnThisDay in 1561, as the sun rose over Nuremberg, the residents described seeing an aerial battle take place in its glare — the erratic dance of orbs, crosses, cylinders and a crash-landing beyond the city. An early sighting of alien #UFO? https://t.co/PaGP8S57Eu #OTD

Costume and stage designs by William Penhallow Henderson for the play adaptation Alice in Wonderland (1915) based on Lewis Carroll's beloved classic. More at @byrawpixel here: https://t.co/rpNWcE6aQK

Born #onthisday in 1837, A. C. Swinburne. Read Julian Barnes on when the poet had Maupassant round for lunch. A flayed human hand, porn, the serving of monkey meat + inordinate amounts of alcohol, all made for a truly strange Anglo-French encounter: https://t.co/6YzMe99w4R #OTD

Banana Tree Flower with Io Moth, by Maria Sibylla Merian — who was born #onthisday in 1647.

From her pioneering Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Insects of Suriname), first published in 1705.

See more prints by her in our online prints shop: https://t.co/ASX37Nx31n

In the 1850s, before it was denuded by archaeologists and the tourism industry, 420 species of flowers and plants grew on the Roman Colosseum — and every single one is catalogued in amateur botanist Richard Deakin's Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855): https://t.co/OEtpMfAJtM

Engraving by François-Nicolas Martinet from an anonymous Chinese drawing, featured in Edme Billardon-Sauvigny's Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780).

Available as a print in our online shop: https://t.co/PuLxqWz9oH #FishFriday

Jenny Watson on the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf — who died #onthisday in 1940 — and the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales and public persona: https://t.co/4qVm63t0o6 #otd

Happy #WorldBookDay! Explore our collection of more than 300 weird and wonderful titles from the past, all free to download and explore (via @internetarchive): https://t.co/MOrpHd35ud

(Pictured: Giuseppe Arcimboldo's The Librarian, 1566)

Happy #FatTuesday! Here's a few costume designs by artist Charles Briton for the 1873 New Orleans Mardi Gras. See more great carnival designs, and learn about their creators, in our essay by @AllisonCMeier: https://t.co/7YPSQ68Mea #MardiGras

Lady Hemlock releases Bunny Socrates from life. More from J. J. Grandville's wonderful Flowers Personified (1847) here: https://t.co/94rxDXEkjF