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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.
Mary Magdalene, Jan van Scorel, c. 1530 She can be identified by her jar of ointment, which she used to anoint Jesus’s feet. Van Scorel painted her as a luxuriously dressed courtesan (Rijksmuseum)
Van Scorel was born #otd 1 Aug 1495. He d. 6 Dec 1562.
Daily bandori rarepair otd is Tsugumi x Hina/ tsuna!! Hina from pasupare and Tsugumi from afterglow!
Cuties who miss each other the moment they can't see each other. They own a messaging heart to talk to each other before bedtime, tho Hina pretty much spams Tsugumi 'ily'
'Monday, August 1st, 1814 dawned with fingers of pale light chasing away the mist. It dazzled the panes of town house and tavern and tinselled the finials of St. Mary-le-Bow.'
Church Bells, Fireworks and The Glorious Peace https://t.co/FnjZh4SO73 < #Regency #histfic #OTD
Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson, was born #OTD in 1714 in the village of Penegoes in Montgomeryshire.
He was the first major British painter to concentrate on landscape, painting idealised landscapes based upon places in Italy and classical literature 📚🇮🇹
Henri IV of France signing the ratification of his abjuration of Protestantism before Alessandro de Medici, the Pope’s Legate & future Leo XI. This happened #otd 1 Aug 1596.
The image was made in 1610 which was the year Henri was assasinated.
#WorthAMass
(British Museum)