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Incredible space art by the first man to step into the uncharted cosmic beyond.🌌☄️
🚀👨🚀🇷🇺 Alexei Leonov performed the world's first ever space walk #otd, 18 Mar 1965. Inspired in style by 70s sci-fi art, the breathtaking cosmic scenes are mostly painted from memory.
#OTD, 1861-2020 🇮🇹
159th anniversary of the birth of the Kingdom of Italy from a 1917 watercolor postcard!
#Italia #andratuttobene #unitanazionale
6 Mar 1616: d. Francis Beaumont #otd, playwright, #poet, student of Ben Jonson, close collaborator with John Fletcher. Buried in #Westminster Abbey in May 1616. (NPG)
Yellow-breasted pygmy-parrot aka Meek’s pygmy-parrot, today’s #ParrotOTD, on Manus Island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Pic by Aidan G. Kelly via @Surfbirds https://t.co/Qchkdjax2C
Another #DnDOOTD, this time my goblin spore druid Kitt in "the freelancer uniform" :p
February 22, 1875, died #OTD, Charles Lyell, the advocate of modern #geology ⚒️
https://t.co/2kWAuzAK8u
Happy #DarwinDay! The Great Charles Darwin was born #OTD, 1809. During the first two years of his voyage aboard HMS Beagle, he collected a considerable number of fossil mammals from South America. Those discoveries sparked the theory of #evolution. https://t.co/hJdxzjUPe7
#BOTD, artist Marshall Rogers (January 22, 1950-March 24, 2007).
November 10, 1852, died #OTD, British geologist Gideon Algernon Mantell who was quite puzzled by strange fossils found in 1822 https://t.co/p9xdqcpYVx Famous for the scientific description of 1st herbivorous dinosaur - Iguanodon - a genus of this group was named after him 🦕
James Macpherson, author/translator of the “Ossian” poems—in part derived from songs & legends from oral tradition—was born #OTD, 1736. The poems were a global sensation, & are the founding texts of European #Romanticism & of modern #fantasy.
(Img: Ingres, Le Songe d’Ossian)
OTD, 1415, the Battle of #Agincourt
L: miniature from C15th French manuscript, shows evenly matched battle (far from truth).
R: John Gilbert’s “Morning of the Battle of Agincourt” (1884, Guildhall Art Gallery) imagines a dejected English army, knowing it is impossibly outnumbered
Also #OTD, Alan Trammell of the Tigers blasts 2 HRs in Game 4 of the 1984 World Series to give the Tigers a 3-1 Series lead. Those 2 homers helped Trammell in being named the 1984 World Series MVP!
Prints are available at the link below:
https://t.co/aAPalAXiGu
#ABSSportsArt
heard it was #internationalLesbianDay ? have the shittiest ootd, arms outstretched to better hold the amount of love I can give to you all ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
September 14, 1940, died #OTD, Swiss geologist Émile Argand. As an early supporter of A.Wegener, he used continental drift theory to explain the #Alps as a succession of overthrusted & deformed tectonic nappes ⛰️ https://t.co/sp8FiF6Ip7
Soo I re-textured Spyro and Cynder from DotD, adding Kady and a friend's oc!! Honestly this feels so surreal, it's the closest feeling you can get having your own characters inside a video game😭