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#OnThisDay 15 years ago Naruto returned to Konoha with the first episode of #NarutoShippuden.
Juliana, Countess of #Stolberg, mother of William of Orange (and 16 other children), was born #onthisday in 1506.
Depicted in the first image is her #coatofarms at the root of the #Oranjeboom (the #familytree of #HouseofOrange).
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#otd #bookbinding
#OnThisDay 1947 John #Adams, American #composer, born in Worcester, Massachusetts
#OnThisDay 1797 a @RoyalNavy Fleet under Admiral Jervis in HMS VICTORY defeated a Spanish Fleet off Portugal at Cape St Vincent. The battle also featured one Horatio Nelson in HMS CAPTAIN & Cuthbert Collingwood in HMS EXCELLENT. The victory was a success of teamwork #C2DRIL
February 13, 2000: The final original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers -- the day after creator Charles M. Schulz dies. 😢 #OnThisDay
Happy Birthday to artist Grant Wood, born on this day in 1891
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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#GrantWood #AmericanGothic #ArtHistory #history #AmericanArt #museums #OnThisDay #TravisSimpkins #otd #Artist #Art #portrait #sketch #Freemasons #Freemasonry #Masonic
Happy 1st Anniversary of Craig of the Creek episode “Breaking the Ice” 💚❄️🎉 it aired on @cartoonnetwork in February 13, 2021 🌳☃️🎊 I love how Craig gets stranded with his longtime rival, Wildernessa. 🥶 #CraigOfTheCreek #OnThisDay #Happy1stAnniversary
Published #OnThisDay in 1937 The New Discovery of Three Skulls of Sinanthropus pekinensis https://t.co/Vlh5a7TR5m (Skull X, XI and XII; Chou K'ou Tien Locus L). All disappeared when World War II started
Born #onthisday1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Venetian Rococo #painter #illustrator 1 of Venice’s outstanding 18th-century artists as art matured it evolved from 17th-century Italian Baroque traditions & embraced Rococo manner Director life drawing Venetian Academy (1750)
Born #OnThisDay in 1804: Dutch painter #JanAdamKruseman (1804-62)
Portrait of Dieuwke Fontein (1800-79), 1844
#Kruseman #DutchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1804: Dutch painter #JanAdamKruseman (1804-62)
Portrait of Catharina Annette Fraser (1815-92), 1834
#Kruseman #DutchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1909: English painter #RupertShephard (1909-92)
Portrait of #WilliamEmpson (1906-84), ca. 1944
#Shephard #BritishArt
Happy Birthday to Abraham Lincoln, born on this day in 1809.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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#AbrahamLincoln #presidentoftheunitedstates #POTUS #LincolnMemorial #WashingtonDC #FordsTheatre #CivilWar #AmericanHistory #history #OnThisDay #TravisSimpkins #otd
Born #onthisday1898 Sali Herman Swissa-born Australian #artist Official WWII War Artist in Pacific submitted 26 paintings to Australian War Memorial Known for #painting Sydney’s inner-city streets & slums Natives carrying wounded soldiers (1946) & The Drovers (1948) won …
Painting by Frederik Christian Lund, illustrating the 1659 Battle of Copenhagen (part of the Second Northern War) fought #OnThisday 1659 during the siege of Copenhagen by Swedish forces. #OTD #History
One year ago today, the Traffic Cone was re-released as the 25th Throwback Thursday item.
#BoxCritters #OnThisDayBC
Edgar Wallace, the English novelist, playwright and journalist, died suddenly on this day in 1932 from undiagnosed diabetes. He was 76. Wallace passed during the initial drafting of KING KONG, which premiered the following year in New York on March 2, 1933. #Horror #OnThisDay
Happy St Scholastica’s day!
Today is the feast of St Scholastica, sister of St Benedict, and patron saint of books and reading.
We recommend celebrating with a good book!
📷 Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
#OnThisDay #Libraries #LibraryTwitter #Books
Born #onthisday1785 Moya Dyring Australian #artist & one of first women artists to exhibit #Cubism inspired paintings in Melbourne Staged successful solo exhibition in Melbourne’s Riddell Gallery (1937) Later based in Paris then Vence & London post-WWII
The Quack Doctor, 1652, painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Gerrit Dou (self-portrait on the left) who passed away #OnThisDay 1675.
#art #history