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“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941
(art by Yuumei)

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in 1954
A blast from the ‘Periwinkle’
Cover of The New Yorker, August 7, 1954
Garrett Price

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2022-08-07

the first lesbian character otd is Ford pines from gravity falls.
it uses he / she / it pronouns and is a transfem intersex lesbian
[ headcanon ]

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2022-08-07

Second bandori rarepair otd is KaoToukoSayo!
Kaoru from HHW, Touko from morfonica and Sayo from Roselia! They go on jamming sessions, clothes shopping together, try out new trendy food, and travel around together! Sayo also becomes a lot more fashionable after meeting these two!

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2022-08-06

in 1960

‘You’ll never know how exciting ice cream can be until you taste Foremost Carousel’
Illustrator unknown

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in 1932
‘Mens sana in corpore sano’
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, August 6, 1932
(with the Olympics in progress in Los Angeles)
Illustration by J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)

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5 Aug 1552: John Bale ex-Carmelite & polemical reformer meets Edward VI at & is promised the diocese of in (Bm/eebo)

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in 1864, Landsman Wilson Brown was working the shell whip of the USS Hartford at the Battle of Mobile Bay when an enemy shell exploded overhead, knocking him unconscious. After regaining consciousness, he continued on the shell whip, providing the Hartford with gunpowder.

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Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888) was a British electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858. He is buried in the churchyard of , Read more in "Chiswick’s Unsung Hero" - https://t.co/NqLIr5z1LC

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The BONUS cool neoprn user OTD is Desire from the Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Show and Comic)! It uses she/he/it (canon) and is genderfluid pansexual (canon)! This post is in celebration of the show's release you should all go watch it!!! Lots of diverse rep and amazing story!

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in 1944
Cover of The New Yorker, August 5, 1944
Barbara Shermund

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Watercolor of Hylocereus lemairei, n.d., by (English, 1873-1961), who died (Aug 4). Painted for The Cactacaeae by Britton & Rose; held by , https://t.co/0p8FOgkfTp

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2022-08-04

British Painter Laura Knight was born 1877.
In 1939, Knight was asked to create recruitment posters for the Women’s Land Army. She later famously depicted the Nuremberg Trial. She was also known for intimate portraits, often of marginalized people.

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4/8/1944 -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

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"Oh, how beautiful is sunset, when the glow
of Heaven descends upon a land like thee,
thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!"
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
OTD 1792

Venice ~ 🎨Thomas W Schaller

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Happy Birthday to D L Mays, PUNCH cartoonist born 4 August 1900. He drew many cartoons for PUNCH in a wide ranging career, including this from

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desi otd is kamala from marvel comics, she is pakistani! (cannon)

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Todays picrew OTD is Bleh :p
Creator: chicken.nuggets
Quote rt with your version :)

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3 Aug 1579: William Allen, future cardinal, sends 21 priests off on the mission to England One of these, St Alexander Briant SJ, was martyred alongside St Edmund Campion SJ in 1581.

(BM)

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3 August 881 Louis III of France defeats the Vikings at the Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

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