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#OTD 4/8/1944 #BattleOfAtlantic -U300 Damaged by Canso from 162 Squadron RCAF. Damaged in the attack included both periscopes and a ballast tank, forcing U300 to abandon her patrol and return to Bergen for repairs. Photo courtesy @YAWMuseum
"Oh, how beautiful is sunset, when the glow
of Heaven descends upon a land like thee,
thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!"
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Born OTD 1792
Venice ~ 🎨Thomas W Schaller
Happy Birthday to D L Mays, PUNCH cartoonist born #OTD 4 August 1900. He drew many cartoons for PUNCH in a wide ranging career, including this from #WW2 #HomeFront
desi otd is kamala from marvel comics, she is pakistani! (cannon)
Todays picrew OTD is Bleh :p
Creator: chicken.nuggets
Quote rt with your version :)
3 Aug 1579: William Allen, future cardinal, sends 21 priests off on the mission to England #otd One of these, St Alexander Briant SJ, was martyred alongside St Edmund Campion SJ in 1581.
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#OTD 3 August 881 Louis III of France defeats the Vikings at the Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
first bandori rarepair otd is ayahina !!
Aya & Hina from pasupare ~!!
pink blue gfs who go to pride festivals together and kiss in front of homophobes <3 they also have movie nights and always fall asleep on the couch ~~
OTD 1595 Prodigious consumption of gunpowder by Crown & the war had barely started. 6 lasts (approx. 6 tons) issued in 2 months (also 2 lasts of powder for cannon). For an army even more dependant on firearms we can imagine the quantities used by Tyrone's men #nineyearswar
Sir Joseph Paxton, gardener, architect and designer of the Crystal Palace, was born #otd in 1803. He began his career in 1823 when he became a labourer at the Horticultural Society’s gardens at @Chiswick_House. Learn more in "Joseph Paxton in Chiswick" - https://t.co/8p6FhFHai7
#OTD in 1872
‘The women's day at the free bath-houses - waiting for admittance.’
Harper's weekly August 3, 1872
Harper's Weekly, collection of Maggie Land Blanck.
#illustration #illustrationart #NewYorkCity #tenementlife #bathhouses
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Samuel van Hoogstraten 🎨 🇳🇱
* 2.8.1627; † 19.10.1678
Young Woman at an Open Half-Door, 1645 🖼️
#ArteYArt #OTD
@dianadep1 @BrindusaB1 @Spiros209 @JohnLee90252472 @agustin_gut @angelicadisogno @LuciaTassan @djolavarrieta @alleosa @neblaruz @marmelyr @famartinez2001 @ele9061
WEIRD SCIENCE was released OTD in 1985, one of a flood of nerdy teen scientist movies (REAL GENIUS, MY SCIENCE PROJECT, THE MANHATTAN PROJECT). That certainly kept the box office lower, but it's since become a cult favorite, especially because of Bill Paxton & Robert Downey Jr.
‘his great pleasure seems to be to act the sort of King of Cheltenham, where all the vulgar misses make a great piece of work with him’. Harriet Arbuthnot, diarist, of Colonel Berkeley. She died OTD 1834.
Byron, Berkeley and Mrs Bunn https://t.co/500QoBzTHe #BerkeleySeries
the soulmates otd are... Sayaka Miki and Kyoko Sakura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica ! ♡ they are alterous soulmates ( hc ) ! + Kyoko is aromantic
the soulmates otd are... misora kano and aruru otsuki from revue starlight ! ♡ they are romantic soulmates ( semi-canon ) !
#OTD 2nd August 1870 - London’s Tower Subway, a tiny one-carriage cable-hauled railway beneath the Thames - opens to the public. It was effectively the first “tube” railway. The tunnel now carries cables, but last yr I went hunting & found southern entrance site, off Tooley St.
Today's tan/brown skin character OTD is: Adonis Otogari from Ensemble Stars! A quiet young man, he gives off the impression that he's grumpy and scary even though he doesn't mean to.