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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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1842 James Nasmyth patented his steam hammer🔨

It was built at his Patricroft foundry next to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bridgewater Canal.

This painting in the collections, by Nasmyth himself, shows one at work: https://t.co/vaUTbn4Uql

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2021-12-08

🥳 Happy birthday to us!

Today, we're 289 years old 🎂

(The first theatre on our Covent Garden site opened in 1732, built by the actor John Rich)

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Released in 1991,
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

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Released in 1979,
: The Motion Picture

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“That’s why we become witches: to show our scorn of pretending life’s a safe business, to satisfy our passion for adventure.”

Sylvia Townsend Warner was born in 1893

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On this day in 1962 Bob Dylan recorded 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' and versions of 'Hero Blues', 'Whatcha Gonna Do', 'Oxford Town', and 'I Shall Be Free', at Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios in New York City.

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1921 Michael Collins & the Irish delegates sign the Anglo-Irish Treaty ending the War of Independence. Many saw it as a stepping stone to complete independence, others as a stab in the back. Collins stated,
"I have signed my own death warrant".

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The great Fritz Lang was so here are some gorgeous posters for his movies...

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“Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.” ~ Walt Disney, in 1901 🎨

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Happy 7th Anniversary of Penn Zero Part-Time Hero 🎉 the series premiered on in December 5, 2014 ❤️💙 I remember this show my favorite episode is North Pole Down where Penn and hIs friends is saving Christmas 🎅🎊🎄#PennZeroPartTimeHero https://t.co/hS4UYi6Xdr

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"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals." ~ Walt Disney, December 5, 1901 🎨♥️🐿️🦢🦌🐇🦝

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Pensa, credi, sogna e osa.”

1901


Walt Disney,
Animatore.

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Born in 1857: Polish-British writer (1857-1924) (born Józef Konrad

Portrait by (1883-1966), 1923-4

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