This week's is the tragic one of Joan of Arc, burned at the stake on 30th May 1431, aged just nineteen. Painted here by Millais (1865), Rossetti (1882), John Duncan and Albert Lynch (1903). This was the last painting Rossetti worked on- he died just a few days later.

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Nineteenth icon done!
icon-spyran for:
Spiral Menace.

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50 in 50 Days - Day Nineteen:

Floor purchase? For real!?? Hell yeah! Nice little sale. This guy is a combination of peace & love mixed with some gangster thug. My kinda guy. LFG!!!

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For I'm posting some of the nineteenth century art that's inspiring me as I work on Inferno, the game of swashbuckling adventure.

Mathey's 1888 'Felicien Rops in his studio', - genius at work.

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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Pants on fire again! Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was about liberalism, not totalitarianism, claims Moscow diplomat https://t.co/CLdWXE56DV

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For I'm posting some of the nineteenth century art that's inspiring me as I work on Inferno, the game of swashbuckling adventure.

O'Connor's 1887 'Ludgate, evening', I love how busy and full of life the street is

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…there are currently NINETEEN Smash-up sets, and the Disney Edition is fully compatible, so you could send characters from FROZEN or MULAN against kaiju or ninjas or any of dozens of other factions! Smash-Up is easy to learn, quick to play, and never the same game twice!

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16 May 1943. Launch of Operation Chastise, attack on German dams by RAF 617 Squadron, subsequently known as the "Dambusters". Nineteen Lancasters took off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, England, beginning at 9:28 p.m.

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For I'm posting some of the nineteenth century art that's inspiring me as I work on Inferno, the game of swashbuckling adventure.

Meissonier's 1870 'Siege of Paris.' Note the Valkyrie? top left.

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Christopher Robin came down from the Forest feeling all sunny and careless, and just as if twice nineteen didn't matter a bit, and he thought that if he stood on the bridge and watched the river, he would know everything that there was to be known. ~A.A.Milne

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The Cowboy: An American West Icon - The word cowboy did not begin to come into wide usage until the 1870s. In the nineteenth century, George Parsons, a licensed attorney turned banker lived ... https://t.co/j8LYV6jkWy

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The Cowboy: An American West Icon - The word cowboy did not begin to come into wide usage until the 1870s. In the nineteenth century, George Parsons, a licensed attorney turned banker lived ... https://t.co/dbLeHpEspW

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The Cowboy: An American West Icon - The word cowboy did not begin to come into wide usage until the 1870s. In the nineteenth century, George Parsons, a licensed attorney turned banker lived ... https://t.co/p1YgAhJKh3

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The Cowboy: An American West Icon - The word cowboy did not begin to come into wide usage until the 1870s. In the nineteenth century, George Parsons, a licensed attorney turned banker lived ... https://t.co/tf5O2HoaVC

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For I'm posting some of the nineteenth century art that's inspiring me as I work on Inferno, the game of swashbuckling adventure.

Sell's 1869 Meeting of the Austrian and Prussian Commanders.

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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own.

The War Of The Worlds opening line

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The Cowboy: An American West Icon - The word cowboy did not begin to come into wide usage until the 1870s. In the nineteenth century, George Parsons, a licensed attorney turned banker lived ... https://t.co/N0sAF3M22o

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3 May 1739, death of Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Princesse de Conti, the eldest legitimised daughter of Louis XIV and Mademoiselle de La Vallière. She was married at thirteen and widowed at nineteen, never married again and had no children.

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