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Aug 13 1918 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

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James Gillray b.
Search the digital library for more than 900 images of works by the noted English caricaturist https://t.co/IHdzUe97Ff

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13 Aug 1521: The capture of Cuauhtémoc & so control of Tenochtitlan [#Mexico city] passes to Cortés conquistador

(Kislak/Prado)

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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

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in 1921

‘Good clothes -- an investment in good appearance’
Kuppenheimer Clothing
by J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
The Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1921

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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.

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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'

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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)

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Our Black Fem OTD is Amanda from Amanda the Adventurer!

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Today picrew otd is makowka oc maker
Creator:
Quote rt with your version!

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Colliers Magazine 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

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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.

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12 Aug 1642: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, sent to the Tower by the House of Lords on suspicion of complicity in a plot to deliver Portsmouth into the King's hands (British Museum)

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"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 in 1827.

Books by William Blake at PG:
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August 12, 1857, Victorian palaeontologists William Daniel Conybeare died 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 🐉
https://t.co/CDQXAl3kMB

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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

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William Blake died 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

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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 in 1827.

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“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.”

Thomas Mann died 1955

🎨 Rembrandt "Dr Faustus in His Study" (1652)

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