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Late 19th-century print produced by the Japanese Department of Education showing the Scottish philosopher, essayist, and historian Thomas Carlyle, who died #onthisday in 1881 (his final words: "So, this is death. Well!"): https://t.co/KN3niCaJFo #otd

Martin Gerlach's Festoons and Decorative Groups of Plants and Animals (1893), was meant as a reference manual meant for inspiring artists and artisans, but is a work of art in its own right: https://t.co/crrC3TLRDd

Caricature of Gustave Doré — who died #onthisday in 1883 — "GENIUS" rightfully spelt in the paints of his palette.

More famous (male) figures of the 19th century in Frederick Watty's Cartoon Portraits of Men of the Day (1873) here: https://t.co/6TFPa0lXDy.

Diagrams from Geometrical Psychology (1887), a book by Louisa S. Cook detailing New Zealander Benjamin Bett's remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness through geometric forms. 🤯

More here: https://t.co/1BT2rxLlnv

Some apt reading for #ThesaurusDay, our latest essay "Beastly Clues" in which @roddyhj explores links between modernist literature and the cryptic crossword: https://t.co/dSTUA99g0T

Artwork by the famous foundling Kaspar Hauser, ranging from pen-and-ink self-portraits to watercolour studies of fruit and flowers: https://t.co/moh6MeOJvI

For #NationalBirdDay, feast your eyes on the birds from Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, published by the English naturalist Mark Catesby from 1729 to 1747: https://t.co/FEbE6fduM1

And some available as prints here: https://t.co/heOWfymWC1

Born #onthisday in 1785, Jacob Grimm, the elder of the famous folklorist brothers. Read Jack Zipes' essay "The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm" in which he explores the importance of the neglected first edition of their Kinder-und Hausmärchen: https://t.co/0JBdKr6WF1 #otd

Entering the public domain in 2022, in countries with a "life+70yr" copyright term: The works of Austrian and US composer Arnold Schoenberg.

More info behind window 26 of our advent-style countdown for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1: https://t.co/EWOYSknG1T #PDin2022

A collection of entries for Christmas Day from an eclectic mix of different diaries spanning five centuries, from 1599 to 1918: https://t.co/30z29J2pKJ #ChristmasDay