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When you are trying to steal a sheep and the guard dog catches you...

Briton Rivière (1840-1920) painted The Sheep Stealer in 1884. He was specialized in painting animals, especially dogs.

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2020-09-08

Britons never, never, never will be capable of having an informed debate about the f#cking Empire...

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2020-08-25

Pevril Of The Peak and Britons Protection in Manchester

Two brilliant pubs

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2020-08-17

🎶Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.🎶

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2020-08-10

Queen Cordelia was a legendary Queen of the Britons. She was the youngest daughter of Leir and the second ruling queen of pre-Roman Britain. There is no independent historical evidence for her existence. Her story was used by Shakespeare in his play "King Lear".

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2020-08-10

Henry Moore, 'Three Women in a Shelter.' Much of the most successful art produced during WW2 dealt with the effect of the conflict on ordinary Britons, either through the actual consequences of enemy action, or the drastic changes in lifestyle that resulted.

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2020-07-31

Excalibur (2019)
Captain Briton and team Excalibur vs Morgan Le Fay and her armies. Writer Tini Howard, Artist Marcus To, Colorist Erick Arcinega. Some clever (maybe too clever) plotting ties things up both satisfyingly and disturbing. To-Arcinega are tremendous talents. 4/5

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2020-07-31

Next completed three are for (Nubian Cavalry C. Punic Wars) (Dacia) and (Briton)

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2020-06-18

POV: Your my brother tryna take some of my sabritones chips at 1 AM

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2020-06-17

The War Office felt Ardizzone’s intimate and understated style would help Britons better understand the War and what life in the forces was actually like. After France, Ardizzone was posted to Cairo and then Italy, before joining British troops for the D-Day landings.

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2020-06-06

"The liberty of the press is the birth-right of a Briton, and is justly esteemed the firmest bulwark of the liberties of this country". Opening line of John Wilkes's The North Briton No.1 published 1762

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2020-06-05

Burg Scharfenberg at Night by
Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1827)

King Arthur by Charles Ernest (1903)

St George and the Dragon by Briton Riviere (1908-1909)

Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1790)

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2020-05-25

Briton Riviere’s ‘Sympathy’ shows a little girl banished to the naughty step, being offered comfort by her sympathetic dog. This sentimental painting was very popular with Victorian audiences, with countless reproductions being made

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2020-04-30

Something old for - Samuel Meyrick and Charles Smith's (1815) 'Briton of the Interior' standing in front of what all fans of Scottish hillforts will recognise instantly as the White Caterthun. (1/2)

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2020-04-29

Puro sabriton alterado 💪

No pude resistirme... Yan no me pegues 👽✌💔

~ las bichitas ✨ YanxTap
<<< la dueña de Yan

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2020-04-16

In March 1855, Jamaican-born Mary Seacole, nurse and entrepreneur, set up a hostel in Balaclava to treat wounded officers serving in the Crimean war. Rejected as a helper by Florence Nightingale and others, she was voted the greatest black Briton in 2004.

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2020-03-14

1884 162 & personnel joined the forces under General Graham when a Naval Brigade was formed from HM Ships BRITON, CARYSFORT, DRYAD, EURYALUS, HECLA & SPHINX to fight in the Battle of Tamai against Mahdist Sudanese.A British victory

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2020-03-13