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in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter generally credited as the pioneer of Abstract Art, was born in Moscow.(..) Kandinsky himself regarded Composition VIII as the high point of his postwar achievement. 📕 Learn more: https://t.co/ECGqqVpE9F 🏛

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1789 the royal family went to the at Drury Lane for the 1st time since George III's illness. They saw the Haunted Tower by James Cobb & Who's the Dupe? by Hannah Cowley
The same day news arrived of the fall of

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Released 🎬 in 1976,
The Pink Panther Strikes Again

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Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: https://t.co/sXJtuHnFTJ

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December 14, 1799: George Washington died at the age of 67 at his home, Mount Vernon, in Virginia.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”

Shirley Jackson was born in 1916

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1688 James II's humiliations reached a new low when his letter from Faversham was read out to the provisional at Whitehall. He complained of being stopped by 'a rabble of seamen, fishermen & others' who had taken all of his money.

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49 years ago: Bubble chamber camera equipment. 's bubble chamber used cameras to produce striking bubble chamber photos, such as the example included here (this particular bubble chamber photo is from 1978; the photo of the camera equipment is from 1972).

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Born Emily Carr Canadian painter drew inspiration from Pacific Northwest Coasts’ Indigenous peoples One of first Canadian to explore & style Shift from Indigenous themes to landscapes particularly forests won recognition

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Released 🎬 in 1986,
The Golden Child

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"A work of art comes only from inside a human being."
Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter 🎂 born

👇 Melancholy 1893

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in 1911, Polish-French Scientist, Marie Curie became the first (and only to date) person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields; physics and chemistry
Hive Books: https://t.co/0VNzaqdYba
Amazon: https://t.co/yGDpqJDaPG

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The day before making the final decision to go himself 1688, James II packed his queen & son, Prince James, off to exile in
"This news, being very surprising, has made some persons think fit to shift for themselves"

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1688 James II finally resolved on flight, admitting "I am in no good condition, nay, in as bad a one as is possible".
In the early hours of the 11th he quit Whitehall & the people of England awoke to find they had no government.

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20 years ago, December 10th, 2001 - The episode "The Enemy Below" part 2 aired on television.
Directed by Dan Riba
Written by Kevin Hopps

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“Mortals that would follow me,
Love virtue, she alone is free,
She can teach ye how to climb
Higher than the sphery chime;
Or if virtue feeble were,
Heaven itself would stoop to her.”
John Milton

🖌Charles R. Leslie (🇬🇧1794-1859)An Allegory of Virtue

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Anthony van Dyck died 380 years ago
Using watercolour, he captured this lush rural scene, ‘An English Landscape’. 🌳

His rapid technique suggests it was created as he waited to set sail to Antwerp. If you could go anywhere, where would you travel to today?

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Adieu to Madame du Barry, mistress to Louis XV. She was executed in 1793. She was hysterical as she mounted the scaffold and exclaimed, "One more moment, Mr. Executioner, I beg you!” before the blade fell.

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