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problematic ship OTD is aoicest (yuta x hinata) from ensemble stars!
↳ incest
Alas, Oleg Prokofiev: artist, and son of Sergei - whose music he loyally championed - d otd 1998. What a warm, charming man he was! I had the poignant privilege of playing at his funeral (too shortly after playing at his mother's). Much missed in the worlds of music and art...
OTD 1599 Sir Thomas Norreys, president of Munster, joined his brother John in the afterlife. He was speared in the neck/face in June but lingered for another 2 months. Thomas' other brother Henry, (who was shot in the leg) died of his wounds just 4 days earlier #nineyearswar
#OTD 20 August 1561, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen-Dowager of France, already widowed at the age of 18, returned to Scotland and Holyrood House after an absence in France of some thirteen years. #ScotlandsStory
#Liverpool OTD - 1816: The Fort Barracks, Bath Street, are closed and delivered over to the Ordnance Board. The site later became part of Princes Dock.
Augustus dies #OTD 19 August 14 CE at the ripe old age of 75.
While Tacitus Annals 1.5 alludes to Livia as implicated in his death, “some suspected foul play on the part of his wife”, natural causes after a long life in power seem far more likely.
#AugustanAugust
#OTD 210 years ago, August 19, 1812, USS Constitution defeated HMS Guerriere. Here is Captain Isaac Hull’s account of the battle as it appeared on the front page of the Connecticut Mirror printed in Hartford, Connecticut on September 21, 1812. https://t.co/eRV7QObzRo
#OTD in 1944
Cover of The New Yorker, August 19, 1944
Ilonka Karasz
#TheNewYorker #IlonkaKarasz #farmers #folkart
#OTD 19 August 1743 Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry was born. She became the last maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV. She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution due to accounts of treason—particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés flee from the Revolution.
19 Aug 1692: One woman and four men, including a #pastor, are convicted of #witchcraft and executed in #Salem in the #Massachusetts colony. #history #OTD #witch #ad https://t.co/cXmVB5NNVU https://t.co/PMeMMyxTV9
19 Aug 1648: Oliver Cromwell & John Lambert #defeat the #Scots forces at Preston #otd
(@MuseumCromwell/NPG)
#OTD in 1933
@LivingNewDeal
August 19, 1933: FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the Public Works Administration (PWA).
The Triborough Bridge joining Manhattan, Bronx and Queens (1936 - PWA loan)
the third autistic character otd is Ryan Akagi from Infinity Train! (implied)
the autistic character otd is Peridot from Steven Universe! (heavily implied)
Todays picrew otd is Epithet Erased (inspired) CC!
Creator: @Speyerboot
Quote rt with your version!
18 Aug 1626: Jeremy Taylor future devotional writer & bishop of Down & Connor admitted to Caius College
#Cambridge as a sizar #otd
#OnThisDay 18 August 1654 a committee chaired by John Disbrowe was appointed to prepare the Western Design, an attack by the Protectorate on Spanish colonial territories in the Caribbean. The strategy was misconceived and poorly planned, ending in failure. #17thCentury #OTD