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Io Saturnalia! 🎉

the Roman calendar saw the start of the Saturnalia festival which lasted 6 days.

Held to honour Saturn, it featured a public banquet, gift-giving, and a carnival atmosphere that briefly upended social norms.

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Baptised in 1770: German composer (1770-1827)

Portrait by (1781-1858), 1820


Beethoven-Haus, Bonn

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Born Paul Cadmus & Widely recognized 4 egg tempera paintings depicting urban settings & gritty social interactions Sailors & Floozies = art as satire Created highly finished of male figures combining eroticism with social commentary

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Born in 1669: Dutch painter (1669-1729)

Portrait of a Man, ca. 1720

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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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