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Colliers Magazine #OTD Aug 12 1916 publishes this Herbert Paus Cover Art
What a sub commander sees when he looks through the 360 degree Panoramic Periscope appears in Scientific American Supplement Oct 23 1915, page 269 https://t.co/qKSpO4TyAG
#OTD 1499 First encounter of the Battle of Zonchio /Sapienza (part of the Second Ottoman-Venetian War 1499-1503) took place. The Venetian fleet was commanded by Antonio Grimani, the Ottoman one by Kemal Reis. #OnThisDay #History
12 Aug 1642: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, sent to the Tower #otd by the House of Lords on suspicion of complicity in a plot to deliver Portsmouth into the King's hands (British Museum)
"Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it."
William Blake died #OTD in 1827.
Books by William Blake at PG:
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August 12, 1857, Victorian palaeontologists William Daniel Conybeare died #OTD. He made important contributions on the anatomy of the Ichthyosauri and worked on the geology of the British Islands ⚒️ In 1821, he described the marine reptile Plesiosaurus 🐉
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#OTD in 1939
Role-reversal at the World’s Fair
Cover of The New Yorker, August 12, 1939
Perry Barlow
In the background: The many-splendored AT&T Pavilion in the Communications Zone
#TheNewYorker #PerryBarlow #NYWorldsFair1939 #tourism
William Blake died #OTD in 1827. These illustrations by Blake are for the poem “The Grave” (1743) by Scottish poet Robert Blair, one of the pre-Romantic Graveyard Poets.
The Skeleton Reanimated
The Gambols of Ghosts
Beside an Open Grave
#WilliamBlake #Romanticism #Gothic
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
He who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.
William Blake, English poet painter and printmaker died #OTD in 1827.
“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.”
Thomas Mann died #OTD 1955
🎨 Rembrandt "Dr Faustus in His Study" (1652)
#bookchatweekly
The first visually impaired character OTD is Raine Whispers from The Owl House! They are canonically visually impaired and canonically sapphic and nonbinary! (They/them)
bandori rarepair otd is tsuguran! this ship consists of ran and tsugumi from aglow!!! childhood friends who have been with each other through thick and thin!
Today's tan character OTD is: Mio Kofune from Summer Time Rendering! Ushio's younger sister, she acts as a foil for Shinpei and Ushio.
the fifth autistic character otd is Gin Ibushi from Your Turn to Die !! (canon)
On her feast day #otd 11 Aug St Francis clothing St Clare with the habit, attributed to Domenico Morone, Verona, early 16th century.
(V&A Museum, London)
Born #OTD 1753, Thomas Bewick, artist, naturalist. Zoologist , bookseller, and Fellow of @LinneanSociety, William Yarrell (1784-1856) named a species of swan after him.