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Happy Birthday to Alexander the Great, born on this day in 356 BC.
Sketch by Travis Simpkins
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#AlexanderTheGreat #TheBritishMuseum #history #TravisSimpkins #Macedonia #AncientGreece #Greek #otd #AncientEgypt #Alexandria #ArtHistory #archaeology #Art #Sketch
today’s second character with bpd otd is vanitas from vanitas no carte! (heavily implied, rq by @kentafan475) — 🍏
Thoughts on art from Lucian Freud (d otd 2011):
"What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince."
"The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for."
"Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait."
#OTD 20 July 1616, Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Baron Dungannon and 2nd Earl of Tyrone, died in Rome. He led an unsuccessful rising against the English, and was eventually forced into exile as part of the "Flight of Earls." #IrelandsStory
first bandori rarepair otd is rinshirokanon! this poly ship consists of rinko from roselia, kanon from hhw and mashiro from morf!! the shy poly friends who go out on tea dates!! they are just so adorable together
#OTD Lady Jane Grey is moved from the Royal apartments at the Tower of London to the ‘house of Nathaniel Partridge' & held as prisoner.
Her one time palace would become her prison & final resting place.
#ladyjanegrey #OnThisDay #Queenforthirteeb #History #QueenJane #Tudors
(from last year, #otd) happy #gonzo day! an #inky kinda #Steadman-esque tribute to a writer-extraordinaire // #HunterSThompson #hbd #hst // #drawing
🌊#OTD in #History 19 July 1545, the famous #MaryRose (launched 1511), an English Tudor navy warship, sank in the Solent after leading an attack on an invading French fleet.
It was salvaged in 1982 in one of the most incredible projects in the history of #maritime #archaeology.
Today's brown skin character OTD is: Prince Kelby from Cannon Busters! The prince of Botica
Happy Birthday to Astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, 33°. Born on this day in 1921.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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#JohnGlenn #Astronaut #NASA #Senator #otd #ScottishRite #ScottishRiteNMJ #33rdDegree #Freemasons #Freemasonry #Masonic #TravisSimpkins #art
July 18, 1950, died #OTD American geologist Mignon Talbot, the first woman to find and describe a dinosaur - Podokesaurus holyokensis - now the official State #Dinosaur of Massachusetts 🦖🇺🇸
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🖌️ by https://t.co/sefyGoaMln
#OTD in 1925
‘Constant Vigilance Insures that Extra Quality and Value You Receive in All Certain-teed Products’
#Certainteed Products - July 18, 1925
#illustration by Herbert Paus (1880-1946)
#illustrationartists #illustrationart #HerbertPaus #industrialsublime #rawmaterials
“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?” (William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair), born OTD in 1811. 🎂🎉