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Today's brown skin character OTD is: Yozakura Kenshirou from Nanbaka! The supervisor of building 4
#OTD 14 August 1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet was born. He became a painter known for his landscapes.
#OTD 14 August 1598, Hugh O'Neill won a decisive victory against the English at the Battle of Yellow Ford (Gaelic: Cath Bhéal-an-Átha-Buí) two miles outside Armagh, near the river Callan on the route to the river Blackwater. #IrelandsStory
August 14, 1856, died #OTD Victorian theologian & geologist William Buckland. He described the 1st #dinosaur as Megalosaurus in 1824 based on a fragmentary preserved jaw 🦖
Artwork by https://t.co/IzyG1tqYvP
#OTD in 1926
KEEP OFF?
Cover of The New Yorker, August 14, 1926
Ilonka Karasz
#BatteryPark with the #Aquarium (previously Fort Clinton, Castle Garden [theatre], and #CastleGardens [immigration processing center]) and, beyond, #EllisIsland.
#TheNewYorker #IlonkaKarasz #Manhattan
#Otd 1778: Papists Act. 1st Act for Catholic Relief. Granted rights of leasing & inheritance to those who'd taken oath allegiance. Penalty of perpetual imprisonment for keeping a school, repealed! When Britain at war in America; keep RCs on side! Same 1793 https://t.co/2mekELNlN7
The first cool neoprn user OTD is Sebastian Debeste from Ace Attorney! Bun uses he/she/it/bun and any music related prns (hc) and is nonbinary, gay (hc) and heavily implied autistic
Today's brown skin character OTD is: Elena from Street Fighter III! A light-hearted, nature-loving capoeira fighter.
13 Aug 1648: Oliver Cromwell joins forces with John Lambert at Knaresborough #otd They then proceed to defeat the #Scots at Preston 17-19 Aug
(@MuseumCromwell/NPG)
Aug 13 1918 #OTD King George V inspects HMS Marshal Soult. The British warship was named after the French General of the Napoleonic Wars, Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult. Famous for looting Europe's art and for the creation of the French Foreign Legion (flag) https://t.co/3zEHeXMvRL
James Gillray b. #OTD
Search the digital library for more than 900 images of works by the noted English caricaturist https://t.co/IHdzUe97Ff
Ficus: Silver / Figs, 1911, by #MaryDaisyArnold (American, c. 1873-1955), who died #otd (Aug 13). Held by @USDA @Pomological Watercolors, @National_Ag_Lib, https://t.co/HebjzeP1QI #hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
13 Aug 1521: The capture of Cuauhtémoc & so control of Tenochtitlan [#Mexico city] passes to Cortés conquistador #otd
(Kislak/Prado)
#OTD in 1944
‘Beric sees his master’s limp body drifting away amid the wreckage. He leaps into the sea.’
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, written & illustrated by Hal Foster. No. 392 - 13 August 1944, panel 6
#PrinceValiant #HalFoster
#OTD in 1921
@SatEvePost
‘Good clothes -- an investment in good appearance’
Kuppenheimer Clothing
#Illustration by J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
The Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1921
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #JCLeyendecker #mensfashion #collie
#OnThisDay 13 August 1659 part of Booth's Uprising, a Royalist insurrection against the republic, took place when Viscount Mordaunt declared for the King at Barnstead Down in Surrey. He only raised 80 men, who melted away as soon as government troops appeared. #17thCentury #OTD
OTD 1600 Mountjoy tried to lessen troops gunpowder expenses, cost of powder used deducted from pay. He wanted crown to cover the powder used on campaign, on watches 'as charging and discharging of his piece in time of watches is of necessity' and during training' #nineyearswar
The first visually impaired character OTD is Kohane Azusawa from Project Sekai! She is canonically visually impaired and headcanoned as using she/they/heart (canon she/her)