Cyanotype toning, from top left, clockwise: natural (bleached), red wine (Australian Shiraz), tea (Yorkshire), tannic acid (from oak chips). Preferences?

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Botanical illustration and the park: Pomologia Britannica : or, Figures and descriptions of the most important varieties of fruit cultivated in Great Britain, by John Lindley....... 3 vols,
1841, from BHL/Uni California libraries......https://t.co/ZeKQbiXdrm

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Due bordi di bolina e a chi sapeva leggere apparve il nome del vascello nemico, Wirichester, della Marina britannica.
Un bottino per la Corona di Francia. Furono loro a sparare per primi, ma noi avevamo ben 24 bocche di fuoco.
La fiancata del legno avversario andò in pezzi.

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Al stasera e domani “The Garden” di .
e sono gli Adamo ed Eva del domani mentre affrontano le conseguenze del

Da vedere assolutamente. Non perdetelo! 👏👏👏

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In quella storia abbiamo accennato agli aerei Hawker Hunter di fabbricazione britannica che l’11 settembre 1973 sganciarono bombe incendiarie sul Palacio de la Moneda dove aveva sede il governo democratico di Salvador Allende.

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Niente male considerando che Maud Watson aveva appena vinto il torneo di Wimbledon.
Con Annie vincemmo però il doppio.
"Little Wonder” mi definì la stampa britannica.
Fu a 15 anni che partecipai al mio primo torneo di Wimbledon. Per chi non mi conosce mi chiamo Charlotte Dod.

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Harmony in the empire as Emperor Claudius receives the acclamation of the senate and people of from his wife Agrippina flanked by his step son Nero and son Britannicus. Agrippina poisoned Claudius, Nero had Britannicus and then Agrippina killed. Aphrodisias

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. , considerato tra i principali esponenti della scuola britannica di fumettisti, sarà ospite a in collaborazione con

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Box of Apples in Wales
Lucian Freud (Tedesco naturalizzato britannico, 1922 – 2011)
Data: 1939
(Collezione Privata)

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Who knew there were so many different varieties of sea-weed in the UK alone? Something to look out for over the summer! 'British sea-weeds : drawn from Professor Harvey's "Phycologia Britannica" v.2' 1872. Via our favourite archive - https://t.co/Kpcj2yaOTL

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The word Fairy comes originally from the Roman fatae (the powers of Fate) and then the French Faerie; in Britannic lands the word became Fays and Fay-erie meant under the power of the Fays (or glamour)...

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We don't know about you, but these cheeky original pieces from the Peter Smith are giving us the His new Eccentricus Britannicus collection is available to pre-order here: https://t.co/KavziB3a48

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MARINAIO INGLESE (seconda metà dell ottocento)... vi svelo un segreto(che nulla ha a che fare col tizio appartenente alla marina d sua graziosa maestà britannica):"SE CON ME SI USANO TONI E/O MODI(A MIO GIUDIZIO) SBAGLIATI,IL RISULTATO SARÀ(A DIR POCO)PESSIMO. REGOLATEVI! ;)))

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Pax Britannica is live!

Episode 1 - A British Peace is available on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the website. Later in the week it will also be available on Google Podcasts as well as Stitcher.

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Pax Britannica launches this coming Sunday with an episode on England and Wales during the reigns of the Tudors. Here's a sneak peek of it!

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Delighted to learn that two of my loves (Handel & ancient coins; don't judge) share a frontier. Del Tesoro Britannico, the first cat. of ancient coins now at , was written by Nicola Haym, who also provided libretti for several of Handel's operas, incl. Giulio Cesare

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Launching in February 2019, Pax Britannica is a narrative history podcast covering the empire upon which the sun never set. Beginning with the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England, Pax Britannica will follow the empire that dominated the globe.

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The antelope hasn’t noticed this cheeky sloth sneaking up behind. ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ is 250 years old today, but this is from my family copy of the younger and rarer ‘Imperial Encyclopaedia’, first published in 1812.

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